NYC event, resilience, and the annoying dash

Reading time: 3 min

On today’s menu, we keep it light. I’m serving a short thought on consistency and building resilience, and hopefully, we solve the dash line situation once and for all. And as for a life experiment, well, I’m co-organizing a cool event in NYC, happening in less than 48 hours.

What if the secret ingredient isn’t consistency?

Consistency sounds sexy, but what defines people who lead their lives well isn’t that they never fall off. It’s how fast they get back on.

So maybe we don’t need to be consistent all the time.
Maybe we just need to learn to recover faster than we spiral.

As Atomic Habits reminds us (and we all know this one): Never miss twice.

Giving ourselves grace for the failures and encouragement to get back in the arena is how we build resilience.

To Do:

When you feel momentum for something, act on it in the next 5–10 minutes. (Otherwise, you’ll lose it.)
- If you want to run again, at least put your shoes by the door.
- If you want to cut sugar, throw the cookies.
- If you want to read more, open the book and read for 1 minute.

Micro-actions!

And when you fall off again (because you will), don’t call it a restart.
Call it a return.

Something basic to solve the dash (“—”) situation

Everyone’s allergic to the em dash (“—”) because it screams AI.

Seems there’s an actual fix I read about this week and wanted to share it here.

Don’t just tell ChatGPT “stop using em dashes”. That’s like telling someone “don’t overthink”, it doesn’t help.

Instead, teach it what to do instead.

Add this to your Custom Instructions (Bottom left, where you have the profile picture → Personalization → Custom Instructions):