Minutes of a Monday #6
Brain Food > Take a parachute and jump
“Everyone afraid to stand up and say: you know what, I’m gonna quit me job because I want to go and do gymnastics. You are afraid of being laughed at, like. It takes a bit of time for lads to warm up to each other. The best conversations would be had in the car when you have dropped everyone off from training and there’s only the two left. Or when you are full of pints.
But… you cannot imagine how buoyed we are by the freedom of, at 25 and 30, we quit our jobs and chased our dream. And it is kind of working out. And there are loads of people probably funnier than us, better singers than us, songwriters than us.
Your parachute won’t open unless you jump. And we jumped. And when that works out you feel like you can do anything.”
Johnny O’Brien, one half of Irish double act The 2 Johnnies, talks about following his dreams.
Soul Food
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
Rare Air
If I was like, “There’s this pill that you can take that will improve your wellbeing significantly for over a month,” you take one pill, and months later you’re feeling good, you’d be like, “Man, I’m going to do that.” The simple act of writing a thank you letter can do that.”
Professor Laurie Santos, teaches Psychology and the Good Life, one of the most popular courses at Yale University (from the Knowledge Project podcast).
Appendix
After 112 days, Damian Browne’s epic solo row across the North Atlantic ocean didn’t come to the exact end he had hoped or planned for.
LOL
Andrew Schulz gets to know his front row.
AOB
Landed my first feature film role last week. A small but notable milestone in the journey.