I learnt two things.
“Motion first, then direction” — Shaan Puri
When you have no idea where to go, or what to do. Rather than standing still waiting for a sign or a nugde, move. Anywhere, anything. During this movement, you still keep searching. In time, a defined direction would appear. Ideas are found in motion. I’m reminded of the stories told in SUS by Harj Taggar about founders who had a not-so-great first start up, but with time found the right one. Reading the whole message by Shaan made me double down on executing an idea I had (more on this something next month). In a nutshell, instead of waiting for a sign for action. Move, let it fail if necessary, but move.
“…fatigue is a signal that the benefit from our current activity has dropped below its metabolic cost. It is a signal to stop the current search and start elsewhere. As a result, the cure for fatigue is a new task, not rest”
I found this one interesting. I have never thought of viewing fatigue as a signal to switch current task. It explains my inertia in working on some tasks and why my rest time doesn’t always fix to lack of desire. I’d be experimenting with this idea moving forward.
Life starts getting slowly different the more you realise the truth in Elon’s statement. “We are like computers.”
