What’s the Prerequisite for Following Your Heart? Staying Within Boundaries

True freedom is self-discipline.

Freelancing isn't freedom—it's a profession that demands extreme self-discipline to succeed.
Most people misunderstand it as doing whatever you want, waking up whenever you feel like it, drinking during the day and playing mahjong at night.

That's not freedom—that's degradation, or simply a lack of self-control.
If someone works sporadically, takes one job then none for days, they'll quickly become useless,被淘汰 by society, not a true freelancer. #reading-notes

What comes before following your heart?
Not crossing the line.
Sun Wukong wore the golden fillet because his mind lacked restraint.
When the fillet was finally removed, it was because he had already built that discipline within himself.
By the time you internalize it, no one needs to force you anymore.