Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday morning.

So a few days back I was chatting with a friend.

I think he'd recently been reading a thread on, I don't know, Slack or LinkedIn or one of

those things.

And he was talking about a particular person he'd come across who was receiving a lot of

congratulations from their friends, from their work colleagues for having landed their

dream job.

And he said he couldn't quite understand at first sort of, you know, he was, of course,

people would be happy for this person.

But when he started looking into it, he started to understand why there was so much sort

of feedback, even from sort of strangers, not just people that they knew.

And it was because this person had been after this job for a really, really long time.

They'd applied and, you know, hadn't got the job on multiple occasions.

But it continued and had this sort of sense of perseverance, a sense of, okay, this is

something I really want to do.

It's not about whether I get it yes or no, whether it works straight away.

It's about how do I create the conditions and how do I persevere to the point where

eventually it starts to work for me.

And he was interesting as we were chatting through this, and I was thinking when I was learning

meditation at first, I was told I'd need two things.

I'd need commitment and I'd need flexibility.

In fact, I remember saying to the teacher, actually, I'm still pretty young.

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