the winter arc came and went. and we didn't reach any of our "goals." here's why that's ok.
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It's not realistic. It's all forced. Sun is down. Freezing cold. That's how you already know. Winter's here. Speaking of winter, a lot of us went on a winter arc. And we failed. I'm not even going to be like, oh, and we read 10 pages every morning and we locked in. No, we totally didn't do any of that. You know why? Because I didn't do any of that. And I was like... Winter arc, yeah, I like that.
Yeah, that sounds great. I'm going to go on the winter arc and I'm going to... Oh my gosh, I'm going to... Don't force it. A lot of the things that we think we want, that we think are our goals, aren't even what we really want. They are... a melody of the influences we've heard online. Now, it's different to get inspired by something.
You watch a video and it's of someone running a triathlon and you say, hey, I want to do that. That looks great. Sick, dude. That's freaking awesome. But there's a difference between getting inspired and then hearing someone say something and be like, Huh, well, he said that I should want that, so I guess I do. Now, this is kind of ironic, because that's literally what I do.
And to that I say, you should one million percent be listening to a bunch of different perspectives. I am just one. I am just Unk. That is all I am. But there are hundreds of thousands of people with different perspectives, different backgrounds, different lives to take from, to understand, to learn from. But...
A lot of us, including me, are very susceptible to someone telling us to wake up at 5.30 a.m., to go run for two miles, then go to the gym, then eat 20 egg whites, because that's what we should be doing in our 20s. We can do everything that comes. Das Handwerk. Or that we should be hunched over.
at a computer locked in because that is what we should be doing in our 20s or that if we're living at home we are a loser because we should be out in a big city because that's what we should be doing in our 20s are they right maybe maybe they are right maybe that is what we should be doing But maybe we should ask ourselves, is that what we want to be doing? Because, I'll be honest, no.
No, I don't want to be doing that. No, I like to wake up early every morning. It's great. I love seeing the sunrise. It's awesome. But running two miles every day? No, I don't want to do that. I would love to run playing soccer. I love soccer. It's my favorite sport. Give me a 1v1 any day over sprinting. Of course, I'll do it. Give me playing center defensive mid any day over a long run.
I will do it in a heartbeat. That's because I want to do that. That's what I like. And I don't force it. Now, in order to know if you're forcing something, you have to know what you like. And for a lot of us, we don't know what that is. We've kind of gone through life listening to what other people have told us we should like and should do.
And maybe we've come to a crossroads where we're like, dude, I don't even know what is. I don't know. I don't know what I like. And so you should try. You should try a bunch of different things. That's for certain. But for those of us who know. And we're just hearing people tell us, like, bro, like, you should, nah. Don't, why are you spending time animating? Stop it.
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