🌀🐇 #34 remember anything, switching jobs, stoicism Q&A

​ ​ ​ ⚡️ Enlightening Bolts Can't miss gems of the weird and wonderful 🏛 Living As A Stoic: An interactive HighExistence Q&A to help you apply the ancient wisdom of Stoicism to your daily life. [Register here.]()​ 🧠How To Remember Anything Forever-ish: An interactive comic on the art and science of memory. [Learn here](). 👨🏼‍🎨 Read Before Switching Jobs: If you had your dream job, would you be happy? [Read it here.](=)​ 🎥 Cave of Forgotten Dreams: A 2010 documentary about the discovery of 32,000 year-old paintings discovered in the Chauvet Cave in southern France. [Watch the trailer here.](=)​ 👁 Recapture The Rapture: A discussion based on Jamie Weal's latest book to help us reconnect to our deepest purpose and uncover practices to help us navigate our collective existential crises. [Watch it here.](=)​ Did someone forward you this email? Get this newsletter every week when you [sign up here.](​ 🎇 Image of The Week ​ This cotton candy bubblegum version of Jupiter is an ultraviolet image that was created from data captured on 11 January 2017 using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Telescope. 🎨 Art Over Praise If you put pressure on you're creative pursuits to get you somewhere or to make you someone… You're opening a pipeline of resistance, polluting the experience of creation with expectation. This robs you of precious flow states and pulls you out of the full immersion that comes with creating for the sake of creating. Singing. Painting. Writing. Coding. Whatever your outlet happens to be… If you want to experience creative flourishing, make this a personal motto: Craft Over Status. Art Over Praise. From this place, the process itself remains a source of joy. So your heart can touch each note, stroke, letter, or line. Lacing the art with golden swirls of YOU worth more than any compliment or currency. 💀 The Conundrum of Life James {NAME}'s beautiful words on earning our death: “Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” 🤓 Learn This Word Shoshin: For Zen Buddhists, this word refers to "a beginner’s mind—a state of openness and wonder that allows a person to approach life unfettered by the preconceptions, biases or habits associated with knowledge and experience." ⏳ From The Archives A hand-picked classic HighExistence article ​[Hunter S. Thompson’s Monumental Letter on How to Find Meaning and Purpose in Life](=)​ In April of 1958, when asked by a friend for advice, 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson penned a letter on how to find meaning and purpose in life. Despite his young age, Thompson’s words contain a certain earnestness, force, and clarity that make them particularly urgent and deeply moving. I’d go as far as to say that this is one of the most powerful distillations of a single man’s philosophy I’ve ever come across. What makes this letter all the more uncanny and profound is that at the time, no one knew Thompson would go on to become one of the most ground-breaking, influential, and famous writers of the 20th century. He was essentially an unknown, spelling out the as-yet-unproven philosophy that would result in his becoming a cultural icon and literary anti-hero. In short, these are extraordinary words that deserve your careful attention. Read them slowly, striving to understand each sentence in its entirety. They might just alter the course of your life. ​[Keep Reading](=)​ 🎬 Endnote We hope you enjoyed this issue of Down The Rabbit Hole. Feel free to reply and tell us what you think. Want to help us spread the word? We love sharing these gems of wisdom and wonder with you each week. If you love receiving them and want to help us spread the word, here is one quick way you can do that: Forward this email to one friend. That's it. It will take 5 seconds and will help us spread the good vibes and reach more people. We appreciate you. Thanks for reading! With Wonder, Mike Slavin & The HighExistence Team P.S. Did a friend forward you this email? Read previous issues and sign-up to receive future issues here: [(​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​[Unsubscribe]( | [Update your profile]( | 40 E. Main St. #1137, Newark, DE 19711 [Built with ConvertKit](