Ep14. A conversation with Ivan

“Sometimes I could do something that I didn’t think I was capable of, and that was magic to me. Wow, that’s a feeling that I love. I love that feeling of achievement: you go for something that is just out of reach, and you not only reach it, but you over-reach it. You’ve got the feeling of peace, because you’re doing the right thing, you’re doing your thing, for your reasons. And if you’re doing something for your reasons, you can’t fail” – “The best places I’ve been, actually turn out to be the places with the best people. The less people have, the more they sing, the more they laugh, the more they dance” – “When we are talking about personality traits, or different types of attitudes, I think we are all born with everything that we need, and all we do, we suppress the bits, we suppress some of it, we exaggerate some of it, we mock up what was already perfect in the first place” – “Don’t overthink, don’t think yourself into paralysis, where you can’t do anything” – “I think so many people get tied up with this idea that there’s a right way of doing things, that they think themselves out, because you can never find that “right way”, you just have YOUR way” – “Be happy with what you are happy with. It doesn’t matter, that’s fine. Just because nobody else values it, it doesn’t matter” – “once you start valuing the extrinsic praise rather than the intrinsic praise which you give yourself, then you’ve got a problem” – “Don’t undervalue your own goal, however small that is. A goal is a goal. Don’t be paralyzed by looking up to other people. Don’t look up to people. Look up to some traits that they have but never put people on a pedestal, they are just people” – Ivan’s song: I can see clearly now, Jimmy Cliff - https://youtu.be/MrHxhQPOO2c - “Don’t follow me, follow yourself”.