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Let Me Make You Accept Your Ideas As They Are

You’re no better than the rest, but…

Mathias Barra
3 min readJul 27, 2019
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… You are different.

You are “normal”. Your ideas are “normal”. You deserve “normal” reactions.

Accept it. You’re not that special. Nor am I. Neither are the people we’re looking up to.

But they keep on doing unbelievable things!

Well, first, if they happened already, you better believe them. But you know what? If they happened, that also means they were possible in the first place.

Every action and result we see in the world is true due to its very existence. Yet, we observe greats things and believe they were impossible.

Why would they, though? Nobody would ever try something completely impossible after all.

Would you try to stay underwater without air for an hour? Doubt it. Would you try to write a 1 billion-word book in one go? For your own mental state, I hope not. (FYI, the longest book in the world appears to be “only” about 3 million words!)

Everything we see was started from a very simple idea: moving forward.

You’re always moving forward

Whatever you do, you’re making a decision and acting on it. It could very much be just to…

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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