I guess you can see that I’ve been having a bit of a blast thinking about how my mind works, how reality works, and so many other things as well – and it is also pretty interesting to reflect how a lot of people who were exposed to it across time became extraordinarily capable people on a level that I could not kid about even if I wanted to – not as a shill of my ability to teach or as some indication of my role of an instructor or friend in some way shape or form – but just an interesting observation.

Well, I have no idea if these blog posts are really influencing anyone – but if they do somehow influence you in some way beyond immediate judgments or thoughts to achieve something a little better than you could before (and I’m primarily talking to myself, as the main consumer and producer of this blog), I would be happy for you.

Anyway, today’s thought:

Speed is king.

That’s one thing that I’ve learned in multiple contexts across time, often in the most unexpected of places.

This is so for many reasons, and I could name a few:

  • In a competitive context, getting stuff done ahead of the other guy means you can submit faster, and thus you win.
  • Getting stuff done ahead of time means you can do it more thoroughly.
  • Practicing stuff faster means you can do more practice (lol) but also that you gain more skill – speed compounds speed!
  • Getting stuff done quickly means that there are fewer impediments that could stop you from doing the thing that you want, increases the probability that you will get things done in one shot (and thus minimizes the probability that intervening circumstances will stop you from doing the thing), and improves the likelihood that you will execute.

I could name a couple more things (and I may later on), but I should say that speed does have its limitations.

For one thing, if you never actually start things, it doesn’t matter how fast you go. Secondly, it is a localized thing – it happens in the instantaneous moment, and it’s unclear that that instantaneous moment is what really shifts outcomes so much that it is definitive; that role probably belongs to the systems that we create to regulate our behavior or to give ourselves the impression that we are regulating our behavior.

It is still meaningful to think about speed though, the preconditions for it (which are many), and how it makes things possible where they were not before – but that extended reflection will have to wait for another day 😀

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