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Excited to get started on this! The Inner Game of Work https://t.co/d0k6dwQyrY
I'm only a couple of chapters in but this is shaping up to be a likely favorite. I find myself thinking "Interesting mix of Alan Watts, Power of Now, Antifragile, War of Art, Thinking Fast and Slow, The User Illusion". All some of my favorite books/ideas
Centrally, (I paraphrase) it seems to be about the problem of conscious inteference with subconscious awareness. We know more than we think we know. But when we focus on what we think we know, we miss out on most of what we actually know
The challenge seems to be to develop non-judgemental awareness. Interesting to be reminded that top athletes, musicians etc often confess that their (conscious) minds were empty when they were performing at their best, peak/flow states. We clearly undervalue meditation
"The limiting belief that learning and doing are separate, competing activities" "Much of the teaching we do is actually hostile to learning" "We are constantly torn between getting results and living a process that is humanly satisfying" "What game are you really playing?"
"Play to learn, play to fulfill your own potential" "High performers are people who simply learn faster" "We learn faster when we pay attention and see the world for what it truly is" "Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance"
"My well-intentioned instructions were being internalized by my students as methods of control that were compromising their natural abilities." ^ This critical inner diaologue very different from no-mind quiet focus reported by top athletes
Read a bit more and really liking it so far. Other related books that I'm familiar with but haven't properly read: finite&infinite games, improv, seeing like a state. I really like that it repeatedly gets me thinking about what it means to really OBSERVE.
To get a little meta, I think I actually hesitated to get started on the book because I was nervous about what it would tell me about the mistakes I've been making in my own life and work. Which is pretty revealing in itself
There's a relationship between performance, learning and enjoyment I get so fixated on performance that I forget to learn, or enjoy myself Which ironically limits and sabotages my performance Life truly is hilarious this way
Fun and illuminating bit about how young children are natural salespeople - until we teach them to get inside their own heads and get in their own way https://t.co/khEezK04Ct
