How I deal with an Unfair World

The world is unfair. Period.

As much as you would like everything to be peachy, you will always face hurdles that other people seem to be able to overcome simply and easily because there is something or someone that has leaned heavily in their favor. This to me is unfair, but we live in an unfair world, things will always be stacked against you.

For example, the government funding Freddie Mac with millions of tax payer dollars, Freddie Mac fails miserably at their one purpose, then executives take 10 million dollar paychecks. While Newt Gingrich charges 1.6 million dollars to Freddie Mac for “consulting” fees. This to me is the epitomy of unfair, and it can make me very angry sometimes.

For people with a weak state of mind, this sort of unfair can be petrifying. People will say to themselves ”I will never succeed because the world is stacked against me”. That is obviously the wrong way to respond. The way you need to view it is that you will have to work very hard to achieve your goals, and as long as you enjoy that work “fairness” should never truly be a factor in succeeding.

I have found, the best way for me to deal with this is through a media fast, not looking at the news, at all, for a couple of weeks. It reduces the amount of exposure to negative things regarding fairness, and it increases my productivity two fold. By not having to look at how corrupt the world is for a couple weeks, it creates a little bubble that I can work in, and not even think about that stuff. This way I can truly enjoy my work, and not have to think about fairness.

You would be surprised what an effect ignorance has when you are trying to create a start-up or trying to be productive in general. Besides, you don’t waste as much time looking through the news and websites.