How to Awaken Your Genius | Ozan Varol
Good Life Project
The Importance of Letting Go
Tenured professors don't leave their jobs. That's like the golden ring. You're not getting it fired unless the whole college shuts down, which is a highly unlikely scenario and you've got a guaranteed paycheck for life. Letting go of that particular raft was really, really difficult. It meant potentially losing everything I had worked so hard to build. But then I remembered, you know, letting go can be an act of love. There's actually birth and death. As Joseph Campbell writes, the earth must be broken to bring forth life. So I let what was dying service fertilizer for what was coming alive.
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