🔬 Life Experiment 10, 2021

Hey There.

So I managed to upgrade my workshop desk a bit:

Since some questions in this direction popped up. Yes, I actually went to the hardware store and bought wood, cut the pieces and assembled the whole thing 🙂

Now I have to downgrade my desks 🙁 For the first week, this:

should do. It's a Corona Hotel in Germany, so I'm happy with what I've got.

I'm on the road again for next month and a half. I'm not super excited about it. Bit, it will be fun.

Besides preparing for the trip, I was on vacation doing what I like most. Chatting with other creators, thinking, writing and reading. I also worked every day on the thinking through writing guide—a sub-product of last week of thinking blow.

🔬 Weekly experiment 9, 2021

Fauxductivy or also known as positive procrastination.

Term fauxductivity appeared around 2009, but I couldn't find its exact origin. I'm not gonna go into details about the term. You can google about it and see what fauxductivity is for yourself. Let's see if you get the hint 😛

I want to give you two examples of positive procrastination that I struggle with the most:

1.) Reading and knowledge hoarding.

2.) Skill learning is not getting shit done.

When we read a book, article, blog post, we are feeling productive because we can convince ourselves that the knowledge we acquired will help us at some point in the future, instead of focusing on something that would produce results right now.

We are not completely wasting our time, but we kind or are.

But the second one is a bigger issue for me.

2.) Skill learning is not getting shit done.

Recently I noticed that I hone some of the skills I have, like coding, writing, research processes, equation derivations, instead of using them.

Now it's absolutely important to polish your craft. But who cares about the craft if you don't use it. I'm not talking about hobbies for fun here.

If you're, let's say, an online sales expert. You should do your research, stay up to date with the game, but if you're not practising the skills you obtained by converting the into hard $$, you're doing something wrong.

It makes complete sense, but I caught myself doing exactly this. Over and over again. Practising the skill but not using it. Sure, in a different context, but still.

The same thing is when we try to signal to others that we are good at a specific thing. We brag about what we can do instead of actually doing it. So instead of: All words no action. Few words, just action.

The last part of the skill trap is growing for the sake of growth.

When we learn something or improve in something, it's extremely satisfying.

If we get addicted to that feeling, we can lose sight of what's important. Don't lose sight of what's important and why you decided to learn the skill in the first place.

For example, I learned to code to be able to build my own knowledge system/digital brain. I've built one tailored to my needs.

But to often on the journey, I would catch my self-learning how to code instead of actually coding. Once I stepped out of the hamster wheel, I suddenly started finishing coding tasks.

I discovered the above "traps" through journaling and mingling with other creators.

Now it's your turn

Thinking 🤔 experiments

Do a journaling exercise. You know the drill. Take the pen and paper and do some thinking 🤔 through writing ✍️.

Try to analyze your life patterns through two lenses:

• fauxductivity
• skill attachment

You might not discover much, but you'll place the concept in the back of your mind, and sooner or later, patterns will start to appear—patterns in places you never imagined.

Holy shit moments, Holy crap, ... kind of moments should appear. If they don't, you didn't really go deep enough.

Let me know what you find out.

Ziga

P.S. How are we doing with gummy bears?