What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?
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Ok partly kidding, but it’s really being consistently path of least resistance. Sometimes it takes self-awareness to notice when conventional path is high-energy for somebody else’s benefit and do easier thing for your own. Being sufficiently low energy can look like strategy.
This sounds right to me! And yeah, I wasn’t thinking about it, but “low vs. high resistance” is an interesting axis here. Seems like low-resistance unconventionality is driven by weirdness + self-awareness. Wonder what drives the high-resistance version... ambition?
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Narcissistic wounds I’d guess. Deep-seated ones. But even that’s really least resistance in disguise: looking inward and processing trauma is too hard intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. So you take easier path of busting through the world.
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Did you ever write about this? It pattern-matches to “dent in the universe” but I’m not sure I actually read that one (just familiar with the title)
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Ambition yes. Two variants often seen on the high-resistance path: 1. Stubbornness with over estimation of abilities 2. Conditioned by message within their circle about offbeat choices (in
@vgr terms these people are driven by the signaling value)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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