This Week I Learned #80
“Go to bed smarter than when you woke up”
2019-12-09
Neil Pasricha’s podcast interview with Chase Jarvis. I’ve known of Neil’s books for some time and listened to a few of his talks in the past but this interview was quite exciting as it goes deeper into his journey. As someone who likes to write and is obsessed with helping people, it’s a career story that hit home. His books didnt sell millions of copies even though major book publications determined they were not worth being reviewed. He wrote books for himself and his family and it seems like such a writing style struck a chord with people. Neil has never received professional training as a writer and his blog turned into his first book. He wrote 7 books over some 5 years while working full-time at Wal-mart in their Leadership Development team and only recently decided to leave the corporate world to go full-time into his writing. Overall, a very fascinating journey that acts as a point of inspiration for me. https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/resilience-and-going-untouchable-with-neil-pasricha/
2019-12-10
Alan Watts lecture on not taking life so seriously. A reframe to treat everything as play to refrain from creating tension. Tension may lead to associating the action with suffering. When we consider how children stop reading once it is translated to being “work” by school… we realize that telling someone to do something is not a great way for them to start liking it, even if they might have a natural proclivity for that activity. Keeping the process spontaneous and allowing people to choose to do things spontaneously for the pleasure of the task will translate to it having greater results than if it were labeled as work. Strive to label activities as play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtGyTHU138
2019-12-11
“The angels fly because they take themselves so lightly” - Nietzsche
2019-12-12
Short lecture by Alan Watts on waking up. Quite a profound video for me. A beautiful view to crack the illusion of what wealth is believed to be compared to what it truly is. A reframe of understanding that choosing self is actually an act of choosing others and how accepting death is the path the life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzeCv_WFnY
2019-12-13
"For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present" - Alan Watts