This kind of thinking, is the same thinking that the one worlders use to say we are running our of air, water and room.

I’ve flown and drove across the USA, we’re not running out of room. The world is beautiful, and man hasn’t ruined it.

Life is special, and if we don’t treat it as such, well then we’ll just get repeats of other liberal ideology, like Nazi Germany or the USSR.

I took Brandon’s comments to be about the new-agey life guru you were commenting about, not about you and your business. I read WTS and I have to say the similarities between the bad old days at Centratel and the past few years at my business are striking. I read your book as sort of a manifesto for us entrepreneurs who are to dumb to know the odds against us. Your outside-and-slightly-elevated point of view is very helpful in dealing with the clamor that besets me every Monday. Thanks Sam.

George

This author is a passive-income guy (making all his money online), so it’s easy for him to sit in his chair pontificating to an audience of people who live that same lifestyle. But the rest of us who don’t largely live in our minds must act otherwise. But that’s a separate issue.

I think life can and should be enjoyed (not just “balanced”) without having to trick your mind into enjoying it.

You can see an opportunity for improvement without having to first see something as broken. You can certainly see people as imperfect (late, clumsy, forgetful, impatient, etc.) and that doesn’t mean they’re broken either.

Seems much healthier to appreciate the good in the world and to give people a good reputation to live up to while also accepting imperfections. Imagine telling someone, “It’s alright that you lost this important client. I expected you to,” or saying to one of your children, “It’s okay that you were rude to your brother, I expected you to be. You’re broken.”

And imagine others adopting this concept, looking at YOU as though you’re broken. Unhealthy perspective, and a strange way to gain peace of mind, in my view.