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Notes on Towards being purpose-driven without fighting myself by @Malcolm_Ocean
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1/ The 2x2 he made and references
"The ideal state is the one in the top right, where I have a deep, continuous sense of purpose, both big picture and moment-to-moment, and I’m also not fighting myself."
"The ideal state is the one in the top right, where I have a deep, continuous sense of purpose, both big picture and moment-to-moment, and I’m also not fighting myself."
1a/ "Attempts to move to the right tend to cause movements downwards, because it’s harder to stay connected to a sense of purpose when trying to accommodate conflicting systems internally."
2/ Fighting yourself is the worst war of all (except, you know, real wars)
"One of the last surviving veterans of WWI said 'Nobody wins in a war, they lost but we didn’t win.'”
"This point becomes even more exaggerated when both sides of the war are in some sense oneself."
"One of the last surviving veterans of WWI said 'Nobody wins in a war, they lost but we didn’t win.'”
"This point becomes even more exaggerated when both sides of the war are in some sense oneself."
2a/ "I was actually dissociating internally, experiencing myself as the yeller but not actually experiencing what it felt like to be yelled at by myself."
3/ Don't get angry and attack the symptom, change the belief that causes it
"And so what I practiced was resolving that mental experience not by trying to feel differently, but by relaxing my reference level for 'how I should feel'."
"And so what I practiced was resolving that mental experience not by trying to feel differently, but by relaxing my reference level for 'how I should feel'."
4/ You can only put off resolving issues for so long
"I’d previously been relatively good at putting aside internal conflict so I could accomplish stuff, but I still experienced a fair bit of oscillation."
"I’d previously been relatively good at putting aside internal conflict so I could accomplish stuff, but I still experienced a fair bit of oscillation."
5/ You want to push but without fighting yourself
"Rapid learning requires pushing at the boundaries of current performance."
"So I now have a double commitment: to act in each moment out of a sense of purposeful discipline, and also to not waste my energy fighting myself."
"Rapid learning requires pushing at the boundaries of current performance."
"So I now have a double commitment: to act in each moment out of a sense of purposeful discipline, and also to not waste my energy fighting myself."
6/ Clear the conflicts so you can get back to peak performance
"This means that if I notice myself feeling aimless, or I notice myself feeling stuck or oscillating, dealing with that immediately rather than acting from it."
"This means that if I notice myself feeling aimless, or I notice myself feeling stuck or oscillating, dealing with that immediately rather than acting from it."
7/ Aim for zero waste, not as a reachable target but as an internal "culture"
"They don’t expect to reach literally zero, but having that as a target makes it clear to the whole system that they’re playing a totally different game than mere waste mitigation or waste reduction."
"They don’t expect to reach literally zero, but having that as a target makes it clear to the whole system that they’re playing a totally different game than mere waste mitigation or waste reduction."
7a/ With internal conflict off the table your selves will have to settle differences another way
"And then creating space for them to bust their assumptions that were leading to that approach, so they can step up to the challenge of coordinating in a new way."
"And then creating space for them to bust their assumptions that were leading to that approach, so they can step up to the challenge of coordinating in a new way."
