I wrote a long-form post on Transcending Regret, Problems, and Mistakes, exploring this ~koan: > "If you had a chance for a do-over, would you choose for everything to go exactly the same? > If not, you have not yet surrendered." malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
Transcending regret and the do-over koan
4 tweets · December 2017 · 53 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
Shoutout to @Meaningness, whose writing on the fluid mode was part of what helped me figure some of this stuff out. I think that my post itself is also a contribution to the ongoing quest to articulate meta-systematicity.
Also this @wondermarkfeed comic is a hilarious take on this koan. 🙃 wondermark.com/c1481/
What I like about this comic—one thing, at least—is that it's still post-regret in the sense that it's not looking for the RIGHT thing to do; it's not fix oriented. Perhaps there are two sane do-over stances, one being to do everything the same; the other, nothing