Category: Weekly Wonderings
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Week 74 Wanderings (4-23-2024) – You can’t have it all, Creating the future, Beating choices, Paradox of choice
You can’t have it all “Would you rather have stability or excitement? They generally don’t coexist in the same person” From the book 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Still not done with this book and loving the read. Talks about how because we’ve got limited time in Finity, we have to make tough decisions…
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Week 72 Wanderings – How to be less of an asshole, Good friends are assholes, Podcast on the Customized Life, Intentional Relationships
How to be less of an asshole “Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments”Neil Strauss I’ve found that it’s harder to course correct after you piss someone off, but if you can set expectations ahead of time then people are prepared for your lunacy. People like knowing what they can expect. We don’t like being caught off…
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Week 71 Wanderings (3-26-24): Asking for help, Weaknesses as strengths, Having a good time, Evaluating Friendships
Pick Up the Phone “I’ve never found anybody that didn’t wanna help me if I asked them for help” 2 minutes of Failure by the Jobs Seems like we just have to ask for the help we need. If nobody knows our problem, even if they’ve got the solution it ain’t gonna happen. Reflection of…
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Week 70 Wanderings (3-19-24) – Managing the confusion of our lives
Artistic Obligations Quote – Everyone’s just trying their best Destruction and Creation Quote – Changing stress per the scope
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Week 69 Wandering (3-12-24)
The Strength of Weak Ties ‘Weak ties are surprisingly valuable’ Our closest relationships often have similar information and world views as us… that’s part of WHY they’re our closest relations. Dr. Meg Jay discusses the concept of weak ties in her book The Defining Decade. Dr. Jay points out how tremendously useful weak ties Can…
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Week 68 Wandering (3-5-2024)
One of the Most Unique Podcasts David Choe on the Joe Rogan Experience #1518 This was one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve ever listened to. It’s eye opening, vulnerable, entertaining, and fascinating to hear someone’s story who’s gone through so much pain and gone through all the way to massive success. Forewarning it’s quite…
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Week 67 Wanderings (2-20-2023) – Venturing in to the Unknown and life as a dreamer
A Juicy Quote “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau I actually found this quote on the intro to Dave Chapelle’s special. I love it. Seems like nobody really…
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Week 66 Wanderings (2-13-24)
49er fans, hopefully you don’t break your phones reading this newsletter through your fountain of tears. (I could not give 2 shits about football tbh) Enjoy! How I lose things less often ‘It has to have a place to live’ I lose things perpetually.Recently it’s been my mind.Subpar joke, I get it but it’s not…
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Week 65 Wanderings (2-6-23)
$100 Advice – Ben Frank Sometimes I get impatient. I want what I want now. But I find it so difficult to actually slow down and be okay with the progress being made in the here and now. So difficult that sometimes I get anxious about the future, worried about what will come.| But I…