Why you should make stupid decisions

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I used to be a RULE FOLLOWER.

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I listened to the teacher. I got straight A’s. Went to University. Got a job. Married young. Bought a house. Had a baby right away.

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I did all the things. Checked all the boxes.

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And I wound up completely lost anyway.

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You know why?

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Because the only thing - THE ONLY THING - that actually creates happiness is following your own damn heart.

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Checking someone else’s boxes, following someone else’s rules, pursuing success on someone else’s terms... it never takes us where we actually want to go.

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Worse, in today’s world, following the traditional “rules” isn’t even likely to bring the superficial gains that the rules were built to deliver: secure employment, home ownership, or wealth creation.

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We can spend decades chasing the goal we’ve been sold, only to realize at the end of the race that we’ve wasted our precious time.

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Wasted it squandering the sacred, intuitive knowledge that our heart has been trying to share with us all along.

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It’s time to change our definition of “smart”.

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A “smart” decision is never one based on someone else’s beliefs, desires, or rules.

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Conversely, it’s NEVER a stupid decision if you’re FOLLOWING YOUR OWN DAMN HEART.

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If you’re feeling called to do something that feels so WILD, so AGAINST THE GRAIN, so MY-PARENTS-WILL-LOSE-THEIR-SHIT, chances are that it’s exactly the thing you need to do to succeed in today’s new world.

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Because here’s the thing: the old rules are broken.

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And YOU are the only person capable of determining what your new rules should look like.