You Will Not Survive the AI Age if You Don’t Have a Personal Myth
substack.com · 3,268 words · saved by 1 readers
I can focus for 12 hours per day because I’m living my myth.
I can focus for 12 hours per day because I’m living my myth. I wrote this in a recent post, and it attracted a ton of attention on both Substack and Instagram. Everyone would like to be able to focus more deeply and for longer. But most people are not familiar with the idea of having a personal myth. That’s why so many people got interested in what I said. “Here is the secret trick that will help me finally be more focused and productive,” most of them thought. However, the nature of short-form writing is that there’s little space for nuance. Having a personal myth isn’t about becoming…
saved by
related reading
- How To Mythologize Your Life to Survive and Thrive in The AI Ageexistentialespresso.substack.com
- You Will Not Survive the AI Age if You Don’t Have a Personal Mythexistentialespresso.substack.com
- You Will Live Like a Lobotomized Pigeon If You Don’t Reclaim Your Focusexistentialespresso.substack.com
- Why you don't know yourself as well as you couldexistentialespresso.substack.com
- The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
- How To Become Superhuman (Intelligence Isn't Enough)existentialespresso.substack.com
- Live in the future, build what's missing.boxx.substack.com
- Advice That Actually Worked For Menabeelqu.substack.com
- How to keep thinkingseangoedecke.com
- The importance of patience in an urgent worldv4913.substack.com
- There Is No A.I. | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)substack.com