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#214 – where do you live – and where are you going?

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I never thought about it before, but I have realized this week that for most of my life I have been camping out on the shores of reality. Beyond the norms and rules of the so-called real world. It has been great but I also know deep inside that is is time for me to come back to the real world. And it scares me. Living at the frontier can be scary but I’m used to that. For me, the real world is truly the unknown. I don’t think it is better to live at the frontier, but I think it is important to understand where you actually live— and to ask herself if you are in the right place. Try this:

1. Draw your own map -it may look different

2. Where do you live and where do you go to? Perhaps you live in the real world and work as a person who takes people on tours to the frontier. Maybe you live in between.

3. Where do you really want to be?

The real world:
-Social norms
-Rules
-Code
-Rigidity and stability

With love,

Mathias

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#213 – the inner WHY

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HELLO AMAZING!

Learn how to find a strong and motivating “inner why.”

Grab pen and notebook and frame a page:

Give it a title. It can be the name of a project or task that you are working on now.

2. In the top-right corner, leave space for exploring all your motivations for doing this project.

Why do you want to do this?

Optional: add little icons to each reason.

3. Look at each of your reasons, and ask yourself:

-Is this something I’m trying to avoid?(Loosing my job, making mistakes, failing)

-Is this within my control or is it a result ties to others?(Success, positive feedback)

4. Focus on the motivations that don’t fit the questions in 3.

These are your INTRINSIC motivations and they will help and guide you through uncertainty.

With love,

Mathias

 

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#212 – staircase of abstraction

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#211 – what should I do now?

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#209 – what are you maximizing for?

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#207 – fear

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#206 – I love what I do

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#205 – thinking about marriage

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#204 – What if I was asked to give a TED talk?

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#203 – the art of life

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#202 – think of yourself as a human capital fund

Photo of a Think Clearly handwritten newsletter created by Mathias Jakobsen
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