It is quite easy and plays into the guns of your enemies to believe that you are of your failures. To believe that the competition is too much and success impossible. But very very little is ever really bigger than you. The most difficult challenge in the world will always be overcoming the concept of impossible that one’s mind has created and decided must be true. Once you can believe that, choose to believe that impossible isn’t real using simple logic and moving aside emotionality,the natural human need to create or find meaning in things, then you have begun the road, a simple trot really, to greatness. But you must chose to want to believe that you can be great and that you are in fact bigger than that which haunts you.
The size of a person is measurable in their actions and what scares them. When tiny things create values of weakness in men then that man must be considered tiny. But only their perception of measure makes them believe they’re tiny or giant. The problem is the downfall and the preparation, the premise of the self and the world, to keep is that you are in fact bigger and greater than this. Once you have the prep, then you must plan out steps to make it a reality and not fall. The nemesis is the perception that one isn’t that big. That fucking up marks you as permanently a failure, some disgrace to humanity or scrub in the cool kids club. This perception is the real enemy, not people mocking you or your parents and loved one’s disappointments nor some standard unmet. Once you fall down, get back up; don’t lay there and throw a tantrum. The tantrum is the only real evil, never the slip up. Envision yourself as something great and never lose that vision. Then plan and enjoy the planning because you’re writing your own story. Then work to it with full knowledge that this is play. You get to create whatever you are and the meaning behind it. Its absurd to assume otherwise because meaning is subjective in the grand scheme reality where existence is beyond logical point and consciousness, God or what have you, is too great for a person to conceive the purpose of without their own ironic distance from the lack of it. Enjoy the work because life’s a stage and you get to put on your own play.
Walk the walk after you’re dreamed the scheme. Just get up when you slip and eat shit. It makes a better story to overcome issues and suffer. This stab wound wound will look badass after you’ve killed the giant; don’t sweat it but get going on you.