The speaker argues that continuous growth matters more than reaching a final goal. Using Matthew McConaughey's idea of a future self as a hero, they suggest treating who you want to become as a compass keeps you moving forward, celebrating the journey itself rather than fixating on arrival.
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Becoming is the best part of the journey, not arriving. I will probably never arrive. You know how the song says, we started at the bottom, now we here? That sounds like arriving. I always want to become. There's always this version of me, and Matthew McConaughey calls it his hero, our future self. If you make your future self as your hero, you will never arrive. Now, is that a bad thing? If you don't celebrate it, it can be a bad thing, but if you use it as A guiding post for your journey and enjoying the journey instead of the destination. Staying in the becoming season of your life and always changing and evolving. It will always be exciting. It will always be different, and you'll always get exhilarated when you're always becoming.