the graph that changed my life forever

i was watching this video by [[ daniel barada ]] called Daniel Barada – the graph that changed my life forever and there was this concept in one of his section where talked about the graph that changed his life.

imagine two lines on a graph. one line is how well you remember what you did. the other is how much return you get from it.

in the beginning, memory is high, and results are low. you just started meditating for example, so you remember every session, but you feel like it’s doing nothing.

years go by. you’re calm, focused, and emotionally centered. but you don’t even remember how it started.

this is where most people lose the game. they give up early, while memory is still high, but results haven’t kicked in.

they start believing it’s all pointless, right before the curve was about to explode upward.

and i found this concept to be so interesting because it something that is of a similar vein to you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.,

and since we’re technically unable to know when ‘our graph is going to explode’, it often ends up with us living in replays, or at least in this case, this is where i often find myself trying to find some solace in uncertain situations especially about the future.