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Hey friends,
Welcome back to another issue of Sunday Snippets. Going to do my best to make this a weekly thing moving forward, now that I’ve gotten into the swing of writing for my upcoming book. Well, I say ‘upcoming’ – the tentative publish date is June 2023, so nothing interesting happening anytime soon.
Anyway, a few things I wanted to share this week about what I’ve been thinking.
1 – Emotional Education
I watched this incredible talk by one of my favourite people in the world – Alain de Botton. Alain runs the School of Life, and is a modern-day philosopher, writer and speaker. If you don’t have time to watch the video, here are a few insights that really resonated with me:
And then during the talk, Alain asked the audience to do a couple of exercises that I’m definitely going to try out next time I’m on a date:
2 – I might be moving to London
I’ve been living in Cambridge (UK) for the past 9 years. 6 years of medical school, followed by 2 years of being a doctor, followed by 1 year of lockdown. A few times in that time, I’ve thought “I wonder what it would be like to live in London”.
This week, I mentioned this to a friend. Her next question was “What’s stopping you from moving to London?”
My mind was blown. I don’t know why I’ve been operating on the assumption that I just live in Cambridge. I don’t have a job tying me to a specific location, and I could just… move. Just like that. Nothing’s really stopping me.
So the plan is that from August, I’m going to get an AirBnB for a month or two to try out the experience of living in London. I’ll pack some clothes and my camera gear, and see what it’s like.
It’s made me think – what other invisible shackles am I living with that I just haven’t questioned?
📼 YouTube video – Incredibly inspiring to see the behind the scenes of a huge channel and business, learned lots of stuff to apply to ours.
🎵 Song – I’ve been listening to this Ed Sheeran song on reply basically since it came out.
“Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt.”
From Make it Stick – Peter C. Brown. Resurfaced using Readwise.
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