Opportunities

Don't be so high and mighty that you don't take advantage of the humble opportunities that are granted to you. There were things that i didn't do that I could have that would have made my life better. Life is very difficult and in order to thrive with this difficult life if an opportunity is presented to you, you shouldn't be so arrogant that you dismiss it. And it's easy to be arrogant, especially as a teenager because you think 'well I'm smarter than everybody else' It's like, actually, no. If you're sixteen and your life isn't so happy, look around and see if there are opportunities that people are granting you.

That's some advice that Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist who focuses on improvement of personality and performance, would give his 16 year old self. I think he made a great point. You are responsible for your own happiness, and in order to be happy, you need to find out who you are, where your potential lies, you need to look for opportunities to catalyze and channel that potential and bring it into  the material world, by actually seizing the opportunities that you are granted.
It's easy to dismiss them because either you think the next opportunity is just around the corner or because you think, and that's a problem that I find in many people, including myself, too highly of yourself. You're not smarter than most people, you just haven't met the people who are smarter than you.
Opportunities and potential are always there, but they are distributed unevenly around the globe. You should be thankful for being so fortunate and living in a place where potential can easily be turned into material or intellectual value. Sometimes, the next opportunity might be just around the corner, but what if it isn't?
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