Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

BE TRUE TO YOURSELF
Joseph Campbell, the late professor of mythology, told a story on
the
Bill Moyers Special
television show some years ago. It took place
in a small local restaurant that he patronized with his wife. One day
another couple, along with their young son, came in and sat down
for dinner at a nearby table. Halfway through the meal, the boy
spoke up and said that he didn’t like his dinner, and he wasn’t going
to eat it. The father became extremely angry and insisted that he eat
it whether he liked it or not.
The boy refused and said to his father, “But I don’t 
want
to
eat it!”
At this, the father blew up and shouted, “You don’t 
want
to?
What does that have to do with anything? I never did anything I
wanted
to do in my whole life!”