Published on: 2/5/2024
I’ve been thinking a lot about the type of professional situations I want to get myself into in the coming months. For as much effort as I’ve put into studying the concepts set forth by Robert Greene in terms of Mastery, Power, Self-Discovery, etc., I have a hard time feeling like I’ve grown much.
I discovered the 48 Laws of Power when I was 19 or 20 and it profoundly changed my life. Until then I had been quite ignorant of how the ‘real-world’ works. I believe there are many reasons for this, but perhaps the most prominent is I didn’t have any childhood exposure to people who did understand how the real-world works.
This was coming into mind last night as I found myself lying in bed reflecting on how quickly the past 34 years have gone. Is it possible I’d feel more grounded and fulfilled if I’d had relationships with adults who saw reality clearly? I know it’s a waste of time to wish that I had grown up around adults like that–to essentially wish that things had been different for me. But this type of reflection may also lead me to strategies for more clearly living in reality at this point in my life.
What does all of this have to do with my professional endeavors? I guess it feels like my current unemployment, and the difficulty I’m having with feeling motivated to reattain employment, are spotlighting the disconnect I’ve been feeling between my more natural inclinations toward Mastery, Power, Self-Discovery, and this round hole I’ve been trying to force my square head through.
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