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393 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 13 Apr \ on: Some thoughts on success mostly_harmless
I usually say "I do what I want" which largely means playing to my strengths (and where I put my past efforts to validate O'Keefe). I try to be aware of my weakness and its cast that I mold into, but I don't try to break the cast directly. I'd rather grow where the cast doesn't constrain me as if my weakness is an involuntary neck ring helping transform me into a valuable mutant.
It's only a recent theory to me, but I think using your strengths to workaround weakness is a source of invention. It's the single most available source I've found at least, a source of mutant solutions some of which will occupy a significant niche before growing into a proper species.
It might help that I've always been a kind of mutant (or at least treated like one) and competing on being normal and well adjusted has never been an option. Stocker excelled at being normal and what people expected of him by his own account. As a mutant, I wonder what pressure could exist to make him risk the likely ruin of being a mutant?
I like the neck ring metaphor.
I had a version of this when I was a kid, growing up in the country without a lot of kids around who wanted to play basketball with me, so I just played in the driveway by myself. I developed this really weird style. When I played with other kids, years later, I was brilliant at some stuff, terrible at some others. It was like basketball having evolved on another planet.
I will ponder the "mutant solutions" idea more.
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