Alexander O'Neill

Endurance sports, SaaS sales, book enthusiasts, and general knowledge seeker. 📚

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

@calebulf Hand tatt + @COROSGlobal combo… 🔥

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Favorite takeaway (nugget) from all of the content consumed last week;

WOOP method as an alternative (or additive) to goal setting.

W - Wish
O - Outcome
O - Obstacle
P - Plan

Goal setting can be black & white. Envisioning can lack action.

⬆️ Good happy medium.

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

“Forward is a pace” - @emilyabbate

11 mi this morning cruising the Venice boardwalk and listening to the Run Eat Sleep Show 🙌🏻

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Don't pride yourself on how many books you read

Pride yourself on how many ideas from those books you've implemented in your life and shared with others

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Over/Under on the Exclusive on #peacock call??

1,000? 100,000??

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

I’ll take 1 of each, please & thank you.

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

The world's largest consumer tech event, CES 2024, has come to an end.

Here are 10 reveals you don't want to miss from CES 2024 event:

1. Arovia's "SPLAY" is a Mix of a Projector and a Foldable Screen

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:

“I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...”

To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.

“Because I’ve realized, he said,

“Everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it.”

“So I have a new rule in my life,” Mayer said, “and the rule is:

Never wish for less time.

Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.”

“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'

I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out…”

Takeaway 1:

John's realization—that “everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed”—made me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:

“One of the most remarkable neuroscientific findings in the past century is that the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same place. Further, pleasure and pain work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And one of the overriding rules governing this balance,” she said, “is that it wants to stay level…With any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balance—what scientists call ‘homeostasis.’ … With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.”

Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—everything leaves at the same speed.

Takeaway 2:

The brain’s tendency to think about the next thing is called “prospection.”

“Our brains were made for nexting,” the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled “Prospection” in his book Stumbling On Happiness.

“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”

In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, “which is to say…each of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.”

We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of “the illusion of foresight”—the illusion that “prospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.”

The reality is that “the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.”

The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everything—pain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—leaves at the same speed.

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“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...” — John Mayer

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[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Okay, I think I can get behind this!

⁦@stevemagness⁩ - Any thoughts or insights related to swimming and how it can help with recovery?

TL;DR, I’m a low 2:48 marathoner, 65-75 mi per week, aiming to break 2:43 this year https://t.co/ywUYQ6cCug

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Gotta watch out for that Mule Sauce - @NoLayingUp

[Alex Predhome, Track and Field Enjoyer @Predamame]

Getting back to training and working

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Can we normalized this, please and thank you?!

Good on @jjmccarthy09 for continuing to prioritize what he knows will lead to him bringing his best self to the game!

#CFBPlayoff @UMichFootball

[ESPN @espn]

J.J. McCarthy appeared to be meditating and grounding in bare feet pregame 👀

#CFBPlayoff | @PatMcAfeeShow

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Me creating sales & marketing dashboards in @HubSpot .

You can't convince me that creating beautiful reports *isn't* art!

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

While working at a coffee shop I find it VERY easy to get annoyed when a family with 1+ younger kids sits near me. Making all kinds of noise.

Reframe: Smiling thinking about the day when I'll be at the coffee shop with my own little family. Enjoying coffee, donuts, and laughs!

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

The Social Network soundtrack for deep work or studying... You are welcome!

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Finishing up Going Infinite and I get it now. The book isn’t all that bad but if you bought it hoping for some dramatic tail explaining the FTX crash.. you are going to be disappointed!

More of a psychological breakdown of SBF. Interesting IMO.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

I asked 170,000 people for the best book they read in 2023.

These 16 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Will I be watching @NFL today? Yes.

Do I follow the NBA whatsoever? Nope.

Is Christmas an NBA holiday? Absolutely!

One time of the year (playoffs excluded) that I even think to tune into the bball action. 🎄

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Outcome vs performance vs process

Sir Alex Ferguson winning the Scottish Cup…but fuming about performance…explaining that standards (process) had been laid down months previously

Process (standards)
Performance (the execution of standards)
Outcome (result)

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

Process > Outcome.

I could watch this video 100x. Great reminder as I prep to start the Boston Marathon build in 2024!

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

"I was depressed."

Billy Donovan after he won his second straight national championship with Florida

If your goal is the trophy and not the journey, you will be disappointed in the result

[Alexander O'Neill @_a_0]

@calebulf 😍 look at that place!