Comments on: On Clicks http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/ Meditations on strategy and life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Justin Mares http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14370 Justin Mares Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:28:32 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14370 I am COO of a company, CloudFab, that is in the open hardware space and knew John would be interested. I was up in Boston for business and just emailed him to see if he wanted to meet up. He's a really interesting guy and has a really good grasp of everything that's going on in the space - definitely one of my favorite bloggers. I am COO of a company, CloudFab, that is in the open hardware space and knew John would be interested. I was up in Boston for business and just emailed him to see if he wanted to meet up. He’s a really interesting guy and has a really good grasp of everything that’s going on in the space – definitely one of my favorite bloggers.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14366 Ryan Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:56:58 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14366 How's you meet John? How’s you meet John?

]]> By: Justin Mares http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14362 Justin Mares Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:18:14 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-14362 I just had the same click about tactics and strategy in the past 2 weeks as well. It took months of reading PG's essays, your archives, Seneca and Meditations, and a meeting with John Robb, but it all finally clicked for me. I have a lot left to learn, but am already starting to see things a bit differently. Thanks for the help. I just had the same click about tactics and strategy in the past 2 weeks as well. It took months of reading PG’s essays, your archives, Seneca and Meditations, and a meeting with John Robb, but it all finally clicked for me.

I have a lot left to learn, but am already starting to see things a bit differently. Thanks for the help.

]]> By: ghent http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9065 ghent Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:27:59 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9065 Do you know about procedural and declarative memory? That's what you're referring to. Do you know about procedural and declarative memory? That’s what you’re referring to.

]]> By: Johnny C http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9064 Johnny C Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:55:40 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9064 Corkhead -- it doesn't sound like you're working at it at all. Feeling that some vague concepts of reality click into some amorphous blob of understanding is meaningless unless you can figure out what the hell it is. If you're more concerned with the score of the Bills game and the day's paperwork than about developing your thoughts, then I doubt you've really had that transcendental 'click'. Re-reading Greene's books won't do shit for you until you've are striving for something specific. Corkhead — it doesn’t sound like you’re working at it at all. Feeling that some vague concepts of reality click into some amorphous blob of understanding is meaningless unless you can figure out what the hell it is.

If you’re more concerned with the score of the Bills game and the day’s paperwork than about developing your thoughts, then I doubt you’ve really had that transcendental ‘click’.

Re-reading Greene’s books won’t do shit for you until you’ve are striving for something specific.

]]> By: corkhead32 http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9063 corkhead32 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:11:46 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9063 But what happens when the click is false? I feel like I've felt these "clicks" many times, only to go back to the way things were shortly later. There are times when I've felt supremely confident, thought something had "clicked", only to see it fade days or so later. There are times I have read ideas, that seem to open a new understanding as to how our reality is, only to see their importance fade shortly later, and to resume a normal everyday life based on the same thinking. Sometimes great ideas produce great returns, but how do you manage to maintain your strategies when they are not providing results? Should I read those Robert Greene books over, or is experience the only true way to make them stick? I'm more and more beginning agree with Oscar Wilde, that "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." That and that implementing is MUCH harder than understanding. But what happens when the click is false? I feel like I’ve felt these “clicks” many times, only to go back to the way things were shortly later. There are times when I’ve felt supremely confident, thought something had “clicked”, only to see it fade days or so later. There are times I have read ideas, that seem to open a new understanding as to how our reality is, only to see their importance fade shortly later, and to resume a normal everyday life based on the same thinking. Sometimes great ideas produce great returns, but how do you manage to maintain your strategies when they are not providing results? Should I read those Robert Greene books over, or is experience the only true way to make them stick? I’m more and more beginning agree with Oscar Wilde, that “nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” That and that implementing is MUCH harder than understanding.

]]> By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9062 Ryan Holiday Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:19:20 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9062 It doesn't have to be scary and you don't have to throw yourself into fucking quantum physics. You can venture outwardly slowly, it doesn't matter. But sticking with what you know is ultimately the scariest path because everyday it becomes a smaller piece of an exponentially larger pie. It doesn’t have to be scary and you don’t have to throw yourself into fucking quantum physics. You can venture outwardly slowly, it doesn’t matter.

But sticking with what you know is ultimately the scariest path because everyday it becomes a smaller piece of an exponentially larger pie.

]]> By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9061 Ryan Holiday Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:14:52 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9061 Someone can go more in depth but essentially, tactics vs strategy goes like this: Tactics are the what (marching six miles and engaging the enemy) and strategy is the why (we're looking to show the enemy our dogged determination with relentless attacks) Strategic is your overall mission/goal/endeavor/mindset and tactics are the day-to-day operational steps Someone can go more in depth but essentially, tactics vs strategy goes like this:

Tactics are the what (marching six miles and engaging the enemy) and strategy is the why (we’re looking to show the enemy our dogged determination with relentless attacks)

Strategic is your overall mission/goal/endeavor/mindset and tactics are the day-to-day operational steps

]]> By: Alex http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9060 Alex Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:04 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9060 "Then dive back into the confusion and bombard yourself with new material until it happens again." That willing and welcoming dive, as you call it, back into an uncomfortable area of study sounds very romanticized to me. Confusion can lead to frustration and frustration can lead to disillusionment and failure. The emotional willingness to put yourself academically,or in any area of personal investment, into danger acknowledges a Socratic understanding of relative ability. I'm a "B" student type of person and have trouble getting past that area of clear ability into a real accomplishment. Preoccupation with the instability of confusion can be a difficult obstacle to overcome and has kept me down in the past. Good for you that you've conquered that step. Congrats, man. “Then dive back into the confusion and bombard yourself with new material until it happens again.”

That willing and welcoming dive, as you call it, back into an uncomfortable area of study sounds very romanticized to me. Confusion can lead to frustration and frustration can lead to disillusionment and failure. The emotional willingness to put yourself academically,or in any area of personal investment, into danger acknowledges a Socratic understanding of relative ability.

I’m a “B” student type of person and have trouble getting past that area of clear ability into a real accomplishment. Preoccupation with the instability of confusion can be a difficult obstacle to overcome and has kept me down in the past. Good for you that you’ve conquered that step. Congrats, man.

]]> By: Ilan Bouchard http://www.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9059 Ilan Bouchard Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:05:30 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/on-clicks/#comment-9059 Could you elaborate on what you mean by the difference between tactic and strategy? Could you elaborate on what you mean by the difference between tactic and strategy?

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