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🗓️ 12 June 2017
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0:00.0 | As John F. Kennedy said, there are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are |
0:10.1 | far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable in action. |
0:18.0 | There's just something about the status quo that is literally intoxicating. |
0:23.8 | You don't want to move, you don't want to put things at risk, you want to keep things |
0:27.7 | as they are, and I get it, change is scary. |
0:30.9 | Change may be one of the single most paralyzing elements that we as human space, that in your |
0:37.6 | space, in that little area that you've carved out for yourself, it may be small and it may |
0:41.7 | keep you less than you could be, but God damn it! |
0:46.5 | Does it feel good? |
0:49.5 | Because it's safe. |
0:51.1 | Because you know your enemies, you know where everything is at. |
0:54.4 | You know all the things that you need to know to feel comfortable, but in that comfort |
1:01.4 | is a world that shrinks around you, is a world that literally is forcing you to confine |
1:06.7 | yourself to the size of that box. |
1:09.2 | It's making you only as big as the space that you've allowed yourself, so whatever change |
1:13.5 | you refuse to embrace, not only does it freeze you in time, but it stunts your growth. |
1:21.1 | If you want to become something that is literally the act of changing, it is literally the |
1:25.9 | act of rebirth of making yourself something new, but in that you must face the terror of |
1:32.3 | change, you must face that you may fail, you must face that you may embarrass yourself, |
1:38.9 | you have to face that in the unknown could be the worst. |
1:45.1 | But unless you're able to do that, you'll never get to taste the vastness of living outside |
1:50.1 | the box that merely having a life that isn't confined is in and of itself far more interesting |
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