I strongly resonate with the idea that life is not a dress rehearsal, and not procrastinate my dreams.
BUT I was surprised at the end when the takeaway was so different! Seeing your numbers breakdown had me excited to keep the "optimism" in "indefinite optimism"!
I'm curious what the timeframe between writing it out and the review was?
Yeah the dress rehearsal is a good analogy; I still catch myself trying to "prepare for" life when the reality is this is it, every day, this is living.
I checked when I read Zero to One, and it was 3.5 years ago, so I think that was about the timeframe for me
I would love to hear what you think about different options for where indefinite optimisms could originate - I can imagine some that I may have received or inherited from external sources (my family, cultural conditioning, etc.) versus something that may have emerged intrinsically from somewhere inside of myself. Does the source of the indefinite optimism impact its conversion rate to a goal, or to reality?
Hmm good question. Most of mine can certainly be traced to things other people had or wanted, but of course there's always a part of myself that has to accept the suggestion / resonate with it. I think it matters a lot what kind of person you become over time. If I copy an aspiration from someone else, and then 3 years later I'm nothing like that person, then I'll probably let go of the aspiration too. But if I become much more like that person, then the aspiration that I borrowed is more firmly locked in, and more "me". So for me, time clarifies this question automatically
I appreciate this very straightforward advice/protocol as well as the numerically precise sharing of different outcomes of the items on your indefinite optimism list. Carrying out such life experiments is a kind of agency that we're privileged to have the bandwidth and resources to explore. Also, it seems to be assumed that we would have lists of our definite optimisms as well. I'd be curious to know more about that list too and how it's affected you.
Oh definitely, my list of definite optimisms I would just call my list of goals. I follow the hierarchical pattern where I write a goal for each year, season, sprint(month), and week. I talk about that here https://truegeneralist.com/structured-goal-sheet/
It helps me stay roughly on track, but there's a lot of reshuffling that happens, at every level. I like always having a long-term plan written out, but I know that amount of structure isn't best for everyone
Damn that "100 Men" meme came for my life haha.
I strongly resonate with the idea that life is not a dress rehearsal, and not procrastinate my dreams.
BUT I was surprised at the end when the takeaway was so different! Seeing your numbers breakdown had me excited to keep the "optimism" in "indefinite optimism"!
I'm curious what the timeframe between writing it out and the review was?
Yeah the dress rehearsal is a good analogy; I still catch myself trying to "prepare for" life when the reality is this is it, every day, this is living.
I checked when I read Zero to One, and it was 3.5 years ago, so I think that was about the timeframe for me
I would love to hear what you think about different options for where indefinite optimisms could originate - I can imagine some that I may have received or inherited from external sources (my family, cultural conditioning, etc.) versus something that may have emerged intrinsically from somewhere inside of myself. Does the source of the indefinite optimism impact its conversion rate to a goal, or to reality?
Hmm good question. Most of mine can certainly be traced to things other people had or wanted, but of course there's always a part of myself that has to accept the suggestion / resonate with it. I think it matters a lot what kind of person you become over time. If I copy an aspiration from someone else, and then 3 years later I'm nothing like that person, then I'll probably let go of the aspiration too. But if I become much more like that person, then the aspiration that I borrowed is more firmly locked in, and more "me". So for me, time clarifies this question automatically
I appreciate this very straightforward advice/protocol as well as the numerically precise sharing of different outcomes of the items on your indefinite optimism list. Carrying out such life experiments is a kind of agency that we're privileged to have the bandwidth and resources to explore. Also, it seems to be assumed that we would have lists of our definite optimisms as well. I'd be curious to know more about that list too and how it's affected you.
Oh definitely, my list of definite optimisms I would just call my list of goals. I follow the hierarchical pattern where I write a goal for each year, season, sprint(month), and week. I talk about that here https://truegeneralist.com/structured-goal-sheet/
It helps me stay roughly on track, but there's a lot of reshuffling that happens, at every level. I like always having a long-term plan written out, but I know that amount of structure isn't best for everyone