What is your life like: ocean or clay

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

You can compare your life with either the ocean, which can take you anywhere, or with a lump of clay, from which you yourself make what you need. Tim Urban talks about how the perception of life differs from person to person.

Some people compare their life to the ocean. They go where the current carries them.

Other people compare life to a piece of clay in their hands: you can change it, give it a shape, sculpt anything out of it.

In the ocean, you are small and defenseless, surrounded by something much larger than yourself. It seems to you that no matter what you do, it will not change anything. Therefore, you try not to think about how your life is going.

But sometimes the ocean can take you to amazing places. Although you didn't even know you wanted to get there.

Holding a piece of clay in your hands, you are omnipotent. Your life takes the form that you give it. It's amazing how many different forms life can take when you treat it like clay. Sometimes you manage to do exactly what you need out of your life.

But you have to be careful: you may not do what you intend to do.

The question is not how to live better: in the ocean or with a piece of clay in your hands. And in the fact that for both there is a suitable and inappropriate time.