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Knowing Your Significance Instead of Fighting For It
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Caleb Campbell on my podcast. Having been a marine, NFL Football player, and member of the US Olympic’s Tobogganing team, Caleb knows a thing or two about working hard.
But there’s a point in your life where you have to ask yourself: when you go to bed at night, do you feel like you’re fighting for significance or do you know your worth?
We’re conditioned to think the hustle is what life is all about. Strive for fame, money, success, and then people will see how much you’re worth.
But while you’re pursuing those external goals, you end up losing sight of what matters most to you.
Somewhere along the line, we are all ingrained with fear and pain. We subconsciously make choices from these places of pain, and for some, never realizing that’s the case.
But what it comes down to is being vulnerable with yourself. Are you living to prove yourself to others or are you happy with who you are?
I know that’s not an easy question to answer to yourself. I pursued two careers, one in coding and one in tech recruiting because I thought it would be impressive to other people.
More precisely, people I went to high school with. Because for some reason, the opinion of people I…