--- ## Notes/Brainstorming ## 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 **My ship 30 for 30 experience** Been doing okay in ship 30 so far, only missed 1/7 days of posting. I initially wanted to use ship 30 for 30 as an opportunity to advertise my PKM/second brain authority on another platform, but now I'm just using it as an outlet for self-expression. I think I'm slowly discovering that I want to specifically cater my content towards Gen Z to allow for other facets of my personality and interests to be incoprorated in my content and online branding. ### **🔗** Links to Thinks #### Dark side of making money online Coffeezilla is a YouTuber that exposes scammers and fake gurus, which I found to be interesting. Two videos that caught my interest: **[Grant Cardone's Crazy Billionaire Advice](https://youtu.be/bCRj22g5sVc)** Criticizes these mastermind groups where you pay a lot to get access to a mastermind or exclusive coaching. For example, what if you were to spend that money on their actual business? Instead of teaching more about business and entpreneurship, he's teaching "mindset", thinking that you're capable of becoming a billionaire (which only 2668 people in the world are yet he claims that all 11k people in the live stream are capable of doing) - While I do like motivational influencers who try to help break limiting beliefs, even I think this is too much 😅 **[9-5 jobs are a scam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYOSysxu0Ng&ab_channel=Coffeezilla)** This one was interesting since the person he's ridiculing has the claim of school and 9-5 jobs being a waste of time, which is something I'm still figuring my views over Coffee claims that the more ambitious you are, the more you need to go to school, which he actually supports with statistical proof- - dropping out of college is the worst choice if you just want to get rich, since people with degrees generally tend to be paid more I guess I came out of this reinforcing the belief that not everyone should drop out of college, and that you should only do so if you find a better alternative like online learning or something more fulfilling. I just found his views intriguing since I was considering dabbling into "online money" for my upcoming brand pivot. - I realized the main thing I want to share is just my path to a fulfilling life, money is only a means to an end and would not align with my character - Don't sell results that aren't guaranteed, at least be humane and satisfaction guarantees #### A twitch streamer's mental breakdown Here's where my Gen Z roots come out ;) This isn't the first time I came across it, but for some reason [this streamer's ramble](https://youtu.be/w7w3oEi6NWI) on her passion for live streaming and her mission was resurfaced. It's interesting to see the comments are also very curious about her mental condition, isn't that the beauty of the internet? you can pretend to be a character and that character eventually becomes you. Out of all the things that could have inspired me during my contemplative phase, this was somehow it. Such an inspiring mental breakdown, but many question whether it's influenced by substances or mental disorders. Let's assume that she's being authentic. Some ideas I found interesting from her perspective are: - Doesn't even know her self, and is using her streams as a way of figuring it out - Her entire ramble was just imbued with passion - probably a manic episode - "watching too much anime", I kind of want the same essence for one aspect of my upcoming personal brand Is it bad that i kind of resonate with her? 😭 #### Naval Ravikant - The 4 BIGGEST TRAPS in Life that You NEED to GET OUT I skipped the first three to just focus on the last one, [the competition trap](https://youtu.be/2bL5JHKf16k). Talked about how [[Mimetic Desire]] can influence competition - There is no concept of competition- no one can compete if you are just being yourself - Find what your authentic self is best at then share it as what society wants - The goal is not passive income, it's active income doing what you love - By this definition, oversaving to try and retiring early is stupid #### Never be saddened by a separation https://youtu.be/StNSvkmIk4Y Love is just trust, they are not obligated to reciprocate. Don't let attachment to externals blind you from your way, your inner purpose in life. People can only love when it is non dependent and transactional, which is through individuality and unconditional love. I personally think attachment is okay, you just need to be indepdendent enough to deal with the consequences. ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz ### **🤔** Food For Thought > "We thought of life by analogy was a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." > > - Alan Watts Just nice food for thought as I question the level of my ambitions and long-term thinking. Inspired by my cousin's conscious choices to overlook theory and contemplation to just have fun, I've been experimenting by playing games again. ### 😤 My Ramblings **Breaking out of my introverted shell** _Copy pasted from a voice-to-text journal entry_ it's today I was eating at bubble world with my cousin, and in the corner of my eye I saw familiar face, at first I overlooked it but I looked again and it was the winner of the sap hackathon I went to, I just couldn't really believe it, I just kept trying to sneak glances at him, looking at the reflection of my phone to verify his face, questioning if it was possible that other people could also look yearly similar to him, but eventually I found out that it really was him. I hadn't really went up to someone randomly in a public setting before so I was quite scared to, and every fiber my body was telling me not to, but I don't know, if there's anything I learned from the online interactions I've had just by reading more like-minded people, it's sad I shouldn't be afraid to make the initiative, and surprisingly I've also been doing something similar in my internship as I was the first one to reach out to my fellow interns in my same group, so I swallowed my fear and just went up to him and it was just a magical experience to say the least, to find him there out of all places, apparently the dinner he was awarded for 1st place went well and he has an interview tomorrow so I ended up adding him on LinkedIn and discord as true degens would and yeah, I'd like to say I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to stop on my comfort zone like that, I feel like just walking around outside taking pictures in your shirt and shorts while it's 5° celsius outside definitely helped me with not giving a single fuck about anything, but I don't know, it was cool ### 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). 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