Category: Philosophy & Musings
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Musings
Once something works, options arise. When things don’t work, scarcity/dysfunction propagates, and encourages the worst aspects of ourselves to run amuck and take control. Competence isn’t just power, it paves the way for wide-scale freedom, and allows us to hew to a higher code.
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Stubbornness really doesn’t impress me, as it seems to be an abundant commodity; it seems that whenever you butt up against anything someone deeply identifies with, you invariably make them stubborn. I’m impressed by someone who proactively engages with a problem, and does their best to solve it. Regardless of whether it fits within the parameters…
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When “whatever works” gets consistently re-interpreted into “whatever feels good”… Then it doesn’t work, and it stops feeling good.
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Who doesn’t love that short burst of training montage, where the monotony is small and the struggle is dramatic? That’s an easy thing to love; the movie industry has it down to a science. It’s much harder—and infinitely more rewarding—to fall in love with the real thing.
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After a base level of discipline has been established, it seems that “not quitting” is no longer the primary concern. The major determinant to success, at that point, seems to be quitting everything that’s holding me back.
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The best approaches, it seems, demand no loyalty to their outward strictures; they encourage me to do what it takes to be fulfilled. The accountability lies in the results.
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Sometimes, the world feels like a completely preposterous, utterly ridiculous lie. And ironically, that’s one of the truest things that has ever crossed my mind.
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Personally, I’ve found that one of the most effective ways to view phenomena is as pure information; not as insults or compliments, not as tragedies or glory. This way, I don’t take things so personally. The “I” fades away as I focus on what’s being said to me, and the proper way to respond to…
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I don’t see my limits as enemies or demons; I see them as clues. When I stop raging against them and simply use them as indicators as to how to form my strategy (which may sometimes entail brute-forcing my way through them, and may sometimes entail finding a way around them), they are no longer…
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By continually formulating the soundest strategy possible and executing it to the best of one’s ability, one cuts through all machismo associated with quitting/persevering, as well as the egoic consideration of self-worth. I believe that by diligently executing your best strategy, you are—by definition—persevering, as well as embodying the worthiest version of yourself. There’s no…
Kent Wayne 