If something happens, and I allow it to break the flow of things, I become stressed and worried and time flies. When I allowed myself to simply exist for a week, without a crazy planned-in-advance vacation, the week felt like a month. No joking.

Where this urge to always rush comes from is a good question. I imagine it's very much cultural, we're expected to rush and be busy.

This is beyond naive. We've got plenty of successful businesses in front of our eyes, what makes any of us work for them instead of starting competition? Maybe lack of appetite for risk, lack of means to take on some substantial amount of it, lack of perfect timing, bills, children and parents to support, accumulated momentum in another profession and no skills to run a business, no meaningful connections?

The list goes on and on and to think you could just start a business regardless of your circumstances, and even more so, try to make this hypothetical sound as an answer to the very real issue of increasing job insecurity is just pure malice.

These beautiful metaphors by Brooks, from books like inmates running the asylum, etc - they made me romanticize the industry I had no idea about.

Now, about 20 years later, I wonder to which extent they influenced me to take the path I've taken. Because when I began, it wasn't lucrative or cool in the slightest.

I'm wondering at this point what are known methods of overcoming "mindset inequality". Any advice will be appreciated.