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.

The Infinite Game is a weekly conversation between twin brothers Harrison and Henry Schertzinger on mental, spiritual, and physical health. Discipline, faith, identity, athlete mindset, and the wisdom of the greats.

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