Processing Failure
Failure needs processing or it festers. The work—extracting lessons without dwelling, accepting without excusing, moving forward without forgetting
Building addTaskManager, the best iOS productivity app for ADHD minds
Failure needs processing or it festers. The work—extracting lessons without dwelling, accepting without excusing, moving forward without forgetting
Emotional states shape narratives. Happy creates optimistic stories, depressed creates tragic ones. Same facts, different states, completely different meanings
Motivation starts, discipline continues. One is feeling, one is structure. Motivation is weather—discipline is climate
Inertia resists motion in either direction. Starting requires more energy than continuing. The trick—smallest possible first move
Yes I can beats I think I can. Certainty precedes capability. The affirmation creates reality—fake it till it becomes true
Beginning guitar—fingers hurt, chords sound awful, progress invisible. Starting anything new feels like incompetence. The journey begins anyway
Personal development addiction—constant optimization, endless courses, perpetual improvement. The trap—becoming instead of being
Obstacles become opportunities through perspective shift. Both start with O—coincidence or reminder? Reframing transforms resistance into resource
Starting from scratch erases accumulated baggage. Clean slate opportunity or loss of foundation? Both—the choice determines outcome
Comfort zones expand through small discomforts—new routes, conversations, skills, environments, opinions. Growth lives outside familiar
Alice believed six impossible things before breakfast. Impossibility is temporary—yesterday's impossible becomes today's normal
Overthinking prevents starting. Diving in beats perfect planning. Water's temperature matters less than whether you're swimming
Small steps compound into distance. Overwhelming progress comes from underwhelming daily actions. Tiny consistent beats massive sporadic
Roadblocks redirect when you're on wrong paths. Three-week silence from hitting wall. Sometimes obstacles save you from destinations not worth reaching
New Year resolutions fail because timing is arbitrary. Motivation from calendar date doesn't sustain. Real change needs systems, not dates
Follow your passion advice incomplete without reality checks. Do's—test market demand. Don'ts—quit income prematurely. Detours—often become destinations
Modern knights fight supermarket queues instead of dragons. Heroism adapts to context. Same courage, different battles
Technology drives revolution more than ideology. AI, blockchain, biotech reshape society. Ideas follow tools—not reverse
Two minds battle constantly—rational versus emotional, system 1 versus system 2. The epic conflict happens internally every decision
130km into Ultrabalaton, systems perfect but blisters destroying me—I chose to stop. The hardest decision reveals the deepest wisdom about sustainable performance