No Matter What You Want To Change, It Won’t Be As Terrifying As The First Step You Take Toward Making It
“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”
“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”
LA has a handful of things that no other city in the world has. I won’t even call those things hidden gems–because they aren’t. They’re right there. You’re just missing them.
If you’ve done your job, they’ll do theirs.
So if you’re staring some life changing decision in the face right now, you need to understand this. It is always going to be inscrutable. There will not be clarity. Not before, not during, not until well, well after.
I started writing online in early 2006. It wasn’t until December of 2011, nearly six years later, that I got my…
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
Sometimes you have to be a dick. Don’t waver when the time comes for it. Just push through it and move on.
Your salary does not say something about you as a person. Especially whatever your first offer is. It will get bigger over time, that’s how it works. And even then it doesn’t mean anything (though money is nice).
Think about the people whose mouths those words are coming out of. Think about what they do in private, think about the mess that is their own lives, think about their demons.
People who study the Civil War tend to fall in two camps.