It is often forgotten, that just like machines, we too posess computational abilities, errors and maximal performance capacity.
This article is not a techy piece, yet I might borrow lots of jargon from IT in the course of my progression (it already started).
I grew up with an amazing tag team for parents: my father and mother would often tell me “you are never too big for a job”. Now, in retrospect, I understand that the term “job” is literally everything I could ever encounter. My parents knew, in order to make this a huge lesson, they had to root it in the one place where I will always certainly want to go bigger and never smaller: a 9 to 5.
In fact, if you’ve read all my previous bazaar articles, you know that I already formatted my entire drive and installed a new operating system, kinda like installing iOS on a desktop computer, I shifted from a civil engineer to all the stuff my contact details says at the bottom of the page. And I always thought, that this is the scale where these “hard resets” should be applied: big career changes, big moves in life, big things.
The more I thought about, I felt that the words “never too big” have taught me not only to jump into the raging sea and learn how to swim as I try to survive, but also, to never retain any memory of anything that can potentially create an ego so big in my life where I am not able to reset out of pride.
This method that my parents gifted me, has always led me to wonderful things, and recently, it became clear in the best way a big pay-off can manifest itself. Buckle up, story time:
As a filmmaker, I always want to do bigger and better. When I say bigger, I don’t mean more money and when I say better I most definitely don’t mean money either. Bigger means a quality jump and better means pushing my head further down into the dirt and working harder. For the past year, I have been workshopping my “feeling of being stuck” with my wife, and I was constantly looking on the best way to tackle even bigger and better things.
Until… a possible gentleman, who will remain unknown to you for now, potentially needed me on a project after two of our mutual friends mentioned me to him. For reasons that were beyond our control and about which I will not digress, I was no longer needed on that project.
Every fiber in my body, felt defeat. I felt that the day I got close to this realm, someone played a game of ding-dong-ditch on my attention. I was filled with sadness, I felt I am back to being stuck.
But in the last moment of that meeting, I remembered the golden words: you are never too big. So I turned to my friend and told her: tell him I am willing to be a water boy on that job. My idea was simple: anything to be part of that production, anything to jump into the boat I longed to ride in.
After that, the pay off was great, because not only did I play a vital role in that project, but it opened up doors that I would never be able to walk through had my ego prompted me to maintain my high ground and to never step down.
The story is ongoing until this day, I don’t know where it will go, maybe next month you and I will have an update to talk about, but until then, my approach has never failed me and I urge you to try it too:
The more your CPU (brain) is docile to your command and you are able to wipe it clean and give it simpler tasks to build up a new software for it, the more that inner technology can be future proof. You are never too big, be small, but think big.
George Tarabay is a marketing expert Filmmaker/ Comedian/Podcaster. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud @GeorgeTarabay. Photo by Tom Grünbauer on Unsplash.
