WHO AM I? I'm Garett, aka Kinchasa — rad to be here among like minded folk, or at least others with the same ends of personal growth in mind. Pausing a bit on 'who I am', is a function of how I act: out of kindness and curiosity through a lens of wild possibility if only we could 'play better games' (e.g. cooperate) by bridging what I call "the great big misunderstanding" ..a broader idea for another day 😁 WHAT AM I PASSIONATE ABOUT? I heard that "passion" means ~ "something you're willing to bleed for".. if that's the case, I'm not passionate about much because I'm largely a creature of comfort, inertia and inconsistency. I certainly have a fair share of interests: whittlin' has been a nice past time, have followed stand up comedy for 20 years and made fits and starts at it for 20 years, grew up all skate or die and have been getting back into it which has been cool. Zooming out I suppose I'm passionate about storytelling. I want to LIVE a cool story though, connected to cool, leveled up people (by a less conventional rubric of "cool" ofc). WHAT IS MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE? Lack of discipline, overthinking shit, mild vices e.g. Zyn etc endemic of broader compulsive behavior. Perhaps I should frame it in a more compelling way though. I guess.. my biggest challenge is seeing the current pain I must face to level up, as miniscule to the pain I'll feel later in regret if I don't do the hard shit now. Also my refusal to dial back my ambitions makes them such a farce, when reconciled with where I'm at and the current velocity of change I'm making (near statis atm). I should know when I'm in a RUT, on a good ROUTE toward ROUTINE and find means of drilling it in ROTE. There's my alliterative writing exercise for the day 😅