Two key things I learned about myself over the last two years:
- I am absolutely terrible at keeping myself organized in any coherent way.
- I adapt extremely rapidly to change.
Maintaining good habits is THE priority. The rest of the machine oils itself.
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For doing really transformative work, you really want to build on your strengths.
For being any kind of sane person, you'll want to shore up weaknesses.
That entrepreneurship encourages the former -really heavily- gives you a good idea of why innovative people are so unstable.
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I could probably start to optimize my skills for very high output. What would happen:
- Burnout
- Worsened relationships
- Poor self-care
- Losing track of bigger picture
Right now, my goals are entirely orientated towards sanity first.
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For all that we romanticize creative insanity, it's entirely possible to have one without the other.
But that takes discipline. Discipline I've always lacked.
If there's a time for change in any aspect of my life, it's that.
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I know a surprising amount of older, hyperintelligent & creative people. I consider this to be mostly a result of luck on my part.
Some of them are in very good shape, have their lives mostly together - either they're very "successful", or they don't care to be.
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All of those broadcast one thing very clearly: a -functional- awareness of their strengths and weaknesses. I say functional, because nobody really knows why they work the way they do.
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But, there are a lot of casualties. Some of them are doing better now, others had their lives more or less permanently ruined.
A common warning: failing to recognize weaknesses, letting them destroy you; failing to recognize strengths, not taking advantage of them.
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I spent most of my life, until very recently, refusing to take account of my weaknesses. I have to thank some good teachers for correcting that flaw in my character, to the extent it can be corrected.
The hard part is choosing which ones to address and which ones to live with.
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I'm neck deep in chaos any day of the week.
Most of my problems stem from this.
