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.
âŹïž Good happy medium.
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
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
At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:
âI 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...â
To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.
âBecause Iâve realized, he said,
âEverything 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.â
âSo I have a new rule in my life,â Mayer said, âand 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 thingâthat's just wishing for less time.â
âSo wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thingâŠWherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'
Iâve been having the time of my life because I figured that outâŠâ
Takeaway 1:
John's realizationâthat âeverything you love and hate leaves at the same speedââmade me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:
âOne 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.â
âAnd one of the overriding rules governing this balance,â she said, âis that it wants to stay levelâŠWith any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balanceâwhat scientists call âhomeostasis.â ⊠With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.â
Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward toâeverything leaves at the same speed.
Takeaway 2:
The brainâs tendency to think about the next thing is called âprospection.â
âOur brains were made for nexting,â the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled âProspectionâ in his book Stumbling On Happiness.
âWhen researchers count the items that float along in the average personâs stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.â
In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, âwhich is to sayâŠeach of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.â
We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of âthe illusion of foresightââthe illusion that âprospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.â
The reality is that âthe future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.â
The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everythingâpain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward toâleaves at the same speed.
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âSo wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thingâŠWherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... Iâve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...â â John Mayer
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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
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!
Finishing up Going Infinite and I get it now. The book isnât 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.
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. đ
Outcome vs performance vs process
Sir Alex Ferguson winning the Scottish CupâŠbut fuming about performanceâŠexplaining that standards (process) had been laid down months previously
Process (standards)
Performance (the execution of standards)
Outcome (result)
"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