A quick peek into my mind wrestling with life changes over the past few months — maybe you can take something from it: I feel like I’m operating at 30% of my capabilities… which is never a great feeling. I want to be clear, that while I am selling software that aims to get us […]
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Feeling Busy… But Going Nowhere Some days I get so bogged down in tasks I feel like I don’t have time to lift my head up. Task saturation is such a common thing in our world today — and it turns the future bleak. I feel swept up and consumed by the demands of work,
The biggest transformations seem to come when the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing. The thing is, it’s always relative. If the worst thing that has happened to me is that my mommy said I can’t get ice cream, it’s still the worst thing that’s happened to me. And if
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A personal failure mode for me is falling into the neo-maniacal tractor beam of finding the newest, best stuff. We all know the mode where we get fixated on something — the newest phone, Apple Vision Pro, shoes, whatever… — and it consumes our life. Stubbornness is obviously a failure mode, too (Blockbuster). So the
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I oftentimes read or listen to people smarter than I nerd out about prime numbers, and I always struggled to understand why they care so much about them, especially in a non-mathematical context. But when looking at them as an irreducible entity, carrying its own unique properties, I start to see the significance. Similarly to
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Having an ‘inner-voice’ gives an illusion we know more about ourselves and our motives than we do, and control more of our thoughts and action than we actually do. Personally, the illusion fades when inspecting thoughts and impulses when they arise (and fade away). From my perspective, at best, I have conscious control of the
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