#180 Progressive Insight

ByLukas
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Performance gap: the frustrating gap between how you know something should be done in an ideal world and how you currently do it. 

One implication of the performance gap: you don’t have to master this skill today.

Another implication, maybe even more important: your idea of how something “should be done” is probably wrong anyway.

Because as you practice and gain mastery, you’ll also gain progressive insight: a more nuanced intellectual understanding of the skill you’re practicing.

What I thought was a “good” yoga session six months ago, I now see as a session full of misalignment and cramped muscles.

What I thought of as a solid piece of writing six months ago, I now see as an argument full of holes and points of improvement.

Sometimes, progressive insight is just about more nuances.

Sometimes, progressive insight shows that your initial intellectual understanding completely missed the mark.

There’s only one way to find out: practice: Sculpt away, day by day. 

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    You’re dissatisfied with your social life, but not so much that you feel terribly lonely – so you don’t change anything.

    You’re dissatisfied with your physical fitness, but not so much that you’re in pain every day – so you put up with slow deterioration.

    You’re dissatisfied with your current job, but not so much that you’re dragging yourself to work – so you put up with unfulfilling days.

    Being satisfied with some areas of your life is good.

    Being intensely dissatisfied with some areas of your life is fine, too – because that unhappiness can be the leverage you need to make a change.

    But comfortable dissatisfaction – that’s the zone where dreams and happiness go to die. And boy, have I spent a lot of time there.

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    And if not, I hope you’re at least intensely dissatisfied.

    Let that be the fuel you need to take action to change.

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    #103 Show me one daily action

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    So you say you want to be a writer?
    Show me one daily action that proves that’s true.

    So you say you value connection with family and friends?
    Show me one daily action that demonstrates you do.

    So you say you want to learn a foreign language?
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    Show me one daily action. Not for me. But for you.

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    That your dreams and desires aren’t just castles in the air.

    That you dare to build an identity that supports your values and aspirations.

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    #192 Your desired identity

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    But who you want to be and what you consistently do don’t usually coincide. Otherwise, you would already have become who you want to be.

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