When you are fatigued, those thoughts are not you. They are hijacking you.

A player asked a good question after Tuesday conditioning: what am I supposed to think about when I am running? That question opens into Emerson's Circles, read out loud, and the argument that being does not expand in a straight line. The results of neglect are perfectly predictable. The results of devotion are not.

Chapters

00:07 A player asks: what do I think about when I am running?
01:09 Describe to me what you mean by "yourself"
01:46 When you are fatigued, those thoughts are hijacking you
02:15 Monday miles, the wall, and offering the suffering up
02:52 Our default mode is not excellence. Excellence is trained.
04:11 Seneca: take the empire, leave the mind, he still has the empire
05:00 North Carolina was not an affirmation, it was proved at 4:40 in the morning
05:58 Your morning is your first masterpiece
07:19 We are the results of our rituals, and why the bed still gets checked off
08:22 Maximilian Kolbe: keep order and order will keep you
09:58 Emerson: life is a series of surprises
11:36 The results of the bad are predictable. The results of the good are not.
13:38 Stop thinking in lines. Think in nested, expanding circles.
17:23 Day 37, day 42, and waiting for the miracle
19:57 The etymology of decision: to cut from
22:39 Sip on a great book. Five minutes here, five minutes here.
25:00 Information is in formation. Put yourself in formation.
27:40 You can short some stocks. Do not short yourself. Stay long.

"Truth is divine and helpful, but how it shall help me I can have no guess."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles, read on the show.

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