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10.20.25, 9:23 p.m
You must fight against the inertia of the world.
Imagine a travelator, the moving walkways you normally see at airports.
If you stop walking, aka stop taking control over your life, you’ll naturally drift to wherever the travelator takes you. To create a life you’re genuinely in love with, you must resist what I call “the complacent drift.”
An obvious example is health.
Newton’s First Law of Motion suits well: “An object at rest will remain at rest unless a force is applied,” or “an object in motion stays in motion.”
If you don’t make an intentional effort to stay fit, you’re not going to be fit.
The most dangerous thing? The longer you stay complacent, the greater the inertia, the harder it is for you to change your behavior. Now that’s really scary.
I’m a huge believer in counteracting inertia, or even better, flipping it from negative to positive. Positive inertia compounds just like negative does.
I love running so much. But it’s so tough at times.
I’m writing this on a Monday night. This morning, I struggled to get out of bed. Curtains completely drawn shut. Sun not risen yet at 7 a.m. It felt soooo comfortable.
You see, that’s inertia. That’s the travelator, telling you to sleep in, to not go on a run.
Couldn’t let complacency get to me. So I hopped out of bed, went on my usual 6.5-mile run, listening to a Founders episode on Jensen Huang, founder of NVIDIA.
And guess what? He talked about killing complacency, to beat the sh*t out of it.
Now, I’m writing a public entry about it.
KILL COMPLACENCY.
Be musinary,
