“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” – Ron Swanson
Howdy.
This week’s Path promotion is finally in the books…
(huge congrats to our newest crop of up and coming entrepreneurs who got in before time expired — can’t wait to see y’all on our business AMA tomorrow morning)
…And I’m a bit cooked on the email writing.
So today, I’m leaning on the goldmine that is our Path community.
Here are five recent bangers to send you into the weekend right:
Insecure Impulses by Mattia Cassell
I wanted to share a framework that I’ve been using to temper fear driven impulses that arise in areas of my life where insecurities are present:
Whatever the insecurity driven fear tells you to do, do the opposite.
I’ve found this immensely useful for informing my short term actions in the face of insecurities that have shown themselves after getting into my first long term relationship, while I work on dissolving them.
Language Was Invented For One Reason!
(shared by Taylor)
Hard Choices Easy Life 2.0 by Liam Barney
There is a phrase coined by Olympic Powerlifting Champion Jerzy Gregorek:
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
Meaning:
Hard choices (cold showers, hard workouts, meditation, focused work) are challenging in the short term, but make life happy, successful and fun.
Easy choices (junk food, doom scrolling, j**king off) are easy in the short term, but make life challenging, stagnated and painful.
Even more powerful is when you can connect both camps:
Finding choices that are both long term gratifying (the positive of the “hard choices”) and enjoyable in the short term (the positive of “easy choices”).
This is where incredible achievements seem to sprout from.
The Capacity For Violence by Taylor
The capacity for violence does not eliminate the possibility for peace.
If anything, it allows it.
Bullies only bully those who can’t stand up for themselves. Countries with no military power get invaded. The ability to protect yourself and protect others is what creates the possibility of peace.
I have never met a spiritual master who is not capable of inflicting serious damage on someone (either physically, or energetically) if they need to.
The pop-culture notion of Buddhism might be one of hugs and singalongs, but the living reality of a high-level practitioner is very different.
Nature Loves Courage by Terrence McKenna
(shared by Jackson Kasko)
Have an amazing weekend over there.
You deserve it.
– T
P.S. Next week, we’re remixing one of our most popular email series of all time, not seen since 2023.
Stay tuned.
In the meantime, here’s my favorite email of the past week.
(and one of my favorites in recent memory)
Enjoy 🙂
“You’ve come far, pilgrim.” – “Feels like far.” – “Were it worth the trouble?” – “Huh? What trouble?” – Bear Claw Chris Lapp & Jeremiah Johnson
