Value metrics & being you in the world!

Tangents With Sol!

Hello! In today’s show we discuss uncertainty, death, aspirations, values & being authentic!

Shout outs

• Audrey Ember(Youtuber & All around GirlBoss):

@AudreyEmber

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwWBbpZ8HvPO_x_UdvX8aA

• Emily Fitzgerald(MY BEST FRIEND)

@EmilyFitz

• Matt D’Avella(The Ground Up Show Podcast)

https://www.youtube.com/user/blackboxfilmcompany

@Mattdavella

• Emily Castillo(Photographer)

@castillocaptures

Key Notes

• Feedback loops
  • “Mad at the fact you a mad”
• Culture of exceptionalism: Aka Entitlement
• Expansive nothingness
  • Houston Krafts 1% memory dilemma
  • Immorality project
• Values & metrics (Creators curse)
  • Goal checkoff = Nothingness
  • To say yes you must say no
• Responsibility for your life
  • The “Do something Principle”
  • Poker hands
  • Get the ball moving
• Beauty in growth rather than product
  • Pablo Picasso Napkins
• Russian Currency
• Memento Mori
• If you can make $1k a month doing what you love. You can make $10k
  • Podcast Ground up show
• The break up from societal success

Quotes:

“The universe is a very large place. If you have even studied the smallest bit of science, you’ll realize that for all practical purposes we are nothing. We are like amoeba. We’re bacteria to the universe. We’re basically monkeys on a small rock, orbiting a small backwards star in a huge galaxy which is in an absolutely staggeringly gigantic universe which itself could be part of a gigantic multiverse. This universe has been around for about 10 billion years or more and will be around for 10s of billions of years afterwards. So your and my existence is infinitesimal. It’s like a firefly blinking once in the night. And nothing we do lasts. Eventually you will fade, your works will fade, your children (or family) will fade, your thoughts will fade, this planet will fade, the sun will fade… it’ll all be gone. We’re here for an extremely short period of time.”
 — Naval Ravikant (Tim Ferriss Podcast — #136: Naval Ravikant on Happiness Hacks and The 5 Chimps Theory — 25min)

Examples of good values: honesty, innovation, vulnerability, standing up for oneself, standing up for others, self-respect, curiosity, charity, humility, creativity.
Examples of bad values: dominance through manipulation or violence, indiscriminate f*cking, feeling good all the time, always being the center of attention, not being alone, being liked by everybody, being rich for the sake of being rich, sacrificing small animals to the pagan Gods.
 — Chapter 4, 38min30sec (audiobook)

“Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty. And, as such, it must be the compass by which we orient all of our other values and decisions.
 — Chapter 9, 26min43sec (audiobook)

“It’s not about giving f*ck about everything your partner gives a f*ck about. It’s about giving a f*ck about your partner regardless of the f*cks he or she gives. That’s unconditional love, baby.”
 — Chapter 8, 26min2sec (audiobook)

“You are already great because in the face of endless confusion and certain death, you continue to choose what to give a f*ck about and what not to.”
 — Chapter 9, 30min20sec (audiobook)

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