Alan Cohen

You know what he's talking about? Esther has a friend who wrote a book some years ago, Why Your Life Sucks and What to Do About It.

Alan Cohen, and there's a segment in it that if it's not a hell yes, it's a hell no.

And what he was actually saying is what we're now saying about the receptive mode.

Rather than taking action to try to fix something that's broken, which is receiving inspiration from the receptive mode of vulnerability or overwhelmment or something else, wait until you're tuned in, tapped in, turned on, and really feeling good, and then when it feels like yes, then you know that the inspired action or the inspired idea or the inspired behavior is going to be beneficial to you.

the source of value in doing nothing is that you can perceive more possibilities than you can in doing something.

My mind flashes on a story that from the Tao of, the Tao Made Easy or whatever the title is from the Alan Cohen book.

And he tells a story about being with the master Lao Tzu, and they were going to be traveling.

And one of the other great stages of the time, Confucius or somebody, was rumored to be traveling, and Lao Tzu and his pupil were going to meet him at a certain town.

One of the stories I share in the note is on the Golden Buddha.

The Golden Buddha is actually the story Alan Cohen shares at the beginning of the documentary I mentioned called Finding Joe.

The story briefly is there's a huge golden statue of Buddha.

I think it's in Thailand back in the day, right? And when I first heard this, I thought it was just a story.

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Alan Cohen.

And there's a segment in it that if it's not a hell yes, it's a hell no, and what he was actually saying is what we're now saying about the receptive mode.

Rather than taking action to try to fix something that's broken, which is receiving inspiration from the receptive mode of vulnerability or overwhelmment or something else, wait until you're tuned in, tapped in, turned on, and really feeling good and then when it feels like yes, then you know that the inspired action or the inspired idea or the inspired behavior is gonna be beneficial to you.

Really a very good book.

His name is Alan Cohen.

And in the book, he has a segment where he talks about if something is a hell yes, then follow it.

But if it's not, if it's anything other than a I really want to do this, then it's equivalent of saying hell no.

I dare to be yourself.

And this is by Alan Cohen.

And I just did a Train the Trainer with the House of Bumble collective members.

And I used this as an example and have it here so I can send to them.

So that's there if you want it.

And I have another prayer for all of you that we could end with, that Alan Cohen, he's a writer.

He was a well-known writer.

He's a very dear friend of mine.

I'll do some research if he's alive or not.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Alan Cohen-

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