motivation – JACOB CLOETE

Self-doubt

Going back to Varsity, I didn’t have a plan of what I wanted to do with my life after I attended my degree. All I knew was I was going to be a scientist and get a job; that’s what was promised mos.

I recently registered Abrasive Media as a company. If I listened to all the negative statistics of how many companies failed within the first year, I most probably wouldn’t have done it. The odds were against me. If I listened to how many doctoral candidates do not finish their degrees or how long it tookContinue reading “Fear”

Pain

How do you deal with pain when it continuously cuts like a knife? When it feels like that knife is permanently stuck in your heart, and you fear that pulling it out will kill you. How do you deal with the pain when that knife slowly cuts into your spirit and drains you of life?Continue reading “Pain”

What is the point?

Sometimes it feels like I have lived before, that this life is second or third. I sometimes feel like I will awake from a dream, but I cannot grasp what that will be. Sometimes I feel so alone. Like it is only me and that this is a nightmare. One day this nightmare will end,Continue reading “What is the point?”

What is success?

Is success the ability to look after and provide for one’s family? Or is it having so much money that you cannot spend it in a lifetime? Is the “poor” farmworker who look after and provide for her family less successful than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos? Is success determined by your level of qualificationContinue reading “What is success?”