🐈 TREE 449: Follow your curiosity

Welcome to to TREE Year Three! There’s a bit of housekeeping at the end.

Elizabeth Gilbert is not into following passion. She prefers to follow her curiosity.

I like that.

I’ve never been one of those vision people who clearly know what they should do and where they should go. The only vision statement I have is my glasses prescription.

I’m not always passionate about something.

I’ve never not been curious though.

Curiosity has taken me around the world. It has introduced me to wonderful people, music and food. It has helped overcome the crippling shyness I was born with. It got me my current job. (I work in employer branding. A few months ago I didn’t even know such a thing as employer branding existed.) FFOREST began with me wondering if there was a better way to start my day.

Don’t know what to do?
Follow your curiosity.
Not feeling passionate about anything?
Follow your curiosity.

(If you are afraid of what might happen when you follow your curiosity, remember: you are not a cat.)

Heinrik always follows his curiosity but never discovers anything.

Curiosity led me to this amazing podcast which led me to Jamaica in 1981. (Spotify)

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Hello, FFOREST Friends.

I asked you three questions at the end of last year.

I asked about the length of posts. Most folks weren’t bothered if the posts went longer than my 250 word limit. I appreciate that a lot. But 18% of respondents said, Let’s tighten things up. I agree with the minority on this one. Part of what makes TREE work as a daily email is that it’s short. The limit helps me cut out the waffle. I’m going to do my best to work within the limitations while knowing that if something absolutely needs to go longer, 82% of you won’t be upset.

I asked about outbound links vs staying focussed on the text of the post. You overwhelmingly like links. Links will continue to show up where I think they will be useful.

I asked about switching from Spotify to YouTube for the songs. Most of you like that idea, but I was surprised to find that 28% of respondents wanted to stick with Spotify. That’s a sizeable minority. So what I’m going to do for now is what I did today. The main song link will be YouTube and I will include a text link to Spotify.

On the subject of music, those of you who care noticed that I stopped updating the Year Two playlist on Spotify. It was one too many things for me to do. I’m not even going to try it for Year Three. I would be entirely happy if someone wanted to pick that task up. If that someone is you, reply or comment and I will share the link with everyone.

Let’s grow slowly together!
Jeff