Riffing off of your ideas (unfortunately I read them before I thought to do the exercise myself)
- Ability to notice and respect self boundaries feels particularly important to me. - Maybe this is included in the self-esteem book (haven’t read it), but also a sense of feeling that one’s self is precious to oneself. Some people think of themselves as infinitely malleable, or under some obligation to put themselves into the “optimal” shape for saving the world or whatever, and that seems like a bad sign. - I generally think of this as a personal weakness, but reflecting it seems like there has been something protective about my not feeling motivated to do something until I have a model of what it does, how it works, etc… I guess it’s a sort of Chesterton’s fence instinct in a way.
(I still quite like this idea on my second pass ~two weeks later; I guess I should try to interview people / observe people and see if I can figure out in detail what they are and aren’t doing here.)
Awesome!
Riffing off of your ideas (unfortunately I read them before I thought to do the exercise myself)
- Ability to notice and respect self boundaries feels particularly important to me.
- Maybe this is included in the self-esteem book (haven’t read it), but also a sense of feeling that one’s self is precious to oneself. Some people think of themselves as infinitely malleable, or under some obligation to put themselves into the “optimal” shape for saving the world or whatever, and that seems like a bad sign.
- I generally think of this as a personal weakness, but reflecting it seems like there has been something protective about my not feeling motivated to do something until I have a model of what it does, how it works, etc… I guess it’s a sort of Chesterton’s fence instinct in a way.
That seems right.
I wish I had a clearer notion of what “self” means, here.
(I still quite like this idea on my second pass ~two weeks later; I guess I should try to interview people / observe people and see if I can figure out in detail what they are and aren’t doing here.)