Don't be afraid to be miserable. I mean it sucks right? Like no one like diarrhea sucks puking sucks like I know these things like when you're in the middle of them you're like oh my god this is never ending I want to know like just like I'll trade anything to make this stop like being miserable sucks but don't be afraid of it right like it there's profoundness in it there's wisdom in it it shows who you really are.

Like, you know, watch somebody when they're in the best of times.

They're great people.

Watch somebody in the worst of times,

and you see who they really are.

And I'm not wishing terrible times

and everyone, but don't be afraid to be miserable.

And if people need examples of this, one of the things I love to do actually is just read

history.

Like read the histories of people who have created the greatest works that you admire because they're not these beautiful little

stories and if people have written them as beautiful stories remember that that's writing and that might not

actually be true because people who are living the life and

living the experience are often going through. I mean Mark Twain was an insurance

salesman. Like he wrote his books at night. He wrote his books after he could finish his job make the paycheck like a lot of the people we admire the most are the

Loneliest weirdest strangest most miserable people ever. So if we're looking for doing great work

and if that's the priority, and I would argue that,

like doing great work and having great love

are some of the biggest, biggest, if not the ultimate things in life, then like there's, then you're just

going to get the gamut of emotions and some of it's going to be not so good.

I actually, I think that, I think that society like preaching right now

the do what you love follow your passion everything should be great

happiness ideal is actually doing a lot of people a disservice because then they

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