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I like @edelwax's perspective on goals & values, and how it's more important not to sacrifice your values for your goals than vice versa. (goal = *what* I want to achieve) (value = *how* I want to live my life) https://t.co/6NEimDtu14
It's making me seriously think about how to include more about values in https://t.co/lRiGUxBh9B ๐ง Most productivity apps represent neither deep goals nor deep values... they just have a bunch of random tasks. https://t.co/dOSxk6LTZb
So Complice being goal-based is already way better than most systems. But how to represent values? I've done it implicitly by having certain daily Complice intentions like "curate my attention intentionally", but it doesn't keep me in touch in the moment. https://t.co/6teEv28wDe
Plus, in relation to that last point around recording things vs not... Complice is explicitly saying "what are your goals & priorities? how do you make sure your day is focused on those and not random busywork?" ๐ฏ"what do I want to make happen?" not "what's on my plate?" ๐ฅ
Here's an initial thread of me reflecting on how Complice guides people towards ways-of-being that are more intentional, and attempting to speculate on other possibilities. https://t.co/fDPlZLiaVD
OSes & ways-of-being ๐๐ Part of what is messy about contemporary technology is the everythingness of everything. Hard to stay focused in reading a book while reading it on a device that's also everything else. https://t.co/xfrs2NTD4x
More that can be said about this but for now I want to highlight that there's a striking parallel between goals & values โleft & right ๐ง brain hemispheres (I'm talking in terms of McGilchrist's new model, not the old debunked one)
Part of what was confused about old hemisphere model, in fact, was that it was about goalsโ"what does each hemisphere do?" There's no useful overarching general answer to that Q, but there *is* a deeply meaningful difference between hemisphere *values*! ๐ฎ https://t.co/PtReeYBapU
One model I've found myself dancing with over the past few years is called More than Cool Reason: "Withness-thinking or "systemic thinking" and "thinking *about* systems" Withness and aboutness are two very different modes of thinking! PDF: https://t.co/ZWL7is46ut https://t.co/EE81RQa4nc
Also anyone who digs this thread might also dig my thread about goals vs systems: https://t.co/mdaL5P9dcd
The term "pre-success failure" from @ScottAdamsSays' book is a gem. His related idea that you should have systems and not have goals is absurd. (have both!) Scott cites Olympic athletes as examples. ๐คจ Take 3 guesses what goal an Olympic athlete has... ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ