By the Ocean
Sunny 74 Degrees
8:49 a.m.
There are a lot of ways to go broke in business when you’re playing in the Matrix. One surefire way is telling the truth to people who don’t want to hear the truth or believe the truth.
Can you imagine writing a business book where you explain that the only thing you can do is be yourself, work hard and then accept what you get?
“Be yourself. Go to work. From there, you get what you get.”
This seems to be the truth. But no one wants to hear it. No one would pay for that. Even though that’s a more surefire way to success than anything else you’ll find in print at the bookstore.
Humans need the dream. That’s where the energy comes from. It comes from the story we engineer to explain the observable facts. “He did X and then he made a billion dollars!” The story doesn’t need to be true, it just needs to give us hope. The hope that things could be different, if only…
Humans will pay for make believe because it feels better to think that success is their birthright and that it is the inevitable byproduct of doing things a certain way.
Success, in the way the Matrix describes it, seems to be a byproduct of your destiny. Some people are here to do it, many aren’t.
Oops.
Real success, however, is accessible to everyone. But that’s more a function of learning who you are, figuring out how to want what you get, and then developing the skills to maximize the quality of your journey towards your destiny so more and more of what you get can be what you want.
Again, not a popular topic.
Ignoring the truth is a direct path to misery though. Which is why so many people are miserable. Even the really rich ones. They got the money and it still doesn’t feel right.
That alone should tell you something. And it should make you wonder if what you say you want, what you’ve been told to believe you want, is actually what you want.
The real question is to ask how an entire population got trained to believe that being yourself and living YOUR life is not more than enough?