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there's something that rings hollow for me about Rick Rubin, perhaps the most famous music producer in the world, saying this because there's dozens, hundreds, thousands of people doing this. they act devotionally, in their churches, rivers, backyards. they're not famous https://t.co/6GIL2ZZqUD https://t.co/yARitXX2jG
for some, that path of intimacy will lead them to a closer relationship with nature, and the river, and god, that stays personal for some, that path of intimacy will lead to them being big https://t.co/2yAa643ahW
@AskYatharth https://t.co/rqYgPPhMGF
@AskYatharth this thread is a good case study of both elements imo https://t.co/FblVsIaSev
@visakanv >it's…common for people who succeed…to kinda handwave over the part that they didn't have trouble with, that everyone else struggles with oh god, yeah. beautiful example with alan watts. "just do what you love, people will find you!" what did he do? ofc… volunteer radio 😐
@visakanv just making this face at alan watts like https://t.co/2HRrmdZRWr
@visakanv meanwhile, me: just tweet whatever tweets you like! it easy! and im probably not noticing something im doing naturally https://t.co/PwabHGwGeL
@visakanv same energy https://t.co/ySA58UAeJn
@AskYatharth thing is, from his point of view, he’s not wrong! he’s telling the truth of his experience. he probably didn’t even think “how do I solve for distribution”, he probably did volunteer radio for free because he loved his material so much he was excited to share
@AskYatharth and there’s this whole ‘nother failure mode where people will think “ah, I should go do volunteer radio”, when that might not be the medium that matters anymore. the thing is to go to where the action is, and that’s very much a feeling-driven pursuit https://t.co/YseAx1Unap
@AskYatharth this is essentially the same thing, I’m inclined to believe Albert was reporting the truth of his experience, or emphasising the thing that gets frustratingly overlooked in more complicated conversations https://t.co/nxJmZIfs3b https://t.co/41fwBTTfvd
@realtimeai It is interesting how many 4+ sigma people attribute their success to curiosity or long-term obsession with a problem or better habitual methods or something. Obviously there’s something to this but one can’t help but feel that there’s a big blind spot as well
@AskYatharth love and curiosity are the “don’t die” part of the whole enterprise. there’s a lot more that goes into it, but when the love or curiosity dies, everything else dies too. and these serious practitioners surely encounter more things dying from a lack of love/curiosity than anything
@AskYatharth first domino https://t.co/QCM7vr3rzW
@AskYatharth the hero who wants to save the village must not see himself as too important to help the old lady find her frying pan. the old lady *is* the village https://t.co/mMmVNM9lFs
another way of framing all of this is… live your life like you’re in a heroic anime/jrpg. Make friends. Help people on their side quests. Earn their trust and loyalty. Triumph together with the power of friendship for the benefit of all. Help the old lady find her frying pan https://t.co/SYdPSfMfKz
@visakanv ok this is going to sound weird, but that's actually one of the things ive mainly been thinking about/that shifted for me recently i do that now https://t.co/Or0URCCCbl
@visakanv i had a friend, who so deeply helped old ladies find their frying pan (while, you know, talking about palestine and world yoga) that it rubbed into me https://t.co/S9m9mXjZuE
@AskYatharth see also this thread which is me repeatedly expressing confusion at how people seem to miss that helping the old lady is the whole point https://t.co/CvZjsDySyf
@AskYatharth https://t.co/py8KAjrB9y
@AskYatharth Barbie movie equivalent was Barbie telling the old lady she’s beautiful people asked Greta why not cut the scene and she was like fuk u that’s the most important scene interesting in retrospect how both involve old ladies https://t.co/0AbJxDUyCD
@AskYatharth No meaning! strong words https://t.co/UmUCRrl3mu
@visakanv i don't think that scene left an impression in most movie goers' minds, nor do i think they would have had a different experience if it was cut but her saying the movie wouldn't have any meaning without it makes it a different movie to me
@AskYatharth which is to say, (I believe) Rubin is surely surrounded by distribution-solving experts, and Einstein was surely surrounded by people with exceptional intelligence, and they both must’ve been frustrated by how much everyone was failing at THE MOST BASIC THING
@AskYatharth so we zoom out and see people complaining that they’re responding to their own environment rather than the observer’s environment it’s funny how people will collectively pedestalize a celebrity and then complain that they’re out of touch. of course they’re out of touch
Visa coming in with the one-sentence riff: "Do what you love, but solve for distribution" https://t.co/d7t0SeY5eY
ahhhhhh i can view rick rubin as speaking to the people ~already gifted at or trying to do distribution but he's like frustrated they don't get this basic things https://t.co/wN9FW5T3ef
@AskYatharth which is to say, (I believe) Rubin is surely surrounded by distribution-solving experts, and Einstein was surely surrounded by people with exceptional intelligence, and they both must’ve been frustrated by how much everyone was failing at THE MOST BASIC THING
@AskYatharth once you’re as famous as Rubin basically your entire “inbox” is filled with distribution-solving masters like a hot girl’s complaints about men aren’t actually about all men, but about the subset of men who proposition her. but from her point of view it’s ~all men in her world