Set the bar high enough that they stretch to reach it and low enough that they do not strain.

– Osasu Oviawe

Walking in the dark heightens dependence on the other four senses and activates the sixth sense.

Without seeing where we are going, we move with caution, reaching for the familiar as a guide to our next step.

Speed is deprioritized because direction is the only protection from harm. We quickly learn that stillness is the source of all direction. Stillness is not surrender, but connection to the environment. And in that connection, everything becomes one.

No one knows what tomorrow brings, but the discerning know what it requires: direction, with an adjustable pace.

Moving steadily towards the day that the light never runs out.

– Osasu Oviawe

Storms uproot what no longer fits. The mess in their wake is an opportunity to clear house. And if the house is not clean enough, they will tear it down again and again until only what is necessary stands.

The storm never passes until you pass its test.

A test to declutter everything that does not serve your roots.

– Osasu Oviawe

Love is our beauty.

– Osasu Oviawe

Your body is shaped by training: willful or unwillful.

So is the mind.

The goal is to continually increase attention to willful training.

– Osasu Oviawe

Dreams are conceived at night but birthed at dawn.

Early dawns sharpen them.

Long days test them.

Late dusks strengthen them.

– Osasu Oviawe

For the prayers that were not answered, I thank you, Lord.

– Osasu Oviawe

Patterns are not destiny.

You can break them and form new ones.

– Osasu Oviawe

One good friend—that’s all a man has ever needed.

Having one more is a blessing.

Having any more is a curse.

– Osasu Oviawe

I do not lose attention easily, but I get bored easily.

It’s a gift and a curse.

I see things through, including things that no longer light a spark in me.

It has served me well because doing boring things for long periods is a competitive advantage.

But it can also be a drain.

This is the dilemma I am currently training my agentic AI on: filtering things that are boring as a feature from things that are boring as a bug, and cutting off bugs.

– Osasu Oviawe