This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “How do I cope with life knowing I am not good enough to do what I want?”

Life is about learning to cope.

One goes about coping by not obsessing over what one cannot do but by finding joy in what one can do.

There is no “good enough” because that’s an illusion that limits your potential and destroys your capacity for finding joy in doing something meaningful for yourself.

When you think about it, being “good enough” is a metric others apply toward you. You can choose to either accept other people’s insulting views of you, learn to internalize them and begin feeding a growing suicidal ideation, or you can stand up and say, “Fuck you.”

Almost everyone who has done something special has faced people who judge them as “not good enough.”

You can either accept the judgment of people who will never know “the real you” that you know lives within, or you can assert “that real you hidden inside” and embody it to become the “real you” that you know exists and is bursting to have a life of its own free from judgmental assholes.

Here’s a secret most don’t understand: Whenever someone judges you as not good enough, they confess to their insecurities that they are too afraid of not being good enough. So they project them onto people they can victimize. It’s an expression of a mentality called “crab psychology” — if they can’t be good enough, they will do what they can to ensure you’re not good enough.

Whatever you do with your life, don’t become one of those assholes. Be sure to encourage people to be their best because that’s the only way we’ll be able to crawl out of this hole of primitive barbarism that we’re still trapped in.

Temet Nosce