April 2024 Influences

Yeah! I’m here at the end of my department’s internal conference talk and I wanted to shout out too rising stars.

I’m expecting great work from these people.

Training Wheels for Building Muscle and Writing.

I’ve been to the gym a few times in my life and I don’t like it all. Yet, I’d like to build muscle and maintain my health.

That means doing weird hacks like crab walking to build forearm strength, squats for my legs, and pushups for my arms.

I don’t want this. Why am I doing this? I want to do this consistently and safely without creating injury.

Writing is an invisible muscle. You can use the written word to transform people’s lives.

On the other paw, you can sting yourself and others.

You need other people or a mirror to quadruple check your form.

As you are checking and testing you need to learn how the fundamentals and principles are applied.

It seems like magic, but behind the curtains it is Discipline.

Who is this for? We don’t know. People want value yet some people like video, audio, text, etc.

Okay, I want to know the practice that will completely work all the time.

No. That doesn’t exist. To find yourself, yourself you need different mirrors (bathroom mirror/scale, wardrobe, selfie stick).

People like different attributes of you.

You can only be you.

Start with that one bizarre neuron. Then those people and mirrors in your life will appear.

Review your form daily.

Then make the next 14 difficult choices to make.