She says that we should be choosing what we want to keep not we want to get rid of, she flipped it on its head just like we do.Īmy Hoy: Yeah, because people are resistant to getting rid of stuff. I think the same thing is true of understanding – not just appreciating, but understanding, like you’re saying, seeing clarity. Do I absolutely have to have it? No, let’s get rid of it.” it’s changed the way I look at my things and I’m also making sure I use my things more that I like. We can achieve this with consistency.” Ah, that’s really cool!Īmy Hoy: But also now I look at everything in my house and I’m like, “Does that make me happy? No. No, you go to find the clarity first and you say, “Okay, this is what clarity looks like. Each exercise that you go through, it’s like putting on a prescription that’s closer to the one you’re supposed to be wearing, or maybe just simply cleaning the dirt off the glasses so you can see what’s right in front of you?Īmy Hoy: Yeah, they don’t give you a pair of glasses and then try to adjust them after they’ve made them.Īlex Hillman: Right.
One of the things that we hear after the bootcamp historically has been, “I can never read the internet the same way again.”Īlex Hillman: It’s almost – I like to describe it like if you go to the optometrist and they flip through the different lenses and progressively your vision gets better.
If you don’t mind your story as a little more of a jigsaw puzzle, go ahead and continue to listen to part two, but I’ll let you get right into it and enjoy this episode. It’ll also help set the stage for this episode. So, if you really like philosophy and history of business perhaps, definitely go back and listen to part one. In this part we’re gonna get down to a little more nitty gritty, maybe some more concrete examples that you can relate to. If you missed the last episode – maybe the first time you’re tuning in at all, you’re probably gonna want to go back to listen to episode six, where Amy and I are talking about this amazing book that she’s been reading and it’s given some really sort of interesting and unexpected insights into the work that we do and how sort of our work connects to the world around us. People are resistant to starting over their product business too, but they are working from what they have and saying, “I don’t want to lose” this versus thinking about what they want, what they want to create and how they want their lives to be.Īlex Hillman: What’s up my friends! It is Alex Hillman, your co-host for Stacking the Bricks and we’re back with part two of an episode about tidying? Or philosophy? Or business? I’m not even really sure anymore. Alex's guide to writing for your audienceĪmy Hoy: Because people are resistant to getting rid of stuff.Get BOTH parts, all of the background on this show and all of the show notes in one place: Links mentioned in this episode But.if you don't mind your listening to be a bit more of a jigsaw puzzle then by all means.keep listening. If this is your first episode of Stacking the Bricks, we'd recommend going back to Episode 6 to listen to the first 'll help set the stage for this episode. Bonus: life (and business) wisdom from ancient Chinese philosophers, 500-year-old French noblemen, and the Bible. Want a different result than you've been getting? Then you need a different approach.Įnjoy part two of our 2-part conversation to learn the revolutionary approach that Japanese organizing expert Marie Kondo teaches for tidying, and how those lessons apply to your startup, too.