I feel the energy, pent-up and waiting for release. Patience!
Reading a new job posting site today (because I want to hire). So many people looking for work. Most of them must be great. So many possibilities. I found myself imagining what I could do so I could work with one or another of them.
Up to now I have been feeling blocked, frustrated by a limit. A self-imposed limit from an idea that I must do it all myself. Self-imposed ideas of what will work and what will not.
None of those ideas are remotely true, unless I believe them. There are other ideas and I can believe those, too.
The ideas that I have heard in the last few days that have opened my eyes:
- If you want investors it’s not enough to be good. You have to give the investor a vessel to invest in.
I’m not building a business where I want investors. But the insight of just being there, awesome, not being enough? Priceless. You have to put that awesome into a thing, a product, a service, a something so the outside world can interact with it. Because that’s what I’m looking for: interaction. Otherwise I’m just standing there and people say “Cool, bro, but what do I do with that?” Its me looking at the mountains and saying “Nice mountains” but that thought goes nowhere. The mountains don’t benefit and I don’t benefit.
Man oh man there were a couple of other blinding insights and now they’re gone. Oh well. They will come back if they are important.
Oh. The big one was I am seeing how limiting my own opinions are. Deliberately saying no to certain tools, for instance because I decided I would punish the tools because they were bad. (I’m talking about social media for advertising and business development purposes.) What does my feeling of being buttmad at something limit me from seeing and experiencing?
I mean, I know that. But I persisted. I know the value of an open mind and yet I had a closed mind here.
Maybe I need to operate on the hypothesis that 99% of my thinking involves a closed mind view point. I somehow received an opinion, adopted it, and stopped thinking.
Challenge every viewpoint you have as probably wrong. Maybe it was right once, but it stayed still while other things moved.
As Taleb says about economists, they aren’t good with things that move. Everything around me moves. Get good with that. Keep the deep spiritual truths and personal principles that have served you well. They keep bumping up against events and producing good results. But everything else? It’s transitory. Whether I get pissed at Facebook and therefore stay off it or not? Who is hurt in that opinion? Me.
There is energy and flow coiled and ready behind letting arbitrary opinions go.