"If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere, and the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life." - Joseph Campbell
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This broke me man...wow...
One of my HIGHEST values is being the most loving, present & supportive Dad I can be
It's the same for every single man I coach
I think we all had our fair share of B.S from our parents
(God bless them, they were doing the best they could with what they had conditioning wise)
The question is do we want to continue that cycle with our own children
That's why it's vital to SLOW DOWN
Learn to accept & love ourselves fully
And let go of all the survival OS...
That stops us from being fully present in our lives
Takes a lot of courage
But I can't think of a more noble endevour
ESPECIALLY important in these uncertain times
Love nothing more than hearing from my clients how they're able to switch off their mind and simply just BE with their kids
(All while accessing next level performance at work/in biz because they're accessing their natural state of FLOW)
This is our sacred duty as men
And the TRUEST act of provision possible
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Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
—Professor Richard Feynman
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Your brain needs a dog park.
Stop overthinking.
Move your body.
Find your people.
Join the pack.
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From my interview with The New Society @NewStatesman:
Headlines are a bit of a misleading way to understand history because, you know, bad things happen, but bad things happened 50 years ago, too, and we tend to forget them. When you actually plot things like poverty, war, homicide, and literacy, most of these are way better now than they used to be. How did that happen? And there are a number of hypotheses that I float as to why cooperation and human flourishing in general have increased.
One of them is an expanding circle of empathy, another concept from Singer: as we rub shoulders, as we exchange stories with people who are unlike ourselves, we come to realize that we're not special just because we're us and they're them. You're bound to understand people when you kind of see the world from their perspective.
But another could be—and this, again, Singer suggested—that sheer raw reason can make us more moral, more cosmopolitan, more universal, as we realize that there's nothing special about me just because I'm me. There's something that is inherently disinterested and universal about reason. And, of course, I care about me more than I care about other people, but I can't convince you that that is a moral imperative—that you have to care about me more than you because I'm me and you're not.
And so, just that symmetry kind of pushes toward a kind of more ethical code: a golden rule, a categorical imperative, or the veil of ignorance, where simply discounting your own proprietary interest in yourself steers you toward a defensible morality.
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ok japan is serving me weapons grade ai content holy shit teapaw.org/tintinpapa1/status/210…
The greatest self-help books are free, the greatest lectures are free, yet we want a guru to tell us what to do and will pay him a lot of money to do it.
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A tiny piece of advice that changed my life: Stop assuming people know how you feel, tell them instead.
Tell them when you're proud. Tell them when you missed them. Tell them when you're angry or stressed.
When in doubt, just tell them.
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the most powerful story is the one you tell yourself
The power of positive affirmations.
@tobi explains ...
"You lay down a lot of grooves in the bedrock of your mind over time. Just your own behavior. You cultivate some excellent habits like where you feel like you want to cultivate new habits, you invest willpower to- until it becomes a habit.
I think doing the same thing with the mind is totally possible, and affirmations are the easiest way to do it."
"My example [is] public speaking. I've never spoke in front of people really. Even school, that was not really a thing. Then I needed to after starting Shopify and doing some interesting things with tech and wanted to go conferences and saw other people do this, and I was like, "This seems worth doing, but I'm completely terrified."
So I just started writing out like I think it was as simple as 'I love public speaking about things that are interesting to me.'
And I think a week of spending five minutes writing this line after line like Bart Simpson on a whiteboard in the beginning of a Simpson every episode just does the thing. I love it today.
Was this the reason? I think so- yeah. I still don't like preparing talks. That's really a lot of work. But I actually get so much energy from being in front of people talking about something that's interesting."
This applies to so much more than public speaking.
"I wonder if we should start every math class with that, 'I love math.' Every student writes that down."
"Think about the counter. How many times have you heard people affirm, "I'm not good at math"? Yeah. You know they're probably wrong, right? It's like they're pro- compared to every human who's ever lived, they are in the top 0.1 percentile of math- mathematicians."
"We have a bad way, especially around math of negative affirmation that I'm bad at math, therefore I can't do this thing that people need to stop doing. Don't say that. Say the opposite. To yourself, write it a couple of times. "
"Get one of those stupid apps and just do some reps. In fact, you don't even need an app. Open ChatGPT, say, "Make me an app. Make me an artifact, or make me a site where I can just do math reps."
What do you tell your kids when they say "I'm no good at this ..."
"My kids are not allowed to say that word without appending "yet" behind it, or the others will correct the one who said it. "I'm not good at this." Three people in the room say, "Yet."
Censoring and Filtering... let's get clear on this. We filter water for contaminants. Censoring is similar. As a society we ought to know what's going to sicken the body.
Duality is a false belief system. Two sides of the same coin. Before the coin had sides, we had to flatten it.
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Do hard shit. Not because it’s fun. But because the win actually means something. You bled for it. You broke for it. You fucking earned it. Easy wins are forgettable. Hard ones change you. That’s the point.
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Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.
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100% agree with this.
Never understood the failure fetish. Fail early and often? What? Fail often? Really? Fuck that.
Do, learn, do, learn. Move forward.
Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath "Bro, there is no failure."
"That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you."
"There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn."
@StanfordAILab