Some ideas to keep coming often
“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.” - Deborah Levy
Our ‘mind design principle’ for new and more successful mental habits is thus a simple one: because thinking is self-talk, talk and thought are linked. To change patterns of thinking, change patterns of talking.
Nuance matter.
Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions and conform to socially acceptable preferences instead. In private they’ll say one thing. In public, they’ll say another.
‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
Map is not the Territory
Territory is not a Touch down
Touch down is not the journey
Journey is not the Route
Route is not Behaviour
We map the world, ourselves included
Map is not the Territory
The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory
Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making
The world may makes sense at times and at times it can be confusing. When it is confusing, your model of the world is wrong or you lack some frames. So, things that don’t make sense are a learning opportunity. Big opportunities won’t make sense until it’s too late to profit from them.
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.