Reality Laughs

Question your default actions, that is. And this must start with awareness of your default thinking and actions.

How to do this?

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”.

How will you act?

Think of physics and ammunition. Higher mass in the bullet vs velocity of the bullet is the trade-off.

What’s the trade-off in life? I think mobility and optimizing for mobility (being agile if you like that word) is a useful starting strategy. Later, you can switch to mass.

Be a ninja. Then buy the tanks later when ninja tactics are unsuitable.

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.

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.

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.