Welcome and Happy Three Things Thursday
This week has reminded me of being back in my first few weeks of law school. July first saw the start of David Perell’s Write of Passage cohort 5 which I joined back in June. I also received access to the new course by design genius Jack Butcher titled Build Once Buy Twice. I cannot recommend these two people or their products enough. Due to this, this 3TT will have 1 thing from each of them that is worth your time to explore as well as my thoughts on them.
Now for Three Things.
This visual by Jack Butcher
I want you to just look at this visual for a minute and really take in the message.
Jack is an absolute master at distilling ideas into visual representations that are clear and memorable. This specific post stood out to me for a number of reasons. First, it takes time to build experience. Experience cannot be rushed. I listened to Jack explain how he spent nearly 9 years before his brand Visualize Value took off on a recent podcast that I put together a tweetstorm on.
Second, once a person has that experience the next step is to package it into more pieces. This visual clearly demonstrates that principle. The problem with keeping experience into one solid block is that the only way to capitalize is by providing your time. Unfortunately, time is finite and that means so too is your ability to leverage your experience into capital. So break it into pieces that can be consumed by many people even when you sleep.
Earn with your mind, not your time.
This article by David Perell titled “Don’t Kill Time”
As you can tell the newsletter this week is examining how we look at time. Before you even begin reading the article pay close attention to the picture at the top. The colors are muted and it feels very grey. An old man sits on the bench alone while in the distance a group of four sits on another. The juxtaposition of these two images should get the mind going before any words have even been consumed.
David gets into the idea of blandness in his story about Mark. This lines up perfectly with the image at the beginning of the article. The picture sets the mood as its both bland in the color scheme but also as setting the stage for two different ideas (the man sitting alone vs. the group of four sitting together) of how to manage time in our lives. A movement has occurred where people are looking towards Stoic philosophy to help guide their lives. Whether its Tim Ferris, Ryan Holliday, or even Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, it’s hard to miss this topic these days. However, being calm does not equal stoic. As seen in this story about Mark, being calm can just be a sense of helplessness and resignation to a person’s fate.
We do not respect time enough and often times fall into the trap of either being “busy” or “relaxing” which really means lazy. Relaxing should not mean lazy. Work should not mean busy. I hope that as you read David’s article that message sinks in and that you find the same value in this article that I did.
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world..” Ender’s Game
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