You are not 100% in charge of your life. You will fall victim to emotions and hormones, to circumstance and power imbalance. And no decision you ever make will be 100% within your control. When you account for all the variables of over which you have no control, your own intent is probably less than 20% of the relevant input.
A huge portion of life is largely beyond your control. Wayne Gretzky's father built his son an ice rink in their backyard. Bill Gates' mother got him into one of the few schools at the time with access to networked computers. External circumstances give huge head starts, or weigh you down like nothing else.
Do people overcome negative circumstances every day? Of course they do. But keep in mind, that even them overcoming negative circumstances is hugely dependent upon other outside circumstances.
So when parents and adults tell children that they can grow up to be whatever they want, the adult is obviously lying. But it's a necessary lie. Life is something of a lottery, unfortunately. But you only win the lottery, if you buy a ticket.
You cannot do whatever you want. You cannot be whoever you want. But if you don't act like you can, you will never achieve what you want. Much of your success is determined by circumstances beyond your control, and the one piece you can control is not as important as you think. But if you don't take control of that one thing, nothing else matters.
Buy the ticket.
Because if you don't buy the ticket, you end end up being human resources that somebody else will use to achieve their goal.
Life is short.
Work is crap.
Join my cult.
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