Aaron Balick 🍉

Just had the holy crap moment that the chief of police in the original Naked Gun is Tony Soprano’s mother.

Rediscover classic literature, cure for our times.

It’s quiet contemplation.

It develops discipline from distraction and connects us to our common humanity across history and culture.

Why doom scroll when you can read a classic? Also, best value for money on the planet.

What are you reading?

“In this world … sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
- Herman Melville

In this world, having the capacity for critical thought is a lot more painful than not having the capacity for critical thought.

Withholding a spoiler - there’s an unforgettable moment in Haneke’s Caché that’s utterly utterly shocking. That and the first death in Hereditary.

In this world, having the capacity for critical thought is a lot more painful than not having the capacity for critical thought.

To survive the AI revolution, we need to find our inner masochist As evidence grows that ChatGPT is dulling our brains, we have to learn to embrace pain and discomfort by choice

The more AI tempts us to take short cuts to make life tasks easier, the more we should connect with our inner masochist:

My latest for GQ:

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ai-i...

To survive the AI revolution, we need to find our inner masochist As evidence grows that ChatGPT is dulling our brains, we have to learn to embrace pain and discomfort by choice

The more AI tempts us to take short cuts to make life tasks easier, the more we should connect with our inner masochist:

My latest for GQ:

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ai-i...

In can’t remember when I last read a book to page 800 with still some way to go!

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Intuition is a great source of data to support your thinking - especially when out comes to making big choices

Only it doesn’t come preprogrammed to always be right.

Here are some pointers on when to trust your gut, when not to, and how to improve your intuition open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Intuition is a great source of data to support your thinking - especially when out comes to making big choices

Only it doesn’t come preprogrammed to always be right.

Here are some pointers on when to trust your gut, when not to, and how to improve your intuition open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Trust your gut? Maybe - maybe not. Intuition may br mysterious, but that doesn’t make it always right.

My latest Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Trust your gut? Maybe - maybe not. Intuition may br mysterious, but that doesn’t make it always right.

My latest Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

You could call it the Absolution App - “Hey Siri, say three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers for me please.”

A dashing young Freud at 35 years of age!

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Coming Monday on Substack: Why You Shouldn't Always Trust Your Gut:

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Subscribe now and get it free in your inbox to start the week! All subscriptions are free.

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Gut (and what to do instead) Gut instinct can be helpful — but it can also be a reflex shaped by trauma, bias, or fear. Learn how to tell the difference between real intuition and emotional conditioning.

Coming Monday on Substack: Why You Shouldn't Always Trust Your Gut:

newsletter.aaronbalick.com/p/why-you-sh...

Subscribe now and get it free in your inbox to start the week! All subscriptions are free.

Love this.

I want to become a writer for whom this setting is the norm rather than the exception.

Sunset.
Timelapse.
France.

Mid-Week Poll What do you want to hear from Applied Psychodynamics? Help me make my newsletter the perfect one for you to read.

If you haven’t checked out my Applied Psychodynamics Substack yet, today is the day!

I’ve posted my first poll in order to help me guide my posts in the direction that readers want to hear:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Mid-Week Poll What do you want to hear from Applied Psychodynamics? Help me make my newsletter the perfect one for you to read.

If you haven’t checked out my Applied Psychodynamics Substack yet, today is the day!

I’ve posted my first poll in order to help me guide my posts in the direction that readers want to hear:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Life + Time = Crisis of Meaning

Check out my latest Substack post for the long read version of my latest GQ article “What Does Midlife Crisis Mean For Millennials” - full of extra thoughts, tips, and resources:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Life + Time = Crisis of Meaning

Check out my latest Substack post for the long read version of my latest GQ article “What Does Midlife Crisis Mean For Millennials” - full of extra thoughts, tips, and resources:

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

In this day and age reading The Brothers Karamazov takes real dedication and a disciplined attention span.

I just read 96 pages waiting for the next thing to actually happen.

In this day and age reading The Brothers Karamazov takes real dedication and a disciplined attention span.

I just read 96 pages waiting for the next thing to actually happen.

The Midlife Crisis Guide For Millennials A crisis of meaning no longer waits for midlife, instead expect a series of 'crisisettes' all along the way. Here's how to get to grips with them.

Did you catch my July article "Midlife Crisis for Millennials?" I've now followed that up with loads of extra resources - podcasts, book suggestions, tips, and further thoughts on how to get through your crisis of meaning. Subscribe, it's free!
newsletter.aaronbalick.com/p/the-midlif...

The Midlife Crisis Guide For Millennials A crisis of meaning no longer waits for midlife, instead expect a series of 'crisisettes' all along the way. Here's how to get to grips with them.

Did you catch my July article "Midlife Crisis for Millennials?" I've now followed that up with loads of extra resources - podcasts, book suggestions, tips, and further thoughts on how to get through your crisis of meaning. Subscribe, it's free!
newsletter.aaronbalick.com/p/the-midlif...

If you enjoyed this piece on midlife crisis for millennials, make sure you subscribe to my substack. On Monday I’ll be dropping shorts of extras to this piece with advice, resources, and links to related podcasts and research.

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