• Where to begin
    • Can’t get to anywhere from anywhere
    • Seem like an open, intractable problem until you know more about where you want to end up
    • Deciding where to begin can be such a challenge, and the journey of discover so exhausting, that we often forget, (or can’t bear the thought), that the simplest (or only) way forward, might in fact be to begin again
  • Where to begin, I have come to believe, might be the single most complicated, time-consuming and important question encountered throughout life
    • Conventional wisdom suggests that the important thing is simply that we begin, somewhere: anywhere
      • Just pick
        • Circumstances serendipity
        • Somewhere and progress
      • To initiate a process of thought,
      • As a first step towards or into a conceptual terrain of the mind
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    • Often, though very much situation dependant,
    • At times the latter simplifies; other times
    • And this is fine as a productivity tip in any moment of inactive intent
      • Though it is a compromise, not a panacea
    • Most of the time the consequences of this compromise are unnoticed or inconsequential
    • But it does matter
      • Sometimes we get to choose; sometimes we don’t
      • Life is often simpler when we don’t have to choose for ourselves

  1. Aside about physical, tangible metaphors for conceptual, intangible phenomena ↩︎