This is where Action is paramount, in my opinion.
If you’re engaged in traveling to the places where you wish to be—especially if you’re really locked in—questions of work/don’t work just feel irrelevant.
They’re sort of irrelevant distractions at that point.
The question comes from that part of the mind that is busily preparing reasons ‘Why It Didn’t Work’. For some reason, that part of the mind is just so damned hard-working.
But sometimes you find a place in your life where you can get into that ‘Fuck It’ mind space. It’s not optimism. It’s ‘I’m doing this and I don’t give a fuck’. Yes, I know it might not work. I don’t care. I’m doing it anyway. Because it’s worth it.
That mental space is so different. You’re too busy judging distances and reacting to objects and making adjustments. There’s no time to think about ‘Why It Didn’t Work’.
Like a baby learning to stand and walk. They just keep falling on their ass again and again. Until they don’t.