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# before the awakening: who i was in may 2025
-this is a snapshot from a school reflection exercise, about two months before the [[startup internship|wiki/research-notes/signal-processing-workflow]] that changed everything. reading it now is like reading someone else's writing.
+this is a snapshot from a school reflection exercise, about two months before the [[startup internship|signal-processing-workflow]] that changed everything. reading it now is like reading someone else's writing.
## the answers
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the beliefs: "working hard is the biggest cause of success. people can change. the meaning of life is pleasure."
-all of these would get complicated by the summer. the meaning of life shifted from pleasure to something closer to "growth" and "beauty" after conversations about humanism and rationalism. the simplistic view of hard work got nuanced by ideas about [[intentionality|wiki/strategies/prioritization]] and [[acceleration vs position|wiki/mentorship/the-stocks-metaphor]]. the confidence about change got stress-tested by actually trying to change fast under pressure.
+all of these would get complicated by the summer. the meaning of life shifted from pleasure to something closer to "growth" and "beauty" after conversations about humanism and rationalism. the simplistic view of hard work got nuanced by ideas about [[intentionality|prioritization]] and [[acceleration vs position|the-stocks-metaphor]]. the confidence about change got stress-tested by actually trying to change fast under pressure.
## the pre-awakening strengths
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- 2 years: figure out what i want to do
- long term: build cool things
-the 2-year goal ("figure out what i want to do") is the one that actually mattered. and it took about 2 months, not 2 years — because someone at a startup sat me down and had the [[agency conversation|wiki/mentorship/agency-talk]] with me.
+the 2-year goal ("figure out what i want to do") is the one that actually mattered. and it took about 2 months, not 2 years — because someone at a startup sat me down and had the [[agency conversation|agency-talk]] with me.
## why this matters
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-*see also: [[the agency talk|wiki/mentorship/agency-talk]], [[mindset shifts|wiki/things-that-worked/mindset-shifts]], [[learning from experience|wiki/strategies/learning-from-experience]]*
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+*see also: [[the agency talk|agency-talk]], [[mindset shifts|mindset-shifts]], [[learning from experience|learning-from-experience]]*
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