Eric Jorgenson

They're kind of like Dunning-Kruger.

Small information, high conviction.

Yeah.

Listening to the voice, allowing it to go long enough that you see the patterns.

In that moment of anger, maybe you're not getting a clear signal.

If you think that twice a day, every day for six months, maybe there is something really wrong with the relationship.

After you listen, you need courage.

A lot of people hear the voice and the choice is either to repress it or to act on it over a certain amount of time.

And I think the people that end up the most unhappy have repressed so much because they never summoned the courage.

And so they're deeply aware of what it is that they truly want to be doing or feel like they could be doing and just never took that next leap.

I think it's a Winston Churchill quote.

Courage is every virtue at its highest form.

And so you can understand all the virtues, but if you don't have the courage to act on them when it's difficult, when everything else is sort of going against them, they have no form.

This is not a Navalism, but I know people who swear by this, which is just like a morning brain dump on paper.

The process of externalizing these thoughts somehow helps you evaluate them and it forces you to be honest.

And so if you see what sounds like absolute truth.

certain reality in your head of like, I have to be this or become this or get this, or I will never be happy.

As soon as you write it down, you're like, that's stupid.

But if you just live with it in your head the whole time, you're like, you could feel your body responding to it.

Um, and that, that practice of externalizing it, um,