The discipline to say you’re wrong when you’re wrong…will make you consistently right.
Category: Musings
Musings
Every attempt, be it failure or triumph, holds potential as a tool to know yourself better. Once that tool is utilized, you’ll be able to bring a more capable version of yourself to subsequent attempts…
This increase in capability is, IMHO, proportional to how deeply you use that experience to investigate yourself.
Musings
Can discipline be a trap? Absolutely. I myself have fallen victim to stale, tired routines. But the core of discipline—the ability to turn down instant gratification and give genuine consideration to uncomfortable possibilities—is ESSENTIAL. The traps of the world are baited with hollow pleasures and packaged, lazy thinking.
The discipline to see past those glitteringly false premises and sweet gratifications…that’s a necessity of becoming fully human.
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It was once condescendingly implied to me that because of my unusual work history (I’ve never really worked a “regular” job), that I wouldn’t be writing if I had to face the pressures of a 9-5 job. My answer to that is: Maybe. Anything’s possible. But I’m inclined to disagree. First off, many artists’ greatest works were manifested in periods of intense personal turmoil. So unless I’m working a job 7 days a week where I have no time to do anything but sleep and eat, then I’m going to create. Faced with the glaring, undeniable presence of free time, I consider it nothing less than my duty.
Musings
Do not mindlessly respond with tired, run-down quotes…respond with the clear thinking that CREATES those quotes.
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People ask me what I want to happen/think of when I die. I used to care about the whole “am I satisfied with my life or not” stuff. Not so much anymore. Regardless of what I’m thinking at that moment, I want to die with a huge, cheese-eating grin on my face.
I want people to know that I’m having the time of my “life.” 😉
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What does it mean to “do your best?” Most of the time I’ve seen it interpreted as an unthinking brute effort, but what I’ve come to suspect it REALLY means is to mercilessly challenge yourself…to always seek out new and uncomfortable methods of accomplishment, even at the cost of reducing short-term performance. It is easy to exhaust yourself in an egoic spurt of effort; it is harder to embrace doubt, risk, and ultimately, to grow.
Musings
In [writing], learn technique/etiquette/structure/format/etc…but while you’re learning, never forget that the goal of the [writer] is to crack the audience across the heart.
Don’t be a rote zombie that’s imprisoned by doctrine. Instead, be boosted by it.
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Don’t parrot the “wise” ones; always staying one quote behind, forever immersed in the comfort of adoration….make up your OWN quotes and jam with all that are “wise” and “holy.”
Rather than look wistfully up at the pedestal, JUMP up there and have the time of your life!
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We weave traps out of the world so we can feel the rush of escape.
But we were always free to begin with. 😉
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 