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How to Stop Caring So Much
Overthinking can kill your performance and creativity.
Everyone wants the secret sauce. The recipe. The blue prints. The perfect still life of attitude, growth hacks, content, branding, and productivity apps that promise to launch their career into outer space.
Enough metaphors for you?
We have so many because everyone keeps talking about success. Even though we have no idea what it looks, feels, or tastes like.
Half the time, we don’t even know when we’re successful. We need other people to tell us.
Recently I wrote that success doesn’t feel like an orgasm. But you have to approach them both the same way.
By not caring so much. By letting go a little. Or even completely.
About a year ago, I had my first orgasm with a partner. How did that happen? Because I finally stopped caring if it would happen.
So, you have to stop caring if you fail or succeed. It’s a weird paradox. How do you even reach that state?
Understand what it feels like to stop caring.
People tell themselves they don’t care all the time. They’ll tell you something doesn’t matter. But how do you know they’re telling the truth?
