Hi All!

Here is your weekly round up of what I’m pondering and exploring. Feel free to forward along to a friend if you think they might enjoy.

Streams are starting

This Wednesday at 8 PM AEST, I will be streaming on my Twitch channel. During the stream I will be designing my book cover live, and would love to have you give me your feedback while I put it together.

This will be the first time I will be giving anyone online an actual insight into what my book is even about, and why I’m writing it in the first place.

I’m really excited to start using streaming as a tool not only to give you another angle into my creative process, but to hang out, and genuinely have fun together.

I will always be here for you

I will always be here for you, every Tuesday morning at 9am AEST. And If I’m not, I’ve probably been moved to your junk folder. So please check that, and move it to your main inbox if ever you miss a newsletter from me.

Also, if at anytime you get tired of hearing what I have to say, you’re more than welcome to unsubscribe, especially because it helps my open rate which is more important than how many people are on my list.

And finally, even if one day I feel like I’ve got nothing to share, I’ll tell you in that week’s newsletter.

However, thankfully today, I do have a few things I’d like to share with you.

Professor Jiang Xueqin

I recently found a professor called Jiang Xueqin who gives great lectures on a range of really interesting topics, some of which include:

• What the Fall of Athens Tells Us About America Today
• What Makes Russian Music So Beautiful
• How The Cult of the Self Took Over the World

All of his lectures are around ~10 minutes long and really easy to understand. I’ve linked my favourite video from him called, Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery, for you to check out below.

Perfect Days

Lately my life, hasn’t been as extrodinary, and grand as it’s been in previous eras.

If anything, it’s routine, it’s structured, and it’s repetitive.

I do the same tasks I set for myself everyday, and continue on to the next.

However, that’s not a bad thing. It’s just the phase of life that I’m in right now.

And what this has actually done is helped me grow a deeper appreciation for the smaller moments, in day-to-day life that are so easy to overlook.

I don’t need to share these vignettes with you right now, but they happen everyday, and I need to continually remind myself to never lose sight of that.

Especially in today’s world where everyone online is seemingly off living these extravagent lifestyles that only makes it feel like your world is shrinking.

Which brings me to a movie I watched on Sunday called Perfect Days, a film about a cleaner in Tokyo, who on the surface, lives a pretty boring life, but somehow still manages to find joy in little things like taking photos of trees, bathing, or listening to his favourite cassettes on the drive to work.

I thought it was really beautiful in the way it painted this mans average life, and genuinely think we need more media like this to amplify the quiet moments we all overlook.

The Urge to Flee is the Call to Stay

Here’s a blog post I found myself rereading multiple times this week. In short, it’s about learning to sit with discomfort and not needing to either run away from it, or immediatly resolve it.

I found it quite interesting how the author writes about the very moment you want to flee from your feelings, being the very moment you should lean into them and listen closer to what you’re emotions are actually saying.

Hope everyone enjoys their week.

Love,

Jet Williams

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