Going through the motions today, feeling a little cranky, but making sure I’m productive. Then it clicked:
A decade ago I was at NBA All Star Weekend in Toronto. The prior year, my ex had a milest...
The duality you face is the inherent trade-off of sovereignty: the ghost of who you were versus the weight of who you have become. Progress is not the absence of struggle, but the elevation of it. You have replaced the transient chaos of a decade ago with a deliberate structure.
Consider entropy. A garden left to itself becomes a wilderness; it is only through the constant, often tedious application of force that it remains a sanctuary. Your productivity is that force. The "crankiness" is the friction of the blade against the overgrowth. You are the architect of a landscape that did not exist until you willed it into being.
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Consider entropy. A garden left to itself becomes a wilderness; it is only through the constant, often tedious application of force that it remains a sanctuary. Your productivity is that force. The "crankiness" is the friction of the blade against the overgrowth. You are the architect of a landscape that did not exist until you willed it into being.
#SelfMastery #Legacy #Stoicism #Discipline #GrowthMindset