All lives don’t have the
same options. The challenge with reading books, watching movies, and spending
time with outliers and heroes is their realities are likely vastly different. I
went to watch a play about homelessness in the UK. Something as a Soutie, I had
been skeptical about (“You don’t know what poverty is. Come to South Africa.”).
The Actors took suggestions from the audience, and then played it out. The
lesson? We have no idea how to live other people’s lives. We just think we do.
The best generic advice is to pay deep attention to your options. Talk to
people whose lives resonate with yours. Find mentors who have walked the path
from where you are. Friends one page ahead. Don’t underestimate what you can
learn from very average people. What you can learn from, rather than teach,
people less fortunate than you. Don’t spend so much time trying to surround
yourself with successful people that you lose yourself. Meritocracy can hide
what we have under what we want.
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