Try that on for size.
It is courtesy of the Ballistic Radio guy.
It’s an asset to be right, right? Stop wanting to be right.
Via negativa. Cut out the seemingly good.
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Month: November 2020
To everyone else, you are a stranger at best.
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The map is not the territory
Your perception is not reality.
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Via negativa and valuable stuff
It’s easy to want to cut damaging, harmful things out of your life. Difficult to do, usually. But easy to pick these things to prune away.
Harder, though, is to prune away the good in favor of the greater good.
Perhaps this is where the payoff is. You have many wonderful ideas. Just pick one.
Actually there is some truth in both approaches.
- Stop doing stupid shit.
- See your assets as carrying hidden liabilities.
Apply via negativa liberally to both.
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The world is a pitching machine
“The world is providing input like a pitching machine. It doesn’t love you, it doesn’t hate you, it’s just pitching. But you have to be ready to stand there and take the pitches, and that to me is a measure of how much reality do you accept. The longer the latency, the longer the pause before you can start responding, the less acceptance of reality there is.” -William Aprill
Ballistic Radio podcast for August 5, 2020
A good analogy about reality.
Stand there and swing. Hit or miss, depending.
Or stand there right in front of the pitching machine and take a beating.
Pull-ups, push-ups, and squats completed.
Started the 10,000 steps but . . . knee pain. I may have to take it easy on that today.
Give it whatever you got in the moment you’re in.
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Question the default
Question your default actions, that is. And this must start with awareness of your default thinking and actions.
How to do this?
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An adequate burrito
On one of my long walks I passed a Mexican restaurant I have driven past 1,000 times before.
I stopped and bought a burrito. Combo burrito, asada. Bottle of Fanta orange.
Filling. Average.
Would do it again, just for the full feeling.
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How to move it forward
Episode 23 of Ultraworking. Episode 1 of Warrior Poet’s podcast.
Consider first the idea from Ultraworking. Ray Dalio says if you are an owner you have to build systems full of people. You are one of those people. Think of yourself as You1 doing the work and You2 bring the outside observer and judge of You1’s performance.
Using this metric, You2 finds many shortcomings in You1’s performance, where “you” is me.
Then the idea of Decision Zombies for Warrior Poet. Is You2 a zombie favoring intellectual completeness and risk avoidance over action?
Survey says “yep”.
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It is always a time for choosing
How will you act?