einstein

I dropped (and kinda flunked) advanced math junior year.

But there is one universal truth of math and saying of Einstein that changed my entire life trajectory.

One plus one will always equal two, eight times eight will always be sixty-four, we can go on.

But the key detail is the output will never change.

Einstein supports this:

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

It led me to the realization that I can't do the same shit as everyone else and expect a different result.

I want to build something generational, I want to live a life I find interesting.

You probably want to do something similar, and/or have your own goals.

But there's no way you can achieve the same stuff by doing the same stuff as everyone else.

Everyone else is such an ambiguous term, because indeed everyone is so different, it does make it harder to generalize.

But behaviors aren't ambiguous. A large amount of the population (including myself) does sit in boredom. They do scroll a lot.

And this isn't a tangent of dropping out of school or starting a dropshipping agency to have a different outcome, but it's to emphasize that your goals of achieving happiness, doing good for humanity, aren't going to come from generalized behavior.

They're going to come from being the odd one out.

"Everyone" else will call you insane, but remember everyone else didn't achieve what you want to achieve.

I have so much more to figure out, but realizing doing something a little different is the gamble of getting the very different result you want.