Hey pal,
I have been diving into Joe Hudson’s podcast The Artwork of Accomplishment currently.
Whereas he affords an 18-month course, I’ve found that lots of the core ideas are explored in his podcast episodes, beginning with the Masterclass Collection #1.
My favourite to date is Episode #5: Really feel over Determine. It is making me rethink how I strategy decision-making. I’ve all the time prided myself on being ārationalā and pondering every little thing by way of rigorously.
This is what shocked me: I may need been approaching this all flawed.
There’s fascinating analysis displaying that folks with injury to the emotional facilities of their brainsāeven these with extraordinarily excessive IQsāwrestle to make even easy choices. Their intelligence stays intact, however with out feelings, they develop into paralyzed by selection.
Antonio Damasio describes this in his e book Descartes’ Error.
This discovery has led me to begin a brand new apply: I now spend 15-20 minutes day by day simply sitting and checking in with myself.
- What am I feeling proper now?
- If I do not discover something, how does it really feel to not discover something?
- Does this sense have a form or kind? Does it movement, or is it caught?
As Joe Hudson explains, what actually causes us struggling is not the feelings themselvesāit is our resistance to feeling them. It is this layered resistance that retains us caught.
The attractive half? Merely listening to our feelings, even noticing after we need to keep away from them, begins to shift one thing inside us.
I am nonetheless wrestling with the ātake pleasure in over handleā precept, particularly since I am concurrently studying the finest enterprise e book for small companies I’ve ever learn that advocates for extra managing and management. I will share extra ideas on that paradox subsequent week!
Have a beautiful week!
Lukas š
P.S. This is a tip: Once I uncover helpful content material like Joe’s podcast, I transcribe key episodes into NotebookLM. This lets me ask particular questions and discover themes extra deeply. It is like having Joe Hudson as a private coachāstrive it.
