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He said this in the context of handstands. If I wasn’t kicking up hard enough, then the mission was kick up way too hard for the next 4 tries. https://t.co/wU7Vuwc8MT
This kind of overcorrection is freeing. Success was kicking up too hard. I could do that. Changing my notion of success brought it with all sorts of new learnings. The focus now was on falling safely. Correcting any fear of falling.
This is building non-naïve trust in your system. Not just “doing it,” but genuinely increasing your safety in the other failure mode in a way that gives you more flexibility https://t.co/SvU0vW5SWg
Something @cgpgrey once said that’s always stuck around with me: He said, “When discussing policy, you can never get the dial exactly quite right. So the goal is just do you want to set the dial too high, or rather too low.”
You must recognise the limited capabilities of your decision. You cannot simply choose to get it right—otherwise you would have already. You can choose to alternative getting it too high or too low in a way that gets you closer and closer though.
This is recognising the limited reality of your decision-making to break through. When we’re all enlightened, we can set the dial right. In the meantime, we hit the other side of the sweet spot. https://t.co/hMEnTBcj7z
Too often, in questions of conflict, there is one side, and the other. We have a very firm grasp of one side, and a responsiveness to the ways it feels right and wrong, and not so much the other. So we overshadow the other. https://t.co/vwgWdZDmnv
Imagine wanting something and then asking yourself “Why?” It’s not the asking why that’s a problem. It’s the ignoring of *regardless of if you have a reason*, you do want it anyway. We overshadow the reality of what is true with what is real & legible. https://t.co/udqNt4kfcc
The way to restore balance is by firmly gaining a grasp of the other. Then with a developed intuition and technique, we have the stable foundation to flexibly and firmly navigate the complex changing distinctions and needs of any individual situation. https://t.co/4DGHT8Faqm
@AskYatharth oh yeah this is great learning is about calibration—make the other mistake (I got the "make the other mistake" quote from a blog post years ago but it's actually a confused post in many ways even tho the phrase is gold)