Something You Should Know
How to Get Unstuck & A New Approach to Longevity - SYSK Choice
17 May 2025
Chapter 1: What causes dehydration beyond just drinking water?
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today on something you should know some things that can dehydrate you without you even knowing it then getting stuck i'm sure you have felt stuck in a job a relationship on a project something i ran this survey on hundreds and hundreds of people around the world and within about 10 seconds almost all of them could come up with an area of their lives in which they felt stuck and what's really interesting about being stuck is that it also feels lonely despite the fact that it's this universal human experience
Also, some simple preventions and treatments for motion sickness you should remember. And longevity. What are the things that will help you live longer?
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Chapter 2: What is the feeling of being stuck?
You can also, one I think very useful thing when you're trying to come up with new ideas for something, if you're trying to come up with creative solutions, for example, is to dial down how creative or novel the idea needs to be. So a lot of us seek something that's truly, wholly, radically original. And that's really paralyzing. And actually, there's very little true originality in the world.
And the best place to begin is to just tweak existing things that exist in the world. This is often a matter of taking two existing ideas and recombining them in novel ways, which is known as recombination.
And so how would, give me an example of doing that.
One of the really good examples of this is Bob Dylan. When you ask a lot of really great talented musicians who is the most original voice or the most original songwriter of the 20th century, it's surprising that a lot of them say Bob Dylan is that person. Maybe it's not surprising, but what's surprising is how much they agree on that.
But when you actually look at the origin of Dylan's songwriting and the basis for his early music, a lot of it ended up being small tweaks on existing ideas. You know, he'd met certain musicians, particularly folk musicians in the early part of his career in the 60s. And those folk musicians influenced him in ways that were profound.
And when he was later asked about the influence of those musicians on his work, he said, oh, absolutely. I tweaked what they had done. I recombined what they had done with some of what I'd heard in rock and roll. And I had created this kind of newish version that was really a recombination of existing ideas. And you find this in all sorts of different areas.
From the outside, these people might look like true originals. But in fact, when you look more closely, you find that there's a sort of recombination of these existing ideas to form a sort of novel version of whatever those existing ideas were.
And do you think it's deliberate? They're actually thinking what you're saying?
No, I actually don't. I think most of the time what happens is it's not purposeful. And I think creativity for a lot of people is kind of mystical. We're not very purposeful about it. It's a difficult thing to be creative. And by definition, that's true because if it were easy, you'd be following the herd and what you were doing wouldn't be particularly novel or interesting.
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