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Outcome independence has always been quite an vague, abstract concept to me.
The way i always understood it was: i hang out with a girl and focus on having fun. I'd obviously appreciate getting somewhere with her, but i don't really care if i do.
This is ok - it makes us less eager. However i find it a bit misleading and not very actionable.
To me, the real power of outcome independence comes from this realization: i don't want to care about the outcome because i want to free up mental real estate to focus on the Process (ie. cool, investment-fueled escalation).
Action cannot be a product of outcome. Execution cannot be a product of evaluation. If anything, it's backwards.
The moment we blend execution with evaluation is the moment we get confused and tentative: what if i make a move and she says no?. Or even worse - evaluating before executing: i wanna make a move but she doesn't seem ready... maybe i should wait a bit.
This is a man's death sentence.
It's way easier to just focus on executing that next step rather than trying to divine the Universe's current state or to engineer/wait for "the perfect moment" - something i've been guilty of more than once.
The Process only cares about execution. The Process is outcome-independent. Action is the only measure of success. Inaction is the only measure of failure.
That's what should define us as men.
Yes, evaluation does matter and her signals are important. "Just ploughing" is not cool. Action must be reasonable, therefore it still needs a healthy, grounded mental framework in which to emerge.
However evaluation is a separate step in a cybernetic loop.
This leads us from calibrate, then act (bad) to act, then calibrate (good).
The way i always understood it was: i hang out with a girl and focus on having fun. I'd obviously appreciate getting somewhere with her, but i don't really care if i do.
This is ok - it makes us less eager. However i find it a bit misleading and not very actionable.
To me, the real power of outcome independence comes from this realization: i don't want to care about the outcome because i want to free up mental real estate to focus on the Process (ie. cool, investment-fueled escalation).
Action cannot be a product of outcome. Execution cannot be a product of evaluation. If anything, it's backwards.
The moment we blend execution with evaluation is the moment we get confused and tentative: what if i make a move and she says no?. Or even worse - evaluating before executing: i wanna make a move but she doesn't seem ready... maybe i should wait a bit.
This is a man's death sentence.
It's way easier to just focus on executing that next step rather than trying to divine the Universe's current state or to engineer/wait for "the perfect moment" - something i've been guilty of more than once.
The Process only cares about execution. The Process is outcome-independent. Action is the only measure of success. Inaction is the only measure of failure.
That's what should define us as men.
Yes, evaluation does matter and her signals are important. "Just ploughing" is not cool. Action must be reasonable, therefore it still needs a healthy, grounded mental framework in which to emerge.
However evaluation is a separate step in a cybernetic loop.
This leads us from calibrate, then act (bad) to act, then calibrate (good).
