Funny enough, it turns out that many of the world’s most famous and wealthiest entrepreneurs never attended college or dropped out. This list includes such luminaries as: Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gates. These billionaires were all too busy starting and scaling successful businesses to, as Mark Twain famously quipped, “let schooling interfere with *their* education.”
“Yeah, I know, but…” I rewound the video, watched it again, and then the message sank in. That’s precisely what I was/am trying to do. That’s what so many of us are trying to do. We are stuck. Bogged down by our own baggage, all that crap we’ve accumulated and carry with us all our lives.
I’ve found some simple but powerful sober hobbies that keep my mind occupied and my alcoholic monkey at bay. These hobbies are helping me string together ever longer sobriety stretches. Maybe they can help you do the same.
I relate this to how meditation caused marijuana to up and leave me around day 35. I wasn’t grasping onto it, I wasn’t pushing it away, it just left of its own accord.
When you’re harmoniously passionate, you become intrinsically driven, and, as a result, you will live in the here and now. The gap is really about being physically here but mentally and emotionally “there”, in some ideal future state. The gap is the distance between “here” and “there”.