last december, henrik zillmer, serial entrepreneur, host of the honest podcast and a dear friend of mine and i sat down to discuss a question both of us have been pondering and to which, i believe, many of us would like the answer:
i was not too excited to share our contemplations when he published it this month. my inner critic was saying: april 2023 vincent does not approve of what december 2022 vincent was thinking and saying. and indeed, today the podcast would be different.
the response of one of his listeners, himself a big entrepreneur, changed my mind:
subject: thousand thanks
“just wanted to say thank you for the inspiring podcast about the meaning of life you posted recently. hit the spot on many of the things i fiddle with and helped me reflect better on some bigger decisions i'm facing.”
you won’t get the answer to the meaning of life (just yet) but you will get our sincere attempt to share what we have been discovering in asking the question. i hope you’ll get from it just as much as he did.
what happened to the newsletter?
since coming back from egypt - a trip that warrants its own newsletter - i found myself going through my most profound experience yet (yes, even more than the ayahuasca ceremony i wrote about in episode 36). an experience that, i believe, will change many lives in the not-too-distant future. i am looking forward to sharing it once i have fully processed it.
i have been feeling it is not worth writing until i have something new and meaningful to say. yes, it might be entertaining or even insightful as i am sharing my trials and tribulations but what i am shooting for is to provide you with a tangible, practical answer to the question of how to best navigate life.
i am confident by now that there is such an answer. call me crazy but i believe we actually know the answer (we as the body of knowledge of humanity). but knowing is useless without embodiment, without living it. and that’s the struggle i have been in. and while i have found much more peace in it, i am still unwilling to embrace the answer i have found.
a friend recently shared with me this quote - some attribute it to albert einstein:
a clever person solves a problem. a wise person avoids it.
in other words: a clever person gets out of a situation that a wise person would never get into.
my whole journey is about becoming this wise person and then model it rather than talking and reflecting about it. it is asking me to completely shift my way of being, who vincent is. i know it will happen, i am closer than ever before and it has not happened yet. so not much new here to see. the struggle continues until i put an end to it.
i hope this finds you well and i am looking forward to sharing some exciting stuff in the near future.
with much love,
vincent
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