DO YOU PUSH OR DO YOU LISTEN? There are two conflicting pieces of advice that drive me crazy on a regular basis. Of course, the answer is both. As with all pieces of advice, context really matters. The problem? IF WE PICK WRONG, IT CAN GO SPECTACULARLY WRONG In both directions. Of course, those are the people who consistently take no risks or consistently take all of the risks, but the rest of us are just a messy combination of playing it way too safe and then practically killing ourselves. Sometimes you do exactly right and still get hurt. To quote Jean Luc Picard, or at least an anonymous Star Trek screenwriter: "It's possible to make no mistakes and still love." You listen to your gut and your gut is just plain wrong. You play it safe and miss the perfect opportunity. You take a huge risk and reap the consequence. So it’s not like the tips in the rest of this newsletter or foolproof and if you just do this you’re not gonna get hurt and you’re not gonna … [Read more...] about How to Go With Your Gut and Push Your Limits. Magically at the Same Time.
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Could You Be Addicted to Outrage??
I'm Kyler and I'm an outrage addict. It's been fifteen minutes since my last hit of cortisol. This is the story of how I thought I had a totally normal, healthy relationship with the internet, but learned I was actually completely screwed. It took a sixty-day migraine with vertigo to get me offline. Did you know vertigo was a symptom of migraine? Or that one of the primary triggers is screens? One day last year, I started to feel like a cork bobbing on the ocean while someone hammered on the back of my head. Fun times. And then it went on for months. Even after I figured out what was going on and that screens were my primary trigger, I just kept looking at them. All the time. As spikes were driven into eyeballs. I was that addicted to terror and outrage, and I was a pretty casual user. You know this. This is not news. But do you truly, madly, deeply know this? Because I was completely fooled. I thought I understood. I did not get into flame wars. I had the … [Read more...] about Could You Be Addicted to Outrage??