“Our culture today confuses great attention and great success, assuming them to be the same thing. But they are not”
I've recently come to the determination that listening to the news Los Angeles traffic has done very little for my psychological well being. Instead, I've once again turned to the world of the audiobook, and the first one on my list was one called "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" by Mark Mason.
It was a perfect personal compliment and affirmation about how I've started to perceive my life and the world around me. I've had similar experiences and realizations to that of the author and will probably continue to quote the book for some time.
“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
In the book there's a whole chapter dedicated to the "Do Something" principle. It talks about when the author finally quit his day job and became a self-employed entrepreneur. Without realizing it, this was something that I also stepped into in May of 2011.
On May 30th, 2011 my wife and I had moved out of our large two bedroom apartment on the West Side of San Francisco, packed up our lives into the back of a U-Haul and moved across the State to try a new start in Los Angeles.
We didn't have jobs, or many prospects at all. We just needed to make a change and have a swing at it. There were so many barriers to entry, so many obstacles to overcome. Yet, I kept telling myself. Just do something. Just make something. Little did I know at the time that this big change for my wife and I would be a pivotal moment in my life. It would change our trajectory profoundly and led to us ending up where we are today.
“Life is about not knowing, and then doing something anyway.”