Welcome to Mindful Monday!

My book, The Price of Becoming, is now available. I think you'll find it both useful and entertaining. I appreciate your support!

Here are some things from this week...

• A fun conversation about AI and life with Joanna Stern
• You should run a book club.
• The goal-setting mistake you don't know you're making
• Shane Snow wrote a great essay about "building a better me"
• Some wise words from Heraclitus

#698: Joanna Stern - "I outsourced my life to AI for a year"

​Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist, chief technology analyst for NBC News, and founder of the independent media company, "New Things." She is best known for her 12-year tenure at The Wall Street Journal, and for authoring the New York Times bestseller I Am Not a Robot. We covered: How to Think for Yourself in the Age of AI, Why Deep Work Still Matters, Making Career Decisions With ChatGPT, and How to Stay Human on Purpose. You can also WATCH our conversation on YouTube.

Run a Book Club For The Price of Becoming​

Book clubs are awesome because they help build community around a set of ideas. They create great dialogue. And there is power in learning useful and entertaining things together. Because of that, we have built a guide to run a The Price of Becoming book club. If you'd like to run a The Price of Becoming book club at your workplace or in your community, let me know, and I'll send you the guide.

The Goal Setting Mistake You Don't Know You're Making

I've struggled to set goals for most of my life. I’ve wondered for a while what they actually do for me. When I was younger, my dad had us write down big, ambitious, long-term goals. I still have some of those handwritten notes. Goals work as fuel for action, but the action is what makes it happen. This is a subtle but important distinction. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve drifted away from setting outcome-based goals and focused more on the process or a system. I began saying things like, “If I focus on the process, the outcome will take care of itself.” This philosophy served me well until a conversation with lacrosse legend Paul Rabil forced me to confront a truth about my own relationship with ambition. Paul talked with me about setting big, ambitious outcome-related goals, and I realized something uncomfortable: maybe I’d stopped setting big goals because I was afraid. CLICK HERE to read more.

What Can I Do To Build a Better Me?

Shane Snow (the first person I ever put on my "dream guest list" 12 years ago) wrote a great essay on "building a better me." CLICK HERE to read it.

Wise Words

"Nothing is; everything is Becoming." - Heraclitus​

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