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Separate ideas and ego. Your work is not you, your ideas are not you. Don’t be defensive.
Being wrong is good. It is only from critique and making mistakes that we learn.
Biases are beautiful. They are what inspire us and motivate us to do our work. Embrace them, but understand them first.
Lately I’ve been confused and struggling with the need to do what I can to keep my head above water and trying to understand how to fit in living according to the principles I find so important to cultivating integrity. And then I run into this, from Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business.
You must take a leap of faith
You must listen to your gut
You must travel light
Detailed map required
It’s about simplicity — eat, sleep, ride
You desire to find new roads — sometimes there is no road
Hundreds of choices
Risk in is your hands
It’s fun
You must be sensitive to local culture
You must be creative
You must be open to change
Sense of humor needed
It’s quiet
You must be honest
You must trust your fellow riders
It’s often adventurous
There is freedom
“Simplicity”
Eat. Sleep. Ride.
Eat. Sleep. Ride.
Eat. Sleep. Ride.Eat.
Sleep.
Ride.
Eat. Sleep. Ride.Eat.
Sleep.
Ride.
Eat. Sleep. Ride. Get the point?Jay and I stripped our lives down to the basics on our white-road journey. Simplicity became the trip’s theme.
Somehow, someway, I will find a way to live my life in a way that is positive, even if set in a system that is fundamentally based on a zero-sum game in which one’s ascent depends on another’s fall.
As an aside, my response to Che’s Marxist idealism is Burgess’ message in A Clockwork Orange: evil is chosen bad or forced good.
