Chris Williamson

Like how can I just, what's that line?

Anxiety hates a moving target.

that action is the antidote to anxiety.

And it's so fucking true.

And it sounds like maybe I'm running away from my problems, maybe I'm hiding them in the fog.

And that's a lesson that for a lot of people probably is accurate.

They use busyness and chaos as a way to sort of force down whatever it is that they should be thinking about more deeply.

But I get the sense that if anybody's a fan of Pursuit of Wonder or Modern Wisdom,

that that they have the opposite fucking problem okay they're like the david goggins of rumination they're the fucking bonnie they're the bonnie blue of rumination they do not need they do not need to be told to spend more time thinking you need to be told to have a bias for action so i think um learning to trust yourself again is done through uh

experimentation and evidence.

Once you've got just a little bit of that moving, that tends to help.

I certainly think not being afraid to use some of the more negative emotions, some of the stuff like bitterness and resentment and anger

This is one of the paradoxes or one of the disadvantages of self-awareness that you don't like these sort of darker emotions.

You think, I should transcend these.

I should be sufficiently elevated that I'm not tapping into this.

This is a more base version of me.

It's juvenile.

It's petty.

This is a version of me that I don't like.

I get that.