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what does "private" actually mean once your AI prompt leaves the keyboard?
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Let's make AI the next drum machine, not a more efficient corporate overlord
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Every time I see another headline announcing mass layoffs I picture a guy driving an open-top tour bus under a bridge.
"14 ft clearance," the sign reads.
"No worries," the driver thinks. "The bus is 14 ft."
The bus will make it.
Not so much for the riders sitting on the top deck.
The driver realizes this and then affirms to himself that such things are not his responsibility. His task is to drive the bus.
Perhaps the top-deck tourists will duck. If they are “agile,” they may see what's ahead and scramble into the lower deck.
Everyone on the bus has some responsibility. But the final responsibility rests with the driver.
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Go read something you find irritating... yet persuasive.
Study it, take notes, and share the experience.
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"Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them."
-- Peter Thiel
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For a book I published back in 2020, it was sweet to see it rank #2 in "Creativity - Self Help" next to Rick Rubin.
Bestseller rankings come and go, but it's cool to give Rubin some company
Pablo Picasso struggled with dyslexia but showed early promise in art and quickly surpassed his father's skills.
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With every action you take, you improve that part of you.
If you overwork, you'll either burn out, or you'll meet your goals technically but not in spirit.
If you slouch around, you won't meet your goals, or if you do, it'll take thirty times as long.
Find what supports your creativity and spend time doing that.
Vincent van Gogh grew up in a religious family. Early on, he tried to follow a similar path but soon realized his true calling lay in art.
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I love being a writing mentor.
Client feedback:
𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥/𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Thank you justine for this praise!
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A strategy to make the most of a writing session:
1. Start by writing a list of questions.
2. Go back and answer the questions.
Put yourself on the spot. Give answers to the questions no matter what.
Your questions can follow a linear progression, or they can be random.
- My purpose is
- My purpose is not
- My gut sense for this chapter is . . .
- This piece/book/article is written for X, is about Y
- This piece/book/article is not written for X, is not about Y
- What I'm really hoping/trying/need to say here
- What else can I see here?
- How can I boil this down in a couple of sentences?
- What really matters about this?
- What am I not seeing here?
- What have I not said that is absolutely vital?
Questions get you to dig deeper towards the center of yourself and your project.
They ground you and challenge you.
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"That Made My Week" is a weekly newsletter where I share inspiring ideas and research.
Writing is an insanely beneficial and versatile skill.
It's also a means of living more fully.
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Thomas Merton, born in France to artists and raised in the United States and England, had an upbringing rich in cultural and artistic influences but marked by familial loss and instability.
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“What’s your calling” is an extremely difficult question.
It’s reasonable that people conflate it with “What’s on the career menu?”
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Great advice for aspiring creators on the power of alchemy and integrity
So you’re trying to create a business - and a new version of yourself.
Most people will not be able to fulfill their dream -
The comfortable familiar ways they’ve always been - will outweigh the discomfort they will need to endure to transform their life.
How do we consciously break through this?
We need to talk about your [P/P] Mechanism
Your:
Pain/Pleasure mechanism
All day every day this mechanism runs unconsciously inside of our bodies.
It pushes you towards pleasure and away from pain.
“oof this doesn’t feel good, let’s get away from this”
“Ooh this looks like fun, let’s do this over here”
The pain/pleasure mechanism isn’t bad per se. The Great Creator put it in you.
In the past, this mechanism helped our ancestors fight or run away from mountain lions. It’s a protection mechanism.
But today it’s become maladaptive.
Today it’s the monkey inside of you that says “You’ve made your bed today - you deserve to sit on the couch, eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, and watch Netflix”
Gaining awareness of this mechanism is the key to the life we want to create.
We need to learn our addictive pleasure-seeking behaviors. We all have an instant gratification monkey inside of us.
We have to do what’s counterintuitive and move away from instant pleasure and be still with discomfort.
Like a muscle in the gym, we need to train our body/mind to learn to sit in discomfort to become greater than it.
That’s it folks, wrapped up in a nutshell. Have a good night!
OK, JK!
But, seriously our only job as a creator is to train our bodies to do things it’s never done before and be ok with being uncomfortable doing them.
Discomfort can show up as
- confusion
- anxiety
- focusing on drama
- doubt
- fear
- easily distracted
- problems
How do we change our relationship to discomfort?
We have to do a little Buddhist practice of non-attachment to sidestep it.
Don’t worry I’m not gonna ask you to become a monk - We’re just gonna detach and change our relationship to discomfort.
Instead of being Hamlet where he perishes in the play - You’re gonna take the role of the actor playing Hamlet.
You can feel discomfort - it won’t be the end of your world. To go a step further we want to invite discomfort in every single day.
This is the razer’s edge between - your life how it is today - and the person you are becoming.
The unknown = the vision you’re moving towards.
You can feel the excitement of becoming this new person who has a different life - but then the protection [P/P] Mechanism gets activated.
All the terrible “what ifs” start overtaking your mind and body:
painful feelings and thoughts.
The body is comfortable with the life you’ve installed into it up to this point. It’s a spell that needs to be broken.
Your WILL to override discomfort is directly proportional to the energetic emotional vision you have.
(A higher consciousness perspective)
Because we don’t cognitively know exactly what it’s going to look like - our vision is based more on emotions and feelings.
I always preach:
Love - abundance - feeling unlimited - freedom - flow - autonomy
If you can create from these emotions - and train your body to have these states often - a higher state of consciousness.
You can pull your stubborn, uncomfortable body through actions that actualize these positive emotional states into your 3D reality.
You are manifesting a vision!
Your job:
help other humans remove unconscious blocks and pain from their bodies. End of story.
Whether that’s health, wealth, or relationships - we all want to feel:
Love - abundance - feeling unlimited - freedom - flow - autonomy
This has to start with you. Will you invite discomfort into your life with open arms?
Lean into it. Then rest and recover. Overcome it.
Don’t overdo it.
Find your sweet spot.
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