“On a personal level, this involves looking inward and wrestling with your own problems and doing the dirty work of examining your own motivations and acknowledging weaknesses and tendencies that are destructive or out of sync with your stated mission or ideals.”
–Fire in the Dark, Jack Donovan
You know who you are; who you want others to perceive you as; and who you want to grow into. Working on yourself physically is always a great place to start, and as anyone who works out can tell you, it’s immensely hard to start. It requires time that you didn’t think you had available and physical suffering that feels uncomfortable.
However, this is only one piece of the growth puzzle. We must also look inward and sift through the mountains of shit that have piled up inside us. This is the dirty work; while adopting an exercise routine can be hard, you can find others to help push you… looking inward and confronting your own shortcomings is lonely work. Of course you can talk through your issues with a professional, or even a close confidant, but ultimately it takes a lot of time and patience to identify your weaknesses, wrest control of them, and turn them into points of growth.
This is lonely work. This is hard work. This is scary work. But without the internal and external changes you’ll never actually know who you are as a person… seek to find the truest form of yourself.
The Break Room 