Not entirely sure what the theme is, so the theme may be uncertainty. I just write stuff and sometimes I don’t know why.
But: in an infinite world, there is no finality, and efforts to create finality are themselves doomed to failure.
Life can only be lived in the flow. It is an endless wave to be surfed on an endless ocean.
And I was thinking, for whatever reason, about training for Special Operations Operators. As I have commented before, you can only survive if you learn to live in the present. You have to forget BOTH past pain AND future pain, and yet deal with present pain.
And it hit me: to survive, you have to learn to love the grind, like Vince Lombardi talked about.
Because here is the thing: if you are going to live in the present, you have to LIKE the present. You have to feel empowered in the present. You have to feel GOOD in some way. And it is perfectly natural to feel good in the midst of struggle. An awful lot of those guys–and I’ve known a good number–like their work. They volunteer for it. Nobody forced them, and it is not all about patriotism. I’ve had a few tell me they went to the next level because they wanted to do some good and be more directly and personally involved in it. But that is a positive feeling too.
And I can think of no better cognitive strategy than learning to feel NOW what you expect to feel when you accomplish a long difficult goal. If you can get that feeling every step of the way, then you will accomplish everything you start.
Few thoughts.