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I've been having fun creating non-branded, non-niche and non-marketing content on this channel. This is an experiment in progress, but I do have a hunch that this is the way forward.

Today, I talk about my idea about building an intentional audience and about what it means to be an intentional content creator. We live in an era of increasingly competent AI generated content. Soon, it will be possible for anyone to create virtually unlimited, generic, AI content in any medium. What does this mean for the future of content creators. And maybe more importantly: what does it mean for the future of content consumption?

Let's dive into some bold predictions about people getting zombified by algorithmic content and a potential golden age for authentic, human content.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:01 The Death of Generic Content

02:30 ChatGPT came just in time

03:37 How it This Good News?!

04:44 Compulsive Consumption

06:44 The New Wealth Gap

07:42 A Golden Age for Human Content

09:08 The Business Case for Intentional Audience Building

14:56 Information Diet

16:03 How I Curate My Feed

22:11 Conclusion

Links:

• James' video about abandoning his huge YouTube channel
• The Dopamine Nation video
• Me and my wholesome Twitter feed

When you're trying to be productive, you're doing something that is making you less productive and more prone to procrastination.

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My approach to work and productivity has changed a lot over recent years. What I've found is that there is a way to try less hard, to be less stressed, to feel less pressure and as a result, get more done, much more easily.

As I've explored this, I found something really surprising: when we procrastinate, we are not actually trying to avoid the difficulty of the task in front of us. The discomfort and suffering we're trying to avoid is actually entirely self-inflicted. But you have to pay really close attention to notice this.

So today, let's look at how you can discover this in yourself and how you can stop self sabotaging in this particular way.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:41 Higher Ice Cream Probability

01:41 Trying Hard to Fall Asleep

02:26 Why Trying to Work Hard Doesn't Work

04:03 What You're Really Avoiding

04:55 Is Hard Work Actually Hard?

05:54 What this Means About Procrastination

07:36 Lack of Clarity

09:12 Putting it Into Practice

11:05 Where Does All This Tension Come From?

11:51 How to Unclench

13:32 My Best Performance Comes When I Try Less

15:02 What to Do Next

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There's a lot of talk about "processing emotions" and most of it is frankly unhelpful. As someone who used to suffer from depression a lot, dealing with heavy emotions has been an important topic in my life. I've found that most of what people do to "process" emotions is really just avoiding emotions, with extra steps.

I've also found that NOT processing emotions comes at a steep cost. We become emotionally bogged down and it becomes a burden on all aspects of life. Also, this all starts way further back, when we make the mistake of being overly attached to labels of "good" and "bad" emotions.

In this video, I share what DOESN'T work as well as the only thing I've ever found that DOES actually work for processing emotions and relieving yourself from that emotional burden.

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00:00 Intro

01:17 The Conveyor Belt of Emotions

02:09 The most unhelpful story about emotions

04:13 Should you feel bad about your "bad" emotions?

07:00 The same emotions keep coming around

08:37 Why process emotions?

09:50 The dreaded quiet evening hours

11:44 Numbing as a response to emotions

12:25 The problem of pseudo-therapy in everyday life

16:06 "Processing" but actually avoiding

17:00 Breathwork and nervous system regulation

18:25 Somatic processing

20:04 The only thing that actually works

20:38 Example of "opening the box"

23:08 The internal motion of non-resistance

25:01 How to tell that real processing has happened

25:58 Thankfully, we have grief

27:34 My experience of learning the process

28:37 Thankfully, we have fear

29:33 Letting go of resistance

32:09 What about the REALLY BAD emotions?

34:40 Different ways to open the box

36:29 The Surprise Factor

37:43 Feeling happy for no reason at all

39:19 The long term effects are pretty great

41:40 How much joy do you allow in your life?

43:47 My attempt to change your life

46:35 Introspective Writing as a tool for awareness