So what did I learn from my time in KC?
Stayed for 11 days. Felt like a longer time tbh. Could’ve come back a few days earlier and I woulda been fine. I just felt very unproductive and not my Charlotte self the rest of the week after July 4th. Wasting time, not being as focused as I know I could and should be.
At a certain point, I was just waiting until the week was over. Almost like I was forcing myself to do things and be a person I knew I didn’t want to be. Since I know I could turn that switch on when I’m back in CLT. I was forcing myself to not work out, eat cereal, wake up later, not do any personal business work, watch an exorbitant amount of TikTok / Reels / Shorts, sports shows, comedy standup, and more.
Instead of trying to go against that force of not wanting to be productive when I’m at home, I just welcomed it, accepted it, and used it to my benefit. As a 1.5-2 week “break” from my normal routine. With doing what I need to do for 2U.
Going to Starbucks was necessary to focus myself for work. I did start my July habit of practicing the flute. I feel good about the progress I’ve made in the ~week of learning so far. Let’s see where I am with it by the end of July. Absolute stretch goal would be to play without a mic at RUTBAB. I’m ready to get back to it and continue my growth when coming back.
A quick break with nothing in the squad, content, etc. Maybe I should view my time in KC differently. Or lean more into how this time unfolded. Add in a bit of exercise. Go to more coffee shops more often. Lean into hobbies and skill development. View it as a shifting down in gears temporarily. Spend more time with family. Learn kitchen ins and outs from mom.
That could be one of the next skills I intentionally develop. Shambhavi is not just for creating energy. It’s for better respiratory and nasal systems (among every other physiological / anatomical system) as I saw with my allergies. Better get back into doing that. Tai Chi is good but it’s not the only thing I can do for that increased immune system.
With the balance of these activities, I can do them less often and reap similar benefits. At least that’s my theory. By watching way more short form content in a 2 week span than I ever had before (< 1 min), I realized I need to stop degrading or even mentally belittling it. There’s lots of value in it and I must make that a part of my content calendar when I get back. Lots of potential there, especially with the ideas that I was drumming up before I left for KC.
Sports and comedy were the 2 big categories of content that I consumed. With sports, people have to come up with takes based on events. But why did I watch so much of that? It’s again another form of philosophology rather than philosophy. A take of an event of someone else rather than just going directly to the event / source itself. That’s probably one of the reasons why there’s so little clarity because everyone just hears others’ takes and think those are their own.
Processing info with others vs by yourself. That’s what I basically do with my personal beliefs. By writing them down, I have my own takes based on my own experiences. Now I need to start expanding that to other parts of the world. I guess that’s where my Life Domains and concentric circle systems growth comes in. Start with as many beliefs about myself as I can; in the process, answer things externally and then fill the rest in.
With comedy, it’s starting to become more of a science. Still don’t really know much / any theory of it but I sense it’ll come to me at some point. The open mic on June 24th was a stepping stone towards that. Seeing masters in action, no matter how well-known or not is crucial to that learning, or even pre-learning process. I figure I’ll do improv and go into stand up at some point in the future.
Comedy is a way to cope / comment on events / issues. It forces you to have a take on something and have it be laugh-worthy. It checks a lot of boxes that I want to improve in myself. A very on-to-many solution here, which I’m all for. I’ll put it on the radar. I’ll create a project that has potential material so I’m taking advantage of the situations in my life that would be hilarious in that setting.
It’s really about having comedic writing and then practicing the performance of it. I think I’d actually get pretty good at it after several of them. Stand-up is really just finding events in our lives, or external events and finding / crafting something funny about it, which I’m already good at doing anyways. So it’ll drastically improve my ability to create takes on things.
Ok, by EOY 2023, my goal is to do stand-up routine. Got some time but that’s exciting!
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