trying hard is badass

losers built everything you admire, it's about time you failed at something too

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." —Leonardo da Vinci

The rise of minimalist design and architecture, Superman as the ideal hero, a god who holds back… heroism isn’t in what he does but in what he chooses not to do.

It’s a campaign to make trying uncool…. that restraint is actually the superpower. It makes everyone feel like they are already awesome and that their virtue lies in the fact that they don’t go ahead and display their awesomeness.

What they don’t tell you is that you aren’t Superman, If you decided, right now, to stop restraining yourself and “unleash your potential,” you would have to actually have that potential waiting, compressed and coiled, ready to go.

You would have to be genuinely capable of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel the moment you picked up a brush… but you can’t

And so you never try; you convince yourself that, like Superman, you will keep your talents hidden, you will not take over the world, that you will not unleash your gifts on a world that would frankly be lucky to have them

But stop lying to yourself. You are bad at it. Your preschool teacher called you a genius just for coloring inside the lines, and you carried that compliment into your adult life. But sorry to break it to you: she only said that to make you happy.

You got straight As without breaking a sweat. You saw others stay up all night just to make the same grade as you, so you assumed that trying was for losers, for those less fortunate, for those whom nature didn’t hang a golden halo upon.

But look at you now, afraid to start anything new because you are afraid of failure, while those “losers” make all the money in the world.

They make the headlines, build the startups, save the princess, all while you wallow in your lost valor of a time that everyone has forgotten.

And you will never change, not until you accept that failure is the price for anything meaningful in this world, that victory only comes to those who seek it out.

There was never a chosen one, only those who chose to be the ones.

The ones who tried, the ones who were cringe, the ones who failed miserably over and over and over again.

The ones who realized that trying was badass

— Kaguura