This week, I finally got to see The Odyssey downtown at the Indiana State Museum in 70mm (the largest screen), and as I expected, I loved it—Christopher Nolan is my favorite director, so I went in expecting to. I’m going to see it again Monday evening with a couple of friends, and I’m looking forward to seeing what I might have missed the first time around. Instagram must have picked up on me seeing the movie because it started feeding me tons of Odyssey content. One of the posts really...
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Not too long, I wrote about your Authentic Life requiring you to be irrational. Another word that has come up in the last few weeks, and that I keep thinking about, is delusion. I consider irrational and delusional to be synonyms, but I really think delusional is one more step further away from “normal” than irrational. I also think delusion requires a level of conviction and belief that doesn’t show up in irrational. Maybe belief is what takes something from irrational to delusional. I’ve...
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"Maybe it's time to count NOT how many steps we took or how many calories we consumed, but how many sunsets we experienced with our spouse, how many times we felt goosebumps during a deep conversation with our best friend, or how many times we smiled at a stranger?" -Chip Conley What would you add to the list Chip started? See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” -Albert Einstein You’re not giving your creativity enough attention. I encourage you to explore your creativity and make more time for it. Only good things can come from your creativity. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
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I hope you had a great week! Earlier this summer, I hosted a few talks at my house for Roman, Leo, and their teammates about mindset and mindfulness. The feedback from the first three talks in the Mindful Mondays series was so positive that it's kept me thinking about how to keep the momentum going. Now, I know the Mindful Mondays were created for teenagers, which, to the best of my knowledge, is not the audience of the Weekly Note, but I still wanted to share the latest addition to the...
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“You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon. Yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.” -Jay Alto See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
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“Being an alien is just being yourself, when people don't understand you. We just trying to let everybody know there's a place for everybody in this world. You just gotta find yourself, and be true to yourself. That's how you get prosperous and happy." -Andre 3000 This week, the album ATLiens by Outkast turned thirty, which is hard to believe, given what that means about my age. ATLiens came out my freshman year of high school—I remember this without having to check the date because I...
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Yesterday, some pretty big news in my profession grabbed everyone’s attention—the what isn’t important. I observed something interesting. The news stirred up a lot of emotions, inspired a ton of posts, and, naturally, responses. What I observed was that the reactions and responses seemed less about the news itself and more about the individual poster's internal state. What looked like excitement or disappointment about the news felt, to me, to be more about the individual’s internal world....
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Successful people think differently. They don’t waste energy asking, “Why is this happening to me?” They ask, “What can I do about it?” -Anonymous I saw this on IG the other day and wrote it down, but I didn’t write down the account that posted it, so I can’t at least attribute it to that account. If you find your Self dismissing this, my guess is your default is the “why”, which is probably the human mind’s default setting. Before dismissing it, I challenge you to give it a try next time...
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