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Buried in their minds is the sensation of overcoming their frustrations and entering the cycle of accelerated returns. In moments of doubts, the memory of the past experience rises on the surface. Filled with trust in the process, they trudge on well past the point at which others slow down or mentally quit

Try to revert to a childlike feeling of inferiority - the feeling that others know much more than you and that you are dependent upon them to learn and safely navigate your apprenticeship. You drop all of your preconceptions about an environment or field, any lingering feeling of smugness

Most people wait too long to take this step, generally out of fear. It’s always easier to learn the rules and stay within your comfort zone. Often you must force yourself to initiate such actions or experiments BEFORE YOU THINK YOU ARE READY

Too often we make a separation in our lives - there is work and there is life outside work, where we find real pleasure and fulfillment. Work is often seen as a means for making money so we can enjoy the second life that we lead

Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being. The voice which calls him to that authentic being is what we call vocation. But the majority of the men devote themselves to silencing that voice if vocation and refusing to hear it. They mange to make a noise within themselves..to distract their attention in order not to hear it

What we lack most in the modern world is a sense of a larger purpose to our lives.
We human beings must build our own world. Without a sense of direction provided to us we tend to flounder. We don’t know how to fill up and structure our time. We are perhaps not conscious of this emptiness, but it infects us in all kind of ways

About 2600 years ago the Ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote “Become who you are by learning who you are”