We welcome you to a new dispensation

Reality actually is more negotiable than we think. Most systems have cracks in them. Most rules have exceptions. Most “no’s” are really “no, not that way” or “no, unless…”

But you only find the cracks if you’re looking for them. And you only look for them if you believe they exist.

I call it the “Angle-Seeking Hypothesis”.

It’s the belief that solutions exist generates the cognitive effort required to find them. It’s self-fulfilling, but in the generative direction.

A sign of maturity is your ability to separate how you feel from what you know needs to be done.

You can FEEL unmotivated and still get shit done.

​"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." > — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

Low-agency people look at the world and ask "What am I allowed to do?"

High-agency people look at the world and ask "What can I make happen?"

Same world. Completely different operating system.