As always, excited to be hanging out with you this week.
As we dive into today's good life update, we got two segments coming your way, a riff on something I call the difference between vanishing creating and enterprise building.
And in our science segment, we're looking at an age old claim that the weather can be felt in your body, especially in terms of old injuries, aches, and pains.
Some interesting research on whether, in fact, that is true or whether it's myth.
Stay tuned to the answer for that question.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So in today's good life riff, I'm kind of grappling with a question, something I've been thinking about on and off for a long time, but I think as we head into the end of the year, tell my mind a little bit more, and that is, is it possible to succeed anymore?
You know, by basically ignoring social media platforms and enterprise building and just creating work on a level you'd never be able to create if you were simultaneously splitting your energy and tension between fiercely creative work and being public and enterprise building.
So what would the potential impact be of good going so deep into your own well of ability that the work speaks to others on a profoundly different level.
And upon its release, it just generates a ripple of awesomeness that not only overcomes the limitation of having been maybe publicly absent for a chunk of time, but even leapfrogs what would have been possible.
Releasing a sort of an ongoing stream of pretty decent creative work or ideas or output into the community, while simultaneously is sort of straddling that gap of being public at the same time.
When you look back in history, it used to be that great artists would very often vanish.
They would go deep into their cave to create extraordinary work and then emerge to release a show, an album, a canvas, a collection, a body of work, a massive creation that would take years to actually make.
And they needed the privacy and the focus of the cave in order to create on the highest level, to really tap their fullest potential.
And pretty much the only people they interacted with during this intense window of creation was their close family and their friends, if it made sense, a very small group of creators or co creators or trusted advisors, and then they'd share what they created and go from the cave to the public eye, and then they would embark on the hustle to get the work out there for a limited window.
And artists would show their work, authors would publish, performers would take to the stage and trust that the revelation and power of the work would start the conversation, spread the word.
And then people would resonate on a level that would make this a success.
With rare exception, that approach has all but gone out the window these days, instead of the cave, creators tend more often to exist in a state of perpetual split attention and intention and effort.
We'd love nothing more very often to just vanish into the work, you know, to go so deep that levels of synergy and synthesis, pattern recognition, revelation, emotion and devotion, they swirl together to create the genius that we kind of know we feel deep inside of us is there, yearns to get out, but needs 186% of everything we have to get there, but we can't.
At least we're told that we can't do that anymore.