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Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us.
The life we call "normal" isn't normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job...who said that was life? What's so great about working in a factory or a cubicle?
The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
