The quickest way to ruin your life is to try to make everything easy. - Mark Manson

George Orwell said that to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.

It has become an accepted part of our culture today to believe that we are all destined to do something truly extraordinary. Celebrities say it. Business tycoons say it. Politicians say it. Even Oprah says it (so it must be true). Each and every one of us can be extraordinary. We all deserve greatness. The fact that this statement is inherently contradictory — after all, if everyone were extraordinary, then by definition no one would be extraordinary — is missed by most people.

We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow.