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“I've been living by someone else's definition of success.”
Borrowed definitions of success pull you outside your own bounds — you spend your life building something that doesn't fit you. Trusting your own bounds means defining success from the inside, not from what you were handed.
Your Practice
Write your own definition of a good day — not a good career or good life, just a good day. What does it contain? Use that as your actual daily standard. Check against it every evening for one week.
The Architects
“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself.”
— Epictetus, Epictetus, Discourses III.22 (On the Calling of a Cynic), Matheson translation