Chasing the Wind: Finding Completeness in Stillness
When the relentless pursuit of dreams leaves us breathless, perhaps the answer lies not in running faster, but in learning to be still.
That breathless chase, the relentless pursuit of a dream that always slips away. Have you felt it? The lonely horizon, the hands-on-knees exhaustion. What if the very act of chasing is the problem?
We build strategies, teams, strive for more, yet the gap widens. Leadership, life itself, can feel like a lonely pursuit. Jay-Z said, "Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week." I lived by that. My "superpower" was grind, fueled by survival. But I learned stillness, not strength, is the true power.
In the full thought letter, I share a childhood memory of trying to move the sun, a metaphor for our futile attempts to control the uncontrollable. You'll discover the secret to "catching the wind," and how stillness reveals a completeness we already possess, but cannot grasp.
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