#growth #science #productdevelopment My goal here is to find a set of foundations from which a healthy, happy, and lively life arises. These are critical belief systems, philosophies, and faiths that give rise to attitudes and behaviors that result in the opportunity to live a full life. My goal is to begin to note some of the outcomes of these beliefs and philosophies so that we can identify the attitudes and behaviors that we want more of, and then we can easily find the foundations that we can work on. It's much more effective to rewrite our foundations than to try to change our behavior while having an outdated foundation; that leads to [[Genuine, Authentic, Consistent|inconsistencies and inauthenticity]] in our personality. 1. It's not about trying to fail less, it's about learning to recover faster. 2. The difference between [[Scarcity to Abundance|scarcity and abundance]]. 3. [[Duality|The duality of everything in life - one cannot exit without the other]] 1. Fear and courage 2. Intensity and serenity 3. Connection and loneliness 4. Solitude and liveliness 5. Consequences: 1. [[Embrace the Beast]] 2. [[I'm not languishing, I'm dormant]] 3. [[Lukewarm is No Good]] 4. [[Lean Product Development|Lean startup idea]]: make a prototype and learn from your users after you've made something by experimenting. 5. Death 1. [[No Zero Days]]? 5. Faith 1. [[Omens]] 2. Nothing matters, so everything _can_ matter. It is what we make it. 3. [[Spirituality and Faith]]? 6. Escapism: unhealthy if done too much, but it's a great way to reset and get a new perspective. 7. The rollercoaster: I want high highs and low lows, but with a constant tempermant of "this too shall pass". Holding both at once is the paradox. 8. Moving fast and slow: do both at the same time by moving quickly when it matters and slowly everywhere else. --- Things to go through: [[Work in Public|WIP]] [[Wake Up with the Right Attitude with Steve Harvey]] [[Hard Questions Benefit From Integrity]] [[Genuine, Authentic, Consistent]] [[The Hedgehog Concept]] [[I Am Enough]] [[Impostor Syndrome]] my frame [[Rewrite Your Stories]] [[Be Polarizing]] [[replacein]] [[Startups Embody the Ultimate Question]] [[Stealing]] [[Stop Before You Start]] [[Stop Making Goals]] [[McConaughey - Style Comes From You]] [[The Fallacy of Experience]] [[The Power of Intention]] [[Trust]] [[You Can't Trust a 'Yes' Until You Get a 'No']] gratitude teamwork: write about my team mentality. we win together and we complete together, and we complete with each other together. but we rely on each other to help with the things we cannot do alone. the danger of knowing everything: Treasure Trove #23: 32:47. When you always know, you no longer experience life. The monk poor tea and keeps pouring as it overflows, and his student says, "master, the cup is overflowing". The master says, "just like you, you must empty your cup". Perception is one of those insanely important things that my dad taught me. everybody has a different perception of the same events. it's critical to understand and acknowledge your perspective and the other person's perspective independently. -- also from The Four Agreement? Don Miguel Ruiz Responsibility: If it is to be, it's up to me. -- Peak Performance Life is easy if you let it be Next! Prefacing is critical Regret is a consequence of not trusting your future self (there are a lot of things that are a result of not trusting your future self!) Dennis Rodman (e.g. it's about doing the best you can at the things you want to do the best you can at. see Dennis rodman and episode 3 of the last dance.) (it's about being everything you can be.) Michael Jordan -- Why would I think about a shot I haven't taken yet? Talk about self-trust. humor is also about confidence, because when you have complete trust in your future there's no reason not to smile and enjoy it. when you can laugh about it, that shows supreme confidence. when you have to think about and worry about it, that doesn't. doesn't mean you don't have to work hard, but you can have fun doing it. we aren't present because we are projecting the past in the future. (again about self-trust) Live life on the edge There are a bunch of these from Way of the Superior Man Attention is the fundamental resource (ties in with scarcity and attraction, see my journal on June 27th) There's also an interesting progression of wanting to be productive to an understanding that our time on this Earth is limited, to valuing our time over pretty much everything else, to valuing our attention over pretty much everything else, to valuing money as a substitute for attention, in that completes the link between productivity and money in a philosophical sense. but this progression is crucial to most people's development. I bet you can make a lot of generalizations in cold reading based on where different people are at in this stage of progression. Attention may be the more fundamental resource, as opposed to time. This is the big resource that money buys. I can just pay for things so that I don't have to pay attention to them, like decisions. So if money can be used as a substitute for attention, there's still the question about what is the appropriate trade-off between spending money versus spending attention. That's a balance that each of us have to make on an individual in case-by-case basis. The amount of available money and the ways in which we want to spend our attention are the constraining and impactful variables. and finally, this has a big impact on my overarching question about how can we figure out how to make good decisions with the least amount of information that is reasonable? these two ideas are intricately related and I'm narrowing in on it. My philosophy on less things: I want as little things as possible, because more things means more responsibilities, and those responsibilities are things I usually don't care about, like cleaning my new dishes. You have to enjoy the disagreement and relish in it. That's why it's fine. Ben Archeceski and Greg Stroope are both that way. disagreement increases engagement. so does fun. engagement is the commonality between pickup stuff, I'd bet my bottom dollar. -- This is what I value in a friend, disagreement. Respect and trust in other people, that they can handle themselves and the things life throws at them. Giving vs. trading, and it's relation to trust and honestly. People have to understand my motivations.