Time travel was a hoot until someone said I reminded them of an owl. Dad joke level discourse here.
As I sit here I am reminded of span of control. We talk about it in Organizational Behaviour and other business classes. Firstly, it does not mean you are a clone of another of similar looks and together you are of one mind. Secondly, if you are sitting at your desk and you believe you are working, coordinating the logistics of the world, cooperating in the decisions to exclude all, and have embraced a philosophy that not doing it is doing it I must object.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Here’s a short treatise on how to make up your mind.
It was Schopenhauer who spoke of will. Comprehension, as I call it, are those thoughts you have when your mind seeks answers. I comprehended economics as a young man, for example. It is a complete, logical, system. As I aged I realized more, discarded old theories, and comprehended that economic is to be learned and not believed.
Here we introduce: The Mind. It is Napoleon Hill’s Master Mind Group, except it believes nothing and if it were to be embraced it would convince you to be right is simple.
Nothing is simple.
I understand no one has won an academy award for work that wasn’t theirs; as in they earned the favour. The Mind is the result of not knowing. It minds if you know. If placed in its midst, without recourse or a means of escape, it becomes all encompassing. Soon you too will mind and this must be avoid at all cost.
Be stoic. Be nihilistic. Be existential. Mind.
If not, those who told you it was favour and you deserve it, when they stop raising your work to you you will realize you have no mind at all. It was not your span of control. It was not your work. It was not even your hobby, although to others that may be exactly what it looked like. They do not write business books on it, it’s not a secret, it is not our way of life. It was a lack of agency, rights, participation, liberty, freedom, and the list goes on.
Think. Rely on your learning. Be confident in your ability, and the community. Look for breaks. Seek out answers like a French inspector who knows the answer is somewhere they only need to see it. Have fun. Open up. Live your best life and do the work.
Today, the project I am selling is you. I mind, we all mind.
Thank you
