updated 8d ago
Being stuck is reasonable
- If you’re currently plateaued at something, chances are you’re hitting some constraint. There is something that is stopping you from getting better at the thing, and if you don’t identify that constraint and try to fix it you’ll get nowhere.—David R. MacIver
from On limitations that hide in your blindspot by Henrik Karlsson
muizz added
take note of oddities and the reason you think they are odd immediately you notice it — that information is more helpful than routine action in pursuit of a goal.
ignoring anxieties we feel in the moment prevents us from working towards understanding and overcoming them… unless they show up again (at which point it’s become a symptom of something larger)
- Few people would deliberately lock themselves into an undesirable situation. Yet we often make small, rational decisions that end up removing options over time. This is the tyranny of small decisions.
from Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street by Farnam Street
Keely Adler added
- There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
from Every’s Master Plan by Dan Shipper
linda and added