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the older I get the more obvious it becomes that you can win at lots of things just by deciding that you're going to stick with it longer than everybody else have long believed this to be true, but now I think I can start to say with conviction that I *know* it to be true
it's funny looking back how every few years or so there's some new fad that people get interested in. remember when loads of people were into yo-yos? then rubiks cubes? then kendamas? then fidget spinners? some people become pros, but most fiddle around bc its a passing fad https://t.co/0wTPNjeg7A
What you don't hear so much about are the people who kinda noodle around on a guitar, or hit the gym a couple of times a week, or dick around with photoshop, or write in a blog, and just do this for 10+ years, following their own interest. Generally, by year 3-5 you can go 'pro'
Which isn't to say that the *point* is to go 'pro'. But the *option* of going pro makes life interesting. For eg, I'm a B- guitar/bass player at best, and yet I've actually been paid to do it, and I could hypothetically do a bunch of stuff with it, if I wanted to. Pure hobby https://t.co/HghTzQOw7y
and the cool thing about doing something for a long time is time is that your relationship with the subject matter accumulates *history*. You see patterns, outliers, the big picture. and these rhyme *across* domains. IMO this is one of life's grand wonders https://t.co/9mb45G8sFk
*if* you're curious to experience this but have 0 interest in anything, I'd suggest journaling. do it for 2-3 minutes a day for 10 years, I guarantee that you'll get something out of it that you personally value that you can't even imagine before starting https://t.co/pcjkX4zPHS
It's actually pretty wild to think about. Basically, in each given day, you experience a sort of homeostasis, and a retrospective 'narrative correction'. My theory is that people who take notes (or build a body of work) are able to break out of this more easily than others
I've actually written about this several times in my own journal(s) as "execute the jailbreak". Everyday life is a kind of psychic prison; breaking from it requires finesse. You're unlikely to be able to do it by chance. You have to know the blueprint, the layout, the guards... https://t.co/NccR7y5L9O
(I think about this comic a lot.) https://t.co/NKuNNJKlTa https://t.co/IJvlDQhw5q
This might seem like a different thing but I think itās the same thing. To stick with something for a very long time is to take it seriously, in this particular sense. It could be a silly practice that you take seriously (do 1000 pranks) https://t.co/ErjHLor6Qg https://t.co/ywx4ty5PqD
The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than adjacent things that may or may not happen as a side effect. Most things sort themselves out if youāre serious.
more on āseriousnessā https://t.co/N6uIVA14Pi https://t.co/edxE7cP2pS
not my business to tell other people how to live their lives but if you're curious: I feel like lots of people mis-distribute their seriousness too serious about things you don't have to be serious about not at all serious about things you *ought* to be serious about šš¤
more on āseriousnessā https://t.co/N6uIVA14Pi https://t.co/edxE7cP2pS
not my business to tell other people how to live their lives but if you're curious: I feel like lots of people mis-distribute their seriousness too serious about things you don't have to be serious about not at all serious about things you *ought* to be serious about šš¤
This might seem like a different thing but I think itās the same thing. To stick with something for a very long time is to take it seriously, in this particular sense. It could be a silly practice that you take seriously (do 1000 pranks) https://t.co/ErjHLor6Qg https://t.co/ywx4ty5PqD
The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than adjacent things that may or may not happen as a side effect. Most things sort themselves out if youāre serious.
more on āseriousnessā https://t.co/N6uIVA14Pi https://t.co/edxE7cP2pS
not my business to tell other people how to live their lives but if you're curious: I feel like lots of people mis-distribute their seriousness too serious about things you don't have to be serious about not at all serious about things you *ought* to be serious about šš¤
more on āseriousnessā https://t.co/N6uIVA14Pi https://t.co/edxE7cP2pS
not my business to tell other people how to live their lives but if you're curious: I feel like lots of people mis-distribute their seriousness too serious about things you don't have to be serious about not at all serious about things you *ought* to be serious about šš¤