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Trying, Failure, and Winning

June 20, 2024 by Andy Leave a Comment

They’re all the same, because in each case you’re doing something and you get a benefit. Respectively: empowerment, knowledge, your goal.

Most of the parameters that determine your outcome you can’t control. Plus there’s the element of fortune, good or bad.

It doesn’t really matter how you start or where you end up – you always get some benefit and you’re never in control of the outcome.

In which case the only thing that doesn’t make sense, is never starting in the first place.

Filed Under: Progress Tagged With: failure, starting, trying, winning

Traction

May 22, 2024 by Andy

Skis are slippery on the bottom, which is great when you want to ski down a hill. But how do you get up a hill if you don’t have a ski-lift?

This is where skinning comes in.

Skinning is an old indigenous practice of affixing seal skins to the bottom of skis. If the sealskin is attached so that the grain of seal hair faces in the right direction on the bottom of the ski, it creates traction and you can slide your skis up a hill.

If you’re just starting out, you may feel like you’re not getting anywhere, and that can be frustrating. Just remember the beauty of traction is that once you have it, your entire journey becomes possible.

Filed Under: productivity, Progress Tagged With: initiative, starting, traction

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