/ These thoughts were originally in the prior post but I felt they were SO IMPORTANT that they deserved their own post, however short this makes both of the respective posts.
Down the road I am going to look back and, more likely than not, dislike all of the writing I have done, and I am ok with that (mostly).
Constantly reminded that uncommon things happen rather commonly, that things that never happen do in fact happen, and that the randomness and serendipity of life is a very, VERY real thing. I love this.
An interesting thought exercise. I basically know nothing and I’ll probably only get the chance to really learn one thing, MAYBE two things, in my lifetime.
But more realistically, I’ll only be able to learn one thing really well if enough time and effort is spent on that singular thing.
One more thing.
There is this belief that if you get very specific/develop in one niche, that for whatever reason (i.e., you’ve mastered one thing and learned the process of mastery itself or you work very hard) that it is more easily translatable to other things. Put another way, instead of climbing multiple ladders at once, if you climb one ladder to the very top, there is a belief that it is easier to lateral between ladders then at the top.
There is some truth to this but I disagree with the premise.
I think if you are driving pretty fast and safely and making good time down YOUR road toward YOUR destination, and you take a turn to “greener pastures” trying to explore or be creative without complete discipline and risk management (i.e., not judging the difficulty of checkers just because you are good at chess), you are much more likely to crash. Unpopular thought?
The point is I spend/have spent a lot of my days trying to find patterns and notes of repeatability in everything and I keep coming back to the realization that so much in life is really just edge case after edge case, or rather everything is an n=1 example.
There are unique parameters to every situation and it should be judged as such.
Comparing and contrasting is only so viable. Sure, tomorrow is LIKE yesterday, but it is never going to be JUST LIKE yesterday.
tl;dr Life is so random, and is so much about edge case after edge case after edge case.
Cheers,
Vish
Published on June 14, 2023.