Motivational Speaking - Stuck in the Middle with All of You
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Motivational Speaking: Embracing Dreams and Adventure
Word Count: 467
Summary:
Explore how the pursuit of money and a conventional lifestyle can stifle creativity, imagination, and the spirit of adventure.---
Article Body:
What is it about our society's obsession with money and the white picket fence that stifles our dreams and crushes our sense of adventure?
From kindergarten through college, we're often guided towards conformity and the middle-class norm. Athletic ambitions are stifled, unless you’re exceptionally talented. Artistic pursuits are deemed unnecessary unless you’re the next Picasso or Shakespeare. We’re encouraged to postpone exploring the world in favor of education and entering “real life.”
Our fear of failure is so overwhelming that society encourages us to settle for mediocrity, as if low expectations protect us. But perfection isn’t intriguing. Flaws are. Imperfection brings excitement, while symmetry and straight paths offer predictability.
Where is the adventure in following a conventional path?"school, achieving high grades, securing a stable job, raising a family, and retiring in Florida?
Consider my uncle: he spent eleven years traveling through Europe and Africa and returned only after falling ill in India. His life is filled with stories. Meanwhile, Joe in accounting has little more than tabloid headlines.
Too often, people live through others instead of pursuing their own dreams. A prime example is sports parents who push their children too hard for their own glory, ultimately making them dislike the sport. A child may be a champion at fifteen, but what happens if they become a troubled adult?
What’s the point of having an imagination if you don’t believe in it? Why dream if you never follow through? And what’s so terrifying about failure? I fail regularly, but each time it makes me more knowledgeable and interesting. Sure, it’s uncomfortable: awkward moments, apologies. But life isn’t meant to be perpetually comfortable. Why focus on avoiding discomfort?
Instead, develop your ideals, explore the world, turn off your TV, engage your mind, and truly live.
And if you find yourself dealt a bad hand, have the courage to keep playing. You never know?"your next hand might be a winning one.
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