At the surface level, it's the superficial but necessary day-to-day operations. Inputting correct commands, following step-by-step instructions or executing a set of procedures.

At a layer beneath, it's how you interact with your immediate environment. Gauging hypothetical scenarios and weighing possible outcomes, taking certain actions and dealing with the consequences, understanding the interplay of tactics and strategy.

At the core, it's how you present yourself to the world and how you participate in life. Valuing contribution over profit, pursuing knowledge for its own sake, seeing yourself not as an island but intricately connected to the people around you.

Without the process, winning causes suffering.

The terrain becomes a battlefield. People compete with one another at each other's expense, grades become more significant than the welfare of children, employees are regarded as mere tools for the bottom-line.

The process transforms selfishness into selflessness.

Success is achieved via mutual support. The infinite game is played and zero-sum rules are cancelled out. Short-term sacrifices based on collective responsibility are enacted because they're not only sustainable but have better long-term payoffs for everyone.

My attempt to rid myself of the mindset that has run havoc on most of my life, an unhealthy fixation on the outcome that has gotten me nowhere. I believe it doesn't just affect me, but holds us all hostage.

These notes are mementos that the process is all that matters. Without constant reminders the lessons learned will always be forgotten, because at every moment the industrial complex is exploiting us with harmful schemes (based on immediate gratification) that turn us into depleted energy sources so it can continue to thrive.

The process is the only antidote we have for results.