HeyJaredSurrounded: How our environment shapes our thinking
The quality of your thoughts is a direct result of the quality of your inputs. Investigating how our physical and digital environments shape our thinking.
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Stop Making Yourself the Project (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowIn August of 2021, I quit my job, sold my car, and moved an hour away from everyone I knew so I could finally have the time and space to write a book. This was not, at least in my mind, a rash decision. It was what I had been working toward for years, the culmination of a year of corporate shilling and a lot of time spent trying to become a better writer. It was finally time.There was one small issue, which was that I had never written a book before and had no real evidence that I c
How to Journal Like the Martian (opens the original)
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There is a novel about an astronaut stranded in space that has helped me solve more problems in my life than any self-help book I’ve ever read. That book is The Martian by Andy Weir.On the surface, this is strange. The Martian is a novel. It was written for entertainment. And I did not read it because I was looking for advice. I read it because I wanted to escape my problems by disappearing into somebody else’s that had no relation to my own, which seemed like a pretty safe bet, considering the
“Take Your Work More Seriously” Is the Worst Creative Advice I’ve Ever Heard (opens the original)
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