Hi Friends 👋,

I recently found that I confuse some people by sharing Ideas and then not immediately acting upon them.

For example the last weeks I talked about my idea to work 100h a week for an extended time, whereas currently my productive time is probably around half that number.

Another example is that I imagined an alternative entrepreneurial journey for myself where I focus on language rather than AI. After sharing my thoughts with a person, they asked when I would start and what that would mean for my current AI project.

Even when I am mentioning several times that I am talking about ideas, it is apparently difficult for some people to distinguish thought and action, and frankly speaking that puts me in a conundrum, because sharing and talking about my ideas is important for me to develop them and get feedback, but on the other hand I hate to do it if I know that it confuses people. Right now I think I’ll just keep confusing people if it’s unavoidable, and perhaps at some point they will know that my ideas are just ideas.

Last month I came across this video from Leila Hormozi where she talks about breaking the link between thought and action (although in a different context). She introduces an interesting exercise where she asks you to walk in a circle while at the same time you say that you can’t walk in a circle. That makes it very obvious that thought and action don’t have to be the same.

Emotions vs Action

A somewhat related idea is that actions can also be split to some degree from emotions and feelings (to some degree). If I really don’t want to start coding to build my AI Chatbot I can still just force myself to do it. If I hate getting up at 5am I can still just force myself to do it.

A nice trick here for me is to mentally contrast what I want in the moment and what would be the good thing to do for me from a rational perspective. Whenever I make that direct comparison I can’t bare it to take the short term gratification and will do what I should. (I should add that at this point in my life I don’t always make that comparison, so I still end up doing many things I shouldn’t)

Alright that’s it again for this week! Warm greetings from London 🇬🇧, where I am about to go watch the Napoleon Movie.

Gregor

🎬 My New Videos

Still no videos as I was busy with Python. I now finished the Harvard CS50 Python Course.

🤩 My Favorite Things this Week

🧱 I got the bricks and built my 2024 expansion for my monthly relationship showcase. Looking forward to fill this next year, perhaps I’ll make a video again at some point. Here is my old one from half a year ago.

💬 Quote of the Week

“Work is the sacrifice of the present for the future” (Jordan Peterson)

It’s my #DailyQuote37 on X​

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