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There is a trap we entrepreneurs invariably fall into: the trap of conviction. The people who love our ideas are our friends. The ones that don’t are simple fools who just don’t geddit. (Idiots!)
In theory it’s easy to say, ‘This too shall pass’, and other such easy aphorisms. In reality, it is a lot tougher when life just happens.
About ten years ago, a shift in my language changed my life. I can’t recall the exact circumstances. There is a short note in my journal about ‘dark moods’ in the face of an onslaught of challenges.
As South Africa savours our World Cup 2023 Rugby win, I’m wondering how can we sustain this feeling? The answer lies in some of the words echoing within the Springbok players’ reflections on the past month.
“Where does joy reside?” my friend blurted out. This problem has been meditated upon for millennia. All religious and philosophical texts contain a version of the aphorism, life is difficult.
Many nights, I dreamed that I was swimming out to sea. Then suddenly it turned violent and I started drowning, the riptide pulling me out to the ocean.
We need real humans around us. We need tribes. If we’re going to survive in this strange new world, we have to go back to our roots, roaming packs that have each other’s backs.
In a world of shiny things, it’s easy to get distracted by the ‘new’. It’s a hard thing to remain focused on the hard things.
