Emerson's "Heroism" and the line the whole episode keeps returning to: the heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Two days after losing our grandfather and one tournament later, we talk about seeing only the gold in people, why the mind only sees what it is prepared to comprehend, and what it takes to move from good to great to exceptional.

In this episode
00:00 · Two hours of sleep and a Monday we didn't lose
01:28 · Month 11 of building the YOU.PRJCT app
02:06 · The climber and the local maximum
03:02 · Losing our grandpa, then straight into a tournament
03:46 · Federer: it's all internal
04:27 · Tunnel vision, and becoming the center of gravity
05:49 · The mind only sees what it is prepared to comprehend
06:50 · This road goes two ways
07:30 · Good, great, exceptional
08:41 · No victim, no oppressor: what you want has a price
09:43 · Second-order success
10:19 · Making excellent lacrosse players in Cincinnati
11:26 · Our grandfather: immortal qualities
13:29 · I only see the ideal
14:38 · Always hold the gold
16:24 · Memorialize someone by becoming their greatest qualities
17:55 · Anxiety comes from a lack of perceived options
18:51 · Wisdom is seeking you too
19:49 · Admiration is innate
21:30 · What Sundays are for
22:57 · "Get me home, I have something to do"
23:34 · Just take the next step
24:41 · The mature prayer is to ask to listen
25:35 · Emerson, Heroism: room for this great guest in our small houses
27:04 · The characteristic of heroism is its persistency
28:02 · The Biology of Belief and Tony Robbins in the locker room
29:35 · If it was done by another, it can be done by you
30:18 · Brother: Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis
31:47 · Read history like they're your peers
32:05 · Quitting isn't in the blood
33:31 · Connection through a common mission
34:38 · Smart people solving hard problems
35:58 · Intellect, will and the fall of man
36:32 · Point intelligence at the problem
37:44 · 39 iterations and a trained eye for the beautiful
38:18 · Beyond propositional truth
39:01 · You can't see what you haven't been primed to see

"The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism

Read and referenced
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism · James Allen · Nisargadatta Maharaj · Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief · Bishop Robert Barron · Roger Federer · Tony Robbins · Pier Giorgio Frassati · Carlo Acutis

Emerson's essays are coming to the Classics Collection: books printed to be written in, with an essay after every chapter and an assignment for your own life. youprjct.com/classics

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The first episode of the YOU.PRJCT+ Show. Why the name changed (coherence, significance, purpose), James Allen on why crisis gives way to clarity as long as you don't retreat, the Classics Collection and how to read a book that was written to you, and why "it's not that deep" is the wrong answer.

In this episode
00:00 · The energy of building something real
02:32 · The show becomes the YOU.PRJCT+ Show
04:03 · The most important project in the world is you
06:43 · Coherence, significance, purpose
09:01 · The War of Art: you have something real to do
11:42 · Three hours a day, and the metrics that underpin you
12:04 · The Classics Collection: the essay, the nuggets of gold, the assignment
13:32 · The jester of the culture
13:59 · James Allen: man is where he is that he may learn
15:51 · Slavery, desert, promised land: crisis gives way to clarity
17:58 · "Be present" means renewed interest: earnestness
19:43 · Schooled in the art of inevitability
20:17 · Anxious to improve their circumstances, unwilling to improve themselves
20:59 · Set the arena, not just the agent
21:42 · It is that deep
22:59 · Plants don't try to grow
27:01 · Deadly efficient
27:54 · Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results
29:15 · Write down the things you want to be true
33:01 · A to B: the gap is skills
33:57 · Easier said than done? It can only be done.
34:47 · The actions are easy; the identity crisis is the hard part
36:24 · Read a book as if it was written to you
37:09 · You can skip a meal. Never skip your reading.
38:26 · Defensive co-scaling

Read and referenced
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh · Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That · Steven Pressfield, The War of Art · Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation · Jim Rohn · Jesse Itzler · Jordan Peterson · Tom Bilyeu

As a Man Thinketh is in the Classics Collection: books printed to be written in, with an essay after every chapter, the nuggets of gold, and an assignment for your own life. youprjct.com/classics

The YOU.PRJCT+ Show, with Henry and Harrison Schertzinger. Formerly The Infinite Game Podcast.
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Do you feel older? No. Way sharper.

A birthday episode, recorded at the top of a Monday. Why "do you feel older" carries a presupposition worth refusing, the two weeks the scroll was replaced by the book, the Emerson passage from Self-Reliance read in full, and the realization that the academy is not teaching lacrosse anymore. It is trying to light the spark that makes someone want to become insanely unique, and then handing them the torch.

Chapters

00:00 It's a birthday, and the question we don't like: do you feel older?
01:17 Kempis: you must replace custom with custom. Two weeks without the scroll.
02:09 As a Man Thinketh before Mass: nobody reads these words and goes back to normal
03:28 Yesterday's wisdom to win today: a remembering, not a discovery
04:29 The biggest moat is motion
07:19 Circle of interest versus circle of influence
09:10 Emerson's Self-Reliance, read in full: the lengthened shadow of one man
12:01 We are not teaching lacrosse anymore. We are a mirror and sandpaper.
13:33 Fall in love with the lifestyle, not the place
15:09 If the effort is not there it is an insult. Hobbies don't change people.
17:57 Every minute has to count, and Kipling's unforgiving minute
19:15 Roosevelt read a book a day. Franklin read when the work was done.
21:19 Retroactive rage: what school could have taught
22:18 You.Prjct: a hundred days from now, how much time have I given to the dream?
25:17 Dads and sons on runs. You don't wait for the kid to have a dream.
27:21 If you have to earn the post, it is the most positive echo chamber in the world
29:23 Her greatest advantage is her youth
31:59 The power law, and a product so good it does not need marketing
33:43 Class is millions of brushstrokes of discipline
34:12 Inconsistency guarantees you will never be successful
35:32 Seneca: study wisdom and you are given new eyes
38:32 AI as pattern compression, and what stays uniquely human
40:43 Masterpiece, work in progress: coherence and the steps of faith
41:22 Care most for the things you will have the longest

"You cannot come in contact with these ideas, with this such empowering belief in your agency, and go back to normal."
The Infinite Game, Ep 096.

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