You don't own feelings, they are not who you are
Just like you don't own radio stations you tune into
Feelings are signals of the amount of energy around you & flowing through you
*Thread* - (e)motion
Manipulate Energy, leverage emotions, & defeat low energy
You don't own feelings, they are not who you are
Just like you don't own radio stations you tune into
Feelings are signals of the amount of energy around you & flowing through you
Depression = Repression
It's a lack of expression - cells, brain, body
Energy is not flowing
If you were to:
- Exercise intensely
- Do something creatively stimulating (socializing, writing, producing)
ATP would begin producing
Heart rate would go up
Blood flow would increase
Nervous system would be active
Oxygen would be flowing to the brain & through the body
Until demand is seen you will not be supplied what you need
We are wired to conserve energy
If you inhale too much
You'll FEEL a need to exhale
Energy has no opinions or meaning
We assign opinions & meaning to our emotions
If we choose to interpret low energy as "chill out"
We essentially are inactive spectators taking orders from the flow of energy (reactive)
(aka a human being with free will & consciousness)
You can change the flow of energy by changing your actions
Every action has a reaction
Inaction also has a reaction
You always get more of the same, an object in motion stays in motion
If you can run 10 miles
You're adapted to supply energy to complete 10 miles
If you exert 5000 units of energy daily
Your body adapts to supply 5000 energy units daily
and you demand 900 it'll be a bit uncomfortable
if you demand 5000 it'll be very uncomfortable
We are wired to conserve energy
You soon adapt & will produce 5000 energy units per day with little to no willpower/force
If you exerted a lot of energy
Being tired indicates that energy is spent
But if you're tired & have low energy
Despite doing nothing
The feeling then does not mean "rest" we misinterpret it as rest and end up repressing
Supply/Demand - how much energy are you demanding (action/effort)
will determine how much gets supplied
Efficiency - things you consume, sleep, environment which can unnecessarily inhibit the flow of energy
and how efficient energy conversion is
Supply/Demand is more important than efficiency
Which is why we see plenty of examples of unhealthy people, stressed people, 'low vibe' people
Who are productive, get things done, & have energy
They 'ask' for or demand it via action
Pushing that extra half mile is where the adaptation happens
Showing slightly higher demand, consistently, will adapt
Soon it will be at 3.5 miles where that same tired feeling kicks in
Pushing part is now from 3.5-4
Like a antenna receiving signal
They just display to you the energy around & energy flowing through you
They're not orders
They're also not useless
The balance is to listen, then respond
Not automatically react
Not totally ignore
More from Life
1/ Some initial thoughts on personal moats:
Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
People talk about \u201cpassive income\u201d a lot but not about \u201cpassive social capital\u201d or \u201cpassive networking\u201d or \u201cpassive knowledge gaining\u201d but that\u2019s what you can architect if you have a thing and it grows over time without intensive constant effort to sustain it
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) November 22, 2018
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
Things that look like moats but likely aren\u2019t or may fade:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
- Proprietary networks
- Being something other than one of the best at any tournament style-game
- Many "awards"
- Twitter followers or general reach without "respect"
- Anything that depends on information asymmetry https://t.co/abjxesVIh9
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
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I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
