Mindset
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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