Could You Try Not Aiming So Much?
'Could you try not aiming so much?' he asked me, still standing there. 'If you hit when you aim, it'll just be luck.' That's from Salinger's story Seymour: An Introduction. I only read those words today, but I've been thinking about the topic of aiming and Aiming for a while now, since I wrote my last post here in fact, about erasing my resolutions. There seems to be two kinds of aiming -- in the story, Buddy distinguishes them with capitalisation: Aiming and aiming. "aiming" is very self-consciously considering how to achieve, focusing on the target with extra cognitive baggage laden, sure to distract and make you miss. You're thinking about the specific mechanics, you're thinking about how it will look when you achieve, you're thinking about what impression you will give to the world having done it. "Aiming", on the other hand, is, as I interpret it anyway, removing the super self-conscious element, and do...