To see reality, what truly exists in life or in any situation, is a wonderful and unique ability; however, the more you expect from life, the more you will gain.
Another aspect of having the right worldview is expecting more, seeing the good in others and in yourself, while not being ignorant, and ignorance can come in many forms.
It’s ignorant, for example, to think that you have no control over a situation. Let’s say a cop is giving you an unwarranted ticket. It’s true that you cannot likely get out of it if the guy’s just a dick. You, however, don’t know the day he’s had nor what he’s seen thus far, so you can only control what you can control and that is your reaction.
It’s also ignorant to think that all people are bad or that all people are good. You can, though, choose to see the good in them and expect more from them.
In your goals in life it’s important to see what is, but also to expect more.
There is no benefit of less than audacious goals. They won’t excite you, nor will achieving them bring a benefit of any great significance. Your goals need audacity, the more of it the better. But, you can’t simply arbitrarily choose an audacious goal without expecting to give something of equal or greater value in return for achieving it. It would then be deemed not as a goal but as a dream and it would be relegated to that lovely period in the night when you lay your head down to go to bed.
While you must understand what your weaknesses are in order to root them out, you must also have the understanding in your own power too root them out. Optimism isn’t something that must be tied to hope. Hope can be unwarranted and unfounded. Optimism takes work when tied to pragmatism. You, like those men Frankl talked about in his book Man’s Search for Meaning, must find a reason and a challenge. You cannot simply lie back and expect it to show itself.
Not only does the warrior, you, see life and everything in it as a challenge, but when the world is bombarding him with curses, when the shit does truly hit the fan and hope is non-existent, he still manages to create a challenge, to squeeze out even an ounce of meaning within the darkest of hours.
About The Author
Chad Howse: Chad’s mission is to get you in the arena, ‘marred by the dust and sweat and blood’, to help you set and achieve audacious goals in the face of fear, and not only build your ideal body, but the life you were meant to live.
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