As a 25 year veteran in the mortgage industry, I had an epiphany about two years ago, arguably one of the most difficult times in our industry. The epiphany was how much I’ve enjoyed having financial conversations with people looking to buy or refinance. The result? Yes it was more business, but more importantly i’ve really developed a love affair with the knowledge I can dispense, and in being helpful. In fact, I’ve enjoyed helping so much more than any dollar amount made. I believe this epiphany has struck a cord deep within me, making it so that most of my days are filled with joy, regardless of whether I’ve brought in a mortgage loan or not.
I was not one do the 90%. Excellent start to finish as always. I was coincidentally playing with note ideas yesterday about the value of doing work for yourself. How we frame our actions can always involve a selfish aspect and that’s incredibly beneficial.
My writing is often either for my past self in what I wish I would have known then or for my future self to take on. Anyone else enjoying it is added benefit. I did it for years offline and then for months with only the occasional like from my mom. Good. Made me better.
Looking forward to any/all future offerings as your insights continue to influence how I approach life.
This sounds like being true to yourself always, instead of the easy expediency of being all things to all people. But sometimes we get lost and don't know who we are anymore. Thats where resilience comes in.
Yes, exactly. The more we move in that direction, the more we push back with our practice of virtue, the more money and utility cease to be the central goal, but merely peripheral things.
The virtue game has to be in line with virtue, but there's nothing that says that what's virtuous can't be pleasurable. Most pleasures can be enjoyed in a virtuous fashion. Most pursuits and passions can be followed virtuously unless they're flat-out vicious. If they're not virtuous, you don't do them, and so using them for #2 isn't possible.
70% of recent growth is from a viral article on "the void," which then directed more views to other articles, which led to more shares, more likes, more subscribers, etc. I expect things to slow down in the future, but we're now several months on and rate of growth seems to have undergone a step change.
oved this! Really aligns with recent conversations I’ve been having. The “Colonize new lands with virtue” subtitle threw me for a loop a bit - maybe I’m just still waking up but I didn’t quite see how it tied into the overall theme or even necessarily captured the very helpful content immediately beneath it. Any chance you could expand on that a little? Thanks!
The subtitle could have been better on my part. This is how I look at it:
You've got one path where your efforts are utilitarian and focused on getting something. The best you can do here is subvert and make it more in line with virtue.
But while you're doing that I suggest you "start a new side game," or "colonize a new land," with virtue at the heart of the endeavor from the start. In this new endeavor, you're focused on the thing for its own sake, not what it can bring you.
As a 25 year veteran in the mortgage industry, I had an epiphany about two years ago, arguably one of the most difficult times in our industry. The epiphany was how much I’ve enjoyed having financial conversations with people looking to buy or refinance. The result? Yes it was more business, but more importantly i’ve really developed a love affair with the knowledge I can dispense, and in being helpful. In fact, I’ve enjoyed helping so much more than any dollar amount made. I believe this epiphany has struck a cord deep within me, making it so that most of my days are filled with joy, regardless of whether I’ve brought in a mortgage loan or not.
Thank you for sharing your joy with us!!
A great example. Yeah, doing good, and finding that overlap with passion/resonance, can take us into some surprising places.
Andrew, you got this. I’m with you.
Jeffrey
I was not one do the 90%. Excellent start to finish as always. I was coincidentally playing with note ideas yesterday about the value of doing work for yourself. How we frame our actions can always involve a selfish aspect and that’s incredibly beneficial.
My writing is often either for my past self in what I wish I would have known then or for my future self to take on. Anyone else enjoying it is added benefit. I did it for years offline and then for months with only the occasional like from my mom. Good. Made me better.
Looking forward to any/all future offerings as your insights continue to influence how I approach life.
Thanks brother
Thank you!
This sounds like being true to yourself always, instead of the easy expediency of being all things to all people. But sometimes we get lost and don't know who we are anymore. Thats where resilience comes in.
Practice practice practice.
Yes, exactly. The more we move in that direction, the more we push back with our practice of virtue, the more money and utility cease to be the central goal, but merely peripheral things.
Re #2 - the virtue game - by that definition it sounds like what an Epicurean would call "pleasure."
That was quite an inflection in November in your subscriber numbers. What happened then?
The virtue game has to be in line with virtue, but there's nothing that says that what's virtuous can't be pleasurable. Most pleasures can be enjoyed in a virtuous fashion. Most pursuits and passions can be followed virtuously unless they're flat-out vicious. If they're not virtuous, you don't do them, and so using them for #2 isn't possible.
70% of recent growth is from a viral article on "the void," which then directed more views to other articles, which led to more shares, more likes, more subscribers, etc. I expect things to slow down in the future, but we're now several months on and rate of growth seems to have undergone a step change.
oved this! Really aligns with recent conversations I’ve been having. The “Colonize new lands with virtue” subtitle threw me for a loop a bit - maybe I’m just still waking up but I didn’t quite see how it tied into the overall theme or even necessarily captured the very helpful content immediately beneath it. Any chance you could expand on that a little? Thanks!
The subtitle could have been better on my part. This is how I look at it:
You've got one path where your efforts are utilitarian and focused on getting something. The best you can do here is subvert and make it more in line with virtue.
But while you're doing that I suggest you "start a new side game," or "colonize a new land," with virtue at the heart of the endeavor from the start. In this new endeavor, you're focused on the thing for its own sake, not what it can bring you.
Thanks for clarifying!