Simplify MoC • On motivation and getting started MoC
Winning right from the start
It dawn on me that what I started doing for fun and enjoying quickly turned into stressful, frustrating and worrying occupations, just because I started setting arbitrary objectives out of my control.
- Learning to play poker well suddenly became winning tournaments.
- Trying playing with crypto turned into having to make a sizeable profit everyday.
So yeah, lots of frustration, anger, and sense of powerlessness because I started having visions of grandeur and deluding myself thinking that reaching those would easily be attainable.
Acronyms I came up with:
- Put yourself on the LINE: Go for learning, the Interesting, the Novelty, and Enjoyment/Exciting.
- Be AWESOME: be Already Winning by Enjoying(Embracing?) Simple Objectives and Managing expectations.
In essence, win the moment you take action. Like nature, meet your objective—or rather, constraint— right from the start and go from there, finding various, new, and interesting ways of meeting that constraint. Note here there's no longing, no aching for reaching a distant goal. When the objective is simply to take action, you can start Tinkering, The goal is accomplished right from the start.