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Ambitious but at peace

For most of my life I’ve felt a deep discontent myself. We hear a lot of advice to “love yourself”, have a “kind inner voice”, and so on.

I’ve always felt these were coping mechanisms, anesthesia to dull the pain of reality. It’s like what they always say: the most successful people contain within them a contradiction - near delusional levels of self-belief fueld by an intense anxiety around never being good enough. Real strength comes from knowing that there is absolutely nothing that can happen to you that will stop you from continuing forward.

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