#200: You Are the Smoothie of Your Thoughts, Actions, and Relationships

June 8, 2020—I used to think I could get away with stuff, but lately, I’m realizing that my brain is a giant blender and it purees everything you experience.

I’m a very sneaky person. When I used to play video games, I would always choose the assassin or the thief. I loved the idea of “getting away with stuff” because it felt like having a backdoor to the entire universe.

When I was in high school, I shoplifted, lied, and generally pretended to be someone I wasn’t. I prided myself on my ability to be a social chameleon.

I could fit in anywhere—I could be a jock, or a nerd, or a misfit, or whatever the current situation required.

My sneakiness continued to open doors for me in college, at my first agency copywriting job, and as a freelancer, but all this pretending built up in my life like toxic sludge. My karma was fucked.

I was so busy taking shortcuts, I never looked up to see where shortcuts were taking me.

Tip: Your Brain Notices Everything

Somewhere between quitting my agency job and writing this blog post, I started to realize that there’s no such thing as “getting away” with stuff.