How will you act?
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Author: Reality Laughs
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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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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.
For most people.
But frustration and failure and attitudes. I am frustrated. I judge this event to be a failure.
Assuming that I am not one of those weird people who say “yeah, pain, bring it on!” how do I reframe my perspective and use the same events as energy sources to redouble my efforts? Ju-jitsu in other words.
Somewhere in here is understanding the crawl walk run process and understanding and liking being on that journey.
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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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The hedgehog and the fox
In the usual telling, the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one thing.
Maybe the hedgehog acts on one thing and the fox acts on many things.
Idea from Warrior Poet’s Hobbitses episode.
Let’s do it.
- Push-ups
- Pull-ups
- Squats
- Steps (in thousands)
Leave the dog behind. She got her workout already.
Note: I didn’t post this until I finished. Here’s the idea: Announce accomplishments after accomplishing (if you announce at all, and STFU is probably the better way to go). Announcing accomplishments before accomplishment is grandstanding and virtue signaling.
Let your actions talk for you.
So do it.
Edit (later): done. Much relief. Why do I still avoid certain situations? Have I not learned that showing up and telling the truth is liberating? It has happened so many times that you’d think I’d change behavior. Nope, not yet.
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Simple but not easy physical fitness
Less glamour than a gym, but:
- Push-ups, pull-ups, squats.
- Walk. Slowly.
The “not easy” part is boredom and my perception of the value of time. Especially walking. I could be running! STFU. Walk. And the Achiever Module in my brain is like one of those annoying warning things in modern cars. Let me tell you about the lane warning sensor in a 4Runner. Fuck you Toyota.
I am weird about numbers. So I do the 10’s. Ten each of the bodyweight exercises. Ten thousand steps.
That’s just me. Give it a while. My routine will get different.
And shoot for perfection = 70%.
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Simple but not easy
Things that are simple but not easy. That seems to be a path to success.
Simple meaning obvious, easy to understand how to do, and easy to see the expected payoff.
Not easy usually just means persistence and consistency is the problem.
Simple but not easy actions, in the way I define it, should be my objective.
A man’s gotta know his limitations. Persistence, I’m pretty good at. Consistency not so much.
Let’s do this. I know how to be consistent in brushing my teeth, so it’s not impossible for me to be consistent in a given behavior. It’s a “cannot” vs. “will not” situation. I am not physically or mentally incapable of consistency in a given venture.
Takeaway from this: keep stop doing stuff, so I have less noise in my life. For the remaining things, just focus on consistency. Not outcomes, not “is this a good idea or not”, not nothing else. Just keep doing. If I can’t keep doing, keep discarding until I am at the point of consistency.
It’s a via negativa strategy, isn’t it? Remove everything that doesn’t stay consistent until only the consistent remains. Then keep doing that.
Don’t try to take a given activity and make it consistent. That’s via positiva. You already know how well that doesn’t work.