Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and ge...
by eastbayjake on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:10PM
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And Nancy Sinatra in "You Only Live Twice":
You only live twice
Or so it seems
One life for yourself
And one for your dreams
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and ge...
by sateesh on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @01:53PM
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In a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
> “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
> “Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance. As powerful as is our soul's call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. Resistance is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, harder to kick than crack cocaine. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. And here's the biggest bitch: We don't even know what hit us. I never did. From age twenty-four to thirty-two, Resistance kicked my ass from East Coast to West and back again thirteen times and I never even knew it existed. I looked everywhere for the enemy and failed to see it right in front of my face.”
That book is a treasure trove in how to change your thinking and defeat this. But it does require changing your thinking and a great deal of discipline.