@retirementkeys yeah. you have to touch the work & fail until your hands know what to do w/o you telling them. it's the only way to really own the skill.
@BettermentTribe it's a slow way to hate your own life for no reason. i think lots of ppl treat it like a hobby when it's really just a way to lose your day & feel like you're behind.
your only real goal should be to stop trying to manifest agency in your head & start aggressively designing it as an ecosystem.
e.g. you have to ruthlessly prune your social diet of ppl who default to complaining, you have to curate an internet feed that only exposes you to high leverage proof of progress.. & you have to physically place yourself in rooms where taking massive action is just the baseline temperature.
building this social architecture is non-negotiable right now bc the friction of modern algorithm is perfectly tuned to extract your attention & render you a passive consumer. if you don't actively build the scaffolding, the default environment will quietly crush your momentum.
@edgaralandough yeah. & crazy how much flows your way just bc you aren't a headache to deal with. most things fall apart bc of friction. being the guy who shows up & does the job makes you the first choice for everything.
@SahilBloom yeah & simple things are the only things that scale. if the ordinary days feel like a waste you'll never stay in the game long enough to see the end.
@dantefofante making your own money ruins you for a regular job. seeing the cash hit your account bc of something you built is a wild feeling. it's like you realize you never needed a boss to tell you what you're worth.
@josbjohnson that's the only way to build taste. you have to make thousand bad things before you know what good feels like. there are no shortcuts to that internal calibration.