Navigating Life: Thrashing vs Swimming

David speaks with Michael Ashcroft, a writer and Alexander Technique teacher who previously spent 10 years consulting on clean energy innovation.

A lot of Michael's work centres around helping people expand their awareness. He's written several essays and posts I've loved, particularly about the concept of grinding, and how paying attention to our awareness can help us maximise our creativity, productivity, posture and physical engagement.

They talked about:

🧠 How mindset affects life efficiency

🌟 Managing awareness for productivity

🎨 Balancing creativity and structure

📝 Developing a writing process

💡 How to manage ideas and writing

🚀 Paths to self-discovery

This is just one part of a longer conversation, and it's the last of three short episodes. You can listen to the earlier episodes here:

Part 1: Life, Work, and Awareness with Michael Ashcroft (Episode 64)

Part 2: The Alexander Technique with Michael Ashcroft (Episode 67)

📹 Watch on YouTube: 

https://youtu.be/KfzT2aOmAcU

📜 Full transcript:

https://www.theknowledge.io/michaelashcroft-3/

👤 Connect with Michael Ashcroft:

Twitter: @m_ashcroft | https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft

Course: Alexander Technique | https://expandingawareness.org/courses/

Website: Expanding Awareness | https://expandingawareness.org/

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Psycho-physical Unity | https://mouritz.org/companion/article/psycho-physical-unity

Hunter S. Thompson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

David Kadavy | https://www.theknowledge.io/kadavy/

Duolingo | https://www.duolingo.com/

Notion | https://www.notion.so/

James Altucher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Altucher

Andrew Huberman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_D._Huberman

Paul Millerd | https://www.theknowledge.io/paulmillerd/

Johnny Miller | https://www.theknowledge.io/jonnymiller/

Khe Hy | https://www.theknowledge.io/khehy-1/

Pathless Path | https://amzn.to/3i4LF7J

Rules Aren't Real | https://www.theknowledge.io/issue68/

KPMG | https://kpmg.com/xx/en/home.html

Swimming and thrashing | https://www.theknowledge.io/swimming-vs-thrashing/

Tim Ferriss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ferriss

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