--- ## Notes/Brainstorming ### ✨ In My Life - New year - The new year doesn't feel that special or revolutionary because I'm used to planning things out constantly - Instead, I think of it as a nice monumental reviewing point to appreciate my progress - Just reflection, since like I said before, I'm following 12 week year ### **🔗** Links to Thinks - Blue lock manga ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz Chess and VALORANT Seasonal leisure - As a result, been playing VALORANT ranked again - Cool to see my aim hasn't deteriorated - Can definitely see the flow that comes back - Chess - Another thing I'm slowly improving at - Just watching content on it and playing though rather than deliberate practice ### **🤔** Food For Thought - Men have been hit with a wave of "escape the matrix" style content - Iman gadzhi - Andrew tate - Hamza - Elon Musk even - Like i'm not sure how to feel about it, I would prefer for it to exist for it to not since it does open people's eyes - And of course some of the things they also say and maybe the extremes can be questionable - Just curious to see how it will turn out ### 😤 My Ramblings - It's so much more easier to consume - The effort to reward ratio - The endless amount of content at your fingertips that please your extremes - Gaming - Pornographic content - Fiction - Struggle to turn my mind off, always need some form of stimulus - When I do give time off things just continue racing in my mind - Unsolved dilemmas, the future, or more ## Publishing Copy Welcome to another edition of _Weekly Wondering_, a sacred time where I share the resonating links, reflections and learnings from my past week to influence your next one ;) ### **✨** In My Life ### **🔗** Links to Thinks ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz ### **🤔** Food For Thought ### 😤 My Ramblings ### My Tools for Learning and Growth I record everything I mention in my newsletters in my Obsidian, my favorite note-taking and productivity app. If you want to aggregate the valuable gems from your week like this, or need a place to store your ideas and highlights, you can set up your own [second brain](https://johnmavrick.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-vault). If you want the most densely packed and actionable book summaries, try out Shortform for free [here](https://www.shortform.com/). If you want to make reading and highlighting easier, check out [Readwise](https://readwise.io/i/john5833) (affiliate link) and sign up for their Reader app!