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Read time: 1 minute, 322 words. Your brain makes 35,000 decisions a day. PS - My new book is coming... Also, thank you Matt Fripp for referring so many folks to 7PS. โ Meet Malcolm McRae. Musician, actor, and songwriter who's carved a creative career across disciplines. He's part of the alt-rock duo More and also performs on stage & screen. โ โOne Sec - Mindfulness app that adds a pause before you open social media or email. Interrupts the autopilot scroll and nudges you to reconsider. A tiny habit with big potential. โ The Flex Ceiling - Instead of chasing passive income to quit your job, you use it to redesign how you work. For example: if a side project covers 20% of your income, could you reduce your hours and explore other interests? The flex ceiling helps you negotiate freedom earlier, not just later. โSuperfly by Curtis Mayfield. Masterclass in socially conscious soul and funk. Released in 1972 alongside the Blaxploitation film of the same name, the album critiques the very lifestyle it scores. The grooves are rich, the message even richer.โ ๐ Books โExcellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly is a collection of 450 short, wisdom-packed maxims. Drawn from his life and creative path, these nuggets are funny, kind, and profound. A book to flip through and return to again and again. โ Help me explain to my non-artist friends what being friends with an artist entails: the disappearing acts, the unpredictable moods, and only catching up when the timing feels right. โI wish you so much love and happinessโ โ7 silent wealth killers in your lifeโ โLeadership lessons from nature (biomimicry) โ โ
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Read time: 1 minute, 300 words. In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot twice.Two years later, he sat face to face with his shooter and forgave him.Not to forget, but to also free himself of anger, pain.Forgiveness cuts stress & heart attacks.I'm not sure there's a framework to forgive a would-be assassin.๐๐ฝ But here's one that may help you embrace forgiveness. (I've been using this a lot lately!) -KabirSeven Point Sunday - December 7 ๐ผ Portfolio Career Samuel Pisar. International lawyer,...
Read time: 1 minute, 348 words.The holidays are here. This is when many of us start looking back at the year and thinking about what we want to change. In moments like this, I always come back to something Emerson wrote: "What lies within us dwarfs what lies behind us and before us."Neuroscience points to the same thing. Your brain holds more connections than stars in the Milky Way.And every thought quietly reshapes who you become. You're not fixed. You're evolving. ๐๐ฝ Here's the NOVA...
Read time: 1 minute, 371 words. It's getting harder to tell what's real anymore.AI "slop" content is everywhere. Fast, cheap, and soulless.So I labeled my new holiday album clearly:"Real field recordings. Captured on location." I made a lofi holiday album with chill remixes of my favorite seasonal tunes.But I didn't just produce it in a studio.I recorded real sounds while traveling through Lichtenstein, France, Oman, New York, and beyond.Church bells. Street conversations. Wind. Water....