Take your cues from nature is the advice my grandfather gave me, and it is the best advice I’ve ever received for how to live.
Most patterns are predictable once you see them.
Here are some examples:
Fire rises. If you build it well, you can sustain it.
Water descends. You’ll always find it at the lowest point.
Seeds root down before they sprout up through the soil.
From planets, to the sun, to the moon, everything comes around in time.
Lines in nature aren’t straight.
“Stick straight” isn’t an actual phenomenon of nature.
Trees grow in spirals, as evidenced by their rings.
All of nature is fractals: the part is a microcosm of the whole.
Humans are social beings. No creature survives alone. Gravity pulls things down.
Nature proceeds in a rhythm and cycle of seasons, which mirrors the phases of the moon:
We start in darkness, build slowly, reach a peak, and then begin a slow descent back to darkness. Nothing stays at the peak.
It’s not “survival of the fittest,” but survival of the nurtured. Survival happens in groups, when there is belonging and support.
No matter what culture wants you to believe, you can’t override the laws of nature.
There’s no magic button, no miracle cure, no overnight instant growth or success. No sustaining “peak” anything. That’s just not the way it works.
Building anything takes effort, time, seasons, and cycles. It requires patience and persistence through the ebb and flow. You’ll appear to move forward and backward, like planets in retrograde. Most of the work is boring and results aren’t immediately apparent. You don’t get a harvest immediately.
Understanding how nature works helps us set realistic expectations and persist through the long arc of time.
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