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Have coffee shops post-pandemic become more WFH spaces than community gathering spaces? Sharing observations and thoughts on environmental changes in local coffee shops. Digital devices in public spaces leading to less human interaction? Do WFH environments generate higher profits for coffee shops? What's the future of it?
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By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded on Lake Michigan in Chicago
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. In the last hour, what activities did we do or information we consumed? How do we feel?
3. What's the last conscious purchase we made and why?
4. What's something small in our life that we can experiment with to observe any possible differences?
5. What's a fad we've observed around us? What're our thoughts on it?
6. What's something small we can do to help our community or environment around us?
7. What's an interesting thing we observed a human being do recently?
8. What's an art form we can explore more to lose our self in? What can we pull from, learn, and apply?
9. What's our favorite TV show or film that has provided meaning to us?
10. What're we energized for next week?
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A spark of curiosity can light our world on fire. In this episode, we're bringing back an exercise we used to perform in 2019: wiki rabbit hole adventures. We set a timer and start with one word and see where we go and what we learn. We opened to a random page from a book lying around "History of Libraries in the Western World." The phrase or word that stood out to us: Sorbonne. In brief time, we reflected most on natural history museums in the world and world fairs.
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By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded in Wisconsin
Questions from this session:
1. How do we feel? Physically and mentally
2. What're we grateful for?
3. What's something coming up that could be disrupted by circumstances outside our control? How can we be and stay prepared?
4. What're our preferred aesthetics or color scheme? Think clothing, style, decorating our living space
5. What're small moments from childhood that evoked emotions inside us? For example, being in a classroom looking outside the window on a beautiful spring day before summer break
6. What's something we view as a gem? That something that feels like finding treasure when we happen upon it
7. Think of a specific person we care about. What's a simple action we can do for them that demonstrates they're on our mind?
8. What's an outdoor activity we enjoy doing at home?
9. Of family & friends, whose birthday is next? What is our plan for them? How do we remember our family & friends' birthdays?
10. What's something this upcoming week we can approach with childlike wonder—inspiring imagination and passion?
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Over the weekend, we were at a rooftop party in Chicago. What sport dominated conversation? The NBA. But dominates as the most talked about sport in cities (and even rural areas). Why? When the NFL is the most popular, how does the NBA excel? Lower barrier of entry and humans love of NBA storylines have the most at stake. But will lack of innovation dilute its product and significance?
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We've been decluttering our closet and came across a box of personal notes from 2013-2019! What a treasure! Let's analyze these as an example of personal development journey.
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. What's something in our past that didn't work out but we learned from it and now it's come full circle?
3. What's something foundational we know about our self to our core?
4. What's something we want to do or accomplish? What is part of that? What will we have to do to achieve that? How can we execute it? (What + How) Make it measurable.
5. What's a habit we have that we want to improve? How can we make effort towards this measurable?
6. Do we feel we have good communication with our friends? How can we maintain these relationships better?
7. What's a media source (like a podcast or tv show) that we draw inspiration from?
8. Over the next week, think/mediate on our last 8-10 years of progress as a human being.
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