Obsessing over human behaviour | Writing about human functioning in a world designed to bring it down | ex-athlete, ex-sales
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I’ve managed a sales team, and one of the biggest things I learned that separates good performance from bad wasn’t skills.
It was capacity.
How much of the person actually shows up.
Fully present.
Physically energetic.
Mentally sharp.
Engaged.
A half-drained person isn’t fully there.
Takes the easy route. Do less than they’re capable of. Just tries to get through the day.
Not because the ability is gone.
Because there’s no energy left to access it.
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High self-awareness is a double-edged sword.
It can be your best tool or your biggest source of mental load.
This is what I’ve learned, and how I use it in my favour, not against me:
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High self-awareness is a double-edged sword.
It can be your best tool or your biggest source of mental load.
This is what I’ve learned, and how I use it in my favour, not against me:
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7/ I set a threshold for action
Not everything requires a response.
Some things are worth noticing and then simply leaving alone.
Constantly trying to correct the course is its own form of drain on the mental battery, ironically.
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8/ I use awareness to become aware of my awareness, and recover instead
Some days the highest-leverage move is to stop the monitoring.
Constant monitoring itself is the cost. You need your mental battery for other tasks.
Ironically, the awareness of being highly aware is what now stops me from spiralling too often. I just think: enough. That’s it. And then I move on.
Used poorly, awareness lets you see all the bad things. Used with intention, it becomes one of the main ways to consistently operate near your full capacity.
The aim is not to notice everything.
It’s to notice what moves the needle, and then act on it.
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AI is like a mirror. It either expands your ceiling, or accelerates depletion, depending on how it’s used.
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The problem with low baseline human capacity:
Low capacity → waiting for motivation → less action → less experience/confidence → weaker identity → more waiting
The days you have high energy, your drive follows. Notice how you just do things. Because you’re capable, it comes naturally.
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I’ve learned that sometimes the best way to improve ourselves is to out-smart ourselves. We’re wired to over-analyze bad days, but never study the best days.
Flip the script, study the good days. The inputs, decisions and behaviour leading up to it, and recreate it.
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