Underlying premises

So much of how we choose to navigate and respond to the world comes down to the beliefs we hold about what’s possible.

And so, with the exception of luck and a fair amount of opportunity, how things turn out for us comes down to our underlying beliefs about who we are, and what we’re capable of.

Premises that, for better or worse, all of our actions are inferred.

It doesn’t help much to assume we’re incapable of most things, particularly when the rest of world (actually) doesn’t care and probably won’t notice.

But the inverse—acknowledging that everything is possible, or at very least figureoutable—can be the breakthrough we need to persist.

Premises, of course, are subjective and reinforcing. What we experience comes from, in part, what we start with; from what we expect and what we rehearse. And that part of the equation (as opposed to the what we literally experience) that much is almost always in the eye of the beholder.