Dienstag, 26. Dezember 2017

On Becoming Active:

"Your interest is captured by those things that lead you down the path of development. ... And so there is some utility in pursuing those things that you are interested in. ... And often it's the case that when new parts of people manifest themselves and grip their interests ..., they do it very badly and shoddy. You stumble around like an idiot when you try to do something new. ... You have to be a fool, before you can be a master. And if you are not willing to be a fool then you can't be a master. It's an error ridden process. ... So imagine that something glimmers before you. An interest that is dawning. And you decide ... Well, first of all you are paralyzed. You think: "How do I know I should pursue that. It's probably a stupid idea." The proper response to that is: "You are right. It probably is a stupid idea." Because almost all ideas are stupid. And so, the probability that as you move forward on your adventure that you are gonna get it right the first time is zero. It's just not gonna happen. And so then you might think: "Maybe I will just wait around until I get the right idea." And which people do. So they are like forty year old thirteen year olds. ... And so they wait around. It's waiting for Godot. Until they finally got it right. But the problem is you are to stupid to know if you got it right. So waiting around isn't gonna help. Even if the perfect opportunity manifested itself to you in your incomplete form, the probability that you would recognize it as the perfect opportunity is zero. You might even think it's the worst possible idea that you have ever heard of anywhere. Highly likely, highly likely. Nietzsche called that "Will to Stupidity". Which I really liked. Because he thought of stupidity as ... You have to take it into account. Fundamentally. And work with it. And so you can take this tentative steps on your pathway to destiny and you can assume that you are gonna do it badly. And that's really useful. Because you don't have to beat yourself up. It's pretty easy to do it badly. But the thing is, it's way better to do it badly than not to do it at all."

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