🩻 Really feel over Determine · neurohackingly

Hey buddy,

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

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 Sequence #1.

My favourite to this point 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 considering every thing by rigorously.

Here is what stunned me: I might need been approaching this all flawed.

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

Antonio Damasio describes this in his guide Descartes’ Error.

This discovery has led me to start out a brand new apply: I now spend 15-20 minutes every 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 kind? Does it stream, 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 attractive half? Merely taking note of our feelings, even noticing once we need 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 greatest enterprise guide for small companies I’ve ever learn that advocates for extra managing and management. I will share extra ideas on that paradox subsequent week!

Have a beautiful week!
Lukas 😁

P.S. Here is a tip: After I uncover worthwhile 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—strive it.