This week I noticed two mistakes. Mistakes that in some ways contradict my thinking and my goal, but actually they too are part of the house under renovation. Being able to see them, recognize them, and act on them is perhaps the best thing I could do.
But what mistakes am I talking about?
Dinner with Friends: when lightness is missing
One concerns last night’s dinner with Friends. Friends who are new in terms of time, but as I always say about time, they’re new for the physical timeline but not the perceptual one. We meet, laugh, joke and talk. Yet another demonstration of how time has different values. They’re nice and pleasant people with whom, speaking specifically about me, I feel good. And like them, other “recent” ones born from chats in front of school while taking Marco and Amelia to elementary or kindergarten.
But what mistake could have come from this situation? Simplicity, or rather lightness.
Last night while we were playing board games, especially the fast ones where you have to respond immediately and the answers should be potentially playful or at least immediate, I lacked freshness. Even at Taboo, a game I’ve always loved and usually did well at, I was bad. So much so that Greta exclaimed: “Strange, you usually do well, you like it!” Our friend on the other games, jokingly, told me I think too much, but then on Taboo, still smiling, said: “Damn, I was hoping we’d win, I had my ChatGPT on the team.”
Probably yesterday I wasn’t physically fit. Some aches in recent days and especially yesterday the headache that stayed with me from late morning and late afternoon had an effect. It had an effect because by lowering defenses some thoughts re-emerged. Nothing serious, nothing impossible, nothing particular, but it’s like an enemy that took advantage of lowered defense. All managed, and indeed the evening also helped a lot. As I always say, with the right people a lot can come.
But I don’t think only that affected the games, maybe Taboo but not the others.
The knot: rigidity where lightness is needed
Ok, I’ve always been less reactive on some games, especially with certain components. But maybe that’s the issue. The famous renovation is proceeding and going well, but it must also focus on activating lightness, that simplicity capable of helping and relaxing.
Because in some moments it’s true you need to think less, but not in the “old” view of “don’t think, act” because it’s almost a movie phrase, excuse the term, but not very concrete. As I keep saying, you need to have a systematic approach, you almost need to be a Wolf in certain situations, and there the action, the immediacy comes from experience and systematic approach. People, analyzing in depth, see it and understand. If they don’t, they just think the generic “Ah that one acts and doesn’t think.”
But the lightness I’m talking about is different. In some moments, and games are magical in this sense, you shouldn’t let go with almost rigidity and work the thoughts, but remember that it’s a moment of relaxation. A moment where you need to let the mind go and live the moment with serenity. Be light and therefore approach everything with the right simplicity. Then yes, in some games our abilities help, but knowing how to detach and activate this lightness makes the difference.
Last night I saw it, I understood it. Now I need to apply it.
The other mistake: AI without human at the center
But the other mistake? I made it here on the blog and with AI. Holy moly, as I say.
I always say that AI must be the tool with human at the center, it’s my work mantra, I say it and teach it and then… I make the mistake here. The summaries you see on the home page I’ve never honestly re-read, but I just helped myself with AI and did simple copy and paste. And here’s the mistake: I hadn’t given real instructions, I hadn’t given my eye, and as a result they seem almost like telegraphic posts.
But it’s fine, it’s my glass I can’t find in the renovation box.
The glass in the wrong box
Both mistakes, if you think about it, are the same problem seen from different angles.
At dinner with Friends, the glass was lightness. I boxed it thinking it was “don’t think, act,” but it wasn’t that. It was “let go with serenity when the moment requires it.” Wrong box.
With the blog excerpts, the glass was human at the center. I boxed it thinking “AI does everything,” but it wasn’t that. It was “AI amplifying tool, I control and guide.” Wrong box.
I saw, recognized, and now I’m gradually correcting. With this I’m not ashamed, as I already said, of using AI, but I keep reiterating my point: human at the center and AI as amplifying tool. And the same goes for lightness: it’s not weakness, it’s not “don’t think,” it’s knowing how to let go when needed, it’s knowing how to distinguish moments where Wolf is needed and moments where serenity is needed.
Two mistakes, one lesson. The glass was there. Just in the wrong box. Now I’m moving it to the right one.