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LIVE DANGEROUSLY!
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
We have goals. We have ideals. We have dreams. We have visions of a future that only we can make into a reality. These are legitimate. They excite us. They fill our bodies with energy from untapped reserves that we didn’t know we had. We have no choice but to push forward.
Yet when we pursue these dreams, we are not met with praise or support. On the contrary, we are met with criticism, doubt, fear, and confusion.
This is followed by advice that is usually a combination of the following:
Don’t rock the boat.
Play it safe.
Don’t quit your day job.
This isn’t for you.
Focus on what you are good at.
And sadly, most people give in and listen. They live a safe life and a sterile existence. They dull the inner voice, silencing the best part about themselves.
You cannot allow this to happen.