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3MM: Intuition, Boomers & AI
3 MINUTE MONDAYHi friend, I'm doing a Texas meetup this Friday 🚀 Come and meet me at the brand new New Braunfels Costco this Friday 15th May. Neutonic has a brand new exhibit inside the Costco and I'll be there from 9am-12 midday so come through, hang out and buy a 75 inch TV with me. 235 Kohlenberg Rd, New Braunfels, TX 78130. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." — Oliver Wendell Holmes You have to earn your intuition. Everyone loves the idea of being a savant innovator who sees their chosen art form in a different way to everyone else. Someone who’s unconstrained by the conventions and rules that other, basic bitch practitioners adhere to. You don’t play by the rules, you break the rules and make your own. But you can’t perform just off vibes before you’ve built up sufficient experience to actually have a gut instinct. Breaking the rules of the game before you’ve learned to master them is the same as not playing the game. “In the early stages of training, an aspiring Confucian gentleman needs to memorise entire shelves of archaic texts, learn the precise angle at which to bow, and learn the lengths of the steps with which he is to enter a room.
His sitting mat must always be perfectly straight.
All of this rigour and restraint, however, is ultimately aimed at producing a cultivated, but nonetheless genuine, form of spontaneity.
Indeed, the process of training is not considered complete until the individual has passed completely beyond the need for thought or effort.” — Edward Slingerland describing 3000-year old Confucianism
MODERN WISDOMI do a podcast where I pretend to have a British accent. This week’s upcoming episodes: Monday. Thursday. Saturday. THINGS I'VE LEARNED1. “Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled. Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled. You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.” — Derek Thompson 2. 3. “Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” LIFE HACKText your friends when you think of them. You probably think about your friends randomly a lot. Use it as a cue to reach out to them and tell them. One of the lowest lift ways to make someone feel good and maintain your deepness in friendships. Big love, Try my productivity drink Neutonic. PS |
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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’m coming back to the UK & Ireland with a brand new live show. Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Exeter, London, Dublin (Sold Out), Newcastle & Belfast 🚀 Get your tickets now. 13 metaphorical theories to explain emotional drift, attachment, trust fractures and why connection rarely fails loudly... These aren’t clinical theories, but metaphorical frameworks that explain how relationships change quietly over time. They describe emotional...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’m coming back to the UK & Ireland with a brand new live show. Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Exeter, London, Dublin (Sold Out), Newcastle & Belfast 🚀 Get your tickets now. I’ve been thinking about how to achieve a Realistic Path To Enlightenment. As much as moving to a cave in the woods and spending a decade in silent retreat might be great for your spirit, it’s not going to be doable by pretty much anyone. If you’ve meditated enough, you...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, One of the best questions to ask yourself when faced with a decision is “what would you tomorrow want you today to do?” This has been something I’ve relied on for years to help give me perspective and make better choices. It rips you out of the moment. It stops you from relying so heavily on the confused chemical signals coming from your body and instead gives you a bit more distance. It depersonalises the decision and helps you to treat yourself like a friend...