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Currently playingClair Obscur: Expedition 33
Currently playingMarvel's Wolverine
Currently readingPercy Jackson — La Mer des monstres
Currently readingShow Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Currently readingSteal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being CreativeAlgorithms disconnected me from music. I'm trying to find my way back.
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A few things I’ve been
getting lost in.
Good books, little discoveries, games I can’t put down. A few scraps from life on and off the web.
I like reading books but I’m sometimes more obsessed with finishing them than fully absorbing them. I’ve read so many books with life changing “wisdom” in them, feel inspired, in some cases maybe move some things around in my life, but as time passes the lessons tend to fade from memory.
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Got another one yesterday. Now my physical book collection is all of two. lol. Need to be sure I'm not developing some sort of problem. 💀 But these books in particular feel like they're buying art and it's more than just a book. They're kind of like visual reminders of lessons you need to keep. I must admit that I have three more books on the way and i still don't know how I'll store them, but here's to giving yourself permission to do things you want and make you feel good. I've wanted to start getting physical books, now I'm letting myself do that. The semantics can come later lol.
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One of the things I've wanted for a long time is to have a shelf of physical books. I just never felt settled enough to start collecting. I still don't. But this feels like a good opportunity to start experimenting. It feels really good. Didn't know I missed the new book smell. It also feels like an art book. Like the book itself is art. Got inspired to buy it after watching this reel from Salem King. Ironically, the books I actually wanted to buy to kickstart this physical book journey weren't available and this was more of an add on.
It's definitely not the first time I've read it but now I think I need a refresher of the lessons in this book for where I'm at in life currently. And I may need to go back to it over and over again to either let some things sink in or be constantly reminded of them.
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Infinite game: a game or activity where the primary objective is not to win, but to keep playing and perpetuate the game itself. i.e. you give up, you lose.
My first memory of the idea was from Alex Hormozi and I was reminded of it again today on another video. I think it's a great concept and mental model because if everything worth doing to you is treated like an infinite game, then there are no unrealistic standards or goals, no real failure and no opponent to beat. Just to keep playing the game indefinitely. Matches well with an idea in Atomic habits where you want to create a habit, you change who you are. If you're playing that game, then you'd do it long enough to pass through all the obstacles you need to get to to hit your goals.
He said "Just extending the time horizon of your goals is like magic because it means you make better decisions today and those decisions result in different outcomes". I already think like this in some sort of way. Some of the new things I've started recently have the time horizon of "indefinitely" and it automatically shifts from going as big as I can to "if I had to do this every single day/week/month for an indefinite period of time, what would I prioritise?". So whenever that itch comes to go crazy, I eventually pull myself back to "long game" and "sustainable".
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Started deliberately trying to not pick my phone up first thing in the morning and honestly I want to make a habit out of it. There’s just something about having a clear head around 4 or 5 am in the morning where everywhere is quiet and it’s just you and your thoughts. It doesn’t have to be hours but 15-30 minutes to at least “boot”.
Suddenly ideas for problems you’ve been trying to solve start popping up.
"When you don't know what to do, build capacity" - Alex Hormozi. Usually we are searching for this great idea, the right business to start, the right product to create, the best skills to learn, etc. We use it to procrastinate.
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The chair they're talking to seems to be an interesting individual. Lol. But in all seriousness, I don't think I ever thought I would relate to John Cena. Closer to the end of the video they talk about the road less travelled and how he talks about it sounds like me. When I stick to what I actually want to do, I usually find myself in the road less travelled. It feels hard and lonely but usually ends up feeling rewarding.
Been thinking a lot about building capacity lately and this video is a clear example of preparation meeting opportunity.
I'm not used to replaying games I've finished but I'm having a good time.
still amazing
I don't know how normal this is but I learned some time ago about myself that when I have this strong aversion to trying something, it doesn't really signal anything of importance. I don't necessarily mean a strong intuition against something fishy or sketchy. I mean something like trying a movie, an experience, something new and/or different that I just don't feel like doing. It may even be a gig or an opportunity. Sometimes, there is genuinely something off about it. In those moments, when I ignore myself, i tend to regret it in some way. But in the moments where I can't pinpoint anything and just have this strong resistance to do something, it's usually a poor indicator of how that thing will actually be or feel. And usually, when I muster the strength to push past that specific feeling, I realise it was a lie.
Read moreNot high replay value but I had fun regardless.
I heard the reviews but honestly, right now I don't care.
The other day, I was watching a video explaining a comic book storyline where the ideals of an older person clashed with that of a younger one. It was an alternate Spider-man reality in a very corrupt world and a young Peter Parker having so much rage about the injustice of the world and having very simple politics.
Read moreIt's funny how you learn lessons then slowly move in another direction and have to come back to the lesson you learned. As a morning person, it's not news that I'm at my most productive before noon and for me in particular, I start getting diminishing returns after 2-3pm. I can be productive even till night but it's not me at my best. But over the past year or less, my wake up time became more and more late.
Read moreI was on a call with my dad the other day and he asked how I was doing. I said as a fact, and not necessarily to complain, that I was always tired. He said that it's because my responsibilities are more now and "I hope you know it will still increase."
Read moreMy childhood was very unorthodox in many ways but normal in many ways. One of the things that seemed out of the ordinary was that I didn't grow up watching football. When I was younger, I thought it was a nature thing. That I just didn't care about sports. But over time, it clicked that it was a nurture thing. And now, several years later, I've gotten older and gotten more exposed to things like movies about sports, documentaries, games, and even trying one or two for the sake of exercise, I'm even more convinced that the difference between me caring about Ronaldo vs. Messi and me not giving a fuck is because no one cared in the house I grew up in.
Read moreI haven’t been the most optimistic person you've ever met. In fact, for a portion of my life I was a pessimist. I remember my parents asking why I was always frowning and my response would be "why should I smile?" Pessimists like to think of themselves as “realists”, but in reality, their view of the world is so dark that what is “real” is just “everything ends up in a bad place”. I understand this view. I’m not the best believer in the world and in the human race. People say there is good in humanity. I say there is both good and bad with many incentives to be bad.
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I was backing up a lot of photos and videos to a secondary backup this week. Finally set up the back up of my back up. Lol.
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