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This is one of the best HN posts I've read in a while. It feels so close to home, and I think it's amazing that people are sharing their feeling about this topi

This is one of the best HN posts I've read in a while. It feels so close to home, and I think it's amazing that people are sharing their feeling about this topic. Sometimes I feel the same as OP, but then, when I encounter a post like this one, I remember that most people aren't going to do super-duper gigantic world-changing stuff and that's ok. Really! Don't beat yourself because you didn't create RCT using assembly by yourself. As others said, people are so different and we all live under different circumstances. The thing that I always try to remember when I feel like I am "nobody" is to do things that I enjoy and that matter to me. I don't need to change the entire world to feel accomplished. I can do what I feel is important and be happy with the impact it makes on my own life and other people's lives. Don't worry OP, you're not alone. :)

mbrodersen 5y ago
Yep agree 100% I am slowly learning to accept that if I only want the results but don’t want to pay the price (thousands of hours working to accomplish the results) then I really don’t truly want it. You have to pick the struggle you want and the results will be the outcomes of that choice.
- foxhop 5y ago
  No struggle. You simply guide your focus. Find focus by using the law of attraction and following thoughts, ideas, and feelings which are good. Your active attention (followed by action) will create worlds. You do not need to struggle, if the idea is great you will attract people to grow it. A labor of love is not a struggle, its different.
  - mbrodersen 5y ago
    All sounds good in theory, and I used to believe that as well, but it doesn’t work in practice. I have achieved everything in life I deeply wanted and now there is nothing I want badly enough to pay the price.
- mbrodersen 5y ago
  Wow some downvoted clearly doesn’t want what I am saying to be true. Unfortunately it is. I used to believe otherwise but reality is what it is. Accept it and move on.
emerged 5y ago
You might also be absolutely stunned if you ever learned what specific individual sacrifices were made by the people you see as being successful. In most cases, I think, something in the chain is likely to cross into a no fly zone for your own moral compass.

mbrodersen 5y ago

Yep agree 100% I am slowly learning to accept that if I only want the results but don’t want to pay the price (thousands of hours working to accomplish the results) then I really don’t truly want it. You have to pick the struggle you want and the results will be the outcomes of that choice.

foxhop 5y ago
No struggle. You simply guide your focus. Find focus by using the law of attraction and following thoughts, ideas, and feelings which are good. Your active attention (followed by action) will create worlds. You do not need to struggle, if the idea is great you will attract people to grow it. A labor of love is not a struggle, its different.
- mbrodersen 5y ago
  All sounds good in theory, and I used to believe that as well, but it doesn’t work in practice. I have achieved everything in life I deeply wanted and now there is nothing I want badly enough to pay the price.
mbrodersen 5y ago
Wow some downvoted clearly doesn’t want what I am saying to be true. Unfortunately it is. I used to believe otherwise but reality is what it is. Accept it and move on.

emerged 5y ago

You might also be absolutely stunned if you ever learned what specific individual sacrifices were made by the people you see as being successful. In most cases, I think, something in the chain is likely to cross into a no fly zone for your own moral compass.