Kevin Kelly

She told me this, and it's been true, which is that if you get invited to do something six months from now, ask yourself if you would do it if it was tomorrow morning.

And very few events will pass that muster.

And so I use that to say no.

I'm just imagining, okay, would I get tomorrow morning to fly whatever it is or to go into or meet whatever it is?

And if it isn't a resounding yeah, then it's a no.

Part of the trick is you're trying to research something and they don't know.

And so you say, well, who might know?

Or can you tell me who might know?

You kind of use the last round to help you develop the next round.

Who do you think might know?

Or where do you think it might go?

So you can kind of cascade down to the seven levels.

But if you're willing to do that to seven levels, you would generally get a reliable answer.

articulating this, again, I don't know about other people, but I find that I actually don't know why I do things.

And I don't know exactly how I would describe what I'm doing or whatever.

And that this process required me to articulate things.

And it brought more understanding of what my path is and where I'm going.

And so it didn't really change it as much as it illuminated it

And that illumination is valuable.

And so I have a better idea about what it is I'm doing than before I started.