Temporada 2
Compass
What moves you?
Dealing with uncertainty
I’ve been thinking a lot (recently especially) about having a map and having a compass. A map assumes you know where you’re going. There is a destination, a route, some idea of what comes next. A compass has much less certainty. You just need enough awareness to know which direction is pulling you. I think we’ve put a lot of pressure on ourselves to have maps. What are you doing next? Where are you going? What do you want to be? What’s the plan? And there is nothing wrong with having a plan. But I’m starting to think that sometimes, the obsession with knowing exactly where we’re going makes us less aware of everything trying to move us somewhere else. RULE OUT EXPECTATIONS and rule in movement. because movement creates information. You can sit somewhere for months trying to think your way into clarity, or you can move. Go somewhere. Take the meeting. Try the thing. Talk to the person. Follow the strange interest that keeps resurfacing. Say yes to something without immediately needing to understand what it will become. And pay attention. “I liked that.” “I hated that.” “I want more of this.” “I never want to do that again.” You suddenly know more about yourself than you did before. That is why, despite my extremely curious nature, I have become even more interested in curiosity as a way of making decisions. When I don’t know what the “right” thing to do is, maybe the better question is simply - “What am I curious about?” Not everything that interests you needs to become productive. It doesn’t need to make money, fit your career, strengthen your identity, make cohesive sense on paper. Sometimes the little pull toward a person, place, subject, idea, project, or completely random invitation is enough reason to investigate it. but you have to be present in yourself and intuition to notice these pulls in the first place. Opportunities rarely introduce themselves as life changing. They look like a conversation, an invitation you almost decline, someone you happen to meet, a trip, project, something you keep returning to. You require participation. Follow a thought, answer a message, leave the house, have a conversation. This doesn’t mean abandoning ambition or floating around waiting for the universe to decide everything for you. I still want direction, I still want discipline. I still want to move intentionally. Being intentional DOES NOT require you to know the outcome. You can be over ambitious without over engineering your future. You can change direction without deciding the previous was a mistake. Maybe we built our lives less through perfect decisions and more through hundreds of small movements. So Right now I am trying to ask myself less of What is my exact plan, and more What is pulling me forward? You don’t always need a map. Sometimes you just need the compass. Moving with awareness, an open mind, tuned to invitation. Rule out expectations, rule in movement through curiosity.
We talk a lot about motivation. How to get motivated. How to stay motivated. How to become more disciplined, ambitious, productive. But I think there’s a question that should come before all of that: Why do you want it in the first place? Think of something you want right now. A goal, a career, a business, a body, a relationship, a certain kind of life. Now ask yourself what is actually driving it. Money? Curiosity? Ego? Fear? Recognition? Family? Insecurity? Obsession? Revenge? The need to prove something to yourself? And whatever your answer is, don’t stop there. Ask why again. I’ve realized that curiosity is probably one of my biggest driving forces. If I’m hiking and there’s a questionable looking path that seems like I probably shouldn’t take it, I need to know what’s on the other side. If there’s someone interesting I could meet, I’ll send the email. If there’s somewhere I haven’t been, I want to know what it feels like to be there. That instinct shows up everywhere in my life. I want to know what happens if I go. But not every driver is that easy to romanticize. Take recognition. Imagine you built a company, but nobody could ever know you founded it. Your name wouldn’t be attached to it. You couldn’t post about it. Nobody would congratulate you. Would you still want to build it? If the answer is no, that’s interesting. Maybe what you wanted wasn’t entirely the company. Maybe some part of what you wanted was being seen building the company. That doesn’t automatically make the desire bad. It just gives you another question. Why do you need the recognition? Do you like being congratulated? Why? Do you congratulate yourself enough? Maybe it’s ego. But then… why the ego? Fear? Expectations? Something you said you would accomplish and now feel obligated to prove? Something you absorbed from your family, professors, friends, social media? There is something incredibly powerful about telling yourself you’re going to do something and then actually doing it. Wake up when you said you would. Make your bed. Go for the walk. Answer the email. Go to the gym. Make your own coffee. Finish the thing you promised yourself you would finish. I deliberately put easy things on my to-do lists for this reason. I like checking things off. One accomplishment makes the next one feel a little easier. But more importantly, every time you keep a promise to yourself, you collect evidence that you are someone you can rely on. I think the important question is whether the driver evolves with you. Because movement alone isn’t necessarily progress. You can work, travel, create, consume, meet people and fill every hour of your life and still just be moving. There needs to be some direction. Not necessarily a perfectly constructed five-year plan. I don’t believe in over-planning your way through life either. But some sense of purpose. Something you’re moving toward, even if that thing changes. And this is where I think introspection matters. Wrestle with your answer. What moves you? What moved you yesterday? What is moving you toward whatever comes next? Is it intrinsic? Is it external? Has it changed? Is it something you actually want, or something you want people to know you have? And then, whatever answer appears: Why? Then ask it again.
Dealing with the uncertain
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