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src/site/notes/Archive/Balance your effort with enjoyment.md

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-[[Resources/MoCs/On the process MoC\|On the process MoC]]
+[[Resources/MoCs/On the process MoC\|On the process MoC]] • [[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]]
 # Balance your effort with enjoyment
 You wrote a 3,000 killer article with curated images and crazy value. It took you a whole week to put this up. You hit publish and... crickets.
 You feel angst, disgust, and frustration as if you've just been betrayed by the whole world. If you're particularly tenacious, you might do it a couple other times, but you inevitably give up after a while because it seems that it wasn't your calling after all. Or was it? 

src/site/notes/Archive/Effectiveness.md

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 [[Resources/MoCs/On the process MoC\|On the process MoC]]
 # Effectiveness
-If you are constantly rushing through life, it's probably because you feel you don't have [[Archive/Your time on earth is limited\|Time is scarce]]. But this denotes a lack of effectiveness, because if you're effective, you have all the time in the world. And there's no need to rush if you have time.
+If you are constantly rushing through life, it's probably because you feel [[Archive/Your time on earth is limited\|Time is scarce]]. But this denotes a lack of effectiveness, because if you're effective, you have all the time in the world. And there's no need to rush if you have time.
 
 This thought came to me while I was brushing my teeth, and feeling already behind time for the day. 
 ## Mental laziness
 Spending hours working could be a sign of mental laziness. 
 You don't take the time to properly think about what is it you want to achieve. 
 You don't take the time to reflect on what you've already done and link it to your next endeavor.
-Thus you do [[empty moves\|empty moves]]. You repeat previous behavior and mistakes. You don't iterate.
+Thus you do *empty moves*. You repeat previous behavior and mistakes. You don't [[Archive/Things get accomplished by iteration\|iterate]].
 And so after a while, you feel exhausted, frustrated, depressed, because despite putting in countless hours, despite great effort, you burn out, and give up.
 
 That's because being effective requires more that intensity. Approaching things solely with intensity leads to [[Archive/Trying hard\|Trying hard]]. Intensity must be preceded with intentionality and followed by [[Archive/Act fast, then take the time to reflect\|reflection]].
 ## Intention
-Effectiveness starts with [[being intentional\|being intentional]]. 
+Effectiveness starts with intention. 
 You must be intentional in what you do to know what you want out of your effort.
 If you don't know what is the fruit of your efforts look like, how are you going to get it?
 ## Reflection
 Then it requires reflection. Taking time to assess what your actions led to.
 [[Archive/Spend time in reflection every day\|Spend time in reflection every day]].
 
-This is the essence of [[Pareto's Law\|Pareto's Law]] and [[Parkinson's Law\|Parkinson's Law]]. 
+This is the essence of *Pareto's Law* and *Parkinson's Law*. 
 If you're not effective, you feel like you need ages to accomplish anything, and you always feel you don't have enough time.
-If you're effective, you don't need to spend inordinate amounts of time on the things you do. You do less, but better. So once again, [[Less is more\|Less is more]].
+If you're effective, you don't need to spend inordinate amounts of time on the things you do. You do less, but better. So once again, *Less Is More*.

src/site/notes/Archive/Get shit done.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/On the process MoC\|On the process MoC]] • [[Resources/MoCs/On creativity MoC\|On creativity MoC]]
+# On finding ideas and just getting shit done
+
+Up until I've been going through the same dead end process: I would sit down, by myself, and start to think and try to come up with a good business idea. And I would usually end up thinking about it for ages, [[Archive/Overthinking kills momentum\|overthinking]], either fantasizing about it or discouraging myself, but never doing anything about it.
+
+- Now I think this process is flawed right from the start. You can't *think up* of a good idea. That’s one of the [[Resources/MoCs/Things we do backwards MoC\|Things we do backwards MoC]].
+- It starts with *interactions* with the world and others. You need to experience reality and real-world situations and problems. [[Archive/Align with reality\|Align with reality]]. And then, from these experiences in the real world, you discover real needs and problems that you can come up with solutions.
+- Anything else is *wishful thinking*, building a key and trying to find a lock for it.
+
+I'm composing music right now using Logic Pro X on my Mac. I was about to check out a video on YouTube for mic placement when I suddenly remembered when I used to create music back in the 2000's in my garage. *I had no internet connection*. That was an unintended but crazy effective way to have focused and productive sessions. Rather than wasting time listening to others talk I was actually creating stuff.

src/site/notes/Archive/Neural Harmony.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]] • [[Resources/MoCs/On creativity MoC\|On creativity MoC]]
+# Neural Harmony
+It is when your mind is perfectly in tune with what you're doing. When you are [[Archive/Going with the flow\|Going with the flow]].
+When the adequate parts of your brain for the task at hand are involved while those that aren't remain at rest. 
+It's the ideal state for a [[Archive/On focus\|focused experience]], to be in the flow. 
+It's the opposite of *cognitive dissonance*. 
+
+Low drive, [[Projects/digital garden/articles/A Lack of Motivation Can Be The Sign of Too Much Focus on Results\|absence of motivation]] can be due to cognitive dissonance, when what you do does not align with what you mind wants.
+
+

src/site/notes/Archive/Proximate motivation.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]]
+# Proximate motivation
+If you're feeling inspired and motivated after seeing someone else's comment, video, achievement, story or advice, you're feeding off extrinsic motivation, which is temporary, shallow and weak. You're after the result, you're just staring at the end goal.
+
+Real—and lasting—motivation comes from within, from your own impulse, driven by a strong emotion and values: curiosity, anger, frustration, love, purpose.
+
+That's why you're better off staying away from social media. Because it's mostly all there is: superficial accomplishment porn.
+
+It's also why it's so naturally tempting to fall into the trap of passively living through other people's life. It's easy, and comforting. This might be the reason why people magazines,TV shows, and social media is so successful at gathering large audience. It gives people this "high," making their life a little more interesting by tricking them into thinking they're living the life of the people they follow.

src/site/notes/Archive/Several things we do backwards.md

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+[[Resources/MoCs/Things we do backwards MoC\|Things we do backwards MoC]]
+# Several things we do backwards
+## Thinking hard when we should trust our guts, and vice versa.
+- Ex: thinking hard about what meal to choose at the restaurant, and following our guts when making a big purchase decision or investing in stock.
+## Taking our time when we should go fast and vice versa.
+- When we're pressured to do something that's when we speed up when it's exactly when we should take our time. On mundane stuff, where we should breeze past unimportant stuff, we indulge in wasting time over unimportant stuff.
+## Thinking as adults but acting as kids, and vice versa.
+- We wrap ourselves in our self-importance, nurture our egos, and think too seriously, which results in acting in childish manners, being impatient and throwing tantrums. We'd be better off thinking creatively like kids, allowing ourselves to daydream and imagine without limits, while taking responsibility in our actions.
+## Applying great effort where we should apply the least effort, and vice versa.
+- We try to force exercising, dieting, taking on new habits with sheer willpower when it works best to find an easy way in. Or we discipline ourselves into long hours of boring, unfulfilling tasks, unproductive tasks. And when we're enjoying things, doing exciting stuff, things that come easy, we stay superficial instead of doubling down on it. Laziness is not a defect, it's an evolutionary tool.
+## Aligning reality with our expectations instead of the reverse.
+- We rationalise, retrofit explanations, and invent stories to fit reality into our worldview, instead of doing the opposite: opening our minds and embracing reality to learn and grow in the process.
+- [[Archive/Align with reality\|Align with reality]]
+## Hurrying in the daily life yet wasting time in the long run.
+- Why are we so in a hurry in every day life—we get stressed out when stuck in traffic jam, when a website takes too much time to load, when we have to wait for someone or something—but when it comes to time spans a bit longer, just looking at quarters or a year, we're not using this time fully? By the end of the quarter of the year, we haven't accomplished much. Things haven't really changed. We want to change things over the course of a day or a week, but keep the status quo over the months and years. It's because we're chasing events when results, i.e. real change, is borne out of process.
+## Want things now, but are not being present
+- We want things right away, we don't want to wait. We want immediate results, quick rewards. Yet our minds constantly wander in and worry about the past or future. We're fighting against time.
+- Time can be used as a tool, as a friend, by being present and trusting time and the future with our actions.
+## Being aloof and rational when you should be emotional, and vice-versa
+- Ok this is a personal one. I noticed that I have the tendency to appear aloof and detached when the situation actually mandates to show some heart. And when the situation is exactly when I need to be cold-blooded, analytic and rational, I tend to get emotional. 
+- For instance, when interacting with family and friends, I act like I don't care. But in business, where you need to be detached and rational, I do the contrary, getting attached to ideas and hopes. I become scared and afraid to take calculated risks, or to expose myself to the real world. I fear reality and want the comfort of feeling good, rather than dealing straight with reality. Same in poker, I get attached to hands and outcomes and throw tempers when I lose because of a bad beat or play badly, instead of simply being detached and analysing what happened to improve.
+
+## Overthinking when we should be spontaneous, and reacting when we should be temperate
+We refrain from acting when we should be spontaneous, and when we should take a moment to pause and reflect, we just burst out of a reaction in anger and just letting ourselves get overwhelmed by emotions. So basically, when we should be spontaneous, we think, and when we should pause and think, we react. It's totally backwards. We should be spontaneous in action and temperate in reaction.
+![[Several things we do backwards  spontaneity and temperance.m4a]]

src/site/notes/Archive/To keep going, you must do what is fun and enjoyable.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]]
+# To keep going, you must do what is fun and enjoyable
+What makes thinks fun and enjoyable? Discovery, Challenge, and Progress.
+- Discovery: follow your curiosity. Do things for the sake of doing them, not an ulterior reward.
+- Challenge: what you set out to do must be in the sweet spot between feasibility and difficulty. The golidlocks zone, where you're not too bored by what you do but it's also not too hard to make you give up.
+- Progress: you must continually improve and evolve, understand and unlocking new stuff as you go. If you keep stagnating, you'll get bored and give up.
+
+See also: 
+- [[Archive/Joy is in the present moment\|Joy is in the present moment]]
+- [[Archive/You don't have to spend hours on each task\|You don't have to spend hours on each task]]
+- [[Archive/Sometimes it’s just about goofin’ around\|Sometimes it’s just about goofin’ around]]

src/site/notes/Archive/What you think you need might not be what you really need.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/Thinking for yourself MoC\|Thinking for yourself MoC]] • [[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]]
+# What you think you need might not be what you really need
+In the wake of [[Archive/Don't try - objectives do rarely work\|Don't try - objectives do rarely work]], not only goals can lead to deception: so do needs. 
+
+In the end you don't know what you don't know. So you may think that you *need* something in order to get where you want to be, but that *need* is likely a deceptive stepping stone. 
+If you'd get what you think you need you might not be more advanced. 
+
+You don't even need to *need something in order to achieve something else*. It could just be something you think you need to have, or a situation that needs to be exactly like you imagine, except that if you reach that state it wouldn't make any difference in your life.
+
+For instance, right now I think I need to:
+- learn about crypto, 
+- come up with business ideas, 
+- read [[Reference/Nir Eyal - Indistractable\|Nir Eyal - Indistractable]],
+- get thousands of Twitter follower to get... well I'm not even sure to get what. A better network? Better opportunities? An easier time launching a business?
+
+But do I really need to do all those things? I tend to think that if I had these things sorted, I'd be closer to achieving my goal. But how can I know? Maybe the things I actually need to do are different than what I think I need. Maybe it is something I can't even think of because I'm not aware of its existence, let alone the implications of its existence.
+
+Take my rather successful freelancing career. At no point when I started I thought that taking a traditional, full-time office job would lead to it (I actually didn't even had the freelance lifestyle as an objective).
+## You think of a hard to reach stepping stone toward your goal, without even knowing if this stepping stone actually leads to your goal
+We almost always think about the obvious things we need to do or have. The things that are, apparently directly related to our end goal. Oddly, these things that seem obvious also seem to be elusive. They seem to be not too far but just out of reach. 
+Is it a trick we play on ourselves? What's certain is that it can easily influence us into a self-defeating, [[Archive/Lack of motivation might come from learned helplessness\|helpless mindset]] You think you need to achieve something, but you can't quite do that thing. Thus you feel hapless. 

src/site/notes/Archive/Wishful action.md

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+---
+
+[[Resources/MoCs/On motivation and getting started MoC\|On motivation and getting started MoC]] • [[Archive/On success and hope\|On success and hope]]
+# Wishful action
+Want do = doesn't exist. It's bullshit. 
+It's either do, or do not, but want do is do not disguised in do. It's mental masturbation. Everlasting fantasy. *Wishful thinking*. 
+
+What's worst is that having a lot of things you want to do clutters your mind. Paradoxically, wanting to do a lot of things paralyzes you. It stifles momentum.
+If you have a backlog of things to do a mile long, this could be the very reason you feel—and are—unproductive.
+
+Free yourself by releasing all you want to do. By freeing your mental load of all the things you think you should or want to do, you'll actually free up the resources and drive to do what actually matters. 
+
+Choose [[Archive/Effectiveness\|Effectiveness]] instead of spreading yourself thin.
+
+