5 Things I Consumed Last Week (the lightning ⚡️)
on finding answers, raising your ceiling, designing career, slow eating & reality
Hey y’all!
I am currently reading The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton, it’s a fun and quirky love story set in France hence loaded with a lot of french words. One of them is ‘coup de foudre’ which means like a ‘stroke of lightning’.
This issue is dedicated to such things which hit me like a lightning bolt (much like any other week I know I know) but I am taking out time in September to take a break and revisit/journal about these things to soak it in. Maybe you will too. Take the leap.
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To find the answer, change the question on Out of the Blue
Mari Andrew is one of those illustration artists that you can’t help but fall in love.
Her honesty and mindful practice to take life as it goes is why I admire her so much. In this issue she talks about re-framing questions to find the right answers. I will let some excerpts do the talking.
To help me find my calling, people around me would ask me questions like “What lights you up?” Or send me the Mary Oliver prompt, Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
when the questions get too chaotic and the answers aren’t yet inhabiting my body, I switch up the prompt.
What else could I ask?
How could I simplify the question?
What matters right now?
The answer is probably already there; the question just needs to find itself.
Raising Your Ceiling on Infinite Play
I rarely go about searching for motivational content but this newsletter literally pushes me to get up and stop slacking.
On being asked how/where to find motivation to be consistent my answer has always been precedence. Setting precedence to trick your brain that you can do better is the best way to keep moving forward. If I run 5k once, I can trick my brain to do it twice, thrice & always and that’s why raising your ceiling matters.
Navigating great challenges earns you the confidence to handle whatever life throws at you. If you fought a lion with a spear, you can probably handle people ending text messages with periods.
How To Design Your Career For Happiness by Samantha Clarke on Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
Hands down Ali is one of the YouTube creators I use You Tube for (Not kidding, I spend days without opening the app).
After spending a significant amount of time on listening to Tim Ferriss and Lex Fridman I have pivoted to Ali’s podcast now for long form interviews. In this interview Samantha talks about her new book ‘Love It or Leave It: how to be happy at work’.
They discuss about navigating emotional barriers to pursuing your dream career, relationship between career purpose and money, following vs finding your passion and much more.
They also discuss about a cool personality archetype test called Human Design. Though I am not a firm believer in generalizing personalities but it’s always fun to know which clan you belong to. Apparently I am a Generator.
It's time we stopped blindly copying the west on Stoa Daily
Sometimes, simple and straightforward logic about how things should work doesn't do.
Stoa Daily has become one of my go to newsletters lately because it’s crisp, anecdotal and idea-oriented. This issue begins with why restaurants in Israel are expensive despite bad service and without a Michelin star menu. It ends with explaining how eccentricities about customer behavior can drive profits. Read to find how.
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Reality Catches Up on The Collaborative Fund
If you have read The Psychology of Money, you know who Morgan Housel is. For those who don’t check out his blog ‘The Collaborative Fund’.
In this blog he talks about the value of getting things the right way or in his lingo -“An asset you don’t deserve can quickly become a liability”. He further elaborates on how windfall gains and superfluous numbers will only get you to a certain point after which only real work would matter.
Bill Gates had it right when he said success is a lousy teacher, because it makes you forget how the world works. That’s especially true when all you focus on is the “success” – the higher stock prices, the higher valuations, the more social media followers – and not the earned work that goes into building enduring success.
Catch you next week🙆🏻♀️
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The Hummingbird🌺
Thankyou to a generator from a manifesting generator for these recommendations which were extremely interesting. Got to learn about a lot new things.
(PS: apart from my friends, have shared it with one of my professor as well)
Life is indeed the most interesting design challenge