Option 2: The chore driver. You don’t particularly enjoy it, but you don’t gate it, and do it when you have to. You get good-enough mediocre at it, develop a few special tricks, but mostly drive for instrumental reasons. Not pleasure. This is most knowledge work.
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But back to thinking, at some point merely being ungovernable in otherwise governed thought spaces peopled by types 1-4 and non-jail broken non-thinkers. I got attracted to unthought “wild thoughts” spaces. It’s been a theme on my blog for years now.
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When I went free agent in 2011 my launch slogan was “where the wild thoughts are”. More recent bit of writing on this theme (from 2016):https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/05/26/how-to-take-your-brain-off-road/ …
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Ok another break. Cliffhanger for later: can you hit the edge of a thought space? Not just off-road but have to exit car because your learned sustainable thought habits can’t go any further?
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Will continue this another day. Went for a walk and had lunch so a bit sleepy now and the next part, how to be an ungovernable thinker-feeler in unmapped territories requires two 2x2s I have to draw first.
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