How Do You Live In The Present While Thinking About A Better Future?
This is the dilemma — the trade off for being a visionary or aspirational person appears to be losing an appreciation of the present. We fall into the trap of thinking of the future at the expense of the now. This seems logical. By focusing on how things should be better, we’re focusing on how imperfect they are now
How Sad — The Hippy, The Entrepreneur & The Philosopher
There was once a hippy — who didn’t shave his armpits, didn’t shower, and lived out of caravan parks. And one day a blue collar worker drove past the hippy and scoffed at him. ‘Freeloader’ the blue collar worker mumbled to himself. ‘That hippy will never do an honest day’s work his whole life’ the blue collar worker said to himself. ‘How sad.’ The blue collar worker drove to do a job at the house of a white collar worker, an accountant. The accountant scoffed at the blue collar worker, saying to herself ‘this man has to work with his hands, he’ll never
Deconstructing Ken Robinson’s TED Talks On Education & Creativity
Ken Robinson is one of history's greatest thinkers on education. We unpack him over a range of episodes on the With Joe Wehbe Podcast starting with episode #247 (Go here for the podcast, and here for the weekly summary). While we unpack notes from his book 'Out of Our Minds' in this post, today we deconstruct this three amazing TED Talks, including talk no. 1 which remains the most viewed TED Talk of all time! TED TALK No. 1 — Do Schools Kill Creativity? Do schools kill creativity? We have no idea how the future will play out
Unpacking Ken Robinson’s Book ‘Out Of Our Minds’
The man with most viewed TED Talk of all time with 72 million views! Ken Robinson is one of the people I have the most respect for — a brilliant orator who brought humor and leadership to a field that needed a lot of attention. This blog corresponds to the first half of my podcast series (go to #247) with Luke Smith unpacking his significance for our lives. I'll do a separate post unpacking his three amazing TED Talks! What will you get out of this series? I thought of three main things we could get out of unpacking Ken Robinson. Discover your
My 9 Biggest Takeaways From The 4 Hour Work Week
The 9 Biggest Takeaways From 4 Hour Work Week This corresponds to the With Joe Wehbe Podcast series unpacking Tim Ferriss’ ideas on learning, early career and life. His famous breakout book, The 4 Hour Work Week has shifted the way a generation think about work, retirement, business and life. While it has its shortcomings in very specific respects — and Ferriss discusses this — it is a key resource for a lot of big dreamers out there. I was one of those people who really got permission to think differently thanks to this book. This post unpacks my big takeaways, and
Tim Ferriss on Learning, Early Career and Life Advice
Tim Ferriss is hard to put in one bucket. He is well known in business circles, and is a go-to for things as diverse as lifestyle design, self-experimentation, high performance, health and
Two Black-And-White Movies That Will Change The Way You Think About Life
Rosebud whispers the croaky old voice. A snowball drops and shatters, and Charles Foster Kane, the media tycoon turned failed politician dies a lonely old man in his Xanadu Mansion. Citizen Kane This is the genesis point of the storyline in Orson Welles’ 1942 masterpiece Citizen Kane. A reporter is investigating the meaning of this ‘Rosebud’, trying to unpack what the dying word of this noteworthy media figure might have meant. Through this journey he learns Charles’ story — a boy born into a poor family, who was sold to a rich businessman to be raised and given a fortune once he came of
Deconstructing Naval Ravikant’s ‘How To Get Rich’ Series
This is the second post on Naval Ravikant after unpacking his ideas on learning and education. Today we move into his famous Tweet storm-turned-podcast series 'How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)' which is also dissected over a series of episodes on the With Joe Wehbe Podcast. This blog post corresponds to those episodes (circa #217-#226) and unpacks the ideas in written form. Enjoy! Naval on the role of money Naval’s Tweet-storm and podcast is called ‘How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky’. He prefaces this — he thought it would be a controversial discussion but everyone was interested. We live in a
Naval Ravikant’s Thoughts On Education And Learning
Who is Naval Ravikant? Why does he think education is extended day care? What is the one thing about education he disagrees with everyone on? Is there a problem with his famous ‘How To Get Rich’ Tweet storm and podcast series? Find out below! Who is Naval Ravikant? Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor, having Founded AngelList in 2007 (amongst other companies). He’s a prominent Silicon Valley figure who burst onto the global scene in the last couple of years, particularly famous for his Tweet storm ‘How To Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)’ and short-form podcast Naval, which turned the Tweet storm into an
Alan Watts On Education For Unreality
Alan Watts was a prolific philosopher, absolutely light years ahead of his time especially with the predictions he made about the education revolution before his death in 1973. Philosophy is something that keeps popping up on this journey — those who dive into it seem to find the ability to really see things. The episodes we did on Alan Watts on the With Joe Wehbe Podcast, (episodes #203-#211) are some of the most powerful episodes done to date, and go deep to unearth some tightly held assumptions we have about work and life. Luke Smith, my high school friend and co-host of these