Brain Food: Tribal Information, The End, and Letting Go of Our Story

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"The thing that’s very clear is that when people hear information that comports with whatever their tribe believes, or whatever their tribe supports, they’re willing to accept it without doing a lot of digging into the quality of the source, the quality of the information, the implications of the rest of the information that goes with it. Anything that challenges what their tribe believes they are going to be more dismissive of whether or not it comes from a quality source."

Making Better Decisions with Todd Simkin ( YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Join our membership to get transcripts )

Explore Your Curiosity

★ "I said no a lot to what seemed like a lot of money ... What's good for you in the short run is not always good for you in the long run."

Anthony Bourdain

★ "When an academic wins a Nobel prize, they have achieved a pinnacle of expertise. At which point they often start to wax philosophic, and writing op-eds. They seem to be making a bid to become an elite. Because we all respect and want to associate with elites far more than with experts. Elites far less often lust after becoming experts, because we are often willing to treat elites as if they are experts."

Experts vs. Elites

Insight

"Groundedness does not eliminate passion, productivity, or all forms of striving and ambition. Instead, it is about ditching an omnipresent and frantic anxiety to begin living in alignment with your innermost values, pursuing your interests, and expressing your authentic self in the here and now. When you are grounded there is no need to look up or down. You are where you are, and you hold true strength and power from that position. Your success, and the way in which you pursue it, becomes more enduring and robust. You gain the confidence to opt out of the consumer-driven rat-race that leaves you feeling like you are never enough."

— Brad Stulberg in The Practice of Groundedness

Tiny Thought

Have you ever asked yourself why you are afraid of death? It's normal to be afraid, of course. But exploring why we are afraid might be instructive on how we are to live. Do you have unfinished business to accomplish? Are you enjoying life too much? Are there too many dreams not pursued?

Recommended Reading

"We stick to the wrong thing quite often, not because it will come to fruition by further effort but because we cannot let go of the way we have decided to tell the story, and we become further enmeshed even by trying to make sense of what entraps us, when what is needed is a simple, clean breaking away."

Consolations by David Whyte

I'm a huge fan of the Poet David Whyte. Consolations was given to me as a gift from a remarkable friend. The book explores the underlying meaning of everyday words. Naturally, I looked up friendship and noted this remarkable passage: "The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone."

Et Cetera

+ Morris Chang pioneered the semiconductor foundry industry, kicking off a revolution in the business of chips. Pair with this interview, for a short history of the entire industry, the key players, and the incredible importance of Taiwan.

+ Kayne — "For every escalation of his celebrity, Kanye’s songwriting suffers. Kanye’s albums are increasingly about his fame and its discontents, and this is becoming his only idea about anything. .... At some point in the past decade—when, exactly, depends on your own taste and patience—Kanye West stopped earning your admiration with his music and started demanding it with everything but."

+ A simple rule I follow in business based on mirrored recpirocation.

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Stay safe,

Shane

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