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Unconventional wisdom
'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ' - Albert Einstein, maybe
Over the last couple of years I have had the very visceral realization that in order to change how I act in the world, I have to change who I am.
This may sound obvious. But at least to me it wasn’t. I was certain that I could just will myself to act differently in a given situation. Most people seem to be victim to this same insanity.
It does not work. In most situations we do not rise to our hopes and aspirational ideas, we fall to the level of who we are at our core.
And we can change. We can become a person that reacts differently to a certain stimulus. This is just not conventional wisdom.
'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ' - Albert Einstein, maybe
Over the last couple of years I have had the very visceral realization that in order to change how I act in the world, I have to change who I am.
This may sound obvious. But at least to me it wasn’t. I was certain that I could just will myself to act differently in a given situation. Most people seem to be victim to this same insanity.
It does not work. In most situations we do not rise to our hopes and aspirational ideas, we fall to the level of who we are at our core.
And we can change. We can become a person that reacts differently to a certain stimulus. This is just not conventional wisdom.