I constantly hear agent and manager friends of mine tell their clients to “not want it so much.”
You should listen to your reps more often! They’re onto something.
It seems counterintuitive because we have desires in life and have to take action to move forward in fulfilling those desires, but at the same time, we have to learn how to become detached. Agents say it. The Buddha taught it.
When we hold on to our desires and not let things unfold naturally, we’re actually working against our desire. This is because desire is basically excess energy. It’s potential. It’s the creative clay or matter that fuels us toward achievement. But when we try to force something to happen, we end up expending our energy in ways that actually work against what we want.
This is because there is an implicit sense of distrust that the thing will ever happen.
Think about it. You want something, but as soon as you want it, you concurrently believe it won’t happen, so you start to hold on or push or try to force something instead of simply allowing things to unfold organically.
It’s analogous to acting. In our work, we get scared that the moment (with it’s inherent
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