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Okay, I need to be as good as possible.
You blame university for not teaching you about everything because the job market's different.
The freelancing is different.
The world out there is the world on steroids.
Basically, you're jumping on a really fast train that's moving faster than ever before.
And there is almost no time to dither in a way.
You can choose to dither or you can perceive it that there is absolutely no time to dither.
But in your way, it was like when you said I wasn't exactly standing out or like my own space, looking back, you can be like, oh, maybe I should have potentially done something different or maybe I, whereas it all turned out absolutely fine because it's a compounding effect of all of those days and minutes and inspirations and the two week lacrosse.
Let me guess what you might have been trying to understand all of that stuff.
Because I think the reason why I'm pointing it all out is it's easy to be judging yourself that you're not spending every minute right now in 2026 correctly.
Whereas the journey is so long that actually spending any time in any possible way that makes you happy is a data point towards something that you and I are displaying.
You are totally no result of the mixture of all of the things that you've ever done and ever tried and they come in all together.
So I think we live in slightly conflicted times, but we can look back in some of the journeys like yours and go, you know what, maybe I'll be okay.
Yeah.
I think the realization that we live our own lives.
There is no template that you need to be at a certain place at a certain time because that's your next checkpoint towards something that you're meant to be doing because we are finding our ways in life, right?
Because when you mentioned some people who were exceptional and they were really good and they're no longer in design.
I remember being friends with this particular cohort of designers down in Hampshire and
And they were talented.
Some of them were really freaking talented.