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They’re shooting a documentary about you: WWYD?
“If there was a film crew following you around all day documenting your success, you’d do all the things successful people do.”
I read the above sentence on the Brain Food newsletter and it has been nagging at me ever since.
A documentary about your life is being shot: what would you like to see?
What I believe is that there IS already a film crew around you.
It’s you.
You’re the film director, the screenwriter, the director of photography, the costume designer and of course, no one else but you is the main actor in your own biopic.
The audience is your future you. And your 8-year old self.
The audience is also your loved ones, your kids, your partner and your friends, although they’re all witnessing your movie through their own lenses.
Do they like what they see in your movie?
Do you like the film you’re shooting about yourself?
Are you filming a comedy or a drama?
Or are you filming a hero’s journey?
The most important questions
If there was a crew filming you: what would you like the film crew to see? What would you do knowing it’s going to be in the movie?
And the opposite holds true: what are you doing that you don’t want the film crew to see? You probably wouldn’t be endlessly scrolling on social media if someone was watching.
You probably wouldn’t get angry at your children or fight over frivolities with your partner.
You probably wouldn’t treat other people bad.
Disappear for 90 days
In The Stoic Challenge, author William B. Irvine talks about voluntary discomfort as a stoic practice to get better over time and learn how to overcome challenges.
So I was looking at a challenge that could help. Then I saw this on Insta, in one of those feel-good click-baity posts.
It went something like this:
“Disappear for 90 days.
