Cesspool Confidence

People are too quick to call trying failure.

All the advice on the internet (and countless self help books) is that you just have to get started or you have to put in more reps.

While it’s not easy to get started and it’s not easy to continue, those are rarely the difference between success and failure.

Failure can look like success. Sometimes you spend idk decades doing shit you hated successfully.

Trying is easy AND quitting is easy. It’s easy to stick your toes in the water without actually jumping in. It’s easy to say the water is too cold and walk away.

But did you really give it your effort? Did you jump into the deep end?

And here’s the real secret: look before you leap. It’s not about completing everything, it’s about aligning with your understanding of success and what you feel compelled to do. If you don’t want to risk death, maybe you shouldn’t be a stunt person. Yet we’re okay risking 50 years of our existence doing something we hate for an illusion of security.

People think their choices lead to success or failure, but choices lead to consequences

Did you really fail if you realized you were about to jump into a disgusting cesspool? Avoiding things we hate is more important than finding some underlying mysterious love that may not exist.

And if you did jump in? Get out and clean it off. You just learned what you don’t want. That’s confidence really. That’s understanding more about yourself and your lifestyle and human nature.

Try, try, and try. Go deeper on a few things and get out of the pool. Reevaluate. Then, refine your what you want to avoid and jump back with all the knowledge you have. It’s not starting over—it’s taking everything you’ve ever done with you.