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there is a very radical, powerful state of mind, state of being, that people throughout history have recurringly tried to talk about, but it's v hard to get the point across because people who don't want to hear about it will look for problems with the imperfect utterance
its the feeling of being the author of your own fate/destiny, of being in charge, being truly self-sovereign, earning your own respect and admiration, feeling your own body and mind standing by to assist you, the captain of your soul
we can talk shit about this all day, argue about the details, blah blah, the comments section appended to this is tens of thousands of pages long full of procrastinators & avoiders looking for fine print technicalities &excuses to support their argument that they're not in charge
n ya kno what, if you argue against it, you're right. you're not ready. it's wise of your fear to protect you from the absolutely searing light of self-responsibility. it's like a weight on your shoulders that will break your back if you don't have the right form. u have to train
this quote is in the right spirit of it there is no test to pass but your own you have to seize it for yourself there are a bunch of movies that have scenes that try to capture the emotional reality of this, I remember Into The Spider-Verse has it https://t.co/LJQKFKRXoP
Moana has it (the call isn't out there at all, it's inside me), Frozen has it (you are the one you've been waiting for all of your life) it's you you are already the monarch of your life but you have to see it and accept it https://t.co/LnyFG2vjLM
i don't think I could have shipped Introspect without listening to frozen, moana, spiderverse, superman, avatar, etc soundtracks etc over and over again lol it's not an intellectual thing, you need the emotional reckoning, it comes from the gut and heart https://t.co/O4NFz9C9Ff
your life is your life it is yours it is *your* life it is YOURS https://t.co/h2zoutSDZR
Repeat after me, if you feel like it: Life is hard, and full of rejection and failure. But. I will never be the one to count myself out. I will never take up arms against myself. I will never be the one to sabotage me. I’m on my side and I root for me to succeed. https://t.co/Eo1Pk9g3et
in closing: https://t.co/IVUvys5lg9
I wrote a whole book trying to help guide people to this realization within themselves, here's what readers have said about it: https://t.co/SM3XoZXo0a
@visakanv We have the chance to write our own stories now.When I started writing mine, I realized it sucked.So I started changing it. Now I'm writing the story that I want to write.It's incredibly empowering. But hard to reach. You have to unlearn a lot of constraints.