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So often we do things two or three things at a time. This week, take some time for yourself and do one thing. Schedule it. Block out time. Do one thing at a time, just because you like it.
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Just a quick little lesson I learned during my piano lesson that's not at all about piano.
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You're doing great. You are so much more than your worst mistake. You can become anything.
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This week in your life, take something that you normally do in a rush... and stop. Do it slowly instead. Do it smoothly. See what happens.
Doing the dishes, completing a task at work, filling your car with gas. Do it slowly, smoothly, intentionally. See what happens.
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Welcome back. To a new episode of Bite-Sized Philosophy. Missed you.
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The two skills are 1. Enjoying Time Alone and 2. Processing My Own Thoughts.
Good luck and enjoy!
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Straight from How To Win Friends & Influence People, we have ways to handle people in ways that will make them like you and build relationships. These two techniques have been proven in scientific studies, they've been written about countless times, and they make sense. That's the big 3.
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This is the 5th and final episode with Kyle Hagge, episode 58 of this podcast, and 8 of the 24-episode series in 2022. You should write down your thoughts and theories, in a private journal, in a public blog, just somewhere. It forces you to reinforce your thoughts and refine your ideas. That's a part of why I started this podcast two years ago!
This week has been fantastic, and such a great conversation for me to learn from and be able to listen back through with Kyle. Monday, we talked about building community in a pandemic, Tuesday we talked about weak ties and a challenge network, Wednesday was about New Years’ Resolutions and goal-setting, Yesterday, we talked about Range and Career Growth, and today is about The Process, and about writing down thoughts and theories.
If you didn’t listen to the show throughout the week, these episodes are still up, they always will be, and I really recommend taking some time, whether that’s this evening, or this weekend, and listen through the entire conversation. Kyle really brought it, and there’s so much in these episodes that I’m learning from and applying, and I hope you get to learn something from these episodes, too. That’s why I do this, so I can learn and grow, and so you can learn and grow with me.
This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is passionate about justice, community, and innovation. Not just the buzzwordy kinds of justice, community, and innovation, but about how people can actually implement these topics in our careers and in our lives and he’s living that out in his current role at Morning Brew.
Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn This week’s topics range from weak ties in relationships and finding community as an adult, to goal-setting and skill-building, all the way into ways we can tell more useful stories about our careers.
As always on Bite-Sized Philosophy, this show is about conversation. Between Kyle and me, but also with you. To make that possible, here’s my phone number: 323-609-5262. Text me and let’s talk.
Resources (from all week long):
Range, obviously.
Kyle’s Conversation with Range author David Epstein
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
The Defining Decade - Meg Jay
LearningBrew: Business Education Without the BS
Why You Need A "Challenge Network"
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Range by David Epstein is a book about careers, re-framing how we get to success. Often, our careers don’t look like past generations. We don’t pick a career at 18, get hired as a junior employee, and work there for 47 years before we retire. That’s extremely rare.
Instead, we move through many roles and positions in our career, accumulating skills and data points throughout. We learn what we like and don’t like, what we’re good at and what we hate. We get to be beginners in a lot of places, and experts in many more.
And that meandering, winding pathway is the pathway to success, the journey to knowing what we really want to do. That sampling, the “collecting of dots” is crucial to being able to connect dots later in life and tell meaningful narratives about our career.
This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is passionate about justice, community, and innovation. Not just the buzzwordy kinds of justice, community, and innovation, but about how people can actually implement these topics in our careers and in our lives and he’s living that out in his current role at Morning Brew.
Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn This week’s topics range from weak ties in relationships and finding community as an adult, to goal-setting and skill-building, all the way into ways we can tell more useful stories about our careers.
As always on Bite-Sized Philosophy, this show is about conversation. Between Kyle and me, but also with you. To make that possible, here’s my phone number: 323-609-5262. Text me and let’s talk.
Resources:
Range, obviously. Kyle’s Conversation with Range author David Epstein -
Today talks about The fresh start effect where your birthday, a new year, anything that's a new situation actually is more effective at changing habits than just a random Tuesday in June. With New Years’ just in the rear-view, how are you doing with your goals? How are you doing with your resolutions? Use this episode as a reminder and a boost for your resolutions to be able to jump-start the new year and make it as good as you can make it.
This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is passionate about justice, community, and innovation. Not just the buzzwordy kinds of justice, community, and innovation, but about how people can actually implement these topics in our careers and in our lives and he’s living that out in his current role at Morning Brew.
Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn This week’s topics range from weak ties in relationships and finding community as an adult, to goal-setting and skill-building, all the way into ways we can tell more useful stories about our careers.
As always on Bite-Sized Philosophy, this show is about conversation. Between Kyle and me, but also with you. To make that possible, here’s my phone number: 323-609-5262. Text me and let’s talk.
Resources:
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day -
Today’s episode talks primarily about a “personal board room” or a “Challenge Network” and I want to explain some terms before we jump in. If you’re familiar with the idea, feel free to jump forward in this episode 90 seconds and jump straight to the intro and the content from Kyle. But otherwise, here’s a quick intro.
A challenge network is a group of people who can provide feedback and act as a sounding board for you in your career. Adam Grant famously uses his challenge network to edit all of his books, but it can be a group of people that help you think through work problems, make career decisions, or provide feedback into your career as you share vulnerably and honestly with them. It’s a group that’s not your closest friends but is definitely people you trust. These could be past co-workers or classmates, or just your second-tier friends that you don’t talk to as often. These people are your “weak ties” in life. You’re not looking for “yes-men” or people who just hype you up. You’re looking for help and perspectives that you might not have considered. Adam Grant says this: “The ideal members of a challenge network are disagreeable — critical and skeptical.” This is the case because: “We learn more from people who challenge our thought process than those who affirm our conclusions.” If nothing else, these people will help you to refine your ability to take feedback and criticism and you’ll grow in that skill.
This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is passionate about justice, community, and innovation. Not just the buzzwordy kinds of justice, community, and innovation, but about how people can actually implement these topics in our careers and in our lives and he’s living that out in his current role at Morning Brew. Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn This week’s topics range from weak ties in relationships and finding community as an adult, to goal-setting and skill-building, all the way into ways we can tell more useful stories about our careers.
As always on Bite-Sized Philosophy, this show is about conversation. Between Kyle and me, but also with you. To make that possible, here’s my phone number: 323-609-5262. Text me and let’s talk.
Resources: The Defining Decade - Meg Jay LearningBrew: Business Education Without the BS Why You Need A "Challenge Network"
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Today’s episode about finding shared experiences as a way to build your own community comes from Kyle Hagge, the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He helped start the Morning Brew Accelerator (MB/A) program that I’ll be participating in starting later this month.
Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn
This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is passionate about justice, community, and innovation. Not just the buzzwordy kinds of justice, community, and innovation, but about how people can actually implement these topics in our careers and in our lives and he’s living that out in his current role at Morning Brew.
This week’s topics range from weak ties in relationships and finding community as an adult, to goal-setting and skill-building, all the way into ways we can tell more useful stories about our careers.
As always on Bite-Sized Philosophy, this show is about conversation. Between Kyle and me, but also with you. To make that possible, here’s my phone number: 323-609-5262. Text me and let’s talk.
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Empathy is the way to break the toxicity of social media. Instead of fighting, it’s our call to be peaceful, loving, and kind to those around us.
Our lives depend on it.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Measure of Intelligence is the Ability to Change - Albert Einstein
A huge part of being able to change is understanding wide and ranging perspectives on topics you care about. Here are some of my favorite writers that challenge my ways of thinking and help me to change:
Think Again - Adam Grant (book)
Be Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi (podcast)
Essays by Paul Graham (blog)
Books by Malcolm Gladwell (books)
Life Advice that Doesn’t Suck - Mark Manson (blog)
News and analysis - FiveThirtyEight - (Blog)
How To Be the Luckiest Guy On The Planet In 4 Easy Steps - James Altucher - (Blog)
Seth’s Blog - Seth Godin (blog)
Keeping it Awkward, Brave, & Kind - Brene Brown (Blog, Podcast)
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome back! This is the first of a 24-episode contract beginning in 2022. I've already recorded an interview with Kyle Hagge and have a couple more scheduled. Between those and some solo episodes, there's a lot of content that I'm very excited about that's coming.
This podcast is built around the idea of Live By Design. This is a concept that says you have responsibility and ownership of your life. That your actions have consequences and you can make your own decisions with agency. To go along with that is the idea of this: If you change nothing, nothing will change. It’s January 5th, the beginning of a new year, 2022. Around this time, there’s been lots of talk about resolutions, and if you don’t change anything about your life, nothing about your life will change.
But I want to add to that: If you change everything, nothing will change.
Life isn’t about radical shifts and transitions. It’s not about flipping a switch and being a new person. There’s really something to the new year, and it signifies a new beginning in your life, and in mine. But realistically. If you’re like me, you often try to make sweeping changes to your life in short bursts. You say things like, “This month, I’ll change XYZ and ABC.” You might even write out your new habits and put them in your calendar and schedule them in, so you know you’ll follow through with it.
When we try to make sweeping, broad changes like this, we often cannot make them. We can’t follow through. Life doesn’t work that way.
The right answer for new years’ resolutions and for goal-setting and growth in general is a middle-ground. It’s not about changing nothing, (if you change nothing, nothing will change), but it’s also not about changing everything (if you change everything, nothing will change.) Instead, it’s about taking consistent actions. One day after the another, each step before the next.
Repeated, consistent actions are the big things in our lives. People that are great writers got that way not by taking one course or reading one book. They got that way by writing a lot of words every day for a long time. Repeated, consistent action.
People who are fit didn’t do it on a crash diet and going to the gym in January. They did it by building habits and consistent actions of eating healthier, sleeping better, and exercising consistently for a long time.
Our lives can change. You are capable of change. That’s a core tenet of the Live By Design idea.
But to make a lasting change means you have to change in small ways, consistently. Over long periods of time, these small changes become the big changes.
And I hope today is the day you start with those small changes.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
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50 Episodes. Wow. This was my goal when I started this show nearly two years ago, and we're there. We did it. I said at 50 episodes I could re-evaluate if Bite-Sized Philosophy was a project I wanted to continue, and for the moment, it still is. I'm planning to renew the show for 24 more episodes in 2022 and then will check in again at episode 74.
This is the past-year review.
The New Year is upon us, and that means there will be all sorts of resolutions. Promises to ourselves that we don’t keep very well and don’t have a lasting impact beyond January 31st, and sometimes not even that long.
So instead of making new year’s resolutions, what about conducting a past year review?
As we talked about on Monday’s episode, there are many ways to approach the new year. Monday we talked about defining personal values to bring more clarity to hard decisions in 2022, and today is about doing a past year review of 2021 to shed some light on what actually mattered from this past year that we want to bring into 2022 and what we really want to leave in 2021.
To do this exercise, you’ll need your 2021 calendar. However you track your events and schedule, as well as maybe a journal or any other way you keep track of what happens in your life.
For me this means Google Calendar. I also have journals, but my Google Calendar has enough on it that I don’t need them.
Then you need a way to take notes on your year. I used a Google Docs form and a powerpoint this year, but the last two years, I’ve done this by hand in a journal because I set aside more time.
Either way, we’re looking at the hobbies, activities, projects, and events that happened in 2021 that we enjoyed, didn’t enjoy, or had mixed feelings about.
I try to keep this pretty simple, so I use a highlighter for it. Green is enjoy, red is not enjoy, and yellow is some of both. It doesn’t need to be too complicated, the point is to get through your whole year, so the simpler the better.
Then, I turn to January of 2021 and get started.
Start week by week and write down the major things that happened in your life. This could be classes you took, leagues you were in, hobbies you did regularly, and people you saw consistently, as well as projects or other commitments. Go week by week and jot down the major engagements throughout the year, week by week and month by month, until you have a whole list of what you were involved with in 2021, and then take a highlighter and put them into these three categories: Enjoyed, mixed feelings, didn’t enjoy.
And there you have it. Your year in review that informs what you want to be involved in next year. Do more of what you enjoy and less of what you didn’t enjoy as much as you’re able to, and your 2022 will have a good chance of being better than your 2021.
It’s less rigid and defined than new years resolutions, but if you keep this in a place and refer back to it throughout the year, it can provide a template for you to enjoy your life more next year than you did this year, even if this year was great.
For me, this means more of my podcast, more drawing, more journaling, and more classes and leagues like axe throwing, martial arts, and creative exercise like that sort of thing. Less volunteer projects for organizations I’m not invested in, less umpiring for sports, less binging Netflix, and less fantasy football leagues.
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This is going to be part 1 of a two-part series to preparing for 2022. What can you do this week to prepare yourself for the year ahead and set yourself up to have some wins next year that you didn’t get this year? Today we’ll be talking about values and Wednesday will be about a Year in Review.
“The more clear I am about what my goals are, the more easily I can say no.” - Samin Nosrat
But if everything is a priority, nothing is. Without knowing what’s the most important thing, we can’t really make any progress towards anything at all. It’s just a sea of opportunity, with no lighthouse or compass.
Our goals and values operate as the lighthouse and the compass. I think of personal values as the compass, no matter what our goals are, the values keep us oriented to the world. And our goals are the lighthouse. Using our values as a map, our goals are the specific points we aim to reach within the sea of opportunities.
As most metaphors do, this falls apart as it gets too detailed, but the point is, values operate as the overarching guide, with goals as the specific points within that journey.
I want to take you through an exercise to help determine our values.
Get a pen and paper. If you don't have that, you can do this on your phone.
I’m going to read through a handful of common personal values, and write down the ones that really resonate with you. These are all largely good things, so a ton of them might resonate with you and sound like things you want to value and prioritize, but it’s okay to write down several of them. This list isn’t exhaustive, so your values may not be on this list, either. That’s okay, too. Feel free to add your own values and make this exercise your own.
Achievement Adventure Career Community Competency Creativity Faith Fame Family Friendships Growth Happiness Honesty Humor Independence Influence Justice Kindness Knowledge Leadership Peace Reputation Security Success Wealth WisdomNow what I want you to do is look at the new list you’ve made. Try to pick less than five of these core values to focus on. If everything’s a value, nothing really is.
Over the next two days before Wednesday, I want you to look at this list again and see if you’d change anything. Maybe you can journal about this or meditate on it. If you could pick 3-5 core personal values, what would they be?
Some questions to consider in this search:
“If ____ went wrong, I would drop anything to make it right.”
“At my eulogy, what do I want people to say about me?”
“When I make big decisions, what factors weigh the most?”
“When I feel the most fulfilled, what am I focusing on?”
“If I could only make decisions based on ONE of these values, what would I choose?”
These questions don't have easy answers. Important questions rarely do.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
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For a lot of people, the holiday season is wonderful. But just because it’s the most wonderful time of the year doesn’t make it easy. There are distant relatives in town, traveling to see loved ones, and more this Christmas and New Years. It can be hard to deal with, especially with COVID going on still.
But no matter what’s going on, you have the power to choose how you respond. As Epictetus says:
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…
In other words, you control how you respond and only how you respond.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
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We’re going to make mistakes every single day. In everything we try, we won’t be perfect. You won’t, I won’t, no one will. So make mistakes on purpose, with intention.
Just make sure they are your mistakes. Dream big, fly high, shoot for the stars. And then document the mistakes you’ve made, keep track of what works and what doesn’t, and journal, meditate, and grow from your mistakes. Not everything will be a mistake, and the more you try, the more you’ll succeed.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
For more Bite-Sized Philosophy content, subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts, follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my email list for a fun story delivered right to your inbox every single Friday!
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Negativity doesn’t impress me. When people can pick an argument apart, it’s not impressive to me. The world defaults to chaos and ruin. Being able to drag someone else’s action down is just the default, it’s easy to do.
What’s hard to do is something good. It’s hard to commit to being a positive force and do something positive, knowing how many people are waiting to pick it apart and drag you for it. This episode has 12 small actions you can do in the next month to be a positive force for change and do some good in this world, rather than doing more bad.
Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts.
For more Bite-Sized Philosophy content, subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts, follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my email list for a fun story delivered right to your inbox every single Friday!
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