This exercise was randomly invented by a friend and I, debating existence. We’re twin idiots since we make the same mistakes– so what started as play, ended insightful.
First question:
If your finished book (written by God, Universe, whatever you believe in) fell from the sky, would you read it?
By finished, I mean this book shows you how your ENTIRE life will play out immediately, from the moment you start reading it.
You can’t change anything.
All the pain to come, progress, bad/good decisions, heartbreak– fated.
That said, our answer?
“Skip to chapter: intercepting this book.”
My rationale is if it ends badly, I’ll find more peace and joy out of every moment–even the boring ones, and If it ends successfully, same effect only more joy.
Here’s where it turned insightful.
I then asked my friend, hypothetically, “if your book did end badly, why and how did it?” This forced both my friend and I to look at ourselves honestly and consider what we’re doing right now.
Almost instantly he rattled off a lot of what we’re doing… right now.
Not a whole lot of reasons for success… BUT tons for the alternative.
And the same was true for me.
Now, we flip the coin.
If it ended successfully, why and how?
And Fools, whatever that answer is– is what you should focus on.
–Another Mad FOOL
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