Goal: achieve success. Humans define success as “following your own interests and talents to become the best you can be at what you care about most.” (97% agreement, Gallup survey, 2019). Three questions arise:
- How do I align to my interests and talents?
- How to I consistently follow them?
- How do I become the best at what I do with them?
Align to your interests & talents,
- Align with being through personal discovery
- Being beats winning: focus on loving the work you do (not its outcome)
- This works because Internal scorekeeping is a virtuous cycle, so do what excites, inspires, and brings you alive
- Passion is the fruit of craftsmanship, and craftsmanship requires aligned () consistency ()
and consistently follow them,
- Structure your environment:
- Take small, daily steps, knowing:
- And avoid common pitfalls:
- Busy != productive - Direction, but misguided action
- Thrashing is not swimming - Action, but misguided direction
while becoming the best.
- Creating and maintaining a monoideal state enables depth and expertise
- Leisure is active contemplation, and it’s important for reaching creative insights
- Structure enables creativity, so build structure from either constraints or construction
- Externalization transforms internal thoughts into environment (adding constraints)
- Internalization (internal construction)