Una Luna – || Vicolo

In this theatrical square of life, we’ve clearly misunderstood, misinterpreted and mis-cooked the art, the philosophy and the need for cluelessness or in other words ‘not-so-well-informed-curiosity’.

We fear to be found out that we don’t know stuffs, that we are not well-equipped
yet to solving all kinds of problems.

We mistake inadequacy, indecisiveness, insufficiency, incompetence for a weakness, for a disgrace, and for a hard-to-swallow shame.

And worst of all, in many occasions, we clearly mistake in making a dope-distinction between knowledge and the illusion of one. Because, more often than not — like our teenage brain, us; We genuinely, pretense over ‘I know everything’ or ‘ I’ve figured it out’ or sorts kinds of endemic.

But, there’s this thing called “The Wisdom Paradox”.

Which says the more we exercise on the ideas, facts, opinions, thoughts, presuppositions and prejudices, or say the more we dive into the real, deep depth of the matter — the more we are exposed to own our inefficiencies and the more we find our self serving biases run amuck,.. run blind, run naked.

Simply put, curiosity to explore more of known, unbeknownst territories; It is how we grow humble wings, and it is how we become less and less ignorant and more and more self-aware and counterproductive and listening kinds.

Even three of the scantiest, brightest folks of yesteryear advocates this paradox in the simplest manner possible:

 

“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.” – Robert Rubin

 

“The more I know, the more i know i don’t know.” – Aristotle

 

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Einstein bro.

 

I don’t know is not a weakness. Not a disease! It’s an opportunity. And, perhaps It’s a good problem to have.

And so, I will bask in my incompetence, in my deficiencies, in my ineptitude, knowing full well that, with every book I read, speech I hear, conversation I engage in, exposure to my own ignorance grows. And I learn. I act. I relearn. I improvise.

Again, I Don’t know unless driven by ignorance is a good head start for us all.

Luke Sital-Singh – Nearly Morning

To go far each year, you must do something significant each day. I wonder, how hard is it for people to understand this fundamental, simple, crystal.fucking.clear truth?

I wonder, why do we for f?ck sake, waste so much of our time and energy into creating problems for problems at the cost of our limited and priceless focus. I wonder why we just don’t w.o.r.k for one specific goal at.a.time, and stop wondering and dreaming and doubting and brashing, and fart-thinking and fart-questioning and complaining and whining and skepting and stressing. Holy Fu⊃king Lord, I wonder big time!

Just imagine, in your compos mentis, in your unfucked sane head, don’t you think that with all of those rubbish, far from reality, looping, looming, … those abstract thoughts per se — cluttering, corrupting and hijacking your beautiful-creative brain is already too much of work on your plate? I mean, when would you actually put in pure work hours provided all of that evil, precarious, procrastinatious, gullible, blinding, deceiving frictions — that’s been holding you aback from experimenting, from failing, from stretching and trusting yourself, and more importantly from growing and from doing never been done before shits!

 

I don’t understand, why for fuck sake, Thomas Edison’s credible quote, that Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration or  Nike’s trademark ‘Just Do It.’ is so fucking hard for you to digest.

 

Broadly speaking, Greg McKeown’s, ‘Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less’, which deliberately tries to educate us to focus on a small number of goals and making a huge amount of progress towards them daily, rather than making little progress in a million different directions is so hard for you to root in.

Oh! Sure you talk mountains of problems, broad scale transformations and all those crappy, baseless, self-inflicted, ill fated, dubious, groundless ideologs and philosophies instead of making your main and an immediate situation better by taking the full responsibility of shits-to-do at hand. And work, and get invested into the challenge at the fucking hand instead of confusing w.o.r.k for pseudo work or a proxy.

Wrapping this up quickly: there is plain old school wisdom which bespeaks:  Always have a sheer appetite for crude, neat, and solid work and trust yourself and the process and be disciplined enough to keep that curious, ticklish snowball rolling. In other words, have faith and the trust in ‘The Snowball Effect’  , that those hours you spent working on the problems you are trying to solve will eventually pay.fucking.off.

I’m certain that someday, some fine fucking day ..all your answers will reveal itself, my friend.

Just Work! Learn. Unlearn. And re-learn. Sharpen your saw every dawn, every dusk. Scratch your own itch.

Fail. Fail again. Fail better. One day at a time!

Let’s work now!

Song Courtesy: @bishow_writes

Rhys Lewis – Keep Me Awake

3 Hours of blinking and restless cursoring.

Just as many, just so many words spilled.

In conscientiousness. From conscientiousness.

Like drops from the ocean turned into ocean from the drops.

But. Backspaced. Deleted!

Dry. Again.

And, whatever, whatever is left, still sings to me the songs of gratitude.

This quiet bewitching night,

This blissful acoustic vibrations. Vibe.

This saxophones sound. Sound at all.

This peace of beckoning chaos.

Only life!