The third thing on your to-do list. Testing yourself means relinquishing the things you believe have so far kept you safe or comfortable, at least for a time. I don’t know why we don’t test ourselves in ritualized ways anymore. We left behind the rites of passage that cultures around the globe have used for most of time to mark the transition from youth to adulthood, and so now we must make them ourselves. Difficulty, solitude, and risk are the three things that all rites of passage have in common. It’s because putting ourselves in situations where we must do hard things that scare us without
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