optimization-prime
automatons in disguise
I’ve been thinking about this quote:
Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late and you work hard; those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway; that is actually the dream. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
Kobe Bryant
We tend to glorify success (the fruits of the labor) but forget about all all of the hard work (the labor itself) involved to get there. There’s nothing sexy about getting four hours or less of sleep a night when you’re working on building something. If we were to watch a 24-hour live-feed from a mini-drone following around the world’s highest achievers, we would quickly realize that there’s not any sparkle to what they are doing on a day-to-day basis. They have boring daily routines. Eat the same stuff all the time. Go to the gym and do the same workout week after week. They read, study, and work, work, work. And when it comes time for them to do the thing they do, because of all of this work and discipline, little pebbles of gold are produced.
There is an assload of sifting required to find those little gold pebbles.
We spend a lot of time trying to make things perfect: eating the right food, getting the recommended minutes of resistance and cardio training a week, taking the right supplements, getting the right amount of sunlight, getting 7-9 hours of uninterrupted sleep.. basically spending our days optimizing the shit out of everything that we sometimes forget where we are going. Our lives become the optimization itself. It’s a form of resistance, procrastination. Instead of doing our work we’re spending our time trying to carve out an optimal path to do good work.
If time is the only currency that really matters, we’re spending our time constantly getting ready to go, but never actually going.
The best way to do things is the long way. Go through them. You can’t half-ass something if you want to be great at it. You have to go in all the way.
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“If time is the only currency that really matters, we’re spending our time constantly getting ready to go, but never actually going.” Ooof I had to save this. You killed it… again!!!!