Let’s cut to the chase.
The greatest flex in life?
It’s not the car you drive.
Not your six-pack.
Not even your paycheck.
It’s this:
The ability to disregard other people’s opinions.
We live in a world full of expert commentators — people who will call you too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet, too ambitious, too lazy… all in the same week. It’s almost hilarious once you realise this one truth:
Most of these opinions are just projections.
People aren’t really seeing you. They’re seeing a reference point — usually themselves.
Their beliefs about life are built on 2% actual understanding and 98% recycled noise. And you? You’re making the mistake of building your self-image based on that fragile, second-hand software running inside their heads.
Here’s the kicker — you’re probably doing the same thing.
That’s right. None of us really know what we’re doing. Everyone’s just winging it, trying to make sense of a messy, unpredictable world. It’s all relative.
And then there’s the tribe of “You can’t do it” people.
Notice something odd about them?
They’ve usually never even tried the thing they’re warning you about. They’re not protecting you from failure.
They’re protecting themselves from the discomfort of watching someone else try what they were too scared to.
They’re not predicting your failure —
They’re projecting their fear.
And here’s the part most people don’t talk about:
Even if you fail, it’s better to own that failure than succeed at a life built on someone else’s playbook. If you fall on your own terms, at least you’re free. You learn. You grow. You take full ownership.
And if you succeed?
Even better.
So here’s the play:
- Listen to opinions, but don’t make them your compass.
- Take what’s useful, discard the rest.
- And whatever you do, don’t let fear borrowed from someone else hold you back.
Because in the end, the only person you’ll always have to answer to —
is you.
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