Something about ‘braver’ strikes me here in a good way. Something like asking yourself if bravery is a bottleneck. Alternately a more triggering construction: ′ what would your life be like if you weren’t a coward? ′ Or alternately: You generally see obstacles and say to yourself you don’t have the money or connections or time to develop skills, you don’t say to yourself/notice you lack the courage and persistence to try.
Scary thought that either actions requiring bravery are pre-pruned from conscious awareness, or immediately replaced via attribute substitution (I want X, getting X would be easy if I had Y, I don’t have Y, ignore X, maybe this could be called the Munchkin’s Curse. Similar to Paul Graham’s Schlep Blindness).
An attempted aphorism: Better strategy can redeem a poor army, but only if you get to choose the battlefield.
Something about ‘braver’ strikes me here in a good way. Something like asking yourself if bravery is a bottleneck. Alternately a more triggering construction: ′ what would your life be like if you weren’t a coward? ′ Or alternately: You generally see obstacles and say to yourself you don’t have the money or connections or time to develop skills, you don’t say to yourself/notice you lack the courage and persistence to try.
Scary thought that either actions requiring bravery are pre-pruned from conscious awareness, or immediately replaced via attribute substitution (I want X, getting X would be easy if I had Y, I don’t have Y, ignore X, maybe this could be called the Munchkin’s Curse. Similar to Paul Graham’s Schlep Blindness).
An attempted aphorism:
Better strategy can redeem a poor army, but only if you get to choose the battlefield.