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3MM: Inverse PTSD, Car Seats & Poetry
3 MINUTE MONDAYHi friend, My US & Canada live tour is getting close to selling out - LA, Vancouver, Toronto and Nashville are all gone. New York City, Austin, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City & Chicago - limited tickets left. “The worst thing that’s ever happened to you is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you.” — Joe Rogan The saddest you’ve ever been is the saddest you’ve ever been. The hardest you’ve ever worked is the hardest you’ve ever worked. Tough times aren’t fun in the moment for the same reason that no one ever believes they’re living through a golden era. “The golden years” only ever seem to exist in the past because it’s only with the benefit of hindsight that we know all our worries were a waste of time. When you’re going through it, all your concerns are still open loops, they’re things to fear. In retrospect you see that you had the ability to handle them and there was nothing to be bothered about. Which suggests that if you’ve just come out of the hardest period of your life, this seems like a cause for celebration. New workload level unlocked! Every new challenge shows you a new territory you were scared of but survived. Each time you break a new limit, you now know you have the capacity to handle more than you ever did before. It’s inverse PTSD. Like workload exposure therapy that teaches you “Oh I’ve been here before and I didn’t die, this is ok.” MODERN WISDOMI do a podcast where I pretend to have a British accent. You should subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This week’s upcoming episodes: Monday. Thursday. Saturday. THINGS I'VE LEARNED1. Most cars can’t fit three car seats, so having a third child means buying a much larger, more expensive car. As a result, fewer people have more than two kids. According to one analysis, U.S. car-seat laws saved 57 lives in 2017, but resulted in 8,000 fewer births. — Steve Stewart-Williams 2. “If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade. And yet we talk ourselves into it all the time. We take promotions that pay more, but swallow our free time. We already have a successful business, but we break ourselves trying to make it even more successful. Too much focus on wealth, not enough focus on lifestyle." — James Clear 3. “Lonely men need to stop making podcasts and start writing poems again. There are great poems out there written by some really unhappy dudes.” LIFE HACKNew PRESIDENT song. A new pseudonymous band just dropped their first single, I’m excited to see what they do in future. Big love, Try my productivity drink Neutonic. PS |
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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, You’re probably pretty competent. You can do things. You’re prepared to try new stuff. And when you try new stuff, you don’t suck that much and you seem to make progress more quickly than most people. This is another Curse Of Competence. Your options for life-direction are less constrained by your abilities, and more by your choices. This sounds like a blessing. Indeed it’s better than the alternative. But it’s a unique category of problem, one which occurs while...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My US & Canada Tour continues to sell el rapido. Get your tickets here. I came across a love letter Richard Feynman wrote to his wife. Beware, powerful stuff… October 17, 1946 D'Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that - but I don't only write it because you like it - I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you. It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you - almost two years but I know you'll...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My LA and Toronto live shows sold out in hours. Absolutely wild. Limited tickets remain for all other US & Canada dates - get yours here. I’ve been thinking about impediments to happiness. And I can see two obvious roadblocks. First is wanting things to be different. “Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.” — Naval Ravikant If...