2022-12-05
1 小时 0 分钟The first entry in the book of awesome was flipping to the cold side of the pillow, and the first entry in this one is carrying the ice cube tray from the sink to the freezer without spilling.
That's really what I'm aiming for, is that universal feeling of something that you just don't talk about but which we all share, and then hopefully it just pushes us a little bit to realizing and recognizing that we're all the same.
I really think that now's the time where we need each other more than ever before, too.
So here's a bit of a weird statement.
My friend Neil Pasricha is simultaneously one of the freest and also most rules based and systematized humans that I know.
He's got a system or a ritual or a set of rules for just about everything, from how many nights a month he can be away from his family, which is actually written and signed into a family contract, to what he does the first two minutes of every day, to how often he can hang out with friends or wander the streets alone in solitude, work out, create right, even the very thing that exploded him into the public consciousness about a decade ago.
His wildly popular blog about tiny pleasures and awesome things.
It was pre designed around a countdown from a thousand to one days, so he knew the constraints before he said yes to it.
And you might think that this would make life feel kind of rigid, boxed in, devoid of freedom or room to play.
But for Neil, it is the exact opposite.
All these systems and rules and rituals and routines, they remove so much decision making burden, so much friction.
It's like he has tons more time and energy and bandwidth to actually just do the things he loves and the things that make him smile.
And that includes everything from playing with his wife and kids to traveling, speaking, writing a series of blockbuster books and more.
In fact, it's given Neil the time and space to travel the world, give over 50 speeches a year, hosts an Apple best of award winning podcast called three books, where he is on this epic 15 year long quest to uncover the thousand most formative books in the world.
And along the way, it's given him the space to write nine books and journals selling over 2 million copies, including the Book of Awesome, the Happiness equation, and his new book, our Book of Awesome, where for the first time ever, he invites hundreds, actually it might even be thousands, of people, into his writing and sharing and community building process to share awesome things from people's lives, large, gobsmacking things, to short, sweet and funny things from all over the world.
It's a wonderful read that I highly recommend.
And today we are diving into Neil's compelling take on saying yes to systems as a way to bring more freedom and joy and space into your life.
And then also his take on the role and value and power of community and what happens when you invite them in to share both in the, the awesomeness and the process of creation.
So excited to share this with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is a good life project.