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For a long time, I operated on this implicit assumption that if I knew the answer, it shouldn’t take long. There was this focus on knowing. There was a frustration with waiting. https://t.co/gmHRm70MSe
I see now how it comes from math and programming and many other places where literalising something once really does make it durable. https://t.co/FNgQd7rSBw
It’s caused me a lot of pain. It’s a fantastic way to build scalable systems, advance engineering, code the masterpieces that keep our society running. I martyered myself into a traumatised mode of thought without knowing it. https://t.co/F5C63kQ9DL
But I see know how in most of life, there is only ever doing. Doing is what matters. It doesn’t matter if I know how to write the email. All that matters is doing it. In the very moment of doing it, there is something intrinsic happening.
The thing about lenses is they’re on /all the time/. The ones that become natural are the ones that shape your experience all the rest of the time. https://t.co/gxxdky6RvF
Shifting from one to the other is not even difficult. It’s just tricky + takes doing. https://t.co/B9NKrhIjUu