Selected Meditations

Staying in the game, not expecting answers too soon, why dreams are lonely, and resilience lessons from the African wild dog

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Stay In the Game

Most of the time, if you ever take a break from something, you won’t return. This is both good and bad news.

The good news is that your opportunity costs may have been higher. In taking some time off, you assess and evaluate things, and you reorient energy and action towards those other things that are more valuable to you. In this way, it is right to never return—even here on Substack.

It could also be that you had taken on too much, overheating, or becoming overwhelmed, and thus needed a break. Here, the only solution is to drop some things. These will inevitably be axed.

But there is a way of not returning that should worry you. Some don’t think all the way before entering action, and thus start what they will inevitably quit, either because it doesn’t make sense to keep going or because they are prone to distraction. Others, coming from inertia, cannot overcome the inevitable initial resistance that doing anything entails.

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