You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.
When you're learning anything new, you'll feel like an imposter.
That's a very useful thing to know. You'll feel like a fool because you are. And you'll think, “I'll never get there”.
The destination might look very distant, but if you take a small first step and get the ball rolling, you can cruise along at a pretty good rate.
What happens when you expose people to small but challenging tasks is:
1. It makes them more skilled because now they're dealing with the problem. They're acquiring new perceptions and new behaviors that are mastery.
2. They see themselves as actors who can change the direction of their lives.
I've never seen anyone unable to progress if they made the task small enough.
That can be pretty humiliating. But the upside is that once you've taken that first step, you'll start progressing exponentially.
If you're not willing to be a fool, you cannot become a master.
Things fall apart: this is one of the great discoveries of humanity. And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit.
If you want to be excellent, staying consistent with your goals and positive habits over time will separate you from the herd of mediocrity. It all starts with a goal. If you don’t have a destination in mind, you’re just adrift at sea going with the flow.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
As always, please try stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like.
This platform aspires to maximize signal/noise of the human collective.
I want to see twitter as this private space, rather than a public square. Though in essence it is public. I don’t get it. Only when I see it as private can I express myself freely. Maybe it is true everywhere.
What happened to flipboard? I can still remember the days spent at LA flipping through our own magazine. If I did file for library curation of our magazine, it would still be visible today. Though we all know what it was, so fickle a thing.