Key Traits

• [[ Patience ]]
• Systems Thinking as opposed to reductionism
  • expect and embrace surprise and uncertainty, to be reflexive and acknowledge the limits of what is knowable or controllable
• epistemic humility
  • [[ changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one ]]
  • the map is not the territory - misplaced concreteness -
  • [[ what is the model ignoring ]]
  • Suspend disbelief. Give each idea enough of a shot to test it rigorously for yourself.
  • Withhold definition. Notice the tendency to label things as one way or the other and explore life in the space just before that moment.

Adopt a Growth Mindset

• [[ growth vs fixed mindset ]]
• [[ Internalize your goals ]]

Embrace Multiple Perspectives

• [[ Coherent pluralism ]]
• post tragic
• both-and thinking
• [[ we co-create our reality ]]

Tell the Truth

• [[ in order to be able to think you have to risk being offensive ]]
  • [[ Niceness ]]

Take Responsibility (Internal Locus)

• [[ Focus on What You Can Control (Internal vs External) ]]
  • [[ Focus on the process not the outcome ]]
  • [[ Internalize your goals ]]
• [[ we co-create our reality ]]

Taking care of oneself

• [[ To be of service you have to be fit for service ]]
• engaging in the world for its own sake (not as a mean to an end)

  One of the most simple ways to change one’s life is to ask: of all activities I currently engage as means, how can I find elements in them to engage as ends? [[ Tyler Alterman ]]

Mindset Strategies to Improve

• Detachment from results makes you more relaxed and better performing
• Move towards fears
• [[ Embrace Uncertainty ]]
• [[ dedicate yourself to giving every gift you have to give ]]
• Develop [[ Mental Override - Willpower ]] everyday
  • [[ delayed gratification ]]
  • [[ Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life ]]
• [[ e. Complaining is not an effective strategy ]]

Archetypes

• [[ Warrior Poet ]]

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