In today's episode, we are back again with our How To Train Your Mind series covering movement or how to move well. This may seem counterintuitive to some. How does moving the body help people train their minds? As with many aspects of training the mind, being able to move well allows you to build awareness of the body and by extension, the mind when you're not in a training environment. From my own experience, I've found that as a beginner, there is resistance when training your body is not accustomed to the movements. As you gain experience, the act of movement can become more internal in the sense of how nuanced the feeling of that movement is. A movement practice also becomes a place that you can push yourself to failure that is, for the most part, safe. For me, moving well allows me to become comfortable with failure at a personal level but still be able to try again.
"Your philosophy is the foundation to align your thoughts to who you are, not coupling them to what you do."
The purpose of doing deep work is to align your thoughts, words, and actions. By aligning those three components, it forms the bedrock of how you think. The story that you're telling yourself.
In this episode, we are exploring daily recovery. Prioritizing daily recovery for Erich has been striving for the better part of the year. As an engineer, he sees as ultimate quality problem. Companies spend a considerable amount of time and money on focusing on the qualities of their products and services. We've overlooked a significant component, the humans that make the products and services possible.
Nick Buegel and Erich have a conversation about training the mind. In this episode, we go deep on how to train mindfulness. Mindfulness can be interchanged with meditation, but we specifically use the word mindfulness to make it a skill-based practice. We try our best to get very practical from our own lives on how we have used mindfulness. We want to make mindfulness as accessible to as broad an audience as possible.
In this episode, we are joined by many returning guests, Joe Jackowski, Nick Buegel, and Jordan Criss. As this is a Friendsgiving episode, we recorded before we had our yearly get together. We cover a wide area of topics where we try to get an update on what everyone has been working on, but we quickly dive into deeper waters. We start our conversation in Jordan's recent exploration into Aaron Sorkin. From there, we have a broader dialogue on how fame and power affect people. We then ask the question of what is Art - using Kanye West as an example. The discussion on Art then turns toward a discussion on self-expression and vulnerability. One of the last topics we talk about the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Then we finally close with what Nick and Joe have currently working on.