Conditioned narrative has you ask a lot of questions and do a lot of strange things but it fails to point you at the single most crucial determinant of success: BEING USEFUL. When you understand the simple necessity of USEFULNESS and obvious inevitability of the CAUSE AND EFFECT — everything makes sense Otherwise — …
Tag: Success
Simple Action, Direct Experience
Firsthand experience makes stronger impression. Some things you’ll never grasp unless you’ve experienced them. It’s often impossible to get unstuck without getting one’s hands dirty. The subconscious pulls us back, as we wonder why we’re stuck, We only get unstuck once we believe, truly believe, that something is possible The subconscious doesn’t …
Grateful You Failed Me
I’m grateful to people for failing me It’s very easy to fake competence and virtue and very hard to prove it. I’m glad when someone fails me and immediately signals his incompetence Takes a long time to ascertain someone’s ability but only one mistake to reveal inability.
You Always Get What You Deserve
You always get what you deserve. In an infinite time scale the chance of you getting exactly what you deserve is precisely 100%. Getting-What-You-Deserve is a function of number of iterations. Sometimes you can increase the number of iterations — sometimes you have to rely on the time to do your bidding. If …
TRUE Cure For Procrastination
The best cure for procrastination is actually doing WHATEVER-THE-FUCK-YOU-WANT When you truly do what you want — you don’t have time to procrastinate. It’s simply no longer attractive to you. You don’t have time to waste because you could be doing something amazing The simple but profound truth about procrastination is that we are …
Have Standards Not For Standards But What It Communicates
Holding oneself to high standards derives even more benefits from the high quality connections you attract then from the standards themselves There’s a good point to be made against fussy thoroughness or undeviating forthrightness But there’s a better point to be made for them when you take into account the kind of people that …
From Mediocrity to Excellence: Intelligent, Skillful Creativity Manifesto
There’s the Known and there’s the Not-Known. The Not-Known is THE NEW The Not-Known came first. Before we knew anything — we knew nothing. Before the legacy, before the skill, before the craft, before the knowledge — there was only the discovery. The unknown. The CREATIVITY. Creativity comes always first. It has always came first. …
Celebrate Small Succeses
Celebrate small successes — for that’s what gets you going — and makes the going worth it. Complacency is not satisfaction with small successes — but merely smug denial of the existence of grander possibilities, caused by insecurity. Derive pleasure from what you do every day and not from what you get …
Quality Vs Quantity Is A False Dichotomy
Quality vs quantity is a false dichotomy Quality is a function of quantity. Quantity of trial-and-error. Quantity of iterations. You try things. You produce things. Produce prototypes. Produce sketches. Produce ideas. Some of those are of higher quality. Some are less perfect or less appropriate. But still have some of that quality. Quality vs quantity …
Musings: Letting Go
Not-letting-go brought more suffering then letting-go ever did You may not get where you wanted to get but if you transcend the want in the first place — there is nothing that’s ever forsaken. Oft it’s the unwillingness to let go which keeps us from getting where we want to get, Compulsive need …