Conventional wisdom

un tip, îl cheamă Jonathan Fields, un interviu cu el aici, de unde al luat şi citatul dealtfel http://lateralaction.com/articles/jonathan-fields/ .

Kick the tires. All too often, conventional wisdom is just the collective limitations of those who’ve tried and failed before or, worse, never bothered trying. When someone says, “you can’t do that,” what they are really saying is, “I can’t figure out how to do that, so who the hell are you to try?” Do NOT accept someone else’s limitations as your own without first doing everything possible to succeed on your own terms.

First, I’m not about self-help. And I’m not in any way, shape or form a guru, master, wizard or other form of magical obstacle-clearing visionary. I’m about hard work, relentless creativity and nuts and bolts entrepreneurship with a strong bent for marketing.

A Career Renegade is someone who makes a conscious choice to build your career around the activities, settings and people who make you come alive… and figure out how to do all this while earning enough to live very comfortably in the world and giving back to the greater community.

Also, I’m not about getting rich. To me, that’s a meaningless metric. Money is important, I need to earn 6-figures to live well with my family in NYC. But, in a vacuum, money has no value. It’s only what it allows you to do that has meaning. So, you could spend every waking moment frantically engaged in the mad dash for cash without reference to passion, fulfillment or enjoyment, but to what end? Yeah, you’ll die with a kick-ass estate, but who cares? Your life just sucked.

So, yes, it’s important that you couple the quest to come alive at work with the quest to earn enough. But, the right metric isn’t enough to be “rich,” it’s enough to live well in the world. That number will change radically with each person. And, likely, will change fairly dramatically for each individual over the course of your life.

Helen Keller said it best, “life is a daring adventure, or nothing.”