At any given time, many doors stand wide open before you. They are slowly closing, but you have plenty of time to walk through them. The paths are winding.
Striving is when you recognize that there are also many shortcuts. Their paths are straighter, but the doors leading to them are almost shut. You have to run to duck through.
And if you do that, you’ll see that through the almost-shut doors, there are yet straighter roads even further ahead, but you can only make it through if you make a mad dash. There’s no guarantee.
To run is exhilarating at first, but soon it becomes deadening as you realize there is a seemingly endless series of doors. There will never be any end to the striving unless you choose to impose such an end. Always, there is a greater reward that you’ve given up when you do so. Was all your previous striving for naught, to give up when you almost had the greater prize in hand?
There’s no solution. This is just what it feels like to move to the right on a long-tailed curve. It’s a fact of life, like the efficient market hypothesis. If you’re willing to strive, the long-term rewards come at ever-greater short-term costs, and the short-term costs will continue to mount as long as you’re making that next investment.
Striving
At any given time, many doors stand wide open before you. They are slowly closing, but you have plenty of time to walk through them. The paths are winding.
Striving is when you recognize that there are also many shortcuts. Their paths are straighter, but the doors leading to them are almost shut. You have to run to duck through.
And if you do that, you’ll see that through the almost-shut doors, there are yet straighter roads even further ahead, but you can only make it through if you make a mad dash. There’s no guarantee.
To run is exhilarating at first, but soon it becomes deadening as you realize there is a seemingly endless series of doors. There will never be any end to the striving unless you choose to impose such an end. Always, there is a greater reward that you’ve given up when you do so. Was all your previous striving for naught, to give up when you almost had the greater prize in hand?
There’s no solution. This is just what it feels like to move to the right on a long-tailed curve. It’s a fact of life, like the efficient market hypothesis. If you’re willing to strive, the long-term rewards come at ever-greater short-term costs, and the short-term costs will continue to mount as long as you’re making that next investment.