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A Letter to the Unimpressed Overachievers
These types of people are in some ways the inversion of the auto-critical. Instead of standards for success coming from within, their standards for success are only set based on comparing themselves to others.
To justify this, when threatened with competition, the natural defense mechanism is to pull down or pull back their competition with discouragement rather than progressing by their own merit. The gain becomes one of relativity.
Why worry about motivating yourself when you can close the competitive gap by disparaging others?
Consistency sans Friction
This is no argument in favor of complacency. Nor do I encourage anyone to aim for less than their best any given day.
It’s a call for perfectionists, optimization-addicted automatons, and the all-in-or-all-out types to take a breath.
Failing occasionally is natural. Allowing that failure to perpetuate across weeks, months, and years is only when it becomes detrimental.
Permanence on a Silver Platter: The Disgruntled Nomad (Part Two)
Critics might argue it’s delusional to treat a life chapter with a defined end date as permanent.
I would argue it’s equally delusional to treat a life chapter with an undefined end date as such.
The Disgruntled Nomad (Part One)
A year later, I’ve joined their digital ranks. While still a fledgling in the brigade in many ways, I’m beginning to understand where the source of this discontent may stem. It is where many nomads deviate from a path ripe with growth opportunities and instead ravage on into a limbo as meaningless as the one they fought to escape at their domestic desk jobs.
This is the existential, privileged, curious case of the disgruntled digital nomad.
Exquisitely Inefficient
Do not be deceived when the guidebooks tell you that the “Buenos Aires experience” is standing underneath its looming obelisk and attending a tango show, for the most authentic thing you can do in Buenos Aires is wait.
Smouch No Longer
If we continue to let the tastes of others determine which experiences to try, then we are succumbing to a one-dimensional reality limited by the bias of someone else, akin to allowing the title of artwork to restrict our creative interpretation of it. Continuing to take reviews, recommendations, and titles like these at face value will, at best, achieve a life of experiences that other folks would enjoy more than we would.
Cognitive Obesity: Gluttony for the Information Age
The human body cannot properly function when in a constant state of food consumption. The brain, equally, cannot properly function when in a constant state of information consumption. This is known as cognitive obesity.