We must act out passion before we can feel it.

A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre.

I think it's time for a good old-fashioned motivational speech to pick up your

spirits and to re-energize you in this process of doing self-actualization work, of really working on your life.

You know, when I originally conceived of actualized.org,

I actually thought that a lot more of my episodes would be devoted to

motivational type speaking. And then what happened over the years is that there's just so many topics.

At this point I have so many hundreds of very deep technical topics that I'm covering

more my topics are becoming more and more technical

more nuanced they require more preparation a lot more thought more research

and as I got into that, you know, these are the meaty topics.

Those are good, but actually, you know, for most people,

what they really need is to get the the basic right mindset in place

for how to actually just follow through and do personal development and stay on the path without falling off.

Because one of the hardest things is falling off the path.

And because I'm delivering technical content a lot of times,

I just kind of forget to talk about the motivational aspects,

kind of like the vision and the hope and also some consolation for those of you who are in the trenches and are feeling stuck and are feeling like man this work is so hard and I'm not getting the results that I was expecting

the results are taking more work than I expected they're taking longer than you expected

yeah of course this This is tough, tough work.

And one of the challenges that when you see me up here,

just a talking head, talking about some technical topic

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