Year of Yes, “Lesson One: Ditch the dream. Be a doer not a dreamer.” She describes in her speech for the graduating class of Dartmouth, “You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.
It doesn’t have to fill your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just… DO.”One of the hardest lessons a dreamer has to learn is that in order to cultivate the type of life we fictionalize so often, we must match our dreams with action.
Otherwise, as Queen Shonda puts it so beautifully, “Dreamers often end up living in the basement of relatives.”Another hard truth that us dreamers must learn is that by giving in to constant dreaming, we overlook.
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