When I was in college I had to make a choice, did I want to do a thesis project or not?
I like research, I like learning and I like difficult problems. But I ended up deciding not to do a thesis project for one simple reason: 100 pages sounded like a lot of writing and—this is a little embarrassing—I was too lazy to do that work.
Flash forward a bunch of years and turns out I’m an author now. I’ve written hundreds of pages…more than once!
How did that happen?I was never one of those people who “thought they had a book in them.” Writing books was not my dream or my chosen career. So how did I go from being too lazy to write 100 pages to writing books?
The one thing that changed was Cause. Namely, I found one (or it found me).
A Cause is not a goal. It’s not like an ambition. A Cause is more like a membership club. Not everyone wants to be in the club, but if you find yourself in it, you’re more than happy to do whatever you need to do to serve the other members.
I still can’t say that I enjoy writing books, but every one I have written was worth it because it was not ever about the writing. It was always about contributing to something bigger than myself.
