Meaning

Nothing

Bring nothing

Seek nothing

Take nothing

On exploring the inner, nothing

Bring nothing — humility. Leave all that you are, that you believe, that is on your mind, behind.

On a creative process

While it’s iterative and a lot of these parts of the process overlap, there is a flow to it.

You start off in this wonderful blank space, an open universe of possibilities and within that you start to see these ideas bubbling up. As you take ideas you see them…

Upon resignation

I have just resigned for the third time in my life.

The first time was due to the erosion of ambition.

The second time was disappointment.

The third…?

Energia

Energy is one of those qualities that moat impacts people, in a good way.

Energy is the reason cited by Matt as to why we would be good parents

Energy is why people applauded so much at the end of Tio Menél’s life. Energy was how he touched people.

Grandad scenario

Scenario of being with Donkey having an extremely rare (by that time in our lives, exceptionally rare) opportunity for us to chat as friends and as grandads. One of his grandkids comes along to ask him to pay attention to some passing minutiae of childhood excitement and he chides them away…

Purpose

Two types

Mission driven purpose — external

External: linear, clear, part of a greater whole, fulling a mission. Brings with it a clarity of purpose that sidesteps the ambiguity of everyday life.

The Golden Tool

Perseverance

Counts for more than anything else.

Breaks down to daily habits plus a regain mechanism, bolstered around hope, because perseverance is simply actions performed regularly over a long period of time.

Equanimity with our lack of equanimity

No matter how fed up or seasick the sailor might get, no matter how much they want to get off the boat, they can’t. They are still reliant on the boat for their presence in the stormy seas.

Philosophy of science

What if it’s creation rather than discovery. What if it’s all a created approximation and we’ll never get to a complete theory of all because it’s literally unknowable — at least to human minds, possibly entirely by anything within the whole.

How would we live with that?

(11.11.21)