Stop Trying to Explain How it Worked

One should use knowledge of their previous actions in their attempt to reproduce good work, but not their theories about why they think it worked.

Certain actions produce good outcomes. You can imagine all the reasons as to why this might be, but those will not setup your next endeavour for success. Reasons are mostly fiction. Applied reasons should be expected to interfere with good functioning.

Actions are observable and remembered movements. They are a property of things that worked. The reasons for their existence are epistemically opaque and unusable.

Do not fool yourself into thinking you can decode the actions into some deeper more effective plan going forward. That is how one erodes their progress under the guise of false control.

Asking how something works is a modern tyranny infecting otherwise productive action. It is a story we tell ourselves out of vanity and pretend objectivity. It is the tainted sustenance of institutions and gurus and pundits. It is not reality.

Observe the actions that work and place them into your life as structure and lifestyle. Adapt them as you see fit, but resist the temptation to explain them; for such simplified descriptions are not steps to follow, they are fables that hold you back.

Observe, move, adapt. Leave it at that.