Consistency Is A Form Of Intelligence

Consistency is a form of intelligence.

The more reps you get in, the bigger the reference set you have.

The bigger the reference set, the more nuanced your intuition becomes.

The more nuanced your intuition, the smarter your decisions.

The smarter your decisions,* the quicker your troubleshooting.

The quicker your troubleshooting, the higher the quality of your process becomes.

And if you have a high quality process with quick troubleshooting abilities, smart decisions, strong intuition, and a history of reps - you've got intelligence on your hands.

Your intelligence is based on your attention.

And one of the biggest lessons of this Personal Archive project is how practiced my idea-connecting has become.

It used to be unstructured ADHD.

The only real focuses I had for my scatterbrained energy used to be directed into music when I was a teenager and young adult.

I couldn't replace that when I stopped being creative in that way with work, try as I did (and oh did I try!).

But starting this project and getting in the habit of making notes, connecting dots, and writing down the constellations between starred ideas my ADHD picks up on - I count that as an intelligence.

It's not an accident. It's practice to uncover structure. The habit of repeating that structure isn't just intentionality, but an act of love - and, I'll say it a million times, "you know what love is."

*Which doesn't always equal being less wrong or tempting errors (!)