Unplug to Plug In: Creating the Space for Brilliance
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2015
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
You want to be known as someone who changes the game.
Someone who brings amazing ideas, solutions, insights and potential to everything you do. You want to make real things happen. Things that matter.
So you plug in. You mainline digital information, entertainment, pretty much any and all forms of data. You squeeze every possible moment out of the time you have, consuming, creating, connecting, rinsing and repeating. Occasionally, you breathe, but only if forced.
Partly because it gives you more to think about, talk about and integrate and create. But, also, because it's just become your default. Space terrifies you. And maybe, just maybe, you're even driven by a little bit of FOMO.
Thing is...
It doesn't matter how productive you or how busy you are if the ideas you're building on don't represent the best you have to offer.
And your best ideas rarely, if ever, come when you're filling every millisecond of your life with something to do.
Genius comes when you disconnect from tasks and reconnect to space.
To plug into your best self, you've first got to unplug. To create the space for brilliance to emerge.
That's what we're talking about in today's short and sweet GLP Riff.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's Good Light Project Rift is entitled, Embrace the Space. |
| 0:08.4 | So my usual writing spot is about a 10 minute drive, but on Sunday I would walk to it. |
| 0:14.1 | An hour each way. |
| 0:15.7 | No cell phone, nothing, just me. |
| 0:18.4 | My backpack and a path that would wind across a bridge from one area through the woods |
| 0:26.7 | along a river and through the park. |
| 0:29.3 | Walking instead of driving, I literally lost nearly two hours of writing and to do listing, |
| 0:34.5 | email social media, comments calling out, lining, building, designing, all that other stuff |
| 0:39.4 | that in theory needs to get done. |
| 0:41.3 | And that's a hardcore productive time, just poof gone. |
| 0:44.5 | And you think to yourself, in the beginning, well, you got a lot to do, so that's pretty |
| 0:49.8 | damn stupid to do something like that, right? |
| 0:51.4 | I mean, I'm a busy guy, no time to waste. |
| 0:54.1 | A long deadline this week, people to serve, legacy to build, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:59.5 | And I would think that a lot, and I would wonder as I was doing it, and then I realized |
| 1:04.1 | that actually that was really the wrong way to look at it. |
| 1:07.4 | Because in the mindful window that opened during my walking, not only did I get my exercise |
| 1:12.8 | in, not only did I drink in a stunningly gorgeous day, not only did I absorb myself in the |
| 1:18.6 | meditation of life as it unfolded and ramped my creative and cognitive abilities and my |
| 1:24.1 | mood stumbled upon two awakenings. |
| 1:29.4 | One was a realization about movement, stillness, and clarity, and a very cool visual demonstration. |
| 1:35.6 | So more on that down the road, I think. |
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