TURN YOUR FEARS INTO A BUCKET LIST

on leaving a job

TURN YOUR FEARS INTO A BUCKET LIST on leaving a job vincent huang Jun 19, 2026 49 6 1 Share “I love struggling, actually. It makes me feel alive.” - Alysa Liu one of my personal quests over the last few months has been to retrain my brain to interpret discomfort as fun. this was motivated in part by Alysa Liu’s winter olympics interviews, and in part by my own experience with driving: in high school i was terrified of driving on highways, whereas nowadays it is a deeply relaxing activity that i look forward to. i wondered what it would feel like to take an experience i was very uncomfortable w

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