Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration.

 

Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation

 

Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually.

Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative.

Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy.

 

Fixation with result ruins purity of exploration.

The moment Result becomes more important then Exploration is the moment you gave up what your life actually consists of (process, being) for an idea about your life (result, achievements, story)

The moment Results becomes more important then Exploration is the moment you narrowed the fantastically sweeping scope of possibilities into a narrow path, leading to a stale, finite result.

This is how you go from EVERYTHING to SOMETHING. Clipping wings.

 

It’s better to fail then to cease exploring.

In fact — failure is indistinguishable from success — for the EXPLORER.

You can’t go wrong in your adventures. You always end up somewhere.

Failure is to stay home.

 

Explorer is “wrong” all the time. This is how you explore. If you’re not wrong all the time — what the fuck do you think you learn?

 

Reputation is basically a history of someone’s performance. Thus – it facilitates estimation of someone’s competence and future effectiveness.

Good reputation is a reward for good performance. And it comes with a promise of further successes. It’s an invaluable piece of information.

 

We are collectively guilty of misusing ‘reputation’.

We forget it’s utility is rooted in it’s predictive power — and not in social benefits.

We forget the reputation is a byproduct of performance – and not an end in itself. This leads to pursuits of good-reputation, or fame, which only obfuscates it’s usefulness, and devalues it’s predictive power.

Finally, we are utterly ignorant about the predictive power itself. Our usual epistemic arrogance manifests in overconfidence about what we can predict. This leads to many terrible predictions — and missing on many other good leads.

 

How often can we rely on reputation? And to what extent?

The more finite, changeless the game — the greater value of reputation.

 

Universal, personal virtues are CRUCIAL. Integrity, reliability, professionalism.

Look for those qualities in ALL the games in life.

 

Methodical games require reliable methods. The less creative the game — the greater value of reputation — which conveys reliability of the method.

 

The more creative the game the lesser the value of “good reputation”.

-Creativity is unpredictable

-Creativity relies on EXPLORATION. Which involves as many errors as successes.

Your attempt to encapsulate creativity in some predictive model is arrogant and delusional.

 

Concern with REPUTATION for the Creative is DETRIMENTAL.

It deters you from making errors, it deters you from EXPLORATION.

Creativity without exploration is no creativity.

 

Concern with reputation deters you from exploration.

Good reputation is useless if you were to cease exploration.

Exploration is infinitely more valuable then repetition.

This is why it’s better to damage one’s reputation then to be cautious.

 

To once put REPUTATION over *CURIOSITY and ADVENTUROUSNESS* is the end of curiosity and adventurousness.

 

Rely on reputation where reputation is meaningful: personal qualities and repetitive fields.

Ignore reputation where it’s inflated or unpredictive.

Be 100% professional but show no concern for your reputation, unless you are a PAWN. If you’re concerned with making meaning out of the time you have in this world: be CREATIVE, be an ADVENTURER, be an EXPLORER — and pay no attention to the noise.