Helllooooo Friends,
I missed last week because I forgot but that just means extra goodness for this week.
» 🎧 The Retrievals wow. This podcast is terrifying and fascinating. It’s about how a nurse replaced fentanyl with saline and women underwent surgeries without drugs and no one believed them.
» 🎧 These two podcast episodes where Derek Sivers is the interviewee. His thought process is so interesting to me. The episode with Tim Ferriss does go deep into tech independence at the beginning but you can skip that part if its not for you! Lots of good nuggets but here are a few of my favorites:
Whatever you are is today. Rephrasing “I hate tomatoes.” to “No, I hate tomatoes today”
I’m going to be so happy tomorrow [purchasing a new home]. Wait a minute, I’m already happy. What, am I going to be more happy tomorrow? No, I’m already happy. Then why am I doing this? Why am I spending a bunch of money if I’m already happy? It’s not suited to me perfectly but that’s ok. It doesn’t get in my way. How many other things in our life are we ok just not to optimize? What’s worth optimizing. It’s ok to have some things to be good enough.
Maximizes tend to feel worse about the choices they make. Satisficers may not make the best choice but they feel better about the choices they make.
» 📝 Two Strip Clubs, Paris and New Hampshire
Really enjoyed this article!
» 📝 These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life
Everything is an opportunity for excellence. The now famous passage from Marcus Aurelius is that the impediment to action advances action, that what stands in the way becomes the way. But do you know what he was talking about specifically? He was talking about difficult people! He was saying that difficult people are an opportunity to practice excellence and virtue–be it forgiveness or patience or cheerfulness. And so it goes for all the things that are not in our control in life. So when I find myself in situations big and small, positive or negative, I try to see each of them as an opportunity for me to be the best I’m capable of being in that moment. It doesn’t matter who we are, where we are, we can always do this.
You can’t learn what you think you already know. Conceit, Zeno said, was the enemy of wisdom and learning. This was the essential worldview of Socrates, the hero of the Stoics. Think of Socrates’ method. He didn’t go around telling people anything. He went around asking questions. That’s how he learned so much and ended up becoming so smart. If you want to get smarter, stop thinking you’re so smart. If you want to learn, focus on all the things you don’t know. Humility, admission of ignorance–these are the starting points. This is the attitude that gets you further in life.
» 📚 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - this book totally fooled me. I wasn’t in love with it, felt it was slow and then it blew my mind. I’m still thinking about it.
» This Quote I saw on Marlee Grace’s Instagram
That’s all for this week! Let me know what your favorite was!
Kate