You wake up this morning wrapped up in a comfortable heap of blankets.
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You feel warm and calm.
The sun is shining outside your window.
Your laptop cursor blinks expectantly.
Your [[iPad]] is hiding inside your closet.
Something happens. Maybe a job loss. Your favorite app changes the entire interface. Your partner expressed discontent and something needs to change.
No. Read my lips. N. O.
This isn't really happening. You plug your fingers in your ears and say "LA LA LA".
Do you stay in the refusal?
Do you get to work?
Do you look for passion in a new beginning?
Do you get into a new space?
It is dangerous to go alone. Take this.
Finding mentors. Maybe you find a podcast and listen to a mentor's interview. Maybe this is a friend or peer you reach out to. Don't e-mail the founder of the company, talk to your peers. Look for someone who is one step ahead of you and trade expertise.
The rubber his the road.
You're fighting a dragon.
It seems immovable. This feels completely impossible to the old you.
You are going to require transformation to get to the other side.
Do you put your hands around the block?
You are going to have to be a different person.
It's a series of trials and errors.
It's the character trying to figure out... can we go through it? can we go around it? can we go under it?
You somehow managed to get past the block.
It's a return to the village. Become a teacher.
Active recall. Teach others your knowledge.
An angry owl reminds you to do your language lessons.
Which language do you want to learn today?
[[Latin]]
[[French]]
[[Mandarin]]
[[Italian]]
[[English]]
You spend some time learning a dead language and learn the phrase
"Amor vincit omnia,"
which translates to "Love conquers all."
<3
Wow, that's really cool! You wonder if you can speak with ghosts using a dead language?
A feeling of warmth and calm comes over you as you settle comfortably back into the [[ORDINARY]] .
Bonjour!
You spend some time learning French.
"C'est la vie" meaning "that's life" sticks out to you as a particularly cool French phrase.
Neat! You share the cool new French phrase you learned with your Dad. You feel warm and comfortable and settle back into [[ORDINARY]] life.
Au revoir!
你好! Ni hao!
You spend considerable time learning Chinese and feel your mind begin to grow. It's particularly difficult, but you are triumphant and have learned how to say hello in Chinese!
You share your learnings with your Mom and a feeling of victory comes over you.
Wow, that was cool.
Welp... time to return to the [[ORDINARY]] .
Ciao! You learn that Ciao is both "hello" and "goodbye" in Italian!
Your parents take you to an authentic Italian restaurant and you make your order in Italian! Wow, you feel accomplished and had a lot of fun.
You feel full from eating the pasta and return to the [[ORDINARY]] .
You spend some time trying to learn English, but you already know English!
Try learning a more challenging language on your [[iPad]] .