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Understanding after a certain point loses its effectiveness, and at that point you need to change to action and switch to "tasks" and "goals" and worry about how you will get it done.
When you worry about the task, never get defeated, and when you speak about it, speak about victories you have had before, and how it just HAS to be possible. Differentiate between helpful trains of thought and unhelpful ones. Cut off negative or useless actions immediately, and relegate yourself to just working through it, and finding the inspiration where ever you can.
Don't try to achieve these tasks for anyone else, just do it for you, just do it to change it, just do it to show us all what people can do.
Forget about the idea that biz guys with cash are "gods", and just, be real about the fact that we all just want to change things, and to be a part of business is to change things. And if you are changing things, then you are doing what you are meant to be doing.
After the point that understanding things loses its effectiveness, it actually starts working against you, it makes you see the half glass empty because you've never seen a full glass before. And thinking half empty makes you try to approximate what "full" is with a whole load of closed mindedness.
It drains you of energy, and it makes you sit there, get upset, and think it is "hard". But in reality, you just have to think "omg, what am I doing, I should be getting stuff done, not acting all pouty".
Take a break, do something interesting, and come back at it from a new angle, trying to make the change happen.
Don't ALWAYS work on YOURSELF, or your "plan", you have to also set aside time to interact with the parts that move, change and shift. You have to expose yourself to those new areas, and perform.
Don't worry about thinking when you do that because you will always gather information that is relevent to your current problem instinctively.
Even small actions count, as they keep you "thinking" about business in a different way.
The difference between understanding and action, is that action needs to sustain itself above a certain threshold and doesn't really need a lot of words.
Understanding requires a lot of distinctions and whatever, and then simplifying it, but ultimately you shouldn't be doing that so much because it can "justify" a rut and is a poor tool for getting you out of them (sometimes you need to think your way out of the rut, but only when you can weave it in with actions etc).
To act, bring out your better self, until you say "dammit, I'm gonna do it!", then all the logistics, troubles etc, are just hurdles in the way of that goal. Set tasks that you WANT TO or believe should be changed that are outside of changing yourself, compose yourself, tell yourself and others of what has been done before, move towards the task as steadily as you can, and start changing it.
Remember that absence of actions is a sure sign of "settling down". And you want to keep a good ratio of action in the mixture, to keep yourself honest, and to keep yourself open to change.
SWITCH to tasks, and positive thinking as you search for a way to make a change.
STOP thinking for a while, and just, feel.
When something is "different", focus on it, observe it.
See if you can make a change for the better.
When you worry about the task, never get defeated, and when you speak about it, speak about victories you have had before, and how it just HAS to be possible. Differentiate between helpful trains of thought and unhelpful ones. Cut off negative or useless actions immediately, and relegate yourself to just working through it, and finding the inspiration where ever you can.
Don't try to achieve these tasks for anyone else, just do it for you, just do it to change it, just do it to show us all what people can do.
Forget about the idea that biz guys with cash are "gods", and just, be real about the fact that we all just want to change things, and to be a part of business is to change things. And if you are changing things, then you are doing what you are meant to be doing.
After the point that understanding things loses its effectiveness, it actually starts working against you, it makes you see the half glass empty because you've never seen a full glass before. And thinking half empty makes you try to approximate what "full" is with a whole load of closed mindedness.
It drains you of energy, and it makes you sit there, get upset, and think it is "hard". But in reality, you just have to think "omg, what am I doing, I should be getting stuff done, not acting all pouty".
Take a break, do something interesting, and come back at it from a new angle, trying to make the change happen.
Don't ALWAYS work on YOURSELF, or your "plan", you have to also set aside time to interact with the parts that move, change and shift. You have to expose yourself to those new areas, and perform.
Don't worry about thinking when you do that because you will always gather information that is relevent to your current problem instinctively.
Even small actions count, as they keep you "thinking" about business in a different way.
The difference between understanding and action, is that action needs to sustain itself above a certain threshold and doesn't really need a lot of words.
Understanding requires a lot of distinctions and whatever, and then simplifying it, but ultimately you shouldn't be doing that so much because it can "justify" a rut and is a poor tool for getting you out of them (sometimes you need to think your way out of the rut, but only when you can weave it in with actions etc).
To act, bring out your better self, until you say "dammit, I'm gonna do it!", then all the logistics, troubles etc, are just hurdles in the way of that goal. Set tasks that you WANT TO or believe should be changed that are outside of changing yourself, compose yourself, tell yourself and others of what has been done before, move towards the task as steadily as you can, and start changing it.
Remember that absence of actions is a sure sign of "settling down". And you want to keep a good ratio of action in the mixture, to keep yourself honest, and to keep yourself open to change.
SWITCH to tasks, and positive thinking as you search for a way to make a change.
STOP thinking for a while, and just, feel.
When something is "different", focus on it, observe it.
See if you can make a change for the better.
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