How to Live an Asymmetric Life

My Reflections

Aim to live an asymmetric life. Doing the linear returns life is not what you are meant for. The four key things to live an asymmetric life – do hard things, do your thing, do it for decades, write your story.
Don’t see where you are going and make it your story. Write your story and then go make it happen.
Suffering will happen - that’s just the point of doing hard things. Even if you do a job, there will be sufferings. But if you follow the four rules, you will at least suffer for the “right” thing. Internalise the fact that there will be suffering. Life is just a series of sufferings with some success sprinkled in between. Just going to a beach and staying there all day will NOT give you happiness.
Everything that you want in life, anything worthy at all, is on the other side of “it gets worse”. You have to go through feeling worse before you see anything meaningful in life. You have to become comfortable with the feeling of worse. It’s just fear, nothing else. Tell the fear - “not me, not now”.
You will never win playing someone else’s dream. You can maybe survive for a little while, but you will never win.
These four rules sound great - but how does one action on them really? Take an audit of your life - what hard things are you doing, if any. Are they “your things”? Do they really give you satisfaction and motivation and happiness? Can you go on and on about it? Are you ready to do it for decades? What is the story you want to create for your life?
How do you write your story? Imagine the 5 years out. Don’t focus on the “how” - the how is the killer of all great dreams. Vision time and execution time are separate.