Two Questions
Many answers.
I think, whats important to remember is that you will answer them.
Consciously or unconsciously.
You will answer.
Better conscious and honest than unconscious and surprising, I think.
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Tag: Thoughts
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Finding Yourself?
I don’t know if you can find yourself.
Are you already here? Aren’t you.
What is there to find?
Maybe things are where they are?
Who knows?
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Varsity Blues
Decisions
Art takes time, inserting an artist means you’ll go slower than you think.
Business wants now, inserting an operator means you’ll go faster than you think.
Professionals create space, so if you bring them in, you better give them the autonomy to make it.
Amateurs expect it, so if you bring them in you better provide it.
If a job needs quick turnaround get a contractor, don’t slow them down with a process.
If a job requires tension, hire and give the full-time employee time to explore it.
Knowing the difference is hard. Living the difference is even harder.
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Don’t Let Work Give You a Place to Hide
Our brains crave focus.
With focus, our brains work faster and better. We have limited energy. Focus enhances it.
The question is, can we focus and think?
No. Brains do one thing at a time. Our brains function as single objects.
How does that tie into our month’s theme, hiding?
We can subconsciously work to hide from our thoughts.
That all-consuming feeling you get focusing on a project? It is useful when you don’t want to think. Going into “workaholic” mode causes the world to fall away.
That is why it’s important to ask yourself if the work matters and if you’ve given yourself time to think.
It’s easy to hide.
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The Dangers of Idea Religion
Religion is dangerous.
Religion cancels ideas, religion closes us off, and it removes understanding. Religion makes the world black and white where there are serious shades of grey. It leads us to confirmation bias which further distorts our thinking. I found myself on the train this morning hearing something someone said on a podcast about minimalism and it lead my brain to create a profile. From one sentence, I knew his political affiliations, family life, and thoughts on all sorts of subjects that he never talked about. I just knew what he thought, all off of a single sentence. I began to put my thoughts of him on his actions, and if it continued, I would bet that anything he did would be tied to that sentence.
I took some time to meditate later and after getting my mind to settle, I saw how ridiculous it was. I was subscribing to “minimalism” religion, and I saw any attack on it as an attack on me. It was unfair to that person,podcast, and even myself to take that narrow of a view based on just one sentence. One of the most embarrassing things for me to find out is that I could have understood something, but didn’t, because it didn’t fit my world view, and I found myself shutting down, missing valuable information.
Just like that, I was off to the races. Religion is a deceptive monster. Like resistance, it strikes at the level of thinking and pushes us slightly askew. The longer that we accept that religion, the more it pushes us toward “protection” of its ideas.
Imagine going down a road, following a map. When something against the religion I subscribe to arrives, I push myself a few degrees to the left to avoid it. I get off course. If I remove it, and then rectify myself, I can continue my journey as normal without too much delay. But, as I go down that road, if I do not course correct, I end up in a completely different place. While it would only be a few degrees, the longer I walk the longer it will take time for me to get back to where I planned due to ever step being that much further off. It becomes a lot harder to get back to where I desiredand a lot easier to double down, throw caution to the wind and be vulnerable. You’re led to after the map of someone else and remove responsibility.
No responsibility means no control.
Note: When I say religion, I don’t mean Christianity or Islam.I am considering religion on the level of ideas.
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Administration Day – Diary
Administration Day was a success.
Sunday went without a hitch – my work on our show went well, I improved the engagement on both my personal and other endeavors in social media, and I put forth a few experiments to see how things shake up for the next two weeks while I am away.
I got to go see Elysium for my habit reward – it was an interesting movie, and I think what it was saying about people and society as a whole was something to be discussed, even if it came through a bit heavy handed.
French was the language of the rich, Spanish of the poor. That was interesting as well.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 