You might be tempted to take Arnold (Schwarzenegger)'s advice: to visualize your goals, make a plan, and see it through. You might even have a clear vision for what you want to do and who you want to be. If you do, that's great, and you should go for it. (I envy you!) But I would discourage you from clinging to your visions too tightly, because your visions can blind you to what's actually in front of you -- who you really are and what you really can be. Sometimes we get so focused on our vision that we simply miss a lot of the good around us. The stuff we could really use. We miss out on opportunities. We get driven crazy by the mismatch between our vision and our reality. The vision becomes more destructive than creative.
-- Austin Kleon, Don't Call It Art, p. 178-179
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