I just had an interesting conversation with Claude.ai that started by asking how to shift your mindset from blogging to taking notes using the evergreen note method. It overwhelmed me with its response but a key takeaway was to shift from a diary approach of “What I did today” to “What am I exploring”
What this made me realize was that I’m often stuck in the details of what I’m exploring so much so that I often forget what I’m exploring. This effectively feels like being stuck in a maze, going in circles, because your viewing things very close to ground rather than having a strategic birds-eye perspective of things.
Realizing what Claude.ai was talking about, I asked it if it meant that I should focus on patterns rather than talking about the details of the patterns so much and it said that’s exactly what it meant.
Why this is important is because this is something I’ve known for a while but have yet been able to construct and organize upon a website, rather than just within my mind.
Basically my internal mind approach is as follows.
See the patterns.
See the relationships between the patterns.
See the identity and big picture of the system emerging overall.
Again how to show this on a website is what I struggle with but I think an evergreen notes method of interlinking smaller, atomic notes would help achieve it. Yet I struggle with how to start this.
Anyways when I realized what it was telling me to shift my mindset, I asked it if it could be applied to shifting one’s mindset for vertical development and it said it could.
It said to focus on patterns that relate to transforming yourself and your mindset, like 1) perspective-holding capacity (i.e. open to multiple perspectives), 2) identity transition (ie letting go of expert mindset), and 3) paradox navigation (i.e. letting go of seeking closure).
This approach, focusing on patterns, creates something that one can stand upon within the detailed flow that creates the pattern itself.
In closing, Claude.ai indicated the following which really hit home in terms of how I’ve been feeling lately. Both in terms of feeling stuck but also being able to stop and sort of rise above the flow in a liminal moment, witnessing it pass me by without it overwhelming me.
Instead of seeing your “stuck-ness” as failure, you’re tracking how your capacity to hold complexity is actually developing, even when it doesn’t feel like it.