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I lived by most of these mantras for 20 years and when I turned 40 I decided it wasn't worth it. Literally on my birthday I said, "I'm going to stop acting like
by goatherders 6y ago
I lived by most of these mantras for 20 years and when I turned 40 I decided it wasn't worth it. Literally on my birthday I said, "I'm going to stop acting like a jerk just to get things done, practice deeper empathy, smile more, and stop working 15 hours a day.
I can (and have) build a successful company without acting like there must be some maniacal focus that makes me abnormal.
- artsyca 6y agostatistics are the most misunderstood of all the soft sciences Normal literally means dead average and a lot of people use a lot of stereotypical behaviours to escape from that fat part of the 'normal' curve to varying degrees of success Some are short term, some are longer term, some are violent some are empathetic -- it sounds like you broke away from normal even though you still see yourself as such but believe me there is no such thing as normal it's the worst of all worlds