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“'Handle your feelings about the task' is the zeroth item on any todo list"

“'Handle your feelings about the task' is the zeroth item on any todo list"

May 18, 20261 min read

  • growth/meditation
  • growth/contemplative-practice
  • growth/healing
  • growth
  • Useful concepts and mental models (parent page)
  • ☝️ https://x.com/itinerantfog/status/1943343013746380832
  • (Reminding myself that “handling my feelings about a task” is a task, is useful work)
  • I think there’s an inherent bias (at least for me) re: like “only object level deliverables count as work”, “time spent deliberating is time wasted”
    • Also 10. Why thinking things through is aversive
  • but actually, “act” is the 4th of 4 parts of the OODA loop, where “orientation” is actually the most important (”the big O”)


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  • Handling my feelings about doing an FRI work test
  • Useful concepts and mental models (parent page)
  • What does it mean to be a professional meta-cognitionist?

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