“sometimes the most ambitious move is to be the least ostentatiously ambitious one in the room, but the one most optimized for survival + long game. then you watch as one by one each of your competitors crumble, burn out, give up, quit, and you’re casually the last one standing”
@visakanv again on Twitter
Twitter wisdom. That sounds like a dig but in this case it’s not. (Social media is The Shallows but depth can be found with care, blocking, and filtering).
Actually deeply wise.
The comment sounds like it is all about flexing because you’re the last man standing.
Nope.
What happens in “the room” is irrelevant to you. are they going to live your life? Are they going to raise your children?
No. This is wise because you survival is the only thing that matters.
You don’t care one way or another about competitors. The universe is immense and generous and more to the point malleable and infinitely flexible and expandable so why worry about competitors?
Said as someone who has fucked things up for decades but survived the fuckups and stayed consistent in plodding in the direction I desire.
And still I plod forward.