"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion." - Alan Watts
This quote became a meme. But it's the only real way out of an overthinking rut.
F*ck the balance sometimes. F*ck the perfect discipline.
Go do something unexpected. Take a car to a random part of an island and figure it out when you get there. Start the business everyone says will fail. Stay up until 4am building something just because the idea won't leave you alone. Have awkward social interactions. Just do things without over-analyzing how you did it.
You cannot think your way out of being stuck in your head. You can only 'do' your way out.
The only real measure of intelligence is your ability to manage your own stress. Every day you have a choice to suffer or not, and the way you silence that suffering isn't more thinking. It's doing.
Find beauty in the mundane. Stop talking about your problems and stop replaying them in your head, because all that does is make them bigger.
Zoom out. Have a vision big enough that today's stress feels small.
And accept the fact that maybe things are actually going well. Your life is probably in a far better position than the version of it living in your head.
Former #Cowboys cornerback Jourdan Lewis talks about his transition from Dallas to Jacksonville.
Lewis praised Dak Prescott and the support staff, but says Dallas had other ideas about replacing him with other guys and concerns about his age.
Jerry Jones has since changed his tune about not only the evaluation of Lewis at that time but the importance of the slot corner position—which led to Caleb Downs.
Ripple Effect.
(🎥: @ Just Earn It Podcast on YT)
Michigan finishes their 37-3 season with a 39.70 Kenpom ranking, putting them at #2 ALL-TIME.
They played their D game, with half of a Yaxel Lendeborg and won the National Championship.
This team was special and 100% deserved to be the last team standing.
World was on notice after Vegas.
You know that feeling where you're walking alone at night in a city where nobody knows you and your whole life suddenly makes sense?
There's a reason that hits different than anything you feel at home.
Your brain has two modes that almost never run at the same time. One handles paying attention to new things around you. The other handles thinking about yourself, your past, your future. They work like a seesaw. When one goes up, the other goes down. At home, your brain filters out 90% of your surroundings before you're even conscious of them. Everything is familiar. So the seesaw barely moves.
A foreign city at night breaks that.
Every street sign you can't read, every smell you can't name, every traffic pattern that feels wrong floods your hippocampus with dopamine and norepinephrine. Your brain is treating every single input as new. Meanwhile there's no task. No meeting. No one to perform for. No one even knows your name. So instead of your self-reflection system shutting down like it normally does when your environment gets intense, it stays fully online.
Two systems that normally suppress each other firing in parallel. That almost never happens.
The dopamine makes the moment feel significant. The norepinephrine burns it into long-term memory at a depth that your Tuesday commute never touches. And while all of this is happening, your brain is running old memories of who you used to be against present-tense sensory proof of where you are now.
That "how far I've come" feeling is a real neurochemical event. Your brain is building the most emotionally loaded version of your own story it can, in real time, at 20 watts, inside your skull.
Wow.
“Let’s go Blue” chants rained down in Columbus today as Ohio State got ROUTED by Michigan.
It got so loud that two of the Ohio State cheerleaders starting shaking their pom-poms to the chants too.