Kevin Kelly

assimilate them, you make a toy model, you abstract them, you're losing too much of it, of what actually happens.

And so it's very hard to predict with any kind of accuracy what will happen.

Most of the inventors of these great technologies have no idea how they're actually going to be used.

And not until people start using them do we see what their strengths and weaknesses are.

You can think about this all you want, but it's just not going to match what happens when people actually use it.

And the same thing with your kind of life.

You can have a plan, but the only really way to get there is to go step by step.

And so you want to start that as soon as possible.

It's very close because follow your bliss for most people, they don't know what the bliss is and it kind of is paralyzing.

But you master something and that platform of mastery of getting something done

gives you that positioning, that ladder to stand on to start to move in other directions.

But you have to have something to start with.

So yes, you're right.

That is another form of prototyping where you start anywhere.

You master anything.

That ability to get things done is the mechanism that you start to creep towards a more authentic place.

You can't do it again by thinking about it.

which is what people want to do when they're thinking about their follow my bliss, is they're trying to figure out and trying to think their way out.

And I call that thinkism.

And thinkism is just this very distracting idea that thinking is the most important thing in the world, and it's necessary but not sufficient to get things done.