<aside> 🐘 A collection of the 3 Pieces of Content I've found the most valuable this week on the internet, with some reflections, key lessons we can learn from them, and why they can add value to our lives. Plus, one thought-provoking quote.
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This article by Morningbrew.com is essentially a hub full of resources to learn and deepen marketing knowledge. It's very comprehensive and it goes into the definition of marketing by Seth Godin, marketing terms, brand, consumer behavior, ethics, data, and more.
It's basically a collection of what the authors consider the best educational articles and resources about marketing. I'm currently going through the many links in this piece and am enjoying it.
The Notion page containing a complete summary of the conversation (with timestamps) here — this is the live Notion page which can be found in the video description.
If you are into Notion, then this video is a must watch because the all in one productivity tool is the core topic of the conversation (August Bradley being one of the most renowned Notion Experts). Bradley walks the viewer through a part of his setup (content machine, alignment zone, life data and habit tracking, and some more templates) and shares some very cool insights that I found certainly useful to go deeper into understanding Notion's potential.
If you are not into Notion, then you may still find this conversation valuable owing to the high-stake topics the two productivity experts reason about: goals, career, system thinking, visualization, meditation.
"Systems thinking is more of a philosophy or a framework — it's more disciplined than you might assume by the title. At its most basic level it means thinking holistically. If you are studying the parts individually, the power of the system isn’t visible. The power of systems comes from cause and effect which only works when it’s combined and systems thinking teaches you to see this overall picture rather than the individual parts."
The book in question is Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin, and Ali Abdaal shares some of the most helpful concepts he found in the book:
When thinking about money and making purchases, we may benefit from thinking in terms of life energy invested. Our life energy is our allotment of time on Earth.
$Life Energy\ = \ Time \ +\ Energy$
Reasoning in terms of life energy can provide us with a more clear perspective of how much life energy we are investing into the purchase.
When buying, the book suggests we ask ourselves 3 questions:
Did I receive fulfillment and satisfaction and value in proportion to the life energy spent?
Is this expenditure of life energy in alignment with my values and life purpose?
How might this expenditure change if I didn't have to work for money?
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditation