Re: Feet to the Fire
It’s been suggested that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. I think this can be extended to include the five things we spend most of our time doing, thinking, feeling, watching, consuming, etc.
It’s incredibly challenging to find anything that raises my average. I’ve done a lot just by cutting out the junk food, but removing things that lower your average is easier than finding things that raise it. Losing fat is simple compared to gaining muscle.
I read your journal entries because you consistently help me return to the task of raising my average. The manner in which you try to make sense of your mind and the distributed intelligence connecting us creates a context of imagination, integrity, humility, and human dignity that is aspirational. You are digging down into yourself to face the blood, sweat, and tears of your individual life as well as connecting to something universal and transpersonal, and it feels like you’re doing so with a dedication to cognition and skills development that integrate with the spiritual and emotional in a larger ecology of growth - the kind of average that transcends mere mathematics.
Your journaling is nourishment for a real kind of strength through progressively heavier lifting, healthy diet, high-quality sleep, and a deeper mind-muscle connection, if you will forgive the fitness analogy.
Keep up the good work.