Invisible Environment on Nostr: Limiting the scope of your decision space might be the most powerful tool for finding ...
Limiting the scope of your decision space might be the most powerful tool for finding meaning and transforming yourself from a less desired state to a more desired one.
Then you iterate on that, and so on. Aspiration.
I once was a bit of a connoisseur of anti-discipline. I did not have to find excuses to be anti-disciplined. I existed in a permanent state of the fuck-its until I was around 31 years old. A series of events opened a window on the future for me at that time. I was able to see that this path would not end well.
And so temperance and discipline became necessary conditions for living a life worth living.
A 12 step program gave me the base layer to be able to move forward. I went to university after that, starting a degree at 32 years old. I was craving the sort of structure a degree would offer, while also carrying a chip on my shoulder that wanted to prove an undisciplined punk could excel at the academic game.
The thing is, for me anyway, the external discipline of a program or a degree, are great starter kits for discipline. But they can become suffocating if they are your only structures.
The freedom to create your own confines is real freedom.
Building out your decision space to facilitate a transformation is real freedom. Rules not rulers.
Discipline is a thing I continually come into friction with. But it is generally the antidote to many of my problems. When I start to feel like I am falling out of line with myself, it is almost always a recommitment to a self chosen structure that leads me out.
Build out the structures of your mind or someone, or something will do it for you.
Then you iterate on that, and so on. Aspiration.
I once was a bit of a connoisseur of anti-discipline. I did not have to find excuses to be anti-disciplined. I existed in a permanent state of the fuck-its until I was around 31 years old. A series of events opened a window on the future for me at that time. I was able to see that this path would not end well.
And so temperance and discipline became necessary conditions for living a life worth living.
A 12 step program gave me the base layer to be able to move forward. I went to university after that, starting a degree at 32 years old. I was craving the sort of structure a degree would offer, while also carrying a chip on my shoulder that wanted to prove an undisciplined punk could excel at the academic game.
The thing is, for me anyway, the external discipline of a program or a degree, are great starter kits for discipline. But they can become suffocating if they are your only structures.
The freedom to create your own confines is real freedom.
Building out your decision space to facilitate a transformation is real freedom. Rules not rulers.
Discipline is a thing I continually come into friction with. But it is generally the antidote to many of my problems. When I start to feel like I am falling out of line with myself, it is almost always a recommitment to a self chosen structure that leads me out.
Build out the structures of your mind or someone, or something will do it for you.