Learn: Cosmic Insignificance, J Cole Story, Toilet Paper

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Hola from Buenos Aires, 

We only get 4,000 weeks in our ENTIRE life. That’s if we’re lucky (living to ~77 years old).

The harsh reality is that the show ends much sooner for many people. 

Here are 3 nuggets to help you enjoy your life's show this week.

​​🌎 Cosmic Insignificance

Want an instant remedy for stress? Or a quick way to jumpstart urgency for your life? Watch this 4-minute video.

Seriously. If you have to pick between reading the rest of this newsletter or watching the video, go with the video. 

It beautifully illustrates the concept of “comic insignificance therapy” which is the idea that if we zoom way out… on a cosmic scale our individual lives are quite irrelevant. 

We’re just a single frame in a movie that never ends. Which means eventually we’ll all be forgotten. (gulp)

This might sound gloomy at first. But when you sit with it, you quickly see it’s actually the exact opposite. 

Check out the video here.

🎤 Cole World 

Rapper J Cole put out a documentary called Applying Pressure last year. (It’s awesome and also only 12-min long.)

After achieving some success and getting too comfortable, he had ask himself a hard question. 

Had he written his best song yet?

Not from a career success level, but from a skill level. Had he done his best work? OR did he still have more to give? 

There’s something magical about asking those questions.

Whether it’s doing our best work, giving our all to our family, or exploring our curiosities. The list goes on, but somehow we all know the ones that ring true. 

🧻 Toilet Time

Our brains struggle to grasp the finite nature of time. We want to maximize it, but we still waste so much of it. 

We'll spend an average of 24 weeks (6 months) of life simply waiting in lines (grocery stores, airports, DMVs, etc). Of course not suggesting everything is a waste of time. But unlike other resources (e.g. money) we cannot get more time. It's just gone.

So how do we keep our limited 4,000 weeks top of mind? 

Consider this the next time you’re on the toilet. 

If one sheet of toilet paper represented one week of your life… you’d be fresh out of time before you finished a Charmin family pack of 12 rolls. (12 *400 sheets per roll = 4800 sheets)

It might sound, well, crappy to run out of toilet paper… 

But if we had unlimited time we’d all eventually be miserable. So use the reminder as encouragement. And don't lose your sheet along the way. :)

Abrazos, 

Mitchell 

Ps. Homophones

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