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Is It Possible To Have Too Much Responsibility To

take too much responsibility for yourself like one thing I’ve been thinking is that the victim mindset where you want to you believe that you have no control over the outcomes in your life. I wonder whether there’s an opposite where you believe that you have an infinite amount of control over them and you lose faith in your innate ability to just carry you through. I’ve been thinking a lot about releasing the tiller, which is a Jed Mckenna quote he’s talking about the fact that the best way to ride a boat through a storm is to actually release the tiller and it allows the boat to maneuver best through the swells and I think that a lot of the time going back to the imposter syndrome thing that we were talking about as you start to accumulate more. And more competence the higher level of overthinking, the higher level of neuroticism, The more of an attention to detail that got you from naught to 50. Isn’t necessarily the thing that’s going to get you from 50 to 100.

You Know You Had To Get

across a river and it was it was bad and difficult. You don’t need to carry that boat across ground to then get you across the next one and I wonder whether the opposite of a victim mentality where you take responsibility for the things that occur in life. I wonder whether you can overshoot you can for sure yeah definitely. I mean you know Dostoevsky said that every man was responsible for everything he did and for everything that everyone else does which is kind of an insane statement, but also somewhat it’s true in in in a certain sense you do have. an indefinite responsibility and you do have an indefinite capacity to bear that responsibility, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be crushing and then I would say the antidote to that is that you’re not in this alone as your responsibilities mount and your opportunities increase you have to delegate more and more.

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Theres Enough For Every Theres An Its Important

that you do everything you can but there’s enough for everyone to do and so you might say well. The heroic path is one that leads to universal redemption and that’s true and you might say well that’s all on you it’s like it is in a sense, but then the problem that you just described comes children too much burden well it can crush you. It can be unsustainable right. You can torture yourself for not doing it well enough and it is up to you but it’s. not up to you alone it’s not up to you alone so you delegate you and you you build you help build people around you so that they’re all working in the same direction.

Its An Effort.

It’s an effort multiplier in any case and you make sure that they get credit they and i they get they get credit isn’t exact credit’s good enough it’s it’s not exactly right. The rewards are are in accordance with their efforts and you can distribute that you know because there’s also a narcissism that can come along with that which is well. It’s all up to me and even if you’re working in a very competent manner. It can seem that way, but there’s plenty of work to go around, and there’s plenty of credit where credit is due and so what you do as you attain more responsibility and opportunity is.

You Delegate More Of That And You

do that continually? I mean, one of the roles of a good manager is to make him or herself irrelevant absolutely yeah right so if you’re not a good manager if your company would collapse if you disappeared that should all be delegated out and it’s not because you’re abdicating responsibility because also what happens is that if you can routinely someone something and parse it off to someone else. Say here’s a little kingdom for you and it doesn’t have to be little and it’s something that can grow. But here’s the kingdom for you well. Then you can go off and do the next thing you need to do, which is extremely important you know and you might think there’s there’s a kingdom and then it’s broken into little kingdoms and so the farther you are down the hierarchy The smaller. The kingdom you get but that’s only true if you think the world’s a zero-sum game because you could also think of it as a place of indefinite a place with an indefinite number of the largest kingdoms possible, and I think what why do we think this is exhaustible in some sense what we’re doing it doesn’t look exhaustible.

You Know Thats The Limits To Growth

mentality. It’s like economists. Don’t believe in that because they think well no we can just get more efficient, which we certainly are we’re way more efficient than we once were and those gains in efficiency when they’re not being interfered with are increasing at more than an arithmetic rate. Why do you think people have a tendency toward that zero-sum mentality when I find myself thinking that it’s one of the first things that I check myself on that is that is. well, I mean, there are elements of life that have a zero-sum element.

I Mean If Youre Competing With

another man, for example, to marry a particular woman that’s a zero-sum game. If you only think of the game as including you two and that woman, so you can set up circumstances that are zero-sum but then port them across into situations which aren’t yeah well then but to take take that metaphor of zero-sum game where there has to be winners and losers. Because there’s a finite number of resources. Is to assume that the rules of that game are the rules that govern all game the set of all games and that’s just not true. There’s games are infinitely multipliable.

I Mean You Can Invent A

new game. People do that all the time the man who invented catan, which is a game I really like to play. game that didn’t exist until he invented it now you know thousands and thousands of people play it and he made a fortune from it. ‘s like that game never existed. So there doesn’t seem to be any limit to the number of games.

We Can Invent And Its A Complicated

problem because we are on a single planet and and some resources are more zero-sum than others, but we haven’t really run into any actual zero-sum limits In terms of our you know the probability of us living an abundant life on the planet We’ve we’ve stewarded some resources very stupidly we’ve done a very bad job of of managing oceanic production. For example, although fish farms have alleviated that on the production side to some degree, but it’s a tragedy of the commons that we could address and should address as far as i’m concerned one of the good. Trudeau government has done I think to give the devil is due let’s say is to put a lot of the coast of Canada into marine protected areas and that’s smart We have to be smart about our resources, but that doesn’t mean there’s zero sum and certainly doesn’t mean the world is a zero-sum game and that’s a malthusian idea. You know that population will grow till it consumes all available resources and precipitously collapse and then why do we think apocalyptically It’s well because things do come to sudden ends people die people get fatal illnesses like the world.

You So Carefully Constructed Can Be Blown

apart at any moment by a random occurrence genetic mutation that causes the cancer that kills you like life has a like life has a fundamentally apocalyptic aspect and we do understand that because we’re self–conscious and then it’s very difficult not. kind of apocalyptic reasoning to things as such the world’s going to burn up the climate’s too hot what about runaway positive feedback loops because that’s what the climate types are afraid of it’s like hey they happen how do we bind our apocalyptic thinking that’s a good question man that’s a good question. We do that through truth. We do that with the truth that’s how we do it through dialogue through investigation through exploration through discipline.

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All Of That The Logos Is

the antidote to the apocalypse. Of course that’s central Christian dogma isn’t that that the logos is the Apoc is the antidote to the apocalypse fancy that and so what does that mean love and truth is the antidote to the apocalypse not the planet has too many people on it what’s happening people if you enjoyed that then press here for the full unedited episode. and Don’t forget to subscribe peace.

Summary

Is it possible to have too many responsibility to take too much responsibility for yourself? I wonder whether there’s an opposite where you believe that you have an infinite amount of control over them and you lose faith in your innate ability to just carry you through. The antidote to that is that you’re not in this alone as your responsibilities mount and your opportunities increase you have to delegate more and more. Dostoevsky said that every man was responsible for everything he did and for everything that everyone else does which is kind of an insane statement, but also somewhat it’s true in in in a certain sense you do have an indefinite capacity to bear that responsibility, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be crushing and then I would say the antidote is that it can be crushing.& There’s enough for every there’s enough to every there’s an it’s important that you do ev I’m not in it alone. I would like to say you don’t need to carry that…. Click here to read more and watch the full video