AchievingGet good at something.
The visible part. You pick something hard — the game, the company, the body of work — and you spend years trying to be better at it than you were. Most of a life's effort goes here, and almost none of it gets written down. You remember your best night, your worst night, and very little in between.
Enwaken Life Book
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Polar
Luck and skill, separated, for players who take tournament poker seriously.
Get your bearingsIn development
BecomingBecome someone.
The invisible part. Getting good at the thing changes the person doing it: what you can sit with, how you handle a bad run, what you do when nobody is counting. People call this growth and then measure none of it — which is strange, because a record of the achieving is also a record of the becoming.
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Logbook
A plain record of what your days are actually like, checked against what you expected.
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EnwakeningSee it for what it is.
Under the achieving and the becoming is the experience itself, which has been running the whole time, unrecorded and free. Achieving and becoming are the story you need, and a good one. But they were never the point. Noticing that is what we call Enwakening.
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Enwakenment
A plain-English take on the end of the story, written for skeptics, not seekers. Built on work done with Robert Scheinfeld, and his blessing.
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