Robert Greene

So you have to resist the pull that our culture gives you.

You have to also really want this.

That's probably what it really comes down to.

Are you unhappy?

Are you frustrated?

Are you hitting kind of rock bottom?

Is this a turning point in your life where you realize, if I keep going this way in five years, it's going to be really serious?

It has to be important to you, and you have to have a sense of urgency.

And with that sense of urgency, you have to make some decisions.

And one of the decisions that's absolutely essential is to pay less attention to what other people are doing, to pay less attention to what other people are saying, to pay less attention to what people are telling you you should be doing, and to go inward and think about yourself.

and think about what you love and what your interests are that have nothing to do with what people are doing on social media, the things that grab you, that excite you deeply inside in a way that's almost irresistible.

The people out there, you have that.

There's something like that.

You had it when you were a child.

You had it when you were two, three, four years old, five years old, and you've lost it because you're listening too much to other people.

So it's kind of like archaeology would be the metaphor.

You have to dig and dig and dig and find those bones and those relics and those artifacts from your past, the things that really excite you, as well as the things that you hate.

There's a lesson for people, right?

But it all begins from a sense of urgency.

I can't go on this way.