Actualization via Iteration
Notes on personal growth, self actualization, and the cyclical iterations I go through to get there.
Actualization via Iteration
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.
We can take control by creating more choice points — moments where we recognize that choice is available to us. This might include choosing whether or not to ask for help, or whether or not to have a difficult conversation. We can further maximize our choices by being intentional about whether our decisions are based on our goals and values. Choice... See more
Choice is critical to sense of autonomy and contentment. Or at least the illusion of it.
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90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
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Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.
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The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person who negotiates with themselves every day.
Let inertia work for you.
- Shane Parrish
People pleasing and why.
Yes.
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.
To become human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.
—David Whyte
5 Truths You Must Accept Before You Can Grow
Ambitious people are a dime a dozen. Most people doubt themselves. All of us — in some shape or form — are stuck in la la land.
One of the most difficult yet useful skills is the ability to balance your aspirations with reality. A pessimist and an idealist both miss the point.
The point is to have optimism
... See moreThe thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding