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Know What You Want, Act; Overthinking Hinders

Re introspection After I graduated from college and did not get offered a full-time job at the NYT where I was an intern, I decided to spend a month hiking on the Appalachian Trail to do some reflecting on what I wanted from life. Just three days in I remember journaling that I definitely still wanted to be a reporter. I spent the rest of the 200+ miles getting over a breakup, unplugging from technology, and reading Game of Thrones. If you know what you want to do and just pursue that goal, it is much easier to achieve than constantly reassessing and introspecting. But perhaps Andreessen thinks I should have introspected more given the career I chose. To some degree the need for introspection is about whether you are getting major things wrong or not. Obviously having some internal check-ins is one way to try to see. Avoiding introspecting fastidiously would seem to me to be a sign that your subconscious thinks you might be bothered by your actions if you introspected. Andreessen’s anti-introspection posture is particularly eyebrow raising given he also seems to avoid tough external questions. So we have someone with a penchant for nihilism and lust for power who is setting up every wall he can to avoid interrogating his drives.