Life — Work | Mitch Schwartz

Thought I would share a few recent breakthroughs. It's been said that finding inner peace isn't about doing something new but rather doing less and connecting with what we already are.  It's described as a wordless experience that can't be described so much as pointed to. A teacher of mine, Joe Hudson's favourite pointer is to 'Drop the resistance'. While the phrasing 'drop the resistance' is a great pointer. I've been missing a piece needed to more fully with his teaching. I've recently noticed myself spinning in resistance loops. I came across Adyashanti's framing of meditation as simply 'not trying to change anything' and It's been amazingly powerful. It feels exactly how I would expect 'dropping the resistance' to feel. It also reminds me of 'the great perfection' that so many Buddhists have referred to, Naval Ravikants preferred 'drop the intention' meditation, and the state I get into when I medit...

I used to think my wants needed to be explained. Like all of my feelings. Like most western people, I've appointed my brain as the judge and manager of my entirety, and of everything around me. I want whatever my brain says. My mind is logical. It knows what is rational and what isn't. It knows when something is dangerous. Millions of years of evolution have created my brain. It prevents me from following paths that could lead to destruction. It filters all of my wants and decides which ones are valid. It finds out why I want things so I can explain it to others so that they will see me as rational. My rational mind keeps me safe. It helps me know what is about to happen. it separates me from the animals. It separates me from the underclasses and the unsuccessful. It separates me from the people around me. It separates me from my feelings. It separates me from myself. In return, I get to think I feel like things around me are controlled. Each week, in the AoA course,...

An arrangement of notes I took during the Art of Accomplishment Course: Artistry requires self awareness; Your consciousness comes through in every product you create. When we use a product, we are consuming also the consciousness of it's creators;  Consciousness is part of creation, this is what makes it an art form. If a product is made in scarcity and fear, we'll feel that when we use it. Software developed by a team with poor communication, running around trying to complete a huge backlog, will bring this level of consciousness into the product. Trust your full expression. Trust what's coming through you. When we see this full expression in others, we want to follow it. If we're judging and questioning ourselves, we can't be in a flow state. The only way we will see that we're inherently good is by knowing who we are; Artistry comes from this place. I know what I am and I'm committed to fully expressing it Is the state which drives the purest creation. T...

🧠💗🦸‍♂️ Our 3 Intelligences Today we'll delve into the much overlooked idea that we have more than 1 intelligence. Let's start with the obvious one...   🧠 The Brain Culturally, Western society values analytical intellect highly. One of the reasons is that it is strongly associated with control. If we know what something is, and we know all of the trivia about it, then we can predict what it will do. That helps us feel less fearful.  Example: if you know what kind of insect you are looking at, you know if it is likely to bite you. This concept generalizes into most aspects of our lives. One issue here is that analytical intelligence is low bandwidth. Analytical intelligence tend to come to us in words. I'm looking at a tree right now; you've read the word tree and probably imagine one, but it's not the same tree I'm looking at. If I wanted to describe that tree to you so that you could form an accurate image of it in your mind, it would probably take pages, ma...