Actualization via Iteration
Notes on personal growth, self actualization, and the cyclical iterations I go through to get there.
Actualization via Iteration
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”— Harrington Emerson
Direction.
“You can get real in-depth and intellectual with all that stuff, but when it comes down to it—doing anything, and not having a purpose behind it, and then feeling like you don’t have any other option except to continue: it’s terrible. At least for me, it turns into—well, what’s the point?”
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
This. Daily. So many nights frustrated and dismal.
You don't need more time. You need more focus.
Time isn't the constraint. Your choices are.
-Shane Parrish
Two rules to help you be consistent with exercise this year:
1. Show up.
2. You can quit tomorrow.
Repeat.
-Shane Parrish
Screens are attention, and thus metabolic energy and brain function vampires!
Do NOT raise your kid with tech. Do NOT look at your phone all day. Do raise your child in an attentive, prosocial environment. Do make them play outside. Do engage with people directly and actively as much as possible. Do. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
“You can’t transform what you don’t understand. And you can’t know what you haven’t touched, haven’t built, haven’t broken.”
Willem Van Lancker
As you remember these experiences, notice how you feel on a visceral level. A cognitive recounting will not suffice, unless it is connected strongly to a bodily feeling, because your memories were stored in your body on a cellular level. The challenge is to find the accurate sense of feeling but not necessarily a storyline. Truly grieving involves
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“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” There is no other way to get anywhere.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
