I think the key to "going against" any of these principles is to do so with self-awareness and intentionality. E.g. taking a step back from networking to be explicitly more relaxed or heads down for a period, or intentionally "getting comfortable" in order to avoid the possible stress of keeping up with the latest everything.
If you stop networking or get comfortable because you're just on auto-pilot and not paying attention, you're going to have a bad time when you notice you're pretty out of touch and grumpy about all the new things that come out.
What a succinct, helpful post!
I think the key to "going against" any of these principles is to do so with self-awareness and intentionality. E.g. taking a step back from networking to be explicitly more relaxed or heads down for a period, or intentionally "getting comfortable" in order to avoid the possible stress of keeping up with the latest everything.
If you stop networking or get comfortable because you're just on auto-pilot and not paying attention, you're going to have a bad time when you notice you're pretty out of touch and grumpy about all the new things that come out.
That's exactly where I was going with this - you should be intentional about whatever it is you want instead of letting things happen to you.
Yeah, great stuff.