If you make money doing what you love = you win at life

Life has no manual. How do we know if we are ‘winning’ or ‘losing’ in life? No matter what we do, people will say we are ‘losers’.

One disturbing thing I noticed was when I began to work out. I re-arranged my body to look like something Michelangelo would carve out of stone. Naturally, the women were very impressed. My family told me to ‘stop’ because what I was doing was ‘unhealthy’ (getting fit is unhealthy?). My friends were very upset at me. I couldn’t figure out why. I think it had to be due that I was able to create change in my life which they, themselves, could not.

Using the fitness example some more, here is something else I noticed. People will give you unsolicited advice at the gym. I’m not talking about the people who work there. I could be doing an exercise and some meathead comes out of nowhere and begins to tell me how to ‘properly’ do it. I respond that what I am doing works for me so thank you very much! He gets very angry at this. Why? I suspect it is because he wanted to show he was superior or something.

What makes you win at life? Life is short. You will die. The older you get, the faster the years become. People make false things what wins at life.

Academia is not where you win at life. The entire purpose of college is so you can get a job. The goal is the job, not the college. If academia helps you get a job, then that is awesome. But students need to realize that just because you are in college doesn’t mean you are winning at life yet. Not by far.

Getting a partner or married does not mean you win at life. Many people get married because they think it is the thing to do. But what do you know of the person? Or more importantly, what do you know of yourself? Many people who cannot find their passion in life try to find passion with another person. But it doesn’t fill the void ultimately. You need to make yourself content with life first.

Having money also doesn’t mean you win at life. If you spend your life doing something you hate just to get money, did you win? I don’t think so. Unless you are able to retire early and then spend the majority of your life to pursue what you want, then it would be  a win.

Steve Jobs has said, perhaps numerously, that the hardest thing in life is to find out what you love to do. Once you know what you love to do, then you pursue it and try to make that where you get your income. Why? It is because you will spend the majority of your time on Earth trying to make money. If you combine that with doing something you love, you end up loving life and never want it to end. You win. Others become bitter and miserable and wish to die soon. It is a reason why they get bloated and fat, faces become crumpled and unhappy. They lost.

Life is short. Life is limited. Stop caring what other people think, and do what you love.