A motivational talk about the lonely, difficult phase of pursuing new goals. The speaker uses The Matrix as a metaphor for perseverance when progress isn't visible yet, arguing this chapter is unavoidable but worth going through.
Every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through. And it's the lonely chapter. It's the chapter where you don't fit in with your own friends, but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you're doing this thing. You're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast, and you're going through this, and you're like, is this even worth it? Because you have no signs of success. The sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity, because it's comfortable and it's warm. Because like in the Matrix tricks, when Trinity opens the door, when Neo's about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car, she says, neo, you've been down that road, and you know exactly where it leads, and I know that's not where you want to be. And then he closes the door. Like, right now, this moment that you're going through is Trinity opening the door and being like, you could go back, but then you'd have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with. Just because you listen to this podcast and you consume this content, you're like, I can do more than this. And you start to see the person that you could be, and you're like, this does start to feel like hell.
