Matthew Kelly recounts the fisherman parable about chasing future freedom while already having what you want. He admits to equating enjoyment with lack of productivity, then realized his best ideas come when he's relaxed, not hustling.
And then the other thing I've been thinking about recently, and I spoke to my girlfriend about this earlier, is that there's that parable of the fisherman or some bullshit, you know, and then it's like someone says, well, you should sell more fish. And he says, why? So you can buy a factory? Why? So you can build a bigger business? Why? So you can sell it one day and eventually live by a quiet village by the sea? Is that what. I'm already doing that. So I've been going through this a little bit where I'm like, why am I making it so hard for myself? Thinking. I basically got into this mindset the past few years where I thought almost like, if I'm enjoying myself, I can't be working hard enough. So this is like a psychological thing you've got to overcome? Yeah, I think it's just, like mental immaturity. In some ways, I guess everyone's different. But for me, yeah, I just got very negative about if I'm not, like, hustling so hard and almost hating my life, doing nothing but work, then it can't be productive. But it's not true because I get my best ideas and feel best about work when I'm in a different place. For example.
