019 Saying "Yes!" To Opportunity
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Hope you're having an amazing weekend! Here's your weekly Amazing Things & Ideas Newsletter. Find one original idea from my side followed by the List.
Saying "Yes!" To Opportunity
Opportunities lie everywhere. But our eyes often seem to be immune to them. There is no perfect one, and there never will be.
As Paulo Coelho wrote, "How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
Even when we find a possibility, a new window of opportunity, we can fall back to not taking it into consideration and actualizing the chance.
Luck comes to everyone in the form of opportunity. But the lucky person is adept at seizing opportunity, while the unlucky misses it entirely, letting it pass right through them.
Hence we can control our luck in this manner: by saying yes to basically every opportunity that comes forth (howsoever it may seem as not a good or big one).
For doing that effectively, one needs to train their perception to shift to accepting even the most inconspicuous opportunities. For those are the "best and biggest opportunities" that truly show their hidden power when acted upon.
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New YouTube Originals Show to Watch:
Best Shape of My Life — Will Smith
This is Will Smith's journey beginning in 2021. His goal was to lose 20 pounds. And write 20 chapters of his memoir. Both in 20 weeks. An emotionally and physiologically excruciating journey for the Hollywood star. After watching this honest and upfront journey though, we see Will Smith as more of a normal human being, subject to the same struggles and made up of the same feelings as everybody else is. A desire to constantly better himself fills his mind and actions. Though that, is not often found in the mainstream.
It was very exciting watching this whole show. And definitely something I'd wholly recommend if you're searching for a valuable show to watch next!
You can watch the entire show for free on YouTube here.
Quote of The Week:
"The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation." — Epicurus
Audiobook I'm Listening to This Week:
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
I was curious to understand more on how emotions affect and guide thinking. And I was surprised to find that this book is a classic which actually popularized the term we now quite often use — emotional intelligence. Referenced in a footnote from another book, I decided to buy the audio version of the book. And it's been a really great listen so far.
Filled with real-life experiences and examples, this book goes into great detail into subjects related to thinking, and emotions affecting them and in turn affecting our own actions. It also proves that having a higher EQ (emotional intelligence) is oftentimes a greater determiner of success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being than is conventional IQ.
I'd greatly recommend reading/listening to Emotional Intelligence for anyone, really. Since it has an appealing sense in all of life's stages.
How to become curious (once again):
The way to become curious; is to follow every curiosity.
It sounds counter-intuitive, but it's not. Note every spark of desire to know in the mind. And follow it. You never know where one thought can lead you. Every great destiny was first ignited through a desire. We find so many of these sparks in our everyday lives. But seldom act on them. Realizing our desire needs action. Be a doer. Say yes to hidden opportunities.
This Weeks Articles on arjunkhemani.com:
On the Shortness of Time (#110)
Excerpt: We think of the past today, and expect the future also today. In so doing, we never live. Anyone stuck in the past or future, is never here, was never here, and will never be here. Read full article here.
Becoming Curious (#109)
Excerpt: ... the curiosity of a child. Without any major infiltration of what society assumes to be reality, the child is left on it’s own. It can see the world through a lens very different from one which gets scratched and obscured as the years tick by and when one allows it’s innate curiosity to get blinded by the responsibilities and “realities” of life. For the child, everything is new ... Read full article here.
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Onward,
Arjun
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