INTEREST VS. COMMITMENT

🎙T H E E L E V A T E D L I F E (Ep. 13)

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“Interest vs. Commitment”

🤔 Interest is reactive. Commitment is proactive. When you’re interested in something, you might play around with it, dabble, get a feel for it, and see how it responds. You may even compile and recompile, uninstall, reinstall, tweak, and spend copious amounts of time debating its good and bad points on internet discussion forums. As a result, you can feel “committed” but the commitment is partial at best and almost always short-lived.

Commitment is the realm of the doer. It implies making a decision, setting your sights on your destination, and stepping on the gas. When you’re committed to producing a certain result, you begin at the end and reverse engineer a solution that will achieve the desired outcome. You eliminate from your mind any possibility of not getting what you want. Instead of asking, “Is this possible?” you ask, “What must I do to make this happen?” You’re much better off committing yourself to something 100% and figuring out after two weeks that you don’t really like it rather than being 20% “interested” in it for a few months, and never sinking your teeth in deeply enough to reach a firm conclusion.

So, what are you on the fence about? Starting a small business? Sell your home or wait? Buy a home or wait? iPhone or Android? PC or Mac? Red pill or blue pill? Whatever it is, it all comes down to realizing that the answer is subjective and the only way you’ll ever know is by trying it out yourself instead of relying on borrowed wisdom. And if things don’t work out for whatever reason, you can always change your mind.

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