Some ideas to keep coming often
Quality connections trump quantity, even in the digital age
Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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.
An informed world view, or personal orientation, can be derived from the neurological, linguistic and behavioral consequences of acknowledging the inevitable limitations of both differences and similarities
Causal factor in our hand = State of our body + Story in our mind + What we Focus on …Quality of our Attention = Quality of out Life
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
In the cosmos of time, we are nothing but a fart in the wind
The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there”.