Eight ways to explore your dark side (and tap into insane energy)
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Eight ways to explore your dark side (and tap into insane energy)
how to have more fun:
1. focus on the ingredients: playfulness, connection, and flow
2. reduce distractions
3. increase connection by interacting more with others
1. step by step by step
4. find opportunities to rebel
1. playful deviance: break rules of responsible adulthood
5. prioritize it: make it a priority
1. carve
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Jay Matthews added
Sadly, most of us turn ourselves off. We have a quite narrow range of “strokes” that we're willing to get off on in our day. Someone is super nice to us? Turn-on. We get a big unexpected gift of money? Turn-on. The sun is shining? Turn-on. Someone is rude to us? Turn-off. Grey, cold, drizzly day? Turn-off. Low bank account? Turn-off. The game and t
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Write down at least twenty ideas that would be fun, and then pick one to try. Make an agreement with yourself about when you’ll follow through, and then go do it. Keep going. Keep building this muscle and you’ll learn — through experience — how being playful can help you break out of the ruts that drain you.
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By injecting creativity into the way we navigate the world, approach our tasks, and nurture our relationships, we can live a more fulfilled, exciting life.
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Keely Adler added
You will have a growing appreciation for life’s basic experiences: the pleasures of simple friendship, creating something, helping a person in need, reading a good book, laughing with someone you care about.
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Kaustubh Sule added
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And as we begin to loosen up a bit, we can invite our creativity into the conversation. We could warm up that muscle and begin to ask, What would make this fun? Instead of wishing for an escape from work, what would be a fun way to create more prospects? Instead of hoping for a magic pill, what would be a fun way to stay active and fit? Instead of
... See moreTripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle
Your psyche demands novelty for progress, but most people get theirs from the endless sources of instant cheap pleasures. Exploring the unknown is how you live in accordance with nature.