How We Have Fun, Create Magic, and Self-Actualize in the Digital Ethers
Picture this: you actually love social media and it feels like a fun, safe, and inspiring space for you to get creative and make manifest your future.
Join us in revamping our digital space next week in Notion for Magical Baddies: Digital Altars and Social Media Systems here!
In this episode, Michelle and Wallis get into:
Ambient vs. active research
How can one self-actualize through social media?
How to stop your shame scroll and put it to good use
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“Depending on the circles that you’re in, but I think especially with social media care, it’s not cool to have a hyper-curated feed wherever you can go down that path. And so I do think, to make the active choice to say no, I’m gonna actually have fun with this, because who cares? It can sometimes take a little bit more effort but I think once you get into the rhythm, you realize it’s actually not hard. It’s the easier way to go about it.”
“Our currency online especially, is our time and is our attention and what we pay attention to on the algorithm, what we like, what we save, what we share, but also kind of in a more esoteric way, like the algorithm of the universe. What we’re putting out there, what we’re interacting with, we’re telling the algorithm that we want more of that.”
“One of my favorite sayings is ‘if you want to become an expert in something, teach it to somebody else.’”
“Cramming research can be done, but is not ideal.”
“The majority of our research is ambient research. It’s happening in the background all the time. We’re a sponge. Extended mind theory tells us that we’re taking in information constantly, and our body is storing that information, our unconscious or subconscious is storing that information. And it really is locked away without a key until we can acknowledge it.”
“All of this research, being online, making content, it’s all here primarily to help us grow, to help us learn more about ourselves, and to self-actualize, crystallize what we believe, what we think of the world, and to make this experience tangible, to ground it in some way to make it muscular.”
“The unexamined life is not a life worth living.”
“You’re not just on this planet to be a content-making machine on IG. You’re here to evolve and have an experience.”
“You can also actively create that meaning similar to actively creating the fun.”
“If you want to believe the online world is boring and scary and gross, then it will be that. If you want to believe that it is a magical algorithm that reflects the algorithm of the universe that we are all playing in all the time, where we can cast spells with our intentions and with how we choose to curate ourselves and the world around us, then it will become that and you will see things change. Which one sounds more fun?”
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Show Notes
Finding your unique intersection and why is it important
Knowing what your voice is, and how you relate to the world
What's your unique POV, and why you believe what you believe
Being in a hate hole and how to not get stuck
Getting lost in the sauce on the internet
How do our actions affect the social media algorithm
The different types of research that can help you arrive at your unique intersection
Making content-making FUN!
Ambient research —what is it and how can we utilize it?
Feeling depleted due to mindlessly doom scrolling
Organizing your ideas for future use, and how frustrating it is to be needing something that you can’t find
Your meaning-making system
Creating a capture system, and why is it important
Helpful platforms such as The Command Browser, Readwise, MyMind
How does the Holisticism team do research for Good4U, and how it changed Michelle’s way of looking at every ad and newsletters
Active research, and its pros and cons
Figuring out the best research tool for a particular topic
Why should you be careful about your confirmation bias?
Why Michelle considers business-making as one of the best personal development tools
Building your digital altar
Bridging the gap between the digital and physical world
Creating a binary between what's magic and what's real life
Actively creating the meaning of life, so as actively creating fun
Using active and ambient research as your modeling clay
How to create a system for storing your ambient research and making it more fun?
Key takeaway: Our curiosity and interests shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. It should be something that feels restorative and interesting. Your social media experiences need to feel like junk food, it can feel like a nourishing home-cooked meal that fortifies you, and expands your world.
