Algorithm: Conditions of travel, homelessness

Algorithm (information pattern, forgive me for being obvious): This one is very simple but I see people miss it time and time again and in the process often make it impossible to accomplish their goals.

For any goal, the more conditions you put on the attainment of the goal, the fewer opportunities there are for attainment and the less likely you are to attain it. Obviously.

For example if you say, I want to be a doctor. You can certainly do that. But if you say, I want to be a doctor but it has to be in my home town because i won't move, you may have just made it impossible. Your home town may not support even a single doctor.

For the ambitious, there are two things i notice are often the case with brutally successful self-made people (and possibly a far vaster graveyard of brutally unsuccessful people so don't read too much into it). Many brutally successful people have 1. been homeless at some point, and 2. traveled long distances without really having the proper accommodations.

Again don't read too much into this because for every reckless traveler that made it big, there's thousands of broken travelers who never made it. However, if it's something that is incredibly important, and you have to get to SoCal or bust, then you should and you will. But if you can't face homelessness or uncomfortable and possibly dangerous travel, your cause is not that important and you should absolutely choose comfort. I have sometimes been sitting in jail or about to be killed and thought to myself "I could very well have stayed home today. In fact, I would stay home for the next thousand years rather than be sitting here in jail or waiting for so and so to try to kill me." The importance of travel could have decreased with internet communications, or conversely, it may have deflated, meaning actually being there has become even more important. Picking up and moving properly is expensive and time consuming and fraught with opportunities for failure. It is also incredibly stressful. Many people rarely do it. They seek comfort. And that's not a bad idea. Most causes for which one will move are actually not worth it. But if there is a cause that is worth it, one has to be able to brave adverse circumstances and still be able to pursue whatever cause one has.

So if you have an important cause and it requires moving or travel, you may have to brave true dangers and put fewer conditions on the occasions for which you are willing to brave such dangers. You also have to still be able to pursue your causes even if you end up homeless or stuck in transit.