“Too much uncertainty is chaos, but too little is death.” – Boyd Varty, The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life
The Path has been bumping recently.
Here are three of the most powerful (and practical posts) you may have missed, if you’re not a member…
(hint:join us)
“How Did I Tangibly Move Forward Today?”
One of the simplest and most powerful questions you can ask yourself, at the end of every workday, is:
“How did I tangibly move forward today?”
Don’t just think about it, actually write about it for ~3-5 minutes at the end of each day.
Chances are, you will quickly realize:
1. Activity does not equal progress. Most of your activities only make you feel like you’re moving forward — but produce very little tangible progress.
2. Which activities actually produce tangible progress, and which ones don’t.
(example: turning my daily emails into weekly emails for the next few months while I focus on the most important task: building my core offer)
This one realization can make the difference between rapidly achieving your goal, and failing entirely.
I have this question written at the top of my daily schedule, and I look at it multiple times per day.
I recommend you do the same.
New AI Use Case (Personal)
Yesterday I had to reply to a very long, extremely sensitive, extremely personal email from a close friend who was deeply hurt by a mutual friend of ours who I am still close with.
Without getting into details, it was a very complicated and charged situation and needed to be handled with a lot of care.
So carefully, over about an hour or so, I wrote my reply, felt good about it, and nearly sent it.
Then thought I may as well see what ChatGPT has to say first.
In seconds, it pointed out some significant blind spots in my reply that I never would have noticed, and could have inflamed the situation further or even compromised my relationship to this person.
Then it made some critical edits that improved the email, by my own subjective estimate, ~200% (and my email was quite good to begin with).
It was a pretty profound experience.
The lesson I took from it:
Continue integrating AI into your daily decisions and workflow, even for tasks you wouldn’t normally use it for.
The goal is not for AI to do our thinking for us (ie. to write the email for me) but to upgrade our thinking (ie. to edit and refine my email, and help me see my blind spots).
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most powerful upgrade to human cognition in history.
Nothing else even comes close.
Unhappy Journeys Don’t Lead To Happy Endings
If the path to the goal doesn’t make you happy, achieving the goal won’t either.
The lesson:
Don’t chase goals you don’t enjoy the process of chasing, thinking that achieving the goal will make it all worth it.
It won’t.
(nuance: “do not confuse struggle with unhappiness.”)
For more, you know what to do.
Have an awesome weekend over there.
You deserve it.
– T
P.S. No video or weekend recommendations in this one.
Many apologies.
My excuse:
I’ve been in the lab.
And what I’ve been cooking up is mere weeks away from blowing the head straight off your shoulders.
Details coming soon…
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
