Curated Timestamps
6:25 main podcast ends
song (singing ends 8:27), 8:48 quotes, 10:50 asks & offers
Show Notes
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Speaker Notes
Welcome back to the CoderCorgi podcast! I'm your host CoderCorgi, and today it's just me.
My mission for this podcast is in just a few minutes, leave you feeling inspired. The feeling of not just learning, but internalizing, that deep satisfaction of CANI.
This podcast has been about getting people into an inspired state and capturing that essence. I created it from myself being in a slump, a feeling of lostness — and wanted listening to it to be a salve or an antidote for any listeners and myself.
Today's topic: Momentum
Running through walls — a company's value
felt burnt out, running into the wall multiple times — you'll just denting the wall, and eventually you're so tired the wall doesn't even get a dent — the wall's denting me!
I could feel dented, broken, traumatized, burnt out, like ragequitting, questioning my self-worth, do I belong.
Pool or billiard balls — bounce off walls — todo: resilience & adaptability
covers more ground! life → gets more experience
The Obstacle Is The Way — it's like we're being issued a quest, on our hero's journey!
so how do we make what's in the way on the way?
There's this story, where a father with a business empire passes
and his lawyer says to claim this inheritance, you have to go to a place
and going to that place he's led to another place, until two years has passed, he's traveled across hundreds of countries, med thousands of people, tented in harsh rains, climbed mountains, braved deserts and raging rivers and jungles.
and he comes back and goes to the lawyer saying I went to all the places, I've come back to claim my inheritance
and the lawyer said your inheritance is the journey
your inheritance is the experiences and the person you've become through that journey
and now you're ready to lead this business empire
Samadhi (the Pathless Path) documentary
the path that exists beyond Thought, beyond Self
- 's unrelated book The Pathless Path
leaving conventional careers and finding the work that matters to you
Creating your own path — lots of turns, the path is full of squiggles
So for these turns on the path of our lives, not on a detour, we're on the path!
Song
Avicii's "The Nights" — beautiful song
"live a life you will remember"
Quotes
"The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow" — Matthew McConaughey's book Green Lights
Lighthouse on mountain & GPS
"I’ve heard it said that hell is to meet the person you could have been at death and realize you’re not even a shadow of that person, and that heaven is to meet the person you could have been and to see yourself staring back at you. ... the thing that matters is you have potential and that you do something with that potential." — https://www.fearlessmotivation.com/2019/02/11/this-is-how-you-create-a-life-worth-remembering-tom-bilyeu-speech/#:~:text=%E2%80%99ve%20heard%20it%20said%20that,potential.%20You%20actually%20actuate%20it.
"The Obstacle is the Way" — Ryan Holiday, Stoicism
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal" — Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret
Asks & Offers
I launched private coaching a few months ago, specific niche is helping mid-career software engineers land fulfilling roles!
Episode Creation Process
Had idea during a run. Expanded upon it + recorded ideas during cold shower.
Outline: riding the momentum, outlined the episode.
Record: Had a few false starts. Then, zero rehearsals, zero editing, publish!
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