Garrett Kincaid
I’m WRITING to embrace uncertainty and live with clarity. Every month, I update my LOGS with my latest batch of half-epiphanies. And if an idea is good enough, I’ll add it to my library of APHORISMS. For some context, you can read a bit ABOUT me.
I’m also COACHING to help online writers become better self-editors.
With everything I write, my goal is to help you practice introspection. If you want my essays delivered straight to your inbox, subscribe to The Intronaut. Every issue includes a Springboard, which is a carefully crafted question to help you dive inwards.
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My Best APHORISMS
- There is no best way to go, but there is a worst way: to follow.
- Be an intellectual nomad; don’t dwell in dogma.
- Change is the only certainty. To be certain of anything else is to be in denial of change.
- We humans have these infinite concepts of what could be, yet we are stuck in the finite concrete of reality.
- The only path to greener grass is to tend to your lawn.
- Success comes from repeated failure. If you want fertile soil, mix in manure.
- Say what you know is unsaid.
My Latest LOGS
June 6 Remain ever-open to receive the truth when it is presented to you. That means remaining ever-open to the likelihood that what you know to be true is not.
"Should I stay or should I—" "Go."
What's the most stable environment on Earth? The bottom of the ocean. What is the most volatile environment on Earth? The top of the mountain.
There's something to the fact that the symbol of Catholicism (Christianity), the crucifix, depicts God as immutably stable, static, and suffering. The message is that He suffered for us, and that we ought to remember that, and that the way to survive and succeed is to remain faithful as you endure suffering. For all Eastern deities, the symbols are much different. Everything is fluid and unstable, and gods like Shiva are depicted dancing atop puny humans. Or, the god is depicted as seated in meditation, which is a voluntary stillness unlike Christ's on the cross. The message in the Eastern symbolism is that this world is a mix of order and chaos, and you need to look to God to find your way through it all, and that the solution involves both play (dancing) and stillness (mediation).
"How much barbecue sauce would you like?" "More."
If you want to remember something, write it down. You don't have to re-read it later; just write it down. By writing it down, you enrich the experience, expand the idea — hacking your brain into giving it priority storage. You will remember the best of what you write down. And of the things you fail to write down, you will forget the best.