I went beyond the 50 daily articles written in a row. I have mixed feelings and always changing reactions to my daily commitment. Last week has been hard. I had a couple of days I really didn’t want to write, at all, think about publishing. But I stuck to it. I am proud only of my consistency. I have serious doubts about the wandering and the wide exploration of anything coming to my mind at the moment of writing.
Habits are really hard to change or to introduce. Although I am doing this daily writing experiment first of all for myself, I go ahead, moved by inertia, “because I have to do it.” Taken by laziness I skip planning and so I need to go back to what I really wanted to avoid: improvising.
Consistency is safe. At least that one. I still have a lot of work to do in terms of having threads to develop. I surely have a lot of raw shells, I need to start searching for pearls to polish. There are good ideas, from time to time, but 30 minutes to develop them is surely not enough. I need to live with the idea that this is the best I can do for now, so it’s me who is in need to adapt to circumstances and not the way around.
I wrote about constraints helping creativity. These are my constraints: time and shaky continuity. Let’s see when creativity will come.
Following, a digest of all articles I’ve published last week on https://curatella.com
Rebranding the obvious
Why calling something already existing, known, and named with another name?
How to be a Systems Thinker: simple steps
Being a better Systems Thinker is all nice and good but how do you manage to do it in our chaotic lives?
Celebratory rituals define yourself
Questioning the deep motives behind your celebration shatters your identity from the foundations. It’s a disruptive act to redefine yourself.
Minimize unintended consequences by thinking in systems
When you obtain effects you didn’t want and you did not expect, following your actions, you are experiencing unintended consequences.
Keep on writing
50 daily blog posts published. Let's do another 50.
A Zettelkasten as a tool for thinking
Capture information into well-written and well-connected notes. Add them to your Zettelkasten to make it grow. It will become your favorite thinking tool.
Question time
Will I have the patience and the persistence to see what will emerge from my consistency?
Thanks, and see you next week.
Max