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How To Reinvent Yourself Like In a ‘Fight Club’
Destroy something beautiful.
Remember that scene from Fight Club?
The main character punches Jared Leto’s character in the face. Blood spills all over the place. Jared Leto tries to fight but he can’t.
Once the main character wins, he kneels over his opponent (all covered in blood) and says: “I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.”
Next scene: Jared Leto comes to Tyler Durden’s house with a scarred, bruised face, and a black eye.
Life is often like Fight Club.
To build a new life for yourself, you have to first destroy the one you have. Perhaps it’s the comfy job you’re tired of wasting your life on. Perhaps it’s the toxic relationship you can’t get out of.
Common sense says that you have to build a Plan B first and then jump ship. But in life that rarely happens. There’s not enough motivation to work on your Plan B when Plan A is “not that bad”. The good is the enemy of the great, after all.
On the contrary: when you have no other choice, you’ll be surprised at how resourceful you become. A rat that’s cornered to a wall will fight for its life. So will humans. And so will you.
Once you start destroying the crappy (or “not the bad”) parts of your life, you’ll automatically leave room for the great parts to grow in their place.
