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🤯Unknown Unknowns #120 - On Happiness
A reader asked me, “What makes me happy? Honestly, I’m not even sure I can define what happiness is. Being with friends and family, doing things you…
Chris Wong
Nov 28
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #119 - Write For Yourself, Then Write For Others
A few weeks ago, I struggled with writing an essay. I had a story about how my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) partner, after getting choked said, “That was…
Chris Wong
Nov 20
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #118 - Follow Your Fascination
Five days a week, for the last five months, I wake up at 6:15 in the morning and get squished. I wake up that early and go through the pain in order to…
Chris Wong
Nov 9
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #117 - Embrace Uncertainty
My arms were crossed, my right hand on Carl’s left collar and my left hand on his right shoulder. I squeezed my hands together but he kept struggling…
Chris Wong
Oct 24
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #116 - Losing Your Edge
“If I start meditation, will I lose my edge?” I’ve heard forms of this question many times, substituting yoga, mindfulness, introspection, or any…
Chris Wong
Oct 9
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #115 - Don’t Kill Time, Make Time
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Thoreau In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was punished to endlessly roll a stone up a hill, only for it to…
Chris Wong
Oct 3
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #114 - Chasing Scratch
I love podcasts, and I’ve been obsessed with a new one lately. It’s called Chasing Scratch, and it’s about two guys trying to become scratch golfers…
Chris Wong
Sep 18
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #113 - I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit
You probably don’t remember the old Lethal Weapon movies from the 80’s. One of the main characters, Roger Murtaugh, kept saying, “I'm getting too old…
Chris Wong
Sep 12
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #112 - Bullshit Jobs
What does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand…
Chris Wong
Aug 28
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #111 - Sinecures and Success
The first time I heard of “sinecure,” I thought that was the dream. Do nothing, get paid. Sign me up! But my last job was actually a sinecure. My boss…
Chris Wong
Aug 21
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #110 - Interest
For a long time, I was scared to show what I was interested in. I just wanted to fit in, so I liked whatever my friends (or people I wanted to be…
Chris Wong
Aug 14
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #109 - Dynamic Agency
Last week, I told my story of moving from a Paycheck Person toward being a Courageous Thinker. Courageous Thinkers have two characteristics, Dynamic…
Chris Wong
Aug 1
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