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BLOG OF JAKEEverything is money
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BLOG OF JAKEThe Time Between
Most people spend infinitely more time working than actually thinking about / figuring out / searching for / waiting for the right thing to work on.O...
BLOG OF JAKE3 Days, No Food, No Phone
It’s Wednesday, late afternoon. I haven’t consumed a calorie nor checked my mobile device since Sunday night. I am nearing the end of a 3 day fasting period. I’m doing two fasts at once – no food, and no phone. I’ve done these fasts separately before, but never at the same time. I’ve also never fasted from food for quite this long before. I had done a 60 hour fast before — that’s dinner to breakfast with 2 full days between. This time it will be 72 hours dinner to dinner. I’m about 70 hours i...
I believe anything that can meaningfully change one's perspective on life in two minutes is worth its time in attention. The snippet of a speech that I am sharing with you today qualifies as that for me.
The first 75 seconds are interesting and the last 23 are credits. In between, there is a 2 minute segment that I find hard to forget. The speaker, Alan Watts, proposes a possibility I had never considered. He suggests that if we could dream any life we wanted to dream, and if we could do that over and over again, eventually, we would choose to dream the lives we are living. After dreaming lives of consistent pleasure and total pre-determination, we would choose to dream a life in which we did not have control. We would choose to dream a life of constant surprises.
I like this idea. It makes me question decisions I consider that might make my life more predictable. It makes me want to do things that are different and things that are new. It makes me want to be adventurous and always open to surprises.
This is the dream of life. Listen to Alan Watts explain it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o
I believe anything that can meaningfully change one's perspective on life in two minutes is worth its time in attention. The snippet of a speech that I am sharing with you today qualifies as that for me.
The first 75 seconds are interesting and the last 23 are credits. In between, there is a 2 minute segment that I find hard to forget. The speaker, Alan Watts, proposes a possibility I had never considered. He suggests that if we could dream any life we wanted to dream, and if we could do that over and over again, eventually, we would choose to dream the lives we are living. After dreaming lives of consistent pleasure and total pre-determination, we would choose to dream a life in which we did not have control. We would choose to dream a life of constant surprises.
I like this idea. It makes me question decisions I consider that might make my life more predictable. It makes me want to do things that are different and things that are new. It makes me want to be adventurous and always open to surprises.
This is the dream of life. Listen to Alan Watts explain it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o
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