I think it’s similar to the divide between thinking/planning and actually acting. A sort of avoidance, of never being ready for action.
Do you know the “No free lunch theorem”? What’s specific is often more important and relevant than the general. A general solution might have more width, but you’re an individual person, and your life is specific to you. Why apply blunt, general tools to your very specific life? You know the information which is specific to your own circumstances, so throwing it away for a more generic approach would only have negative utility.
Lately I’ve been thinking that I should be more direct, more present, more engaged in the task at hand, and to be more personal and bold, like a person who loves his work rather than someone suffering from doubt about the quality of his approach. For a very relevant but unique example, I see people who download mods to games all day, or perhaps assets to games like The Sims, only to play a single time and get bored again, perhaps only to download more.
For productivity, perhaps less knowledge is ideal at times, since he who knows less knows it better. I used to be very sure of myself and the value of what I was doing, but with knowledge grows doubt, so in learning about other peoples work, I’ve harmed my own approach badly by comparing them. If I don’t create something better than which already exists, I can no longer believe that it’s valuable.
Perhaps I’ve already said what I should, so that writing any more would be missing the mark, but another person commented with “build things”, and I can’t help but consider this valuable for the reasons that I wrote above. When you build, your creation is personal, it’s specific, and it’s an act of “actually doing” something.
And while my personal take on this seems a bit like intentional ignorance, I’ve always enjoyed work which had a soul, and I’ve always found soul to be inversely proportional to doubt. I know many people who have matured and come to doubt their own abilities, and worsened a lot as a consequence. The self-criticism and self-awareness basically killed all creative output, as well as the lightheartedness which allowed them to work tirelessly for hours on end. What once came easy to them is now difficult, and they have no confidence despite improving a lot.
This comment doesn’t have a strong rational focus, but I find that attitudes and mindsets have a stronger influence on the world than the level of correctness.
For a simple answer, I’m considering this approach: To no longer stand at the side-lines living in the world of potential, but to finally settle on something and to lose myself in it to the degree that I’m unable to see any meta-perspectives at all.
I think it’s similar to the divide between thinking/planning and actually acting. A sort of avoidance, of never being ready for action.
Do you know the “No free lunch theorem”? What’s specific is often more important and relevant than the general. A general solution might have more width, but you’re an individual person, and your life is specific to you. Why apply blunt, general tools to your very specific life? You know the information which is specific to your own circumstances, so throwing it away for a more generic approach would only have negative utility.
Lately I’ve been thinking that I should be more direct, more present, more engaged in the task at hand, and to be more personal and bold, like a person who loves his work rather than someone suffering from doubt about the quality of his approach.
For a very relevant but unique example, I see people who download mods to games all day, or perhaps assets to games like The Sims, only to play a single time and get bored again, perhaps only to download more.
For productivity, perhaps less knowledge is ideal at times, since he who knows less knows it better. I used to be very sure of myself and the value of what I was doing, but with knowledge grows doubt, so in learning about other peoples work, I’ve harmed my own approach badly by comparing them. If I don’t create something better than which already exists, I can no longer believe that it’s valuable.
Perhaps I’ve already said what I should, so that writing any more would be missing the mark, but another person commented with “build things”, and I can’t help but consider this valuable for the reasons that I wrote above. When you build, your creation is personal, it’s specific, and it’s an act of “actually doing” something.
And while my personal take on this seems a bit like intentional ignorance, I’ve always enjoyed work which had a soul, and I’ve always found soul to be inversely proportional to doubt. I know many people who have matured and come to doubt their own abilities, and worsened a lot as a consequence. The self-criticism and self-awareness basically killed all creative output, as well as the lightheartedness which allowed them to work tirelessly for hours on end. What once came easy to them is now difficult, and they have no confidence despite improving a lot.
This comment doesn’t have a strong rational focus, but I find that attitudes and mindsets have a stronger influence on the world than the level of correctness.
For a simple answer, I’m considering this approach: To no longer stand at the side-lines living in the world of potential, but to finally settle on something and to lose myself in it to the degree that I’m unable to see any meta-perspectives at all.