Claim: There’s a headspace you can be in where you don’t have a bucket for explore/babble. If you are entertaining an idea or working through a plan, it must be because you already expect it to work/be interesting. If your prune filter is also growing in strength and quality, then you will be abandoning ideas and plans as soon as you see any reasonable indicator that they won’t work.
Missing that bucket and enhancing your prune filter might feel like you are merely growing up, getting wiser, or maybe more cynical. This will be really strongly felt if the previous phase in your life involved you diving into lots of projects only to realize some time and money later that they won’t work out. The mental motion of, “Aha! This plan leaves ABC completely unspecified and I’d probably fall apart when reaching that roadblock,” will be accompanied by a, “Man, I’m so glad I noticed that, otherwise I would have wasted a whole day/week/month. Go prune!”.
Until you get a new bucket for explore, and attempts to get you to “think big” and “get creative” and “let it all out in a brainstorm” will feel like attacks on your valuable time. Somehow, you need to get a strong felt sense for explore being it’s own, completely viable option, which in no way obliges you to act on what you’ve explored.
Next thoughts: What is needed for me to deeply feel explore as an option, and what things might be stopping me from doing so? *tk*
Claim: There’s a headspace you can be in where you don’t have a bucket for explore/babble. If you are entertaining an idea or working through a plan, it must be because you already expect it to work/be interesting. If your prune filter is also growing in strength and quality, then you will be abandoning ideas and plans as soon as you see any reasonable indicator that they won’t work.
Missing that bucket and enhancing your prune filter might feel like you are merely growing up, getting wiser, or maybe more cynical. This will be really strongly felt if the previous phase in your life involved you diving into lots of projects only to realize some time and money later that they won’t work out. The mental motion of, “Aha! This plan leaves ABC completely unspecified and I’d probably fall apart when reaching that roadblock,” will be accompanied by a, “Man, I’m so glad I noticed that, otherwise I would have wasted a whole day/week/month. Go prune!”.
Until you get a new bucket for explore, and attempts to get you to “think big” and “get creative” and “let it all out in a brainstorm” will feel like attacks on your valuable time. Somehow, you need to get a strong felt sense for explore being it’s own, completely viable option, which in no way obliges you to act on what you’ve explored.
Next thoughts: What is needed for me to deeply feel explore as an option, and what things might be stopping me from doing so? *tk*