Ambitious? Love working on difficult stuff? — Well this just made everything easier, and I can’t believe I forgot it existed

Most all of my day there’s an earbud talking to me.

Calls, yes.

Zoom, yes.

But apart from that, I’ve a massive list of audio books and podcasts I want to get to. Can’t do fiction — pure non-fiction.

Even got a speaker for the shower so the audio never has to stop.

The only time I don’t have info going in is when I’m writing, then it’s music without lyrics.

And I know I’m not the only one.

It’s a wonderful part of our modern world, and I love it.

Yesterday we rode motorbikes through the mountains in Vietnam

Usually, the earbud is tucked inside the helmet Bluetooth’ing me hours of insight, wisdom, and other people’s perspectives on every topic imaginable.

But on yesterday’s journey — I decided to just put the helmet on, and ride.

What happened surprised me

When you ride through a developing country, the conditions can be perfect, terrible, and everything in between.

When the roads are falling apart and you’re dodging dogs, goats, buffalo, trucks on the wrong side of the road and children playing — it’s pure focus. Like, intense focus. Meditative focus.

But when you hit a winding stretch of perfect road at high elevation with jungle and smoky mountains as far as you can see… It’s awesome.

All the riding in between?

Chatter.

The mind doesn’t stop.

And as someone creative (like you, I assume) through the chatter surprising stuff surfaces… puzzles, answers, more questions, memories, desires, and ideas.

I guess it’s kind of like what dreaming does when we sleep — ties up loose ends.

Last night, I slept unreal.

And today, everything is simpler, easier to think through, clearer, more perspective… allowing the chatter do its thing kind of washed a lot of the noise away.

Everyone has their thing I guess

For some it’s martial arts.

Others, yoga.

Or running.

Or baking.

Or simply taking a long walk.

Hell, I’m sure you’ve heard of the trend to bareback a flight, or “raw-dogging” (don’t you just love it when a graphic phrase makes its way into mainstream haha).

Whatever floats your boat.

We spend so much energy constantly distracting ourselves with dopamine hits, I get it, and I don’t judge it

But purposely allowing the chatter to just take over for a while, permission to let it run wild… the after effect feels like my mind has been defragged.

I’ll be doing this more often.

Maybe if you’ve read this far, you either agree with me — or you’re already doing it.

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Thanks for reading

A different newsletter this week.

I’m writing this from my phone in a tiny town called Mang Den in Vietnam. Next week we’ll resume the marketing insight — but today I felt this might strike a different chord.

Especially you ambitious types, who are building interesting stuff.

Cheers,

Pat