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Comment by JacobAldridge | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for sharing Tom. I enjoyed your recent LI post about some of the recent successes you’ve helped create in multiple businesses - it really seemed (with all the social media caveats) that you’ve been focused and continue to create enormous value around you.

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Oh thanks for that.

Funny for you to observe that I've seemed “focused”.

I've often though that to an outsider who isn't right beside me on this journey, I'd seem incredibly unfocused; since leaving my startup I've worked on almost 10 different projects or contracts.

But what I've actually been doing, mostly very privately, is undertaking a highly focused project/experiment in deeply healing my mind and body, whilst doing what I need to do to make a living along the way, and doing what I can to keep the ball moving forward towards some fuzzy long-term career outcome and/or life purpose.

And yep, it does all seem to be yielding some solid results, but if it looks like I've been focused, well I think that's a happy accident :)

Any chance you can point to the starting point for your project/experiment? Such as did you find a book that helped you to start asking a set of questions about yourself. If so, what questions seem to being making the biggest impact?

Also, just wanted to say thank you for posting about this. I realize this really private stuff and I'm trying to find my own process for something similar to this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21884667

I guess, as a consultant, for me working on multiple projects or with different businesses is just part of life.

To actually be shipping outcomes: that takes focus.

And I’m glad to hear the ‘source’ project is also progressing strongly.

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