We live in a culture of optimization. Upgrade yourself, boost your productivity, fix your body, level up your career, repair your finances. Everywhere I look, there is a quiet message that whatever I am right now is a draft that still needs editing. For a…
Tag: self growth
We Live Too Close to the Future
Lately I realized that I spend most of my life living for later. Savings for later, learning for later, working for later, even collecting experiences for later. Almost everything I do is aimed at some version of me that does not exist yet. And slowly…
I Am Starting to Realize That Not Everything Fast Is Better
The world seems to worship speed. Work fast, succeed fast, get rich fast, learn fast. Everywhere I look, the message is roughly the same, that whoever gets there sooner wins, and whoever moves slowly is falling behind. For a long time I believed it too….
We Are Losing the Ability to Be a Beginner
Lately I realized there is one thing slowly disappearing from me, the courage to be a beginner. Everyone now wants to look competent. We are afraid to ask, afraid to be wrong, afraid to look like we cannot do something yet. But once upon a…
Why Do We Always Feel We Need a Reason?
I have noticed something small but exhausting about the way I live. Almost everything I want to do, or not do, seems to require a reason. If I want to rest, I feel like I need a good excuse for it. If I do not…