We ought to live with the right amount of conviction and focus.

I think when you allow yourself to kind of stand in the wind and get pushed and pulled in many different directions, you end up wasting a lot of time and energy.

Passive behaviour in a neutral direction is arguably more dangerous than active behaviour towards the wrong direction, because the stillness implies that there is no growth. There is a higher probability that growth occurs if you are able to move, gather data, process the data, and use that information to inform the next movement.

And so having conviction towards things (even if they aren’t the “correct” things in hindsight) makes you not only agentic, but literally makes you an agent of action! Someone who goes out into the world and interacts with it, learns, and adapts.

I think this is the true essence of being human.