II. Embrace the Learning Curve
Start again.
"Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on." —Marcus Aurelius
It's frustrating to learn something new, isn’t it?
You feel dumb. You can't seem to stop making errors.
You want to shout. Punch a wall. Cry.
Others are doing well.
"It can't be that difficult," you think to yourself.
Discouraged, you're close to giving up. Or have already given up.
Realize this. Everything in nature is born weak, but has a capacity for growth.
It's not your fault you were born this way. But it's shameful if you persist in that primordial form.
Purity of being and skill is the ideal to aim at because that's what brings the ultimate satisfaction and what the Stoics call preferred indifferents like wealth, reputation and respect.
It's wise to believe you were born for a…
