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I attended a memorial service recently of a very accomplished member of our industry. Listening to colleagues, family, and athletic teammates talk about this person was incredibly inspiring. One takeaway I held onto, was that there is something amazing about approaching each and every moment, regardless of context, with uniform effort, standards, and focus. It’s a very difficult thing to do. Some moments we are activated and some moments we are sleepwalking through life, but what would it look like to be activated all (or almost all) the time? The more I thought about this question, the more I found myself thinking about the concept of immersion. People talk about being present in any given moment, but I think immersion is something greater than that. It’s not just existing in a moment, it’s leaning into the moment, pushing it further and richer, and maximizing the experience of it. Curious about what a life of full immersion in every moment looked like, I decided to run a littl

May | 2022 | Jordan Cooper's Blog: startups, venture capital, etc... Search: Jordan Cooper's Blog: startups, venture capital, etc… About Pace Capital Archive for May, 2022 Immersion and Perspective Posted on May 10, 2022 . Filed under: Uncategorized | I attended a memorial service recently of a very accomplished member of our industry. Listening to colleagues, family, and athletic teammates talk about this person was incredibly inspiring. One takeaway I held onto, was that there is something amazing about approaching each and every moment, regardless of context, with uniform ef

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