Ideas for videos from conversation with brother.
I just had a great conversation with my brother. I told him a lot of things that really excited me. I told him a lot of things that I would really like to turn into some videos:
- I talked a lot about the daemon. I see it as me my spirit that has lived my entire life already and knows what I must do now. I talked about how it already knows everything you’ve made and done and that it puts these feelings in you to guide you to the work that you are destined to make. I have that line of Emerson in my head “the same genius that ??? is the same genius that creates.” I need to find that line and tie it in. I think of how the word autodidact has stood out to me. How I have always loved great books. How my spirit was never at peace with Alyssa. All these feelings were more real to me than anything and affected my actions, which affected my life’s course.
- I talked about those lines in chapter 20 of “Song of Myself.” How those lines have really helped me come to peace with the pace of my unfolding and with being alone. It’s helped me see that the best guarantee of a happy and fulfilled future i a happy and fulfilled present. If I can sit at ease now, alone I will be able to sit at ease then an with love.
- I talked about the feeling of power conveyed through art. How it is such a beautiful feeling and one that I didn’t know could be conveyed until I have read Emerson and Whitman. Talk about Tolstoy’s definition of art. Talk about Emerson saying the greatest thing that books can do for you is make you feel that you are great too. Talk about how I felt a lesser form of this feeling with Jean-Michel Basquiat because he made me feel I could make art too. His art though didn’t make me rise though, but destruct. It made me more self-absorbed. Beautiful art makes you aspire and develop this could be one of the greatest function of great art. Talk about how it could be applied to business too. The steam engine makes one want to invent something beautiful and revolutionary, but many of the inventions of today provide no real value or innovation they are just “money-grabs.” True innovation makes you aspire and become. Other weaker products make you want to just present something old and ugly in a new way and make money with ease. If there is no aspiration it is useless. Great things propel us to a great future and there is nothing more useful than that. We need more people following their daemon’s truly.
- Also, last night I talked to Trevor about the aesthetic of feeling like a child again as we searched for acorns. This video concept isn’t as good though because the aesthetic of nostalgia is running rampant today.
- Finally, I talked to Cade about the struggle of poetry, of becoming literate. How it took me many years and many readings, but how I am finally coming into my own. How it is fun to learn new words. To struggle with great writing. How it changes and builds one’s character.
Workflow idea. I just wrote all those ideas down. I would be overwhelmed to now have to add them all to my endeavor database. But I should every Sunday go through all my journals, reflect on them and then assimilate them into my databases. The writing is basically already done now and it will be quick to do. But if I felt I had to add them to the database now I would have let them pass and forgot about them. I can maybe have a way too to put that the source of each idea came from this journal. I just had another one. So while I am going through each week I can be assigning to each thing I read which platform it is best suited for. I can be making Tweets, Skool, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn posts. That is a great way to turn all of this writing, which sometimes could feel useless, to a use.
Skool thinking and refinement. Last night too I couldn’t sleep. I had a lot of great thoughts though and spent about an hour in thoughtful meditation. My thinking really helped me refine what I want to offer on my Skool. I want all the curriculums I make to me free and on my website. I realized that today when I remember how inspired I have been by “Justin Guitar.” Also, there is wisdom in it because Alex Hormozi always talks about how giving value away for free is the best way to eventually make money. Plus, Trevor said something yesterday that really resonated with me and it surprised me because I didn’t expect him to say it. He said that he thinks the best way to make money is to give a lot of stuff away for free. I want all the curriculums I make to be free. The Skool though has to offer something. It will offer my Notion template and time with me. I will help keep people accountable and will help them find their way to mastery of the skills they want to develop. This will help me become a good teacher too which excites me and I have been thinking that I would love for the work I get paid for, to not be me isolated, but working with others. This solves all of those problems and allows me to begin my Skool with hardy any materials made. This solution is simple and solves many problems. I love it! It’s elegant!
My College Experience Video Ideas.
I just had some thoughts for what I might say in my video about my time in college:
- People might think I would not like college, and in a lot of ways I do. I don’t align with their values or mission at all. However, it was great for me because it allowed me a lot of time to find my way.
- If you don’t go to a prestigious school you are given a lot of freedom to change your major and find your way.
- Big schools also often have nearly every field of study so you can become aquatinted with these fields of study and be exposed to things you didn’t know were knowable.
- Big schools have tons of resources. I have spent so much time in the LSU library using books that are rare, expensive, and hard to come by. I was exposed to books that you’ll never find on the Amazon lists or in podcasts or in blog posts.
- Big schools have very low academic standards and expectations. You can get away with barely attending class. You can get away with not engaging with the material. Now, this isn’t great for one’s character, but it was useful for me.
- Also, school was nearly free for me. This gave me a lot of time and freedom to grow.
- One of the most important elements of the life of learning is leisure and I was blessed with plenty of time for my ideas to gestate and for me to become a man I am proud of.
- All of this freedom also allowed me to really fall into unhealthy ways of living. I could get by being nocturnal, not attending class, being late, not doing assignments. All of these things, helped me see and feel deeply how bad they are for my soul. This has given me a robust ethic for work. One that I know is true because I have done it the other way.
- The fact that my values didn’t align with the university’s at all also gave me the feeling that my silent rebellion was okay and justified. That my pursuit of a classical self-education was more beautiful and useful than anything they could offer me.
Potential titles could be: Should you Go to College? No, but I did! (I don’t regret it either)
Open Culture
Just found this great website resource Open Culture. I still don’t know how to fit resources like this in my system. for now I’ll just bookmark it here:
Endeavors database New Tag.
Maybe add a multi-select feature to endeavors database where I can pick where I will post something.