You Can't Please Everyone

Published: March 11, 2014, 2:08 pm

You can't please everyone.

When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own.

One of the biggest lessons we must take with us in life to live as productively as intellectuals is that there will always be people in our lives who are jealous, or who just don't vibe with us, for whatever reason is inside of their heads. Instead of living a life seeking to please these types of people, by not being ourselves, and restraining from speaking up about things we know in our hearts we should speak up about, we have to give the people that we can't be ourselves around the delete button.

Don't be afraid to send people to your recycle bin in life, and be sure to empty it after a while. There is no good sense in keeping people around who only want you to be copycat versions of their selves. People who will twist up your words, or belittle the efforts you put forth in life as much as possible, are people that need to be eliminated from your life as much as possible. People like this have little interest in your well-being.