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How do you protect transparency, while at the same time protecting privacy?
Open access, transparency, and truth require openness, while defense or security requires obscuration, walls, and locks.
And yet, complete transparency is a protective measure by disallowing hiding. Promoting hiding generates secrets from which darkness can thrive. Yet, we may need to hide from the evil that claims to be the light.
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Give up on changing yourself: that’s impossible. Instead, get incrementally better at spotting your own patterns and tightening the solution loop. (stimulus, internal response, external reaction.)
Over time it looks like you change, but you have just developed better coping strategies, faster reaction times, and reduced the errors of fumbling about in the wrong direction.
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Who you are is strengthened when you unearth and convey the times you were deeply fulfilled.
Don’t spend your valuable time with friends dismantling yourselves. Instead tell of the acts that fulfilled you, the personal small tales that reaffirm your unique value in the world.
The trick is to recall that odd moment that thrilled only you, not others.
from Luke Burgis
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Your day is not what you plan; your life is what happens.
Being open leads to being present, which allows the ability to be surprised and engaged: having a memorable life instead of executing life.
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Trust is in short supply. People claim to be transparent, but most CEOs rate their confidence at reading the company at 75%, while employees rated at 20%.
Transparency is oddly murky.
The layers of bureaucracy and hierarchy establish a system, where there is a “speed of truth,” moving through the company. If you could calculate the time until the truth can penetrate to a CEO, perhaps a blunt and honest comment made by an underling where it heard and accepted, you would find that most companies have a terrible problem with transparency and truth.
This is further confounded by everyone, claiming to be transparent, which they must to maintain their job.
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Take time to simply enjoy the moment. It won’t last.
Instead of becoming pessimistic, anxious, or unequal to a theoretical future please attempt to forgive yourself.
If you can defer and relax at this moment, you may enjoy it fully. You do not need to deconstruct it or make sense out of it, it will make sense out of itself.
It will become love by you being in it.
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Patience is only a virtue if you have power.
When you are powerless and told to be patient, you must wait on the “powerful” to fulfill your request. Patience is a control mechanism: we will grant you rights and privileges if you behave.
Being impatient and impulsive threatens the stability of the carefully constructed lives of those with something to lose. The impetuous act is offensive because it is uncontrollable, unmanageable, and undeferential.
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Hosteter’s law says projects you undertake will always take longer than you think, even when you account for adding time.
And yet another adage is "the time you allot to do any task is how long it will take," if you will work within the time you are given.
For example, if decide to spend one hour, it will take an hour and a half, but if you plan for an hour and a half it will probably take 2 hours. Yet if you allot 2 hours (thinking it will take one) it will take more time. But even if you allot four hours you will stretch the project into the four hours, and probably not be done.
Reality seems to fight back in an exponential fashion, in which we always lose. Planning seems not to coincide with how we see reality.
Yet the conundrum of not planning is never to achieve.
