I'm trying to compare self-starting/taking intiative/taking responsibility/entrepreneurship with how we can get warm when you're cold. Let's say it's Winter and you're cold. You can either... 1. Find more clothes to put on 2. Drink or eat something warm 3. Get up and move to warm yourself up I'm thinking that at the heart of starting something from scratch, you need to get up and move to warm yourself up first. It's the most accessible, tool-free, dependency-free way of "warming up". The other two options always make you depend on something else. If you're cold but don't have more clothes to put on, you're still cold and frustrated. If you're cold but you don't have anything warm to drink or eat, you're still cold and frustrated. I think I too often rely on adding more external resources to solve my temperature problem when, all the while, I had the chance to just get up and move. Depending on something or someone is not inherintely "bad." Entrepreneurship isn't about taking action alone. It does matter where you start though. If you want to solve a problem - like being cold, or being broke, or being bored, or being lonely, or being sick - and always start by looking for something or someone else to help you solve it, and for whatever reason that resource isn't available right now, you'll remain stuck and frustrated. Your fate, if you only choose resources to get you warm again, is not in your own hands because it depends on luck of access to resources. ## What to do when you have nothing? So, what do you do when you're "naked" and "cold" and have no "clothes" or "warm food"-type resources? To warm up, you'll have to get up and get moving. I'm training right now to literally warm up and energize more often through [[How to sit less and move more]] but I believe this idea extends to practically any other domain in my life. If that's true I don't know yet though. This also reminds me of [[The brain's default-mode is to conserve energy]] as well as [[ Enlightenment Now - Chapter 2 - Entro, evo, info by Steven Pinker]].