I wrote about this on January 23, 2015. It’s a really important idea.
What if you had crappy ingredients – could you bake a good cake?
What about the inputs into your life?
Food?
Fluid?
Sensory inputs – what you read, watch and listen to?
Voices – friends, people around you?
(Tonight I had pizza. The first piece tasted good. But I felt like crap afterwards. Dang. And I worked all day (Sunday) doing heavy carpentry work in my barn – but you can’t outwork a bad diet. No more dang pizza!)
I did listen to two audiobooks this weekend while I was working.
If I can have quality inputs, I can build a quality life.
It’s pretty hard to have a quality life if we have poor-quality inputs.
How are yours?
Thank goodness i can still eat pizza
. There is a lot to be said for we are what we “ingest,” spiritually, intellectually, physically.
Inputs matter. Not sure where I heard this, but it’s worth repeating: the food that fills your body forms the way you feel; the content you consume informs the way you think.
It is so funny you posted this. I literally had a lazy night the other day with long work days for my wife and I and kids sporting events and so we deferred to pizza for dinner. I woke up the next morning and walked up to my wife and said, “no more pizza, that just does not work anymore.” Ha ha, not young enough anymore for pizza to just be another thing to eat. What you consume in all aspects of life define you and I could not agree more with this post. The art is being able to control it all. The scary inputs are the ones that do not give the immediate negative reinforcement that the pizza gives now. Those are the dangerous ones.
I guess you could say that when it comes to inputs, I choose Quality 1st.
I don’t know what you guys I like cauliflower crust pizza. Good toppings on it well yeah it’s still pizza.
I am very much enjoying this series from the Shogun. Thanks Larry for your insight.