Saturday Seven's: 27th May 2023
A compilation of my findings, interests, and actions from the past week that might be of interest to you. It allows me to share the results of my weekly routine, and you can follow too!
Hello you!
Here you will find my findings from this past week, things I’m thinking about, and discovering. If you enjoy it, feel free to forward this along to friends (they might enjoy it too!).
Articles I wrote this week:
What I’ve listened to:
Video’s I saved:
What I’m excited about:
Amazfit T-Rex Pro: A smart watch to capture your everyday efforts with 18 days of battery life. I enjoy it. It’s fairly simple, looks miletary robust, and is also highly durable.
A pocketful of happiness - Richard E. Grant, I recieved this book from my uncle for my birthday shortly after my father passed away and have been reading it since. It’s an enjoyable and tear jerking book. Highly recommend.
Quotes I’ve liked:
“Having ambition involves playin the long game.” - YC
Take your time and level up.
“True ambition is being patient over many many many years.” - YC
"Humans doing shitty jobs for minimum wage while robots do poetry and painting is not the future we want." - Edward Snowden
“Those who trust in their riches will fall,
but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.” - Proverbs 11:28“You have no power in any territory other than your own.” - Oprah
“The rich use the markets for income and wealth preservation - not to create it!” - Mj DeMarco
This week’s curiosities, interests, and thoughts:
Thoughts:
I believe that men need to be able to express their pain if need be. My father never expressed a word about his pain, he never uttered anything about his discomfort. He just got on with it. So much so that he died at 65, and I didn’t even think anything was wrong. This societal bullshit of ‘men don’t feel’ is a downright lie, they do and they suffer pointlessly. Instead of getting help, they have to rely on themselves, instead of being able to reach out, they keep to themselves, instead of being able to depend on others, they become islands. And this is why my father died, he kept his pain a secret and this secret was managed with food and alcohol to numb it. He felt powerless and never expressed it. His life withering away, and yet he kept a smile on his face and shrugged it off. Perhaps he felt like he needed to live it up because he was powerless to his condition? Had I known he was suffering so much, I would have been and lived very differently. Instead I fooled around, created pressure, didn’t take anything seriously enough not even acknowledge the fragility of human life. Because if Daddy is invincible, then surely I’ll never die and there are no consequences…
When money becomes rare, people sell their goods or barter with them. It’s the becoming Rare or high value in the market that will allow you to have a degree of financial ability in the matter. If you are high value, even if there is no money, people will find a way to value you.
Someone who goes through multiple events in a short space of time isn’t unlucky, he’s being tested to see if his mettle will withstand the storms. It’s a lucky thing to percieve life happening and see how far you yourself have come.
Understand this one magic formula and you’re entire life will change.
Most people operate their lives via (Jack) x (Shit) / (Fuck) and believe they can tell you how to live your live when they don’t have success themselves.
Steve Jobs said it correctly also, “Life can be so much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you.”
So, once you comprehend the simple fact, that people are operating on mental programs built when they were 4 years old, and have adapted but never evolved during the rest of their lives, you can start making decisions based upon what you know to be a constant, what you feel is best, and trust yourself. You probably know more than most if you’re even asking the question…Most people don’t know fuck about shit and expect you to be Jack so they can sell you shit. Don’t be jack…
Essentially, we can film ourselves all day long, but until we become desirable, it doesn’t matter what we do. We can literally film ourselves taking a shit on the loo, so long as those who like/desire us do. To gain followship, it is about exposition and desirability. To always have something to say that will please our followers.
Desire is not about looks, its about value provided. Which is desirable to those who don’t have that value and want it.
‘To always have something to say that will please our followers’ means that we enjoy our activity to the point of overflowing and thus the result of loving what we do is providing value that is desired.
Watch your posture when you go on social media. If you observe, your back will slowly curl and you’ll very quickly have a ‘subservient’ back. Because you have been coaxed into serving those who are using you and you’re no longer focussed on your goals: You’re serving big tech and algo’s…
If you want something, then you have to reach out and take it. Being dependant on someone outside of yourself to determine if you should or not get/take it prevents you from having the imputus to go and make things happen to get what you like.
If you depend only on yourself, you know if and when you want something, this defines a degree of motivation to take action. When you depend on someone outside of yourself, you delegate your power to take action, so you render yourself powerless. When you are self dependant, you rely entirely upon yourself to get things done.Why it’s important that you learn to think without automated assitance? Without a clear ability to think, you simply become used by the AI, if you don’t learn to think on your own, AI rather than being smart, becomes automated intelligence, and you are the messenger. Same thing for life: if you don’t have a plan for yourself, someone else will and you’ll end up serving their plan rather than yours. Think smart.
There is a very particular pain-point that leads to success and if we
make the outcome of success seem “impossible” and
introduce instant gratification (pleasures of all sorts),
We then naturally shift towards the pleasure. Make those pleasures hard to access, then make your goals more important than that pleasure. To succeed one has to become accustomed to the pain of that success. - If the pain related to the success (in whichever area you’re seeking) is natural to you, it cannot prevent you from accessing the fruit of that success, the enjoyable part.
If you are immune to bee stings, you’re not affraid of the bee’s, therefor you can have as much honey as you want.
Curate a bubble in whuch everything is alright (cultivate information that isn’t stressful and hype based like youtube. Calmness makes for better thoughts) , a path of action to take while in that bubble, remove all potential sources of worry, focus on what is in front of you and do your utmost best. You will be surprised at how suddenly the world turns into a beautiful place.
It doesn’t matter if you succeed or don’t succeed, in both circumstances the wrong people will find fault with you. It doesn’t matter if you succeed or not, the right people will come into your life and stay, and you’ll be enough, and they’ll appreciate you. The contrast lies between Appreciation and Depreciation.
Appreciation and depreciation, the two directions for life. Do those who surround you grow you, or do they shrink you?
Growth: Watering, patience, appreciation, gratitude, wanting to see you, inviting you, making the first step to [see how you are, see if you want to go out…]
Shrinkage: ignoring, agreeing/promissing with no action, talkign behind your back, disengaging you, slagging you, making you feel unwanted or invisible, or inadequate, or seeking fault, or simply keeping you in a box, keeping you tied to a past that clearly no longer exists, belitteling you, any for of repetitive neg…
Once you know how to do something, it’s then like riding a bike. It feels like climbing a mountain to learn and incorporate the logic. But once its there, it’s all flat going forward (concerning the application of what you have learned).
Don’t do things to make money, invest in yourself so much that your ROI becomes infinite returns. Stack skills, learn to give first, learn how to love yourself so that you can learn to love others, the same goes for respect. Become a life student of powerful skillsets, but also develop a positive vision in which you are the hero and the guide that you can go towards without hesitation. Be optimistic about your future, don’t create and consolidate a future that keeps you in fear. Fear prevents you from taking action NOW, it robs you of the gift of this present moment. The possibility to take action towards a future you decide on.
If you cannot help but provide immense value, you cannot help but get payed handsomely and whats more, you’ll love your life and enjoy it too.
Those who’s values are based in self respect and self love do what they love, do what is best for them and don’t worry about the money.
If your highest priority is enjoying yourself, self growth, growing your intrinsic value, prividing as much value to others as humanly possible, respect, gratitude, appreciation… at some point down the line, you can’t help but be recompensed, but it won’t be for money. You’ll provide value as an effect of who you are, because thats who you’ve become and can’t help but provide immense value.
It doesn’t matter what you do, if your actions are based upon “making money” some point in the future, you’re whoring yourself and a sellout. People who attract money don’t necessarily run after it, its a consequence of loving what they do. People who are dominated by money, are people who have no values or principles other than money, meaning they can be brought or corrupted if “the price is right”. Besides, you function better with full integrity and self respect.
“A study published in 2008 by the journal of consumer resarch found that when people feel powerless and out of control, they have a strong desire to buy things that convey a high status.”
Thoughts > Seeds > Tree’s.
When you nuture your thoughts so much youdon’t have to tend to the tree to get thoughts (fruit)
it gets its nutrients from its roots, because you and your thoughts are one.
Idea = belief = identity => Flow = ease of effort.Want an easy life? Start by acquiring hard habits!
Questions:
How do I get to the point/ What shifts do I need to have, to percieve myself and treat myself… so that people have to pay to be in the same location as me?
How do I become so valueable that people can’t access me directly without paying?
What kind of future do I want to focus on?
How can I create a powerful distortion field?
What do I dream of doing?
What do I most desire?
What happens if I don’t do X? What happens if I don’t engage in this thing? What will happen? Nothing. I don’t have to engage in it.
You can also give me your feedback on Twitter @check_goldberg. What did you like most about this week’s findings? What would you like more or less of in this newsletter? Any other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @check_goldberg and put #saturdaysevens at the end so I can find it.
Also, if you find any of my ideas interesting make sure to check them out in
‘The creators guide to the galaxy’, and ‘Addiction’ on amazon!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Much love to you and yours,
Cherokee