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The rebel leader who gets captured 🔗 and dies fighting . . . she is not happy. Nor comfortable. Not even successful. But she had ✨ clarity ✨, dammit . . . that she was doing what she should be doing with her time. That's what counted.
A Silicon Valley founder whose start-up explodes and who suddenly finds himself not working on it anymore . . . . . . goes through the same experience as a religious man starting to doubt his faith. ☠️ Ambiguity ☠️ Both had such clear answers about how to spend their time . .
The founder would wake up 🌄, work all day 👨💻👨💻👨💻, maybe take an hour to read or exercise 📚🏋️ before going back to bed (optional). It was hard. It was grueling. But dammit, he had clarity on what he should have been doing with his life. It's lack thereof that we fear the most
(c.f. Émile Durkheim and his concept of ‘anomie’ or normlessness . . . the condition in which society provides little guidance to the individual on how to spend their lives) (c.f. every religion ✝️☪️🔯🕉️, every philosopher 💺🧔🏾📚, and every non-religious religion 💸🤳 ever)