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𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔵, 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱

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𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔵, 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱 ⚡️

FALK REPORT: ISSUE 8 | 7 SEPTEMBER 2023 | 9:30 PM EST

Does a job make a man or does a man make a job?

In My Man Godfrey, a 1936 film about a homeless man turned butler turned entrepreneur, the answer is 𝖇𝖔𝖙𝖍.

The message in today’s report is this: Get a job outside of your home, any job—it doesn’t matter what type of job. Give the job a shot, and look for opportunities to improve your life with the skillset you have today.

That old cliche, “you have to start somewhere,” has never been more true than it is today. Not only are we dealing with a rapidly collapsing economy (don’t fret another framework is simultaneously being built in its slow stages to replace it), but also we’re dealing with people who have spent the last few years isolated in their own pods, calling it ‘work from home’ when really it’s just a little prison camp!

We need each other, it’s in our human nature. We are not designed to live, breathe and exist alone.

The consequences of all this ‘alone’ time are deeply affecting our own psychological tendencies, our core personalities, and our relationships with others outside of ourselves. We need to have a job because it forces us to get along with others who we may not like—yet we encourage ourselves to have a healthy dynamic because we need the job.

It’s participation in society that creates cohesion and unity, not meditation and journaling alone.

What two things have we seen happen the last 3 years? I’ll tell you. The dissolution of working together under one office roof and social chaos rising. This is happening all at the same time.

How wild.

But, is it?

***the 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔱 hazards of remote work***

Think:
- unbrushed teeth until 2:00 pm? Root canal needed in 6 months.
- No shower for 2 days? Significant other leaves you bc you’re gross.
- Unhealthy snacking all day? Buddha belly for life.
- No walking or movement except to grab some chips? Cellulite.
- Haircut? Hasn’t happened in 2 years.
- Breakouts from bad hygiene? It’s fine, no need to clean up, just put a filter on your zoom call.

𝔬𝔥 𝔪𝔶 𝔤𝔬𝔡, 𝔟𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔥 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔥

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𝔬𝔥 𝔪𝔶 𝔤𝔬𝔡, 𝔟𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔥 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔥 🪅

Working from home is disgusting.

Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who works from home? Even if they are ‘killing it’ on paper, you come home to their slobbery mess after a productive day and you look at them and you think… “You’re so gross.”

Work from home for 20+ years and you won’t have any natural teeth left in your mouth because of your bad hygiene. No one is around you to smell your breath or tell you it’s time to take a bath.

Your standards will drop. Your clothes will get worn out and you don’t even notice or have a reason to care. Your personal passions start to die out along with your physical stamina. Walking up and down the stairs to eat another bag of chips—that’s the only activity you’ll be getting if you continue down the slippery spiral of working from home.

The problem isn’t working from home itself—the problem is that you are not connecting in with your local community. And tiny communities build societies and societies create enterprises where success happens for everyone from the top to the bottom of the food chain.

Without an active society, the velocity of money will decline. Some may fight this notion and say, what about the digital currencies and digital markets? Hooo-haaaah.

Nothing online is as vibrant as being in person.

Who wants to see the Taj Mahal in a virtual reality when you could go there and be chased by 5 entrepreneurial children trying to sell you some toys so they can eat that day. Are they going to include that in the metaverse?

Working from home is a recipe for depression and disaster! Stop the madness as soon as you can and do what you can to push yourself to work outside of the house 3-4 times a week at minimum.

It’s time for us all to rejoin society again—and the work-from-home-r’s are dragging us all down with their pajamas as 2pm in public, depressive facial expressions, lack of eye contact, earpods blocking out NORMAL communication of ‘hello, how are you?’ and all the other nonsense they’re doing that we’re pretending is normal.

It’s not normal, so let’s stop enabling these adults to act like impaired children and encourage them instead to reconnect with society. Hate in the comments section if that enrages you, but it’s not coming down.

𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔲𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 sake of contributing

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𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔲𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 sake of contributing 🎱

SOCIETY NEEDS YOU!

What if contributing to society through an in-person job meant taking a pay cut in the short-term?

I’d say take it. What happens to people when they isolate too much? and spend all that socialization and active time on their devices getting hopped up on what violent crime is around the corner in a bad part of town? They lose their mother-f-ing minds.

***final thoughts***

This next few months will be…. marvelous… if you know how to weather a storm.

who are you really

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who are you really ❓

Things to do in the next month:

Watch My Man Godfrey: no excuses, it’s available on YouTube!
Push yourself to spend time with people. Say hello. Connect. Vibe.
Stop carrying your phone everywhere. You don’t need it.
Do something fun for the sake of creating your own money velocity. Spend some money doing something you’d appreciate, even if it’s just buying a $6 latte that you love.

go show them what's possible

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go show them what's possible 〰️

FALK REPORT: Issue No.8 - Remote Work, Hygiene, and 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓