If you’re not going to do something about prioritizing your priorities, stop thinking about it.
Over-focused thinking is the art of breaking down complex concepts into basic, fundamental truths.
It’s uncommon to over-focus on the same things (you and) others under-focus on or ignore.
Why?
Because (you and most) humans are habitually busy, distracted, medicated, and entertained.
Using questions, paradox, and common sense takes you beyond the surface, past dogma, and allows you to see things you’ve never seen before.
Over-focusing removes layers of complexity and identifies systemic root causes.
Over-focusing is not easy. It requires a commitment to challenge everything. This fanaticism is why people are labeled rebels, disrupters, antagonists.
Rebels believe there is a better way…to do everything.
Their mindset fundamentally is growth — everything can be better. And not only better than now, but much better than now.
It’s the thinking of those who are willing to start over (anew) and build from the ground up, unencumbered by tradition, dogma, criticism.
It’s summarized in my key takeaway from a 1980 Outward Bound trip during a week-long college spring break:
If i never try anything, i never learn anything. If i never take a risk, i stay where i am.
Ps. Did you chose Glacier or did Glacier choose you?
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