What I would learn, though, is that some of the strongest visions emerge like this. From our obsessions when we’re young, before our opinions about them have been affected by other people’s judgments of them. Talking about what to do when you’re dissatisfied with your life, the famous big wave surfer Garrett McNamara once said that you should “go back to when you were three, figure out what you loved doing, figure out how to make that your life, then make the road map and follow it.” He was describing the process for creating a vision, and I think he’s absolutely correct. It’s obviously not
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