Morning Walk #7
Challenging questions to ask yourself regularly; how I accidentally bought my first NFT
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I’m still on vacation until Nov 23, so this issue will be a bit shorter than usual as well. We’ll get to the regular length next week.
In this issue
My favorite coaching questions
How I accidentally bought my first NFT
Some interesting things I read/watched/listened to lately
My favorite coaching questions
I keep an ever-updating list of what I call “Coaching Questions.” I don’t know if there is a term for this, but it’s the best way to explain it to myself.
It started from reading Tim Ferriss. In his book Tools of Titans, he stresses the importance of challenging your mind by asking hard questions. In the book, he shares questions that made an enormous impact on some of his life choices. E.g., what if I do the opposite of what I normally do, for 48 hours?
When working with a business coach two years ago, I noticed the same framework in her job. She listens carefully and frames challenging questions. Thoughtfully answering those questions clears the path to your goal by itself.
Asking yourself the right questions is the key to unblocking and moving forward. They can do wonders.
⚠️ Before you dive into reading all of them right away, I highly recommend you schedule 60-90 minutes instead to put some effort into this. You’ll thank me later. It would be even better if you could write down your answers. And much better if you could revisit them in a year.
Here is the list:
What would you do differently if you weren’t afraid?
What’s the only thing that could stop your from achieving your goals?
If a top notch performer replaced me at work tomorrow, what would they do? What’s stopping me?
What’s hurting my company/projects/myself the most and how can I avoid it?
If I had just taken the company over, how would I change it? How would I build a company to potentially disrupt us?
If it could save a person's life, would you find a way to shave ten seconds off? (famous question asked by Steve Jobs to his engineering team that helped decrease boot up time on the first Mac).
What would this look like if it were simple?
What kinds of people do you admire and hope to emulate? Why?
What I don't even dare to dream about?
If you had your dream job, would you be happy?
What if I do the opposite of what I normally do, for 48 hours?
If I had $10 million, what would I be doing differently? Do I really need $10 million to get this lifestyle today?
What’s the worst that could happen? If it did happen, could I recover?
If I capped my working time to 2 hours per week, what would I do the rest of the time?
In other news
I accidentally bought my first NFT, costing me about $400 🤦🏻♂️ This is what I’ve got:
Yeap. It is a jpeg image of CAPTCHA.
Here is how it happened: I stumbled upon a new project called Captchas that asks users to mint on-chain verified Captchas as NFTs for 0.05 ETH. That explanation is still quite vague to me, but I decided to give it a try anyway (could I get 0.05 ETH for practically nothing?). It turns out I paid 0.05 ETH for this NFT, but aside from that, I had to pay a transaction fee of about $200. Apparently, it’s something different from Gas Price.
On the positive side, I now own an NFT, and it looks cool in my Rainbow Wallet:
In addition to that, I started interacting with NFC myself, and it feels like I’m getting it. This NFT now lives in my wallet as well as my Ether coins. I access them via Rainbow Wallet, but I can use any other wallet I want. This set of collectibles is mine, and it feels mine. This is way different from web2 and storing my stuff inside locked ecosystems. Although it sucks losing $400 on nothing, it did help me better understand web3.
Things I've been reading/watching/enjoying
I’m on vacation and having a bit of a digital detox, so nothing here. No Twitter, RSS, or any reading aside from one book I brought with me.
Thanks for reading. Until next week 👋🏻
Snapshot of working on Morning Walk
