Most times I´m Wrong about this

Warning: Incoming metaphorical comparisons.

Trying to reach the peak of an unconquered mountain is a tough business.

Realizing that you´ve gone through a path that doesn´t lead you to the peak is frustrating.

And accepting that you have to go down and start over to try to reach that peak, well, is unacceptable to most of us.

In a real-life mountain climbing scenario it´s obvious you have to go down and start anew, otherwise, you´ll be stranded on thr wrong place forever.

However, in a metaphorical journey towards the “peak”, not so much.

Naval Ravikant, a businessman and modern-day philosopher who raised this theme on a podcast with another person I actively follow, Joe Rogan, thinks that creatives (for example artists) are among those who constantly choose to voluntarily get off the wrong path, go down to the bottom, and start again from the beginning in order to find the peak of their truth.

All of this is too metaphorical so let’s bring it to simpler terms.

The path that people choose towards achieving success in life, whatever that is, will most likely not be straight.

Life throws a labyrinth of options and once you go through one single path, even if it´s the wrong one, you’ll most probably want to stay there because it´s just too much work to start again and try a new one. Especially when that new path could also lead you nowhere.

So in consequence, we´re stuck.

Stuck in relatively comfortable places where we don´t necessarily find ourselves 100% fulfilled.

And I´m not talking about wealth or commodities. I´m talking about being comfortable in our own skin. Fulfilled with what we have. In balance with our body and mind. Comfortable with who we´ve become as a person, feeling that we are executing daily on our purpose, however big or small that is.

If we aren´t (statistics show us that in most developed countries, most of us aren´t), we could just consider climbing down this cozy hilltop, starting anew, and heading toward that peak.

We might learn a lot from it… and, we might even discover that there is another even higher peak behind it that we couldn´t even see before.

I´ll go now and analyze where exactly am I located on that metaphorical map.

Have a great day,

Claudio.