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I once saw a chart on when to write. I felt a lot of scarcity. I was missing so many golden windows, not talking about the things as I was learning them. https://t.co/5DCaFCAEuL
But I’m realising now there’s a second golden window: Once you’ve explained things as an expert to people so many times, you can explain it really simply. https://t.co/60vOfiSDO1
Example: @m_ashcroft explains non-doing. It’s so short, succint, and comprehensible, you know it’s the iteration of many dialogues he’s had with clients. It is. https://t.co/fXUJQMNxAF
Condition: you are stressed Evaluation: this is bad Response: try harder not to be stressed (to relax) Result: trying adds stress, so you are now more stressed To break the cycle, notice that you are stressed, assert that you don’t want to be, then do nothing about it
The first golden window is rich, because you’re fresh with all your misunderstandings that were blocking you. The second golden window is rich, because you’ve iterated through all the other people’s misunderstandings in understanding you.
Put this way, it becomes clear that the key to understanding actually lies more in the misunderstandings. To understand is to perceive. To learn to understand is to remove all the previous confusing preconceptions. https://t.co/2qGo52gSgK
“only then will you have the strongest sense of what was the non-trivial love you had to do” https://t.co/3OTeqtNiVs
I do recommend writing (and finishing!) it out as soon as you understand that new complex idea of yours. It will seem clear in the moment and thus tempting to leave for later. But only then you will have the strongest sense of what was the non-trivial move you had to do. https://t.co/RguJotXFMe
