The amount of free things available to us all on the internet is just a unbelievable miracle. I believe that if you're a fan of Lord of the rings, the one emotion that binds them all is fear. We are a fear driven species and we are especially afraid of novel fears. When you watch animals in the wild, like especially the lions, what they do most of the time is play or sleep. That's what they do. And so the idea that we can't go, huh, look it, we might learn something from this... It doesn't make sense. Learning should be fun. learning should be play. There are no exceptions unless there's aliens here that I don't
Visakan Veerasamy is a prolific thinker, writer & creator. As well as being the author of the books ‘Introspect’ and ‘Friendly Ambitious Nerd’, he is known for weaving huge, interconnected Twitter threads and for his mission to build “the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen.” Important Links:
Show Notes:
- The origins of Friendly Ambitious Nerd
- “The most heroic thing you can do is not hate yourself”
- Confronting the minotaur
- Introspection & Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Overriding human OS
- Humor is the cure
- How to demonstrate the power of humor
- Dealing with judgment & criticism
- Responding to requests for help
- Enforcing a no-assholes rule
- "Focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of”
- “School is bullshit”
- Question defaults & screw around
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Friendly Ambitious Nerd; by Visakan Veerasamy
- Introspect; by Visakan Veerasamy
- The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
- The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It; by Will Storr
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces; by Joseph Campbell
- Shantaram; by Gregory David Roberts
- The Art of War; by Sun Tzu
- The Tao Te Ching; by Laozi
- The Lord of the Rings; by J. R. R. Tolkien