It is a fact that when you stay hungry you remain foolish about things, the more knowledge you acquire the better you become to succeed. But the more you learn and do, the more you feel like you don’t know much. The reason is that there is too much to possibly know. But therein lies your power.
So what is the meaning of remaining hungry and foolish? How can you keep these desires alive? Why should you consider these traits valuable?
Well, these behaviors are literally the source of your strength when you recognize that your journey is one of learning. Genuine love for discovering, reading, striving, and creating, when cultivated, is a superpower. While the means to learn are plentiful, what is lacking is the desire to learn.
But if you have that desire, cultivate it and accept that you are in this world that is too big for you to understand every part of it. And by recognizing that you don’t know everything, you grow. By obsessively setting yourself on the quest to learn more, improve, and fall in love with the actual process of acquiring knowledge, you develop a greater edge for success.
And if you remain hungry and foolish about it at all times, maintaining a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset, you will certainly thrive and succeed.
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.” -Thomas Jefferson
Take time for self-awareness
While you remain hungry and foolish, you must know and follow your true purpose because it will help you get through the tough times during your journey. Then it becomes your reason to wake up every day and do what you have to do. And it is important to know what your mission is because it is very easy to fall back into a comfort zone.
Regardless, it’s the only way you can have a positive impact on the world. If you don’t know what your mission is, you have to work on developing your consciousness. You have to listen to your instinct, your heart and not your head. Go into discovery mode and focus on yourself first. Spend less time on social media and more time meditating.
Also, take more walks and more time to stop and think. Also spend more time reading, reflecting on yourself and being more open-minded. Give your full attention to what matters to you. Only then will the answers begin to be clear. A new path will create itself. You will have less fear, less respect for your comfort zone, and more focus on what you want in life.
“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.” – Steve Jobs
The meaning of ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’
Let us analyze for a moment the meaning of these two traits:
stay hungry
The first part is staying hungry. It means you have to stay ambitious. Too often, successful people tend to sit back and ride past success for the rest of their lives. They sell their companies, take it easy and walk away from doing anything else.
But others like Elon Musk, the late Steve Jobs and quite a few others, for example, go ahead and find ways to develop other ideas, even though they are millionaires. So this kind of burning desire, persistent ambition, continuing to challenge yourself even after you have achieved success and are at the top of your game is the meaning of hunger.
Furthermore, it is often said that the good is the enemy of the great. The reason is that when things are going well, the temptation is to settle, to just say “that’s enough” and forget that more can be done. It is only through his relentless drive to overcome this temptation that he can achieve greatness.
stay crazy
The second part is staying silly. It’s about taking risks. How often have you heard family, friends, or counselors tell you to play it safe? They say to follow the long established path as “Go to school, get good grades and get a good job.” But those who are crazy enough believe that life can be bigger, more interesting and far reaching than that.
So you, taking risks that other people find irrational, are a necessary part of any great success. They say: “Being a dropout and starting a business is foolish.” “Becoming a professional musician is impossible.” “Devoting your life to solving a world problem that no one else can do is crazy..” But the world would be dull and unchanged if no one took these risks and performed these feats.
However, most people believe that they cannot change the world. But it doesn’t stop those who do from trying. When you don’t know what the limit is, then you don’t have a limit. Therefore, you must acquire knowledge and have a mindset that challenges common standards, not accepts them. And so, more often than not, you have to stay hungry, even goofy to challenge the status quo.
make difference
Stay Silly, Stay Hungry means advice on how you should ideally live, always keeping an eye out for issues where you can make a difference. Don’t be afraid to fail or be ridiculed for what you believe. It is good advice for anyone, but mainly for young people about to enter adulthood and their independence.
So, go out into the world. Get out of the cocoon of home, keep your dreams alive, fall down, get up again, move forward and fight for it. Be hungry, stay silly. Take risks. Think big. Change things for the better. And if it doesn’t work, try something else but move on.
Never settle for just having a job or a meaningless routine. Remember, you can leave a tooth in the Universe, or at least try, and then there will be no regrets later in life.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” -Albert Einstein.
stay Hungry Stay Foolish
So stay cool, naive, hungry and dumb to really learn and grow. So you really get power. As you gain knowledge, one thing after another, those skills will have practical application. And it is that use, born of understanding how little you really know, that allows you to become so much more powerful than people who think they know.
Because when they think they know, they stop learning and growing. But when you think you don’t know anything, that you have to learn things, see if something works and if it gives you results, then those skills become real. You become limitless because you are always trying to find the next thing.
So never be complacent, keep your eyes on where you want to go and ask yourself what skills you need to acquire to get there. And knowing that each one you get, brick by brick, builds a real path to achieve what you want to do.
my last recommendation
So my last piece of advice is to stay hungry, stay silly, as it is a timeless call to action. I challenge you to pursue your wildest ambitions with tremendous enthusiasm, regardless of the status quo. It is about the desire to put in the effort to find a solution no matter how crazy the idea may seem. It also means never being satisfied, therefore having a constant hunger to achieve something better in your life.
And fall in love with the idea that you know nothing. Realize that when you ‘stay hungry, stay dumb’, it can help you get where you want to go. Understand that learning is a superpower. I wish you hunger every day. Never be fooled by the need to be self-satisfied or great now. And never fool yourself into thinking that what you are today is what you can become.
