Certainty is no road to growth

Yassine Berrouj
Nov 8 · 2 min read

I have been told my whole life that in order to be “successful” you´ll need to be a good student, a good person who is smart and hard-working..etc

Only later I understood that it is not true. I learned that people nowadays define “success” using preconditions that make no sense at all. Get a good paying job, be happy, find a partner, find love, make a family, be persistent, create, succeed, grow, get defined abs, be a hustler, be special!

Everybody wants to be special. And most people plan their whole life to succeed, they plan their studies, they plan their career, they plan everything but what most people fail to understand is that life is not a linear path. You cannot describe the life path, you can only try to describe it.

I think life for most people should be first about self-discovery. Working on one’s emotional intelligence and trying not to be anything else but a human.

At the end of the day, you can plan anything but the outcome will be only close to and usually less worth than what you have expected.

Taking the “risk” of unplanned life or endeavours gives you access to an infinite amount of options that you cannot predict or foresee simply because you haven´t planned for them. And yes, there is always the option of failure, but who said failure is the end? Failure is a part of life, you fail, you fail, you try again and then you may get it right. And even if you don´t get it right then maybe you didn´t want it bad enough or maybe you are meant for something else.

Humans painted “failure” with “shame” and “weakness”..etc FAILURE is an option and when it happens you accept it, you learn from it and you move on.

Yassine Berrouj

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