Hey Friend,

A lot of you asked about one's own self-care for Teaching What You Learn

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A bit on that today:

Creating Your Magic for Work and Art

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I'd like to share with you a little bit of how I see content creation in relation to energy.

Much of this comes from the work of the school of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky.

I have a model that's a little different than how we usually think of things.

When we usually think of energy, we take it a bit for granted.

I think most of us know that we regain some energy after we sleep, and some after we eat..

It's something over there, it might play a role in how things go, but it's just another variable.

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I think of energy as an asset. ​
As much of an asset as a dollar bill.

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Then I think of it as a substance that might be measured in units, just as I might have 10 apples in a barrel.

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Energy can be equated to mass right?

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Einstein told us that "The mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content”.

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A unit of energy is like the ingredient that you use to create food.

I'd take some units of magic energy, and pour that magic into the work I want to create.

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But isn't there an infinite amount of energy?

Yes, and while this is true, there is also the available energy I have now in my supply.

Available energy is all I'm concerned with here.

That energy is probably already in a form, maybe it's playful energy, or grateful energy, or dark energy, or formless energy.

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​This is mostly only experiential and conceptual right?

That's where I'm looking at this a little bit differently, with energy as an asset.
Just as 'physical' and tangible as anything else.

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Where am I going with this?

Well, if I want to pour energy into my work, I need to have a reliable supply.

You might say I want to convert my energy from an ingredient into a food.

I would need to gain a mass of energy to do this, a quantity of units of energy.

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That's where the work of Gurdjieff's school comes in.

In the work, the gaining of energy to be used for a purpose is explained.

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To oversimplify: Three Stages of Energy

• When you eat physical food in your body's digestive system, this can succeed or fail.
• As it converts, it enters the emotional digestive system. This too can succeed or fail.
• If it successfully converts from the "emotional body," it then moves into your "mental body".

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The food you eat can later become the mental energy you have to use for your purposes.

I think we all already know this, it doesn't seem like something we need to think about.

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When I started thinking about mental energy as the substance needed to produce a result I desired--

It became more relevant to my life in the real world.

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Why? ​
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Well, honestly, I'd rather just read, and write, and work.

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I haven't ever really wanted to do physical exercise, it never appealed to me.

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I've never woken up and thought, "I'd really love to start doing yoga right now!"

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Even if I knew that I could start dancing wildly and shake off all the dark residual energy I've picked up lately, I would much rather sit on the couch and watch YouTube.

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Well, as I started to care more about my writing, and the quality of my work, the results..

I started to care more about the result.

Having a priority, having a goal, started to change what I was willing to do to attain the goal.

I started to see a process, just like cooking:

• Prepare the ingredients
• Cook the food
• Share the food

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A Process for Magic Energy

• Prepare energy
• Pour energy into work
• Outflow the remaining energy into life and relationships

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With the goal of quality in mind, this breaks down into three phases.

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Then there is only the question, "What do I need to do to prepare energy?"

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I have a teacher that's always working out and always working crazy hours.

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For months I was asking, how do they do this?

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How do they have the motivation for that kind of energy?

It's not about motivation. Motivation comes and goes like a bonus.

It's about desire. It's about what you want.

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It didn't start with "I want to change my life." "What should I do?" ​
That never worked.

It started as I started to get tired of being frustrated with my results.

Pouring in frustration energy to work definitely does not lead to good results.

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First I wanted a result.

Then I was unsatisfied with not getting the result.

Then I started changing so that I could get the result.

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I started to look at it, and it was like,

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Then what must I do, what is necessary?

Working out so that I feel better is not at all enough of a motivator for me.

Working out so that I feel better so that I can get what I want is totally enough of a motivator.

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The teacher I mentioned, they'd be dancing and punching their fists into the air.. and it was like..

"Woah.. that is ridiculous, there is no way in hell I am doing that."

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Well, full disclosure: as I started to change my focus, I started caring a lot less about looking ridiculous.

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I mean, life is a bit absurd isn't it? And don't we always say we don't care what anybody thinks?

Yeah.. so last week.. there I am finding myself doing some crazy punching the sky outside where all my neighbors can see me.. embarrassing as all hell.. and then what's there to do about it but laugh about it?

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It's actually kind of hard to care about feeling embarrassed when you're feeling amazing.

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Now, there is no specific thing you have to do.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it.

There is only what you personally have to do.

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You don't HAVE to change everything to get successful results in what you do either.

There are total drunks that manage to function and people with crazy amounts of issues that have huge success.
The idea that you have to remove every problem from your life to succeed in something is a psychological block and a factual lie.

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"Most “superheroes” are nothing of the sort. They’re weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk...Don’t overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone." - Timothy Ferriss

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You can play on a harder difficulty level and still succeed.

And there are people in your audience that will resonate with you and your lifestyle choices.

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I was playing on a harder difficulty because personally:

• I need a lot of fun and fantasy in my life.

So basically I've started getting into tabletop games haha..

I came to find out that not meeting that need first had a huge impact on my quality of life and work.

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Having fun,

physical health,

how we eat,

how we treat ourselves,

how we treat others,

the music we listen to,

the art we surround ourselves with,

the nature we connect with,

all pour into our energy.

They are all part of the work of The Alchemist and The Magician.

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p.s. tomorrow i'll share about actualizing latent versions within yourself into reality 💫✨

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Love,

Tyler Choice

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