I other words what the article is suggesting is forget about your dreams, your personal goals and the ideas that along with percisentence could have a chance to make you feel good about yourself, your life and maybe even help you actually enjoy the limited amount of seconds that you have to live and instead be thankful for the opportunities you have been "given" and shut up because things could actually be worse. Look at that 90% of the world that wish they had half of what life have given you.
It's incredibly sad how what the article suggest is exactly what the majority of the world does when what we really are supposed to do with our life is so simple.
Life is short, try to enjoy it no matter what, never give up on you. If you have to spend all of your life trying to make work whatever it's you want to do and that you think it will make you happy, do it. Because if you don't, if you give up and do what you are "supposed" to do, what is safe, what society, your education, your family and your religious "beliefs" have tried to imposed on you will never be happy. That is guaranteed. But, hey! worse nothing than what you already have! right..
You can't will your rent payment into existence, and you won't fully enjoy your admittedly short life while deciding between another week of spaghetti or tuna.
He is saying you should work on developing your skills until you are good enough to be able to succeed in pursuing your dreams. You know, learn to skydive before jumping. It sounds as if you're suggesting everyone just throw themselves off the cliff.
The problem is that if we tell ourselves to wait until timing is right, we will make sure timing is never right.
It all comes down to the fact we are just scared of giving up the illusion of security or what is "convenient" even if that convenience is what is keeping us from achieving our goals, from what is truly important to us.
We will make sure we do anything possible to postpone the moment when we can say are I'm "ready".
Even if being ready just comes down to having enough money saved so we don't have to eat spaghetti or tuna while we work on our dreams, the story always goes something like this:
You want to have enough $ saved so you don't have to worry for 6 months and be able to just focus on yourself, on whatever you really want to do.
Once you have that $ saved you might tell to yourself, well, but things never work out the way we plan them so I think it would be better if I have enough saved for a year. I just need to keep doing what I would love to quit for a couple more months, and that's it, I will be ready then. Since that reasoning actually makes sense to you you end up postponing it for a bit longer.
A few months later you find yourself either worried about things like the economy, or maybe you think you need more money, or anything else you can come up with to justify postponing your dream and you keep doing it over and over.
The time is never right. You just have figure out what the worse case scenario would be, what could happen if everything you though you knew was absolutely wrong and what options you have to go back where you started in the event you fail. The chances are once you are aware of it, it won't be that bad as you though and hopefully you won''t longer be scared and will quit what you need to quit to invest your time on yourself.
While I agree with most of your comment, there is something to be said for preparation. Do you think it's unwise of me to wait until after I pay off my student loans (a year, perhaps) to quit my job and start my own business? Keep in mind that student loans are one of the only loans you can't get out of with bankruptcy. This is the kind of very specific preparation that doesn't have to keep escalating. I'm reasonably comfortable walking away from a failed startup with nothing; what I'm not comfortable with is being saddled with an ever-growing debt I can't get rid of.
and an important psychological principle backing this up is cognitive dissonance. if you keep doing what you're doing, you'll rationalize your behaviors to yourself.
It's incredibly sad how what the article suggest is exactly what the majority of the world does when what we really are supposed to do with our life is so simple.
Life is short, try to enjoy it no matter what, never give up on you. If you have to spend all of your life trying to make work whatever it's you want to do and that you think it will make you happy, do it. Because if you don't, if you give up and do what you are "supposed" to do, what is safe, what society, your education, your family and your religious "beliefs" have tried to imposed on you will never be happy. That is guaranteed. But, hey! worse nothing than what you already have! right..