You're About to Change!
one of my few guarantees
I didn’t think I could do it. I sat on the edge of the bed and my head hung heavy with doubt.
I just moved to a city I’ve never visited and quit chasing my lifelong goal.
New friends. New home. New schedule. New goals. New everything.
I was 20 years old when I decided to take on all this change. I stopped chasing my “hoop dreams” and replaced them with “business dreams” at a new school in Atlanta.
The change was hard. My old habits didn’t match my new environment. My old friends weren’t in my new home.
Change Is Everywhere
Change is a funny idea. The way we treat it in Western society makes it sound like change happens once and then stops. As if I move cities, experience change, get used to it, and then life stays the same for a while.
In reality, life is change. We’re just so used to it that we’re blind to it. Open your eyes, as Marcus prescribes himself here,
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."
Marcus in another passage says,
“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?”
Change is how you heat up water. Change is how you read a book and your thoughts are different after you’re done reading. Change is working out and watching your body get strong. It is absolutely everywhere.
Why Do We Fear Change?
Because we let ourselves become blind to it. We don’t consider the millions of changes we’ve watched in our lifetimes. From physically growing up as we aged to graduating high school and starting at a new school or life, we’ve all surmounted massive changes.
Next time you feel afraid of or daunted by change, remind yourself of all the changes you’ve survived. Show yourself the massive stack of evidence that shows you can survive change again. You’re not the same boy you were a decade ago. You have changed.
Brains Gains
When was the last time you experienced change and thought “I can’t do this”... but then you did?
You have a lot to be proud of. Life is hard. And you’ve survived thousands of days of it. So walk straight with your head up high. Be proud.
Your Biggest Fan,
Noah “BigNerd” Sochaczevski
PS. We start CLEAR THINKING by Shane Parrish in less than a week