"I should know this"
Many of our struggles with uncertainty go unspoken.
The simple pleasure of being ahead of schedule
A series of good choices.
Crystalization is hard, but necessary
The path to really getting clarity on something is confusion, uncertainty, and doubt.
If you aren't on a pendulum, you're probably falling down a hole
Getting to the rightness of something complex looks like a pendulum. You overshoot one way. You overshoot back the other way. But you overshoot a little less each time.
Being Wrong
I don't like falling into human cognitive traps. But I do, often.
Know your why, some of the time
When pursuing long term goals, it's important to know and remember why you're pursuing those goals. But...
Don't dig up the beach
In last week's post I wrote about how goals equip you with a "what should I learn" detector. I want to expand on that a bit to discuss how it's used in practice, through the analogy of a metal detector.
What is the least I can learn?
I am in recovery from a condition that I would call "knowledge FOMO". What does this look like?
Motivation for public communication
In Gershen Kaufman's book Shame he explains why he is writing: "I offer this book not as a finished product but as a stopping point for reflection... what is useful ought to be communicated."