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commitment is the only secret knowledge - by Isabel

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This is the first in a multi-part essay series on commitment, consumption and creation. I am quite interested in how consumption and creation interact, and how we can become more creative by committing more deeply to self-expression. Subscribe here to get the next part: Subscribe to Mind Mine Any time you ask anyone particularly skilled what their ‘secret’ is, they will probably tell you that it is the thing have done consistently for a very long time. They may attribute all their glory, success and power to this thing. They might say it is the answer to everything they wanted, needed and desired. But it is typically not The Thing itself that is magical, but the person’s devotion to it. Their commitment—the consistency of showing up repeatedly with the belief that it was going to help them. When we are in a state of disarray, confusion, or insecurity, we can begin to attach to The Thing they cited, thinking that it is the secret knowledge—instead of paying attention to the underlying m

The Reader and the Cat by Saoud Abdullah, 2018 Any time you ask anyone particularly skilled what their ‘secret’ is, they will probably tell you that it is the thing have done consistently for a very long time. They may attribute all their glory, success and power to this thing. They might say it is the answer to everything they wanted, needed and desired. But it is typically not The Thing itself that is magical, but the person’s devotion to it. Their commitment—the consistency of showing up repeatedly with the belief that it was going to help them. When we are in a state of disarray,…

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