The next time you walk a good sidewalk along the forested area, think about the first person (or deer) along this route.
When there are no roads, some people are sure to be here. They went straight into the woods. They didn’t look for an easier way around.
At any time, you can recreate the Trailblazer’s ordeal by turning 90 degrees and walking straight into the messy, wet bushes. If you do this, you will immediately discover the ease and comfort the path provides. From the first step, the dangers and costs of moving will reproduce.
On the one hand, you are not sure you want to put your feet safe. You can easily roll your ankle or hook your foot to the lower root, so you have to slow down and focus and feel every foot.
Discomfort is inevitable. The wet fern soaked the boots. Nettles scratch your legs. Dirt stains your clothes. It’s laborious and sweaty. There are also errors. If there is a snake, you will not have any warning. The terrain of the Virgin is taxed spiritually, emotionally and physically – everything that the road does not have.
The first person to go this way immediately suffered all this discomfort. By picking such tricky terrain, they broke the branches and suppressed the bushes, leaving behind fewer tax routes.
When you are an adult, most of your time is spent traveling on the road of your own creation. In your youth, you often break into branches and ankle rolls because everything is new. This friction is inevitable, although the adults in your life can guide you.
You spent your first nerve twisted days at school, your first swimming lesson, your first swing bike, your first awkward date, your first use of floor polish at work. You have to walk carefully, you still endure scratches and stumbling, circled around, and got bitten by bugs. All these carving roads you will use for life.
Years later, you mainly travel along a vast network of roads. You have ways to talk to people, ways to do your own at work, ways to get things done, ways to deal with uncertainty, diet, sleep, problem solving and learning – wear traces can move quickly and easily.
Quick and easy exercise is good, the larger your path network, the more places you can go.
However, there are contradictory issues with having all these paths. The more paths you engrave, the less you feel when you enter the woods again.
The problem is that the road is not just Small Easier to travel than non-paths. They’re like ten times Easier – Ten times less discomfort per mile. Walking is so Even if we don’t go where we want to go, we end up following the non-path of the road to attract people.
Say you want to learn a language. You’ve learned something before, so you follow the shabby path you’ve been learning: Read books, attend classes and do exercises.
However, it won’t take you wherever you go. What you really need is to go out and have conversations in a new language – because the goal is to have conversations in that language. However, you don’t have a comfortable road to this. How do you even find someone to talk to? Wouldn’t you be embarrassed? When you try French with French, you can already see the waiter’s impatientness. You know you’ll feel like a kid.
So you are looking for a nearby path. You go back to apps and flash cards, and ten years later, you can’t speak this language.
It can only work this way, because even the huge network of paths for skilled and experienced adults won’t get where anyone wants to go. In fact, Nothing Your roads reach places you have never been, because they are all created by your own feet.
Don’t work hard and don’t lose
The extra effort won’t make the road go down. Going to a new place requires a specific behavior, i.e. choosing a uncomfortable wilderness route that is not 10 times climbing Exceed Waiting for a clean, tempting road there.
This road is so easy to cross than the woods that you don’t seem to be at the intersection. Hey, maybe this road lingers where I end up wanting to go. (no.)
People are always trying – putting more effort or miles on the established road to avoid reaching their destination directly (through the woods).
You will be inspired to write a book with a lot of plans. You are ready to do more than ever. You know it’s an ambitious goal and you have to put in an unprecedented mileage to get there.
You will never get there, though, because no matter how many miles you traveled on these roads, they won’t go to that destination. If you are not affected by the sticky and unwavering bushes between yourself and it, you can’t get to the new place.
A long and fake detour can be a trap. You can walk a thousand miles on the same path to avoid a mile trek through the woods.
This is because human minds are guided by a million years of conditioning, screaming at you to keep the weird path. Stay away from snakes and tan! You have enough food, an insulated sleeping place, and no blood is gushing out at the moment. Then why do you leave the path? Do you want to die?
The mind can do anything, it will only tell you to enter the woods
The mind will do everything possible to deceive you into embarking on the road. You might read this article and be inspired to work harder, go further, this time doing things real. That has been on the road. You left before, didn’t you?
The brain also brings you familiar forms of discomfort, so it’s more “comfortable.” Need to enter a new area New form Discomfort. You may have become accustomed to the discomfort of doing a lot of cardio or working late at night. But, to a customer in need, it is a deep, uncaused wood for you.
The discomfort that takes you to a new place always has uncertain. You can’t know the exact pain you’ll encounter. You can’t guarantee how much discomfort you will feel. This uncertainty around the new route will make the mind “Well, no, we go this way!”
This feeling is a signal to enter the tree. It’s subtle, but it’s happening all the time. Just thinking “Ah, not that!” You know you have the option to break some branches.
It’s the feeling of knowing you should be calling, but you sent a sheep email. When you know you should practice the scale, then you play fur again. When you know you should approach this guy, but you raid the snack table and exit early.
Part of you Know The direct route to the goal is straight through the boiling, sweat, mosquito-ridden bushes. Meanwhile, yell, avoiding this at all costs – even if it takes years of detour costs to never get there.
The route we’ve been looking for is straight through the woods.
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