🌱 Experiment I’m relearning

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes. 

🏫 Relearning

At some point in adulthood, we discover there’s no syllabus for the real world…

However school trained us for a life of clear metrics: get an A, pass the class, advance a grade.

Performance was measured by grades and progress was neatly defined by graduations.

But then life happens.

Suddenly, there’s no syllabus. No report card. No teacher saying "you passed."

Just a nagging voice questioning "could I be doing better?"

Joe Hudson wisely puts it: 

I used to think this left us with two choices: create new grades or abandon them entirely. I thought external comparison is bad and internal validation was the only way. 

But I've since realized something deeper. 

That we're all taking different classes on entirely different grading scales. So perhaps the better measure is the feeling we have each night before crawling into bed. I personally love the slight exhaustion feeling that I pushed myself and am proud of that day. 

I also realize this will likely change. And that no perfect score exists. Just daily experiments and the knowing that tomorrow is a fresh new start. 

The real freedom isn't in finding the perfect grading scale, but in experiments we feel excited to wake up and tinker with.

👥 Homies 

August of 1994 the Beastie Boys were on the cover of Rolling Stone.

I randomly found the article in a waiting room and was deeply drawn to their chemistry.

Find your people.

🎨 Life Design 

Salud,
Mitchell