Maybe You'd Just Do It Anyway

Waiting for the “perfect” version of you gets boring.

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Here’s a question I’ve been thinking about lately:

If you knew you were never going to be more successful, articulate, skinnier, confident, prettier, smarter, or more {_______} than you are right now, what would you just do anyway?

Oh sure, we are all hopefully growing and becoming better versions of ourselves and all that jazz. But don’t you think we spend far too much of life waiting to become the person we only become by doing the thing?

I do.

If you knew for certain that you were never going to be different, and you still have a desire to do a thing or make a contribution, you would probably shrug and say, “Well, I guess I may as well go for it anyway.”

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