I have won a national gold medal in karate, I have recorded an album, I built a failed film company, I built a successful film company, I've been told no by Netflix and I've been told yes by Netflix... and all of it before I turned 30. Quite a wild ride.
It is amazing to have a dream and chase after it. I have been doing it for my entire life.
Unfortunately, I see people every single day who have this false belief that chasing dreams is a lost cause. It can't happen, it won't happen, and it is stupid to even try.
On the other hand, I also meet people who chase after their dreams with a wide eyed naivety that I know is going to lead them to inevitable heartbreak.
The reality is that these wonderful, but misguided, people think that chasing a dream is about either a romantic belief towards something they deserve or about a binary focus towards a singular, unchangeable goal. They fall in love with a dream, or someone leads them to believe that they should chase a dream, and they run towards it with black and white success goggles on.
If they fail to meet their goal (which they almost definitely will), they will believe for the rest of their lives that dreams are not worth pursuing. Conversely, if for some reason they actually achieve their goal (which they almost definitely won't), they will spend the rest of their lives preaching the false gospel of binary success and failure.
But all of this is bullsh*t... and you and I both know it.
We don't chase dreams, we build them.
Slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully we find strategic ways to move our probability of success in our favor and increase the odds of good things happening to us.
You must accept that if you want your dreams to come true, then you will need to build them brick by brick.
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That's great advice, Rey Fernandez Jr! Thanks for sharing your father's advice.
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Thanks for sharing words of wisdom Rey.