Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be. Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make.
This really struck a chord with me. I’ve had a unique and improbable career and I’ve often found myself feeling less than others for it. (A professor without a PhD, a law student who didn’t want to be a lawyer, etc.) This piece by Kevin Kelly—one of the great improbables—helped me appreciate my improbability.