Manifesting my destiny. Let go of who/what you are in order to become what you dream.
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Joined August 2009
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Waging a battle where there can be no victor. An immortal army of one... Myself The enemy... A truth that cannot be faced. Controller of fate? I'm its feeble servant! Free to chose anything that my will desires. Yet no alternatives exist I do not want this.
What defines a 'God'?
Undesirable omnipotence
A god confused serves no purpose
Denial is a powerful ally
And my only confidant
If all is burned, will I be caught in flames?
Or stand alone in the ashes of the void?
Timeless and ageless in a self-created abyss,
I know the answer
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I live my life as if the odds don’t apply to me for anything related to success. And sure enough, my life unfolded as if that were true.
Feels like magic, but that’s probably an illusion caused by me consistently not understanding the true odds of things.
For example, I’m not a great artist, and I’m usually not the funniest person in any crowded room. So, for years, I incorrectly assumed I did not have the skill to be a professional cartoonist. If I had been better at calculating my odds, I would have understood that being good-but-not-great at several complementary skills made my odds of success surprisingly good.
I could give you a dozen more examples where my common sense estimation of the odds was way off. For example, I didn’t know that simply showing up for work and doing what I said I would do could put me in the top 10% of performers. But it did. I also believed promotions would be solely based on performance, but they weren’t.
I was very bad at estimating the odds of things.
Eventually, I figured out a mental hack (a reframe) for avoiding being “trapped by the odds”: I told myself the odds didn’t apply to me.
It felt good to think of it that way, but what it really meant was that I could not accurately predict my own future. But what I COULD do was steadily acquire a suite of complementary skills that would fit a lot of different opportunities and then try a bunch of things that wouldn’t kill me if they failed.
90% of the things I have tried in life have failed. So I tried fifty things that didn’t kill me and got five solid wins.
Summary: Sometimes your odds are bad and sometimes you are bad at estimating the odds.
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You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.
When you're learning anything new, you'll feel like an imposter.
That's a very useful thing to know. You'll feel like a fool because you are. And you'll think, “I'll never get there”.
The destination might look very distant, but if you take a small first step and get the ball rolling, you can cruise along at a pretty good rate.
What happens when you expose people to small but challenging tasks is:
1. It makes them more skilled because now they're dealing with the problem. They're acquiring new perceptions and new behaviors that are mastery.
2. They see themselves as actors who can change the direction of their lives.
I've never seen anyone unable to progress if they made the task small enough.
That can be pretty humiliating. But the upside is that once you've taken that first step, you'll start progressing exponentially.
If you're not willing to be a fool, you cannot become a master.
The exact nature of the sensations which arise in the world are not directly knowable as we use our nervous systems to model the world, even reaching out with our receptor systems,
The way that the model each of us develops will differ from the world is in the choices which we make as we employ the three principles of modeling (Deletion, Generalization, Distortion).
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