An Excellent Wknd [25.23]
3 thoughts on freedom, AI, & strengthening the mind
Hello, hi, 👋
A warm welcome to the new folks who have joined us in the last week! Here’s what we recently put out into the world, plus a few thoughts that are making me think.
🗓️ THIS WEEK
Fatherhood vs Fitness: The Mental Shift That Changes Everything
Exploring how to maintain health and training goals while embracing the beautiful chaos of parenthood.
21-Day Happiness Challenge
Transform your mindset by focusing on what you appreciate rather than what you lack.
The Daily Chase
Brief, focused essays delivered each weekday to Chase Club members. (🔓 indicates the post is free for the weekend.)
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🤔 3 THOUGHTS
Some ideas that made me slow down this week.
Real freedom involves much more than material possessions, wealth, or traditional success. Real freedom can’t be tracked on a spreadsheet — it is an abstraction.
But unlike distance or time, we don’t have units of measurement for freedom. And that’s why it’s so difficult to grasp.
So instead, we settle for what can be counted: dollars, trinkets, social-media clout — all of which lack the meaning, rigor, and payoff of real freedom.
But the more we pursue this kind of faux freedom, the further we travel from real freedom — a sort of surrealist nightmare: freedom from freedom.
We must be less concerned with fighting the coldness of the machine and more concerned with discovering the beauty of what it means to be human.
Here’s what a machine can only mirror, but never discover.
Jamison Price
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
We’ve got an old friend on the show next week, one we haven’t had on since July of 2019. (I’ll let you guess who.) We’re talking all about discipline with him, so make sure you tune in.
Until then, keep chasing.
🤙 Patrick