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On the Intention-Action Gap and Interbecoming
Transforming Our Projects of Transformation
I want to be more capable of doing the things that I actually want to do.
I want to do things that are good for me, for others, for the world.
I have intentions and values.
I know that if I live by them, my life is going to be better than if I don’t.
At the end of the day, I will feel better when I have acted in integrity with my intentions. At the end of my life, I would regret not having lived up to my potential.
It is about bridging the gap between what my instant gratification monkey wants, and what the rational decision-maker in me wants. It’s about aligning the rider and the elephant, aligning the primitive mind with the higher mind.
About bridging the intention-action-gap. About doing what’s hard to do.
And about doing the things that are so painfully easy not to do.
Like sitting down to meditate for 10 minutes a day. Like writing a page every day to end up writing the book that you wanted to write. Like practicing the piano regularly. Like exercising three times a week. Like not getting sucked into feeds. Like using the most productive…
