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TTE 133 – Art, doctors and GMF

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Jamie Smart

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
A wonderful bit from lecture 4 of Grayson Perry’s wonderful Reith Lectures. While he’s talking about artists, I can’t think of many vocations or callings where this wouldn’t apply.

“Most of the successful artists I’ve met, they’re very disciplined. They turn up on time, they put in the hours and that idea of us all being a bit chaotic and shaky, I think it’s a myth . Artists are doers. They don’t ‘want to be’ artists; they don’t wannabe artists they want to make art. They enjoy making art. And this reminds me of a quote from Kierkegaard. In the old days, they loved wisdom. Nowadays they love the title ‘philosopher'” Read More →

TTE 132 – Media, Mohini and a Masterclass

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Photo courtesy Sean MacEntee and Flickr

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Sam Harris’ podcast this week was a conversation with David Frum and Andrew Sullivan that covered a wide range of topics, including the incredible communication power that we each now hold in the form of our smartphones, and how we’re all part of the media now:

“You’re carrying in your pocket more communication power than Walter Cronkite ever had at his disposal, and you have some responsibilities on how you use it. And I think one of the things we’ve seen in 2016 is that’s sort of a new thought to people. We talk about the media as if not every human being on earth with a cellphone is part of the media but we all are.” Read More →

TTE 131 – Drag, dark humour and Dolores O’Riordan

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Jamie Smart

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
In my first book, CLARITY, I quoted from Charlie Chaplin’s beautiful speech from the great dictator. I opined that artists are “the canaries in humanity’s coal mine, able to sense our emerging patterns and potentials long before they be- come obvious to everyone else.” For the past week, I’ve been listening to Grayson Perry’s wonderful Reith Lectures from 2013 and he came out with a quote about art that resonates deeply with me (and is much more concise than my statement). Read More →

TTE 130 – Zeppelin, Helsinki and tears of joy

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Eugenia Zelaya

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m still enjoying the hell out of Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s book, Fooled By Randomness. It’s well worth reading. Here’s the quote from it that’s giving me the most pause for reflection so far:

“Remember that nobody accepts randomness in his own success; only his failure.”

2. The search is over, except when it isn’t (a keynote speech I really enjoyed giving)
A couple of years ago, I gave the opening talk at the Unlimited conference in Helsinki, Finland. The conference was organised by one of my former students, the excellent Niko Leppanen, and it was a really wonderful event. The audience included many people who were brand new to the principles behind clarity, so I speak about the keys to resilience, performance and releasing your potential. I explain the subtle tricks of the mind that cause stress and anxiety, and point out the simple insights and realisations that can have you stop searching and start finding what everybody is looking for: fulfilment, peace of mind and enlightened success. The session was called ‘The Search is Over (except when it isn’t)’ and I really enjoyed it. Niko recently gave me permission to release the audio recording on the Results Mindset podcast, so you can listen to it here (or wherever you get your podcasts): https://www.jamiesmart.com/rmp31/ Read More →

TTE 129 – Tricks, Taleb and Talking Machines

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Eugenia Zelaya

Photo courtesy of Eirik Solheim and Flickr

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m reading Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s book, Fooled by Randomness at the moment, and I’m really enjoying it. Here’s a quote from it that’s really resonating with me:

“Any reading of the history of science would show that almost all the smart things that have been proven by science appeared like lunacies at the time they were first discovered.

Try to explain to a Times (of London) journalist in 1905 that time slows down when one travels (even the Nobel committee never granted Einstein the prize on account of his insight on special relativity). Or to someone with no exposure to physics that there are places in our universe where time does not exist.” Read More →

TTE 128 – Pop, prediction and paradox

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Dzidek Sabat

Heads up – it’s time for some enthusiasms. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog here

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week

This week’s quote came up during a 3-day CEO Intensive I was doing with one of my clients last week. It comes from my favourite physicist, David Bohm (1917-1992). Bohm was the author of “Quantum Theory”, the standard textbook on quantum physics and described as one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century. His amazing book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order has had a massive influence on how I think about reality. Here’s the quote:

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.”

TTE 127 – Fairytales, Evolution and Decision-Making

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Eugenia Zelaya

Photo courtesy of PokemonaDeChroma and Flickr

Heads up – it’s time for some enthusiasms. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog here.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I was listening to the excellent Sam Harris podcast, Waking Up, this week. Sam was having a conversation and Q&A session with the biologist Bret Weinstein in front of a live audience when he dropped this pearl:

“The first thing to do is to get over the idea that you want to fulfill evolution’s wish for you. It’s not a good wish and in fact it’s an absurd wish because I am not exaggerating to say that every single creature that has ever evolved has the identical self-same purpose which means it can’t be a very good one. If you have the same purpose as a liver fluke and malaria and a fig tree then it’s a pretty generic, uninteresting purpose at best. So the first thing to do is to recognise that we are in a very odd spot evolutionary. Evolution has awarded us the capacity to evaluate our purpose and reject it, which we should do right away. Having rejected it we can substitute other things and that leads right to the question of, “Well, what values actually do unite us?” Read More →

TTE 126 – Stanhope, bulletproof & going for gold

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Eugenia Zelaya

Photo courtesy of AJ Cann and Flickr

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’ve long been a fan of the raunchily brilliant American comedian, Doug Stanhope. He was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Podcast last week, and I really enjoyed listening to him. During the interview, he spoke about his audience of choice:

“I paid my dues – I made my bones to have a small niche fan base that are unoffendable.”

2. An interview I’m pumped about
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Dave Asprey of Bulletproof Coffee fame. The episode just landed and I’m really excited. Why?

Because his podcast gets over 250,000 downloads per episode so a whole new audience of people are going to be introduced to the principles behind clarity this week (I’ve already started getting LinkedIn messages from new friends who have been blown away by the interview)! Read More →

TTE 125 – Hitch, Jerry and Retirement

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Eugenia Zelaya

Photo courtesy of José Ramírez and Flickr

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m a big fan of the Exponential Wisdom podcast with Dan Sullivan and Peter Diamandis. They’re both very focused on the different ways that exponential technologies are transforming our world. In this week’s episode they’re talking about human longevity, and Diamandis made a really powerful statement:

“I think of retirement as a leading cause of death because you give up and you slow down and it’s just game over.”

2. An audiobook I’m really enjoying
I’m listening to Hitch-22, the autobiography of Christopher Hitchens, read by the author. Whatever you think of Hitchens’ theological views, this is great stuff. He’s as articulate as he is brilliant, and it’s wonderful to hear him tell so many fascinating tales from his life. You can read the reviews and listen to a sample here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitch-22-A-Memoir/dp/B006QXFWKI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Read More →

TTE 124 – Coffee, Corgan and a flippin’ robot!

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Eugenia Zelaya

Photo Courtesy of Toshiyuki IMAI and Flickr

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m currently reading “Hitch-22”, Christopher Hitchens’ autobiography. He opens with a quote from Richard Dawkins’ book “Unweaving The Rainbow”. Whatever you think of Dawkins and his beliefs, this is fantastic writing:

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” Read More →

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