1. How to choose what to be good at
2. What are you naturally good at
3. Be bad at things and use it to your advantage
4. Fail = Learning
5. Let the process unfold

What to be good at

“Choose in advance what to be bad at”
Source: Idk

There’s only so much time in the day. Not enough time really just means lower priority. Heard this a bit ago and it’s helped me combat the ego – You only get to be really good at a very small number of things. By choosing when to be below average, life got more enjoyable.

My mom tells me im special

“Our worldviews are our greatest strength and our greatest blindspot”
Jeff DeGraff

From Jeff DeGraff’s Innovation Code. They call him the Father of Innovation, whatever that means. Point is, each of us thinks differently – super differently. All of our shortcomings and pitfalls are the same things that make us incredibly good at something else – it’s just becoming conscious of those things and correcting for them.

For instance, I’m incredibly forgetful – I’m also incredibly good at solving complicated, in depth problems because I think about them all the time… also why I’m forgetful (grandpa also had Alzheimers, kidding)

Kanye

This 1 minute clip

Dude’s a bit nuts. However, he also occasionally says some pretty useful stuff. Use it all to your advantage. I fall back on this clip often. For whatever reason it reasonated during his documentary so well – use it all, good, bad, otherwise, to your advantage.

(Also reminiscient of Week 82‘s Wanderings)

Excited to fail

‘Only way to get good is through failure. If you want to speed up the learning rate, speed up the failure.’
Source: Unknown (maybe Sahil Bloom)

K, well there’s certainly ways to get good before raw failure (ie study the greats – neurosurgeon patients are grateful for that) – But we do have to fail at lower levels to get good. The more we fail, the better we get (assuming you’re not a rock and actually reflect on experiences). Learning to appreciate failure has been tremendous for me, instead of feeling insecure over them.

It all goes somewhere

“Fail”
Yoda probably

It’s taken me a bit to see this, but life just keeps on going. It doesn’t just stop no matter how brutal (or exciting) the occasion. The time just ticks and ticks. It doesn’t stop. It doesn’t wait for you or me or anyone else.

They say that time heals all but I’m not so convinced. Failure only works for you if you make it. We can get stuck and caught up in the shitty moments and negative emotions… Sometimes it locks us in the past – The rumination locks our mind in a singular point in time.

It’s not until I’ve embraced failures and said ‘oh well’ that life actually starts to get better.>)