Shadow Work

Notes:

• I’ve experienced a very long string of this kind of thing happening. For about 2 years now, it seems like every time I make a plan for something, something bad happens and interrupts the plan.
• I have to ask myself: what part of me wants this? What am I secretly getting out of this experience of constantly having to overcome some terrible obstacle?
• Is there a way for me to get the experience I want without it being so destructive in my life?

Concluding thoughts:

• Why develop your mind? It often seems abstract and distant, but in extreme situations, the value becomes clearer.
• Developing your mind and developing mental models means you have tools to deploy that most people don’t have.
• End result: you suffer less than you would otherwise. Gives you more agency than most people have.