The “Abundance Mindset” Is Holding You Back
Some of us are never going to “make it”.
As a competitive athlete, I often catch myself in a mindset is based on the scarcity of competition.
In a tournament, there can be only one champion. Each match can only have one winner, and if your performance is crap, it sure as hell isn’t going to be you. The beauty of sport comes from scarcity. Scarcity creates the desire for elevated performance.
But there’s one problem: scarcity also creates anxiety, depression, and social exploitation. For reference, check out the new show Squid Game on Netflix.
This is the conundrum I’m in: in what I do, abundance is an illusion, but it also makes me feel better. The “abundance mindset” sounds great in self-help books and in corny Instagram posts, but what about the real world?
How do you give yourself a healthy dose of reality?
Abundance is kind of an illusion
You don’t have an abundance of opportunities to create the life of your dreams.
You have one life. This one. The life that you’re living right now. Your consciousness only belongs to the body that it's in right now, as you read this article. Even if you do get an afterlife, that formation of your “un-dead”…
