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Why Life Isn’t Like a Movie
Sorry, Joe Rogan.
When I was younger, I used to love the video that Joe Rogan did for Onnit where he says to “be the hero of your own movie”.
When I saw this video, I was 18 or 19, and I was at a point where I felt that I desperately needed to be the hero of my own movie to get myself together.
I wasn’t really good at anything yet (most 18-year-olds who aren’t prodigies aren’t), I had no real money (most 18-year-olds don’t), and I was pretty lost as to what I was going to do with my life.
In the years that followed, I went deep down a self-improvement rabbit hole, investing myself intensely in Jiu-Jitsu and later writing. I started to compete professionally in Jiu-Jitsu and eventually, I became a ghostwriter.
I structured my life around the idea of “being the hero of my own movie”. I structured my life around being the main character of my own story.
However, I’ve recently realized that unfortunately, life isn’t about that.
Life is actually a lot different from the movie I was trying to “a hero” of.
January was a tough month.
On January 6th, a few weeks ago, I returned home to Austin after 35 days of traveling.
