I spend a lot of time thinking about thinking. I fold through my mind fabric and find patterns, analyze the patterns, decide whether it’s one that will help or hurt me, and optimize. Introspection has always been a preferred state for me and one of my levers for personal growth. It’s served well, I’ve developed a strong self awareness and understanding of my operating system. But I’ve recently decided it's time to reverse my approach. Up until now, specifically in the past few years when my dedication to personal growth skyrocketed, I’ve operated from inward to outward. Meaning that I first spend time looking inward at my thoughts and behaviors, from that I glean my strengths and weaknesses, and then decide where to allocate my energy in career and relationships to best leverage those identified strengths. I’ve recently been motivated to operate in the opposite direction, from outward to inward. Meaning that I just act, do, take on new projects irrespective of my self-defined strengths and weaknesses and allow the direct experience of the doing drive a new definition of strengths and weaknesses that become clear after trying this new thing. I’m a big advocate for action over talking, doing over thinking. It’s the only way to leverage the full power of compounded interest—get started today, do a little bit daily and have consistent discipline in order to utilize our biggest asset, time. The more talking thinking planning the less time there is to do which is where the true lessons come from. I’ve used this approach with everything except my operating system, I’m entering a new path in self growth that will be focusing on that.
We are merely explorers of infinity in the pursuit of absolute perfection