Attempting is not mastering. Repeating without comprehension = standing still not growing. It’s that reflection that turns an experience into progress. It is the mechanism that makes action into learning and learning into mastery. Why Reflection Is Often Avoided Reflection is often confused with overthinking or self-critique. What it is in fact, is calm, cool and practical reflection. It does not…
Plans don’t necessarily work not because humans are undisciplined, but rather most plans develop as mechanisms of control. They aim to pre-empt every contingency, erase uncertainty and impose consistency where life resists it. Effective planning works differently. Not to conquer the future but to discombobulate for now. Why Overplanning Creates Resistance Extremely complex plans feel comforting at first. It…
A lot of people will wait for focus to come before they do any real work. They will wait for it to be clear, other times they’re waiting for inspiration or just that “right mood”. In truth concentration is seldom an automatic condition. It is the product of a culture and an apparatus created to reinforce it. Why Motivation…
These days our productivity is billed as a race: to handle more tasks, to juggle shorter deadlines, to be constantly optimizing. This strategy results in brief periods of productivity, but seldom produces stability or fulfillment. Real personal effectiveness starts when we no longer only think of productivity as a matter of force, but instead consider it as an…
