Bill Burnett

There is no right life.

There are lots of good lives.

Let's go lean into them.

And by the way, you don't know the future.

You might have a good idea and implement it poorly.

You might have an idea you thought was good and it didn't work out very well.

Whoops.

Oh, I blew it.

No, I learned my way forward and I'm going to keep going.

There's no getting it right.

They're just getting it going.

And if you have seven lives worth of interest in you and you get one life, you're going to be 14% of your personhood.

First of all, if you're 20.

Be encouraged by the following fact.

Your neocortex, which is the part of your brain that allows you to have an executive function and actually allows you to have full empathy for other people, isn't formed until 27 or 28, a little later in men.

Big surprise there.

So if you're 20, 21, 22, you're not even here yet.

We remind our graduating seniors, you're not broken, you're 22.

Okay.

Your 22-year-old job is not to figure it out because the you that you're ever maybe even going to have a shot at figuring out is six or eight years away from you.