November 29, 2009
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I’m So Glad I Suck At Reality
I’m going to be that annoying person and keep posting quotes, lines and other babble here from a book that I want to eat I’m so in love with right now; The 4-Hour Workweek. I typically underline words/lines I think are interesting or fantastic as I read. I’ve practically underlined this entire book. Here’s one for you today:
“Does your life have a purpose? Are you contributing anything useful to this world, or just shuffling papers, banging on a keyboard, and coming home to a drunken existence on the weekends?
Yeah, I know.
Are you suddenly thinking; For the love of god are you really going to make me think about this?! If I do, I might want to make some big changes in my life and god knows shaking things up like that is just “unrealistic”, scary as hell and I might- gasp!- make people think I’m crazy…
Jesus. Thanks Di.
Ahh…you’re welcome. Isn’t it great? Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just hanging out on this Blue Lollipop Road of life doing things like passing on words from other people so I constantly keep myself in check too.
There’s another part in the book that the author Timothy Ferriss writes that his high school admissions counselor told him to be more “realistic” to which he concluded he was just not good at reality. Me either Tim! Wahoo for that! I guess neither of us would’ve learned to start contributing anything useful to the world if we’d ever been very realistic. Thank goodness we don’t listen very well to some people either.
Here’s to being unrealistic, asking questions and shaking things up.
Brandon Dale
December 3, 2009 at 5:37 pmI can relate to that, Diane!