10-22-2015, 11:17 AM
Thank you, Shannon. It continues to be a really useful definition for me.
Anyway, it has been... wow, more than a month since I last wrote. This is probably part of why it feels so different to write here again. It's not the bigger part, though.
A lot more inner work took place during this month. The cornerstone of which was me, experimenting with... introversion. Turns out, for all the bad press that introversion gets in our society, it holds a lot of value to master that end of the spectrum as well. As cliche as it may sound, introversion allows you to know yourself. And it turned out I didn't know squat about myself.
As I shared to a friend last week, "I usually know more about a person in the first 60 seconds of meeting him than I know about myself right now after 27 years." This probably sounds bizarre, but it was the cold, hard truth for me.
The reason it feels different when I write this is that I don't need the words (or I need them much less) to be laid out in front of me in order to make sense of them, as I did before. This time, the only reason I can think of is to share my thoughts for anyone, who might benefit from reading them.
Still a lot of work to be done, but I get the feeling that this is how stubbornness and general resistance gets overcome - by paying attention to it, by reaching within and doing what you do from there - instead of my previous mode of operation which consisted almost exclusively of moment-to-moment decisions with a very weak, almost non-existent, overarching theme in general.
That doesn't seem like a very good way to be an entrepreneur and build a business that grows and/or scales. To make a quick buck - yes, But a different lifestyle, focused on the long term, requires change in personality, or better yet - simply maturing.
Realizing this is the good news. Now back to work.
Anyway, it has been... wow, more than a month since I last wrote. This is probably part of why it feels so different to write here again. It's not the bigger part, though.
A lot more inner work took place during this month. The cornerstone of which was me, experimenting with... introversion. Turns out, for all the bad press that introversion gets in our society, it holds a lot of value to master that end of the spectrum as well. As cliche as it may sound, introversion allows you to know yourself. And it turned out I didn't know squat about myself.
As I shared to a friend last week, "I usually know more about a person in the first 60 seconds of meeting him than I know about myself right now after 27 years." This probably sounds bizarre, but it was the cold, hard truth for me.
The reason it feels different when I write this is that I don't need the words (or I need them much less) to be laid out in front of me in order to make sense of them, as I did before. This time, the only reason I can think of is to share my thoughts for anyone, who might benefit from reading them.
Still a lot of work to be done, but I get the feeling that this is how stubbornness and general resistance gets overcome - by paying attention to it, by reaching within and doing what you do from there - instead of my previous mode of operation which consisted almost exclusively of moment-to-moment decisions with a very weak, almost non-existent, overarching theme in general.
That doesn't seem like a very good way to be an entrepreneur and build a business that grows and/or scales. To make a quick buck - yes, But a different lifestyle, focused on the long term, requires change in personality, or better yet - simply maturing.
Realizing this is the good news. Now back to work.
