When the path is uncertain,

we seek out footprints from journeys that occurred long ago.

Opinions from people who know no better than us.

We look for things that can't be given but must be made.

I once heard Charlie Munger say that we are our own experiment.

Life is the extraordinary, arranged in infinite pieces and placed inside a box,

waiting for us to uncover and unfold parts that contain no meaning

until we place meaning upon them.

And the danger of looking externally for answers is that no one knows you better than you.

Life is a playground, an experiment, a place to try new things, push, boundaries, build, fail, and ultimately build again.

This is the process from which we see what we're made of.

Who we really are, uncover what the best book, the most intelligent being on the planet

can't give to you.

It's where you learn that wandering is not the same as lost.

See, we must retreat to the depths of vulnerability

in order to come back stronger than we've ever been.

We must self-examine in order to find our wings. The Bill Gates of the world, the Picasso's of the world,

they disappeared for 10 years until they came back

equipped to transform everything around them, to explore,

build, create themselves, to acquire something that mere advice

is incapable of providing.

Don't deprive yourself of that because of the pressures right now.

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