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In a world where the startups takes all the spotlight it’s common to think that our ideal work should be always shiny, always intriguing, always super fantastic.

We feel entitled to be the ones, the ones that will make the difference, because we have such a great skillset that we can truly make the difference.

Online courses, schools, all focus on teaching us the importance of being over the top, extraordinary, amazing.
And yet they all fail to teach us that in each work, there’s boring stuff to do.

They fail to teach us that being determined and move through that boring stuff is a requirement of life.
We have paperwork, repetitive tasks.
Whatsapp once described their work in a fabulous way, they told that their work is common stuff, they don’t do always the shiny things, but focus on the good maintenance, the boring stuff that makes things continue to work.

And good work is also this, boring.
That boring part will eventually lead you to success, because without it, you’d simply fail.
No one in the world has become successful without facing the boring work.
Maybe they paid someone to do it, maybe they didn’t.
But in all cases, they faced it.

We live in a world where intelligence is rewarded, and that is good, because intelligence is fundamental to our expansion and the way we build the world.

Being intelligent or smart, is a bliss. You can obviously grow your intelligence by activating it more often, looking at things and trying to understand them.
By doing so you build your ability to infer information, and presume it in future conditions.

Basically, you’re more likely to be able to know how to act onto an expected situation.

But that extra intelligence is also a kind of blindness, because our intelligence is often directed to proving ourselves. So what happens is that we focus our entire range of thoughts into proving our theories.
This detracts much possibilities to what we can do and think of.

Intelligence, in this sense, doesn’t allow you to see past your status because “I’m intelligent, I know things” is the thought that comes to your mind first.

If the world was static and 100% predictable, this would be perfect, but the world, and the people around us, are much more than that.
They act and react in ways we can’t imagine, our intelligence shouldn’t only focus on what we know, it shouldn’t focus on demonstrating our ability to get the truth, our ability to infer what’s correct, but instead we should train it to doubt it.

The more I go forth, the more I think that we should develop a “Sane Doubt” of ourselves, a doubt that doesn’t deprive our ideal but instead tries to add more things, things and information we couldn’t foresee, that we couldn’t predict.

This can only be achieved through a continuous self-doubt that must not be destructive.
If we erroneously transform this doubt into something destructive we would feel powerless, and that’s not the goal.

The goal is to learn, to build another kind of intelligence, an intelligence that doesn’t love being right. The curious intelligence of a child that learns new words.
We should aim to learn the words we still have to learn, knowing we don’t know them in the first place.

You can see it when a friend reacts with 100% enthusiasm.
It’s visible, right under everyone’s eye, and it’s fantastic.

Changing is one of the most difficult thing in the world, mostly because we’re designed to be resilient to change.

Even if, as humans, we have the ability to adapt, we’re not really engineered to change so much.
We change small, invisible part of ourselves, one by one. That’s it.

So the question is: how are we going to change?

By reducing, by removing, by questioning ourselves.

Reducing the noise in information, the abundance of useless things in life that shift our goals without shifting our life.

Removing fears, not transforming into fearless men but instead by confronting them, and finding a solution.

And last: by questioning.
Because if you want to change, you’ll better understand that there are things you should change, that you don’t want to change, and those are the ones that make the difference.

Today marks the first step of buying a new home.

There are so many things happening when you buy it.

First:
You lose money, which, you know, it’s something to expect.

Second:
You wonder: “Am I making the right choice?”

Fear takes over but then you’re finished and you start counting the time before entering your new home 😉