Exit Music (notes)

I keep re-learning about conditions versus consequences. In a conditions-first model, we create the conditions that make the next step possible. The next step unfolds out of the first step. This is the recursive model of momentum – we are continually creating the conditions for the natural unfolding of the next thing.

The standard model of productive/creative momentum is the iterative model, which is the opposite of the recursive model. In the iterative model, we do one thing on the list, then we do the next thing. Stringing together done-things-on-the-list is the game. This is fine unless you are one of those strange people who needs access to a deep pool of motivation for every single stupid task you are trying to get your stupid brain to do. Then, the iterative model can break, as it assumes that motivation is either intrinsic to each task, or comes from somewhere outside of the task.

At the moment, I seem to be one of those people to a sometimes pretty pathological level. So I need this task to be energised by a powerful motivation, and I need this task to naturally create the powerful motivation for the next one.