“Huge success eludes people because they can’t handle the temporary deterioration to get to the end. What you know and love about yourself will be destroyed as you’re climbing to claim your destiny. Your mission is more important than you. If you’re sparing yourself you’ll never make it.”
Why cling to who you think you are if it’s not helping you live the life you really want to live? Because you have a bunch of emotions tied to your sense of self. Due to loss aversion, you’re more sensitive to losses than you are to the positive feelings associated with gain. Losing your sense of self is loss aversion on steroids.
Often, the process of changing your life comes with pain, sometimes massive pain. You’ll have to admit things you don’t want to admit, mainly that you’ve spent large portions of your life being someone who you’re not supposed to be.
Most people don’t want to make that admission, as well as the many others you have to make on the journey of change.
Most people don’t want to lose specific aspects of who they think they are, even if that means taking their dreams with them to the graveyard. But losing yourself for a while will pay back tenfold down the road if you trust the process.
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