According to my calculations, I’ve spent at least a year of my life sleeping outside.
When I look back on the years, memories of majestic mountain and fern filled forests rush to the front of my mind.
It’s intriguing how in retrospect, my favorite moments were excruciatingly simple yet overflowing with feelings of “pleasure and contentment” which is how the dictionary describes being happy.
In paradox, a majority of my time is now spent so that I might one day have the financial freedom to pursue more of these endeavors. It seems as if we as humans get a taste of what we enjoy, then spend a large part of our lives doing something else, to then possibly return to the source of our joy.
I’m not sure if happiness should be an accepted state of mind regardless of our situation and circumstances or if it should be understanding of what brings you joy and committing to make long term sacrifices to bring that dream to fruition.
However, it is clear that successful people love what they do. They don’t seem to have a disconnect between their daily activities and their source of happiness.
While the concept of true happiness remains somewhat of a mystery to me, I can see how the first clue to the puzzle is hinting that my thoughts, intentions, and actions need to align.
Who knows what will happen from there.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019
Day 29
The best ideas are crazy until they are not.
Let's use words as an example in place of ideas.
When does a word become a word? All words were invented at one point in time.
Does it become a word the first time someone says or writes it?
Is it when two or more people agree that it is a word?
Or does over half the population have to agree it's a word?
Generally words don't end up in dictionaries until they are commonly accepted across a society.
You can't really identify the moment a word becomes a word because that moment is different for each person. Some warm up to it fairly quickly and others will protest its legitimacy until their death.
Just like the best words, what will become a popular idea often starts as the famed ugly ducking. You can't be ashamed of it.
Let's use words as an example in place of ideas.
When does a word become a word? All words were invented at one point in time.
Does it become a word the first time someone says or writes it?
Is it when two or more people agree that it is a word?
Or does over half the population have to agree it's a word?
Generally words don't end up in dictionaries until they are commonly accepted across a society.
You can't really identify the moment a word becomes a word because that moment is different for each person. Some warm up to it fairly quickly and others will protest its legitimacy until their death.
Just like the best words, what will become a popular idea often starts as the famed ugly ducking. You can't be ashamed of it.
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Day 28
Finding good ideas is hard because you're concentrating on finding ideas.
The structure of that sentence is intentional. People assume a good idea has many components. Pressing need. Clear customer. Large market. No competition. The list goes on and on.
Each "idea" that enters your head quickly gets put through an extremely biased checklist and most are discarded. Often, the ones that are kept should also be discarded.
To find a good idea, stop looking for one.
Find a problem that a lot of people would pay to make go away. Once the problem is clear and value can be derived from the extinguishment of said problem, the number of possible ideas to solve this problem will likely be very narrow and the initial direction will be clear.
Sometimes what feels like going backwards catapults into furiously fast forward progress.
The structure of that sentence is intentional. People assume a good idea has many components. Pressing need. Clear customer. Large market. No competition. The list goes on and on.
Each "idea" that enters your head quickly gets put through an extremely biased checklist and most are discarded. Often, the ones that are kept should also be discarded.
To find a good idea, stop looking for one.
Find a problem that a lot of people would pay to make go away. Once the problem is clear and value can be derived from the extinguishment of said problem, the number of possible ideas to solve this problem will likely be very narrow and the initial direction will be clear.
Sometimes what feels like going backwards catapults into furiously fast forward progress.
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