One of my mantras pertains to being lazy dumb wherever the environment supports it. Finally humbled, I realize that I can’t out-think “the market” on a daily basis.
The best that I can do is be intellectually honest about my goals in career, family, social doings, health and other practices, and then work earnestly, faithfully towards those goals.
Recently, I had a bit of an epiphany that one way I can apply the lazy dumb mindset is by embracing the boomerang.
What is the boomerang? Basically, it is karma, the belief that what comes around, goes around. That what you cast out is what you receive over the long haul.
But as opposed to thinking about the karmic boomerang in some comeuppance construct, I see this as more about practicing a daily exercise of faith. Faith that:
- I can craft and execute plans that don’t require a miracle for the plan to succeed.
- I and the people in my space will rise to whatever occasion is called upon us.
- I can grow a culture where working towards specific outcomes in a coordinated fashion is second nature.
- By being generous with encouragement of others (versus stingy with it), goodness will return in spades.
- By fostering an environment where people can feel good about themselves and their accomplishments, they will become inflated, and in doing so, carry us collectively aloft.
Compassion for self and others. And commitment to creating favorable gravity. It's the human capital equivalent of investing in index funds versus trying to be a stock picker.
