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Finding that passion once again
Ah, yes, the passion.
I used to watch a lot of football in the past, and play Football Manager (2006 #1) and FM has a penchant of making some players be wonderkids in games, and then you look them up in real life, and most of them don’t reach their potential. Whether it’s an injury plague, or not being seen by the right people, or making the wrong transfer choice, or simply having their interest in the sport fade, it’s sad when your favourite players just go off on a different, less glamorous, tangent.
That can be said about real life. Whether you evolve, stagnate, or devolve, everything is a cycle of passion, more or less.
Some years ago, when I used to live with my folks, I used to wake up at 4–5 in the morning and go to bed at 9 in evening. You might think that that’s crazy, or unsustainable, but I did that for over a year, and enjoyed it a lot. And some time after I did that, I read online about some online coach saying you should do the same thing, so in that aspect, I was ahead of the curb.
However, the one mistake that I made back then was to stop evolving.
I was doing yoga, running, writing, online courses (mostly about human psychology and biases), with some chill time for video games and films.
To me, that sounds fine, apart from one aspect. Financial. Yup. I was broke. Couldn’t figure out how to make money online, which was what that online coach…
