Ben Gilbert: recommendation

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…Tim Ferriss loves this book, right? Yeah, I read it as a part of a college class, a cool class at Ohio State called Personal Creativity and Innovation. One of the mechanics in the book is called Morning Papers. The rule is you must write a three page stream of consciousness before getting out of bed in the morning. It is so cool, because it flushes out all the crap from your head so that you can go and have a clean slate to start the day, and you're not wasting your time processing. You're not wasting CPU cycles in your brain processing and ruminating on something, that you really just need to get out, get on the page, and then you can focus on other things. Or perhaps focus on that thing, but at least now you have a little bit of clarity on it because you've written. I should do it more often, but I think it's this amazing practice. I hate the phrase, but life hack that I remember feeling, it really worked for me while I was doing it. David, while you give your answer, I'm going to turn around and look at my bookshelf to find a third one. I have a bunch more books to talk about later in the episode. But the one that I've gifted the most is a book called Transitions by William Bridges, which was first given to me by Ben and my good friend Mark in Seattle. Ben, have I given you this book?…

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