Excuses kill dreams

Author here. I went off on a bit of a rant, so here's the meat of it:

The funny thing about excuses is that they can be cleverly disguised to the point that they almost seem legitimate: I can’t start a website because I don’t know how to code; I can’t run a startup because I have no business experience; I can’t travel the world because I’m too busy with work.

Are you fucking kidding me? It’s 2012, and I call bullshit. We are living in an age of virtually unlimited access to knowledge and opportunity. It’s not okay to have excuses anymore. We complain that we don’t have enough time, but we spend hours a day on Facebook and Youtube. We complain that we don’t have the proper knowledge or skill, but anything we could ever want to know is right at our fingertips and the information infrastructure is expanding so rapidly that we can literally learn forever.

If you aren’t doing exactly what you want to be doing, there’s only one reason: you don’t want it badly enough. That’s all there is to it.