Flip your LIFE Around.

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Most of our problems exist simply because we perceive them as such. Whenever we embark on a new journey or start a new quest we are too focused on the negatives of the problem.

The core of the philosophy behind this thinking is :

"Every advantage comes with a disadvantage"

The only kind of people that could benefit from this philosophy are - The Naive, because of their lack of experience in life.

While this way of thinking has its utility in risk aversion, it's just not helpful when you want to become someone great, in fact, it almost acts as friction every time you are trying to take any action.

What if we flipped this around and said:

"Every disadvantage comes with an advantage"

-You have nothing going on in your life

Now, flip it around.

-If you have nothing going on in your life then you have nothing to lose. If you have nothing to lose then you can take as many risks and even if you do fail, you had nothing to begin with.

I'll give you another one.

-You see a beautiful woman and you wanna go up to her and ask her out but you're scared of rejection.

Again, flip it around.

-You were single to begin with, even if she rejects you, nothing changes. You're scared of her ruining your reputation? You have no reputation.

See what I did in these 2 extremely common situations. I took the worst possible scenarios and turned them around.

When you switch to this mode of thinking you start seeing positives to everything. You realise that you are bigger than your worst possible outcomes.

I say this because my life has only been for the better when I started thinking this way and I recommend all the ideas that work well for me on this blog/newsletter to you so that your life can be better as well.

I'm not telling you give up your rationale for naivete. I'm telling you to adopt optimism to kill the loser inside of you, the weakness within you.

Try it.

So go attempt the impossible.

And even if you lose you just come back to where you were.

But if you win, you have the story of a lifetime.

Peace out Folks!

See ya!