You can object: “I don’t want to, I have to step over myself, but I need to do it. The man overcomes difficulties!”

If necessary, do it! I’m not saying what you shouldn’t do or that overcoming difficulties is bad. But if we return to the previous note of this series, there must be a goal and one must try to find the best path to it.

Look at the men beating their chests ¹, who kill themselves for the sake of who knows what. Their life is hell, they are miserable, but they continue to kill themselves.

We are intelligent. This means you need to follow the path of the mind, and not anyhow (and wherever your eyes look).

It always seemed to me that philosophy is a complex science. After all, there is so much that I can’t even write down by ear, let alone understand.

But lately I’ve become convinced that the complex becomes simple if the mentor knows how to present it correctly.

The problem is that many professors have read several books, defended their master’s and doctoral dissertations, and are now hiding behind clever phrases. They cannot move away from these terms and convey them differently, because they themselves do not understand them.

Philosophy is here as an example. This is true in other areas - mathematics, history… Even in creative ones - in music, fine arts, design…

The teacher should not hide behind clever phrases. You need to know your subject well - the essence, meaning and be able to convey this to your students. Teaching in the world of students¹.

…

Someday I’ll try to look from the opposite end - modern “tik-tok” teachers who are against all this “your boring and academic” - fashionable, but empty.

I love how ideas that sound banal and magical actually work when they turn into practical things.

I just thought that resistance helps because… What is the essence of the resistance you are experiencing? A reaction, a hint from the body that something is wrong. This means you need to step back and try again, then do the same thing, but a little differently.

One might object: “What about overcoming difficulties? Maybe sometimes it’s worth overpowering yourself and getting through the difficulty? Break yourself? Of course, you can look at this in different ways and I will be happy to hear your point of view in the comments.

I believe that (and here is an often-heard and, at first glance, banal idea) we have a way. So there is a goal. So how can we be hindered by an obstacle if the goal is clear? We’ll get there sooner or later. Or we won’t get there. Perhaps we’ll find a new goal along the way.

Also think about the fact that there are nested goals. One global and many smaller ones. They are also goals, but at the same time they are also pointers that lead to the global one.

This means that what we should learn, what we should pay a lot of attention to is the ability to find a goal.

Write, rewrite, delete, write again. This practice is beneficial in itself. You don’t write for the sake of good text now – text is just a tool. You write to focus on your thoughts.

Final editing on the one hand is useful because… helps to structure thoughts, on the other hand, when editing we lose the whole “broth”. It is necessary to look at texts not only as the delivery of value in the form of clear and crystallized thoughts, but as a space in which the reader is born his own.

Where else is there such space in media? Podcasting is the closest thing to this because it creates a space in which you and the listener spend time thinking. It won’t work with video (or it’s very difficult) because… the authors still need to fight every second for the viewer’s attention.

When I sit down, turn on the computer and force myself to write even a couple of lines, I become a cliché machine.

It’s funny that sometimes I myself get high on insight, clarity of thought and beauty of style.

So what’s the deal?

You need to write when you want to write something. My advice is to use a regular notepad or start each day with a new note. One note for everything. You can create such a note every day or week, or you can even write it in one large text file ([OBTF](https://mikegrindle .com/posts/obtf)).

The other day I worked on photographs of Nikita that I took last summer. I sent it to him. A few hours later I received a review.

It’s very nice to receive sincere feedback about a project that I did with pleasure and love. This is not an advertisement or a moment of vanity. I knew that the project was cool and the person appreciated the result - everything was natural and it couldn’t have been any other way.

Wow, this is so cool ✨✨✨ I haven’t had any photos like this!

The best thing is to guess these long days 😇

Is there an Instagram? I wish I could decide 😉

But, you can get feedback that will mentally return you to your routine - “Oh no, that was a pussy!” Even if the author of this review uses the most colorful epithets, this is a fake. You created a fake, you were valued falsely, all you have to do is falsely rejoice. Most people today are living a fake life.

• Feeling is a skill
• Understanding who is worth working with and who is not is a skill
• Creating by sincerely expressing yourself is a skill

This will definitely not be taught in trainings or at university. They teach just the opposite - how not to be your real self, but to be like this one (or that one). How to put away your best qualities, replacing them with a cheap fake. How to rejoice correctly, radiate confidence and optimism.

Back to the review. Yes, it was a sunny summer evening. Good evening!

We work with people and for people. Alive and real. It is extremely important to sincerely express yourself while enjoying the process - this is the basis for great results and truly satisfied clients.

Don’t deceive others! Do not lie to yourself!

P.s. I’ll post photos a little later. I’ll add the link here.

(Since June 22, 2024, Space has ceased to be just a site - now it is a set of tools, processes and principles that help me work)

Hello! In this post I talk about the problem of centralization, why I am creating not a simple blog, but Space and how it should help me remember, think and create.

Web was designed to connect people and documents. For a while it was like that - a nice, cozy place where everyone had (potentially could have) a corner with their own rules and style. For example, my friends and I had blogs on LiveJournal and Wordpress, I went to someone’s server or computer via FTP to download a document, and in the evening I listened to home Internet radio (if I’m not mistaken, from Denis Vasilkov there was once an evening “warm tube” radio).

Today everything has changed (and continues to change, unfortunately). Nice cozy corners have turned into huge, noisy “squares” with constantly changing policies, total surveillance and even paid access .

I feel nostalgic for the times when we ruled the web. But I have the strength and capabilities to regain my “corner of the Internet.”

Welcome to my space !

I almost always¹ respond to letters and comments. Sometimes I can write two words in response, sometimes a big “sheet”.

There are no public comments in my space , but under almost every note there is a link to send me a comment by email. This is a limitation, but I use it. Yes, it’s not like others, there is no call to action in the form of a very simple form and a beautiful “comment” button, but this helps.

I consider such commentary to be as sincere as possible - it is written to me personally and is not visible to others, it takes time and effort (and this is very important and creates additional value).

These are sincere comments, so I have to respond. Just write to me.

Life is an endless process from enjoying order to encountering chaos. We definitely don’t have enough time to understand the order of life (although what is order and whether there is one at all). Jordan Peterson urged to clean up your room first.

People perceive minimalism superficially - get rid of the unnecessary, be content with little. Beautiful and fashionable minimalist interiors promise happiness, but there is no happiness without meaning. It’s not the empty desk that’s important, it’s the path to the empty, clean desk. You can throw everything off your desk but still be unhappy and continue to feel tired and panicky.

• Why were these things on the table?
• Do you really not need this anymore?
• Is it difficult to go with this?
• Where are you going?

Last summer, during another photo walk, a guy approached me (as I understood him to be a Turk) and asked him to photograph. No problem! He asked me to send the photos to gmail, but instead of leaving me his address, he wrote down mine. I was like “in star mode” - OK, I wrote down my email, so he’ll write and I’ll send you the photos. I even retouched them a little - done! But the Turk did not write.

Perhaps I forgot. Perhaps he was embarrassed, but I am more inclined to believe that he simply did not realize that he needed to write to me. It’s a pity! The photos are good, but I had to delete them because… I do not need them.