Chris Liss on Nostr: Often I wake up and see no way I can get anything useful or difficult done. It’s ...

Often I wake up and see no way I can get anything useful or difficult done. It’s like I’m paralyzed into doomscrolling and thinking and theorizing, and doing anything is impossible, just too daunting. It’s like Xeno’s Paradox, to move one foot, you have to move six inches, and to move six inches you have to move three, and to move three you have to move 1.5, and so on. There are an infinite number of steps you’d have to take, so you can never cross the chasm from thought into action.

And then I put on my running shoes and walk out the door.

There is no bridge from the mind into the world of action except action. To refute Xeno’s paradox you could argue the limit as the denominator heads to infinity is zero, or you can just take a step.