Now that I have the opportunity to comment, why not try it out! ;)
Last section reminded me of the book "le petite prince". Where its all about being a child and how precious a child's minds and thoughts can be.
As a child, everything is new, everything is exciting, everything engenders curiosity. Children are, it seems, quite literally, able to make their minds more flexible, more original, more open to creative inputs and more capable of generating creative outputs.
And as we grow up, we become adults. We develop. We gain experience. We become in command of our faculties, our thoughts, our desires. However, growing up also means prioritizing our way of sight, partly venturing the ability to take in the world in full, limiting our imagination and our sense of the possible.
In that sense, lets never grow up and keep up that inner child :)
I think a central component is also that as we grow older our built in risk management gets re-programmed by parents and other role models.
We are taught a fake linear world where things run smoothly and in a straight line from the bottom left corner to the top right. We just have to conform and play „the game“, then we will succeed (or at least that‘s how the story goes). Partner first track, career starter etc. all this bullshit are all based on that faulty paradigm.
Whereas in the real world, most happens through stochastic tinkering, trial and error, randomness and luck. Things are really volatile and there‘s a lot of chaos. Payoffs are either convex or concave but almost always expontential/power law.
To close the loop: As a child you acknowledge the randomness you break stuff, you try it again and do better. So being a child you‘re much more in tune with the way how natural systems are set up.
So for me personally this means throwing all the unnecessary synthetic fake stuff out the window and try to live a life in coherence with nature :-) Work obviously in progress!
Good point, to me "in tune with nature" actually means mostly one thing: "focus on the few things you can control" and worry less about the outcome or factors that are a product of your environment. To occupy your mind with the latter is overwhelming and whenever I indulge in it, I find myself paralzyed and unable to take meaningful action.
I feel cultivating a beginner's mind enables us to stay in the realm of things we can control. We are amateurs, noobs, beginners and the sooner we realize that we don't know shit, the sooner we can emotionally detach from the outcomes and just play like when we were kids.
Word Tobi! Children do this naturally until we force them to conform :-)
Funny enough, I actually never read Petite Prince as a child!
Have you read the book "Mindset" by Carol Dweck? Its phenomenal and talks a lot about how we can get back that sense of beginners mind (and how we lost through parenting, teachers etc. it in the first place, similar to what you described above).
Now that I have the opportunity to comment, why not try it out! ;)
Last section reminded me of the book "le petite prince". Where its all about being a child and how precious a child's minds and thoughts can be.
As a child, everything is new, everything is exciting, everything engenders curiosity. Children are, it seems, quite literally, able to make their minds more flexible, more original, more open to creative inputs and more capable of generating creative outputs.
And as we grow up, we become adults. We develop. We gain experience. We become in command of our faculties, our thoughts, our desires. However, growing up also means prioritizing our way of sight, partly venturing the ability to take in the world in full, limiting our imagination and our sense of the possible.
In that sense, lets never grow up and keep up that inner child :)
I think a central component is also that as we grow older our built in risk management gets re-programmed by parents and other role models.
We are taught a fake linear world where things run smoothly and in a straight line from the bottom left corner to the top right. We just have to conform and play „the game“, then we will succeed (or at least that‘s how the story goes). Partner first track, career starter etc. all this bullshit are all based on that faulty paradigm.
Whereas in the real world, most happens through stochastic tinkering, trial and error, randomness and luck. Things are really volatile and there‘s a lot of chaos. Payoffs are either convex or concave but almost always expontential/power law.
To close the loop: As a child you acknowledge the randomness you break stuff, you try it again and do better. So being a child you‘re much more in tune with the way how natural systems are set up.
So for me personally this means throwing all the unnecessary synthetic fake stuff out the window and try to live a life in coherence with nature :-) Work obviously in progress!
Good point, to me "in tune with nature" actually means mostly one thing: "focus on the few things you can control" and worry less about the outcome or factors that are a product of your environment. To occupy your mind with the latter is overwhelming and whenever I indulge in it, I find myself paralzyed and unable to take meaningful action.
I feel cultivating a beginner's mind enables us to stay in the realm of things we can control. We are amateurs, noobs, beginners and the sooner we realize that we don't know shit, the sooner we can emotionally detach from the outcomes and just play like when we were kids.
Love that last part. Question is: Does flushing your ego down the toilet enable you to play again as an adult or is it the other way around? :-)
Have you read this book? It's amazing. You might have triggered me to re-read it!
https://www.amazon.de/Play-Away-Workaholics-Cure-Anxiety/dp/0615918174/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1VUFGUJX1L6OH&dchild=1&keywords=play+it+away&qid=1593079961&sprefix=play+it+away%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-1
nope, never heard of it. It's on the list :-)
Word Tobi! Children do this naturally until we force them to conform :-)
Funny enough, I actually never read Petite Prince as a child!
Have you read the book "Mindset" by Carol Dweck? Its phenomenal and talks a lot about how we can get back that sense of beginners mind (and how we lost through parenting, teachers etc. it in the first place, similar to what you described above).
might also be relevant to you @tobi: https://www.amazon.de/Play-Away-Workaholics-Cure-Anxiety/dp/0615918174/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1VUFGUJX1L6OH&dchild=1&keywords=play+it+away&qid=1593079961&sprefix=play+it+away%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-1