🩻 Really feel over Determine · neurohackingly

Hey buddy,

I have been diving into Joe Hudson’s podcast The Artwork of Accomplishment these days.

Whereas he presents an 18-month course, I’ve found that lots of the core ideas are explored in his podcast episodes, beginning with the Masterclass Collection #1.

My favourite up to now is Episode #5: Really feel over Determine. It is making me rethink how I strategy decision-making. I’ve all the time prided myself on being “rational” and pondering every thing by way of rigorously.

This is what shocked me: I may need been approaching this all incorrect.

There’s fascinating analysis exhibiting that individuals with harm to the emotional facilities of their brains—even these with extraordinarily excessive IQs—battle to make even easy selections. Their intelligence stays intact, however with out feelings, they turn into paralyzed by alternative.

Antonio Damasio describes this in his e-book Descartes’ Error.

This discovery has led me to begin a brand new apply: I now spend 15-20 minutes day by day simply sitting and checking in with myself.

• What am I feeling proper now?
• If I do not discover something, how does it really feel to not discover something?
• Does this sense have a form or type? Does it circulate, or is it caught?

As Joe Hudson explains, what actually causes us struggling is not the feelings themselves—it is our resistance to feeling them. It is this layered resistance that retains us caught.

The gorgeous half? Merely listening to our feelings, even noticing after we wish to keep away from them, begins to shift one thing inside us.

I am nonetheless wrestling with the “get pleasure from over handle” precept, particularly since I am concurrently studying the finest enterprise e-book for small companies I’ve ever learn that advocates for extra managing and management. I am going to share extra ideas on that paradox subsequent week!

Have an exquisite week!
Lukas 😁

P.S. This is a tip: Once I uncover useful content material like Joe’s podcast, I transcribe key episodes into NotebookLM. This lets me ask particular questions and discover themes extra deeply. It is like having Joe Hudson as a private coach—attempt it.