The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell

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There's no such thing as a clean slate. I could start over in a new place with new people and I'd still show up carrying my current body and my current mind. The version of this I'm least proud of is a New Year's Eve where I sat in a hot tub with a beer, overweight and not liking how I looked, mentally listing all the changes I was going to make next year. What I was actually doing was quietly forgetting every commitment I hadn't kept that year, then promising myself those same ones again with some new ones stacked on top. The ten extra pounds, the permanently distracted focus, the self-image that had started attacking me instead of supporting me, that was the slate I was starting from.

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I get lonely over the holidays sometimes, no matter how many people around me love me. One year I was having a rough stretch, not feeling appreciated or checked in on, and I watched some rage bait video on Instagram saying other people never reach out first, so just test them by going quiet for a week. I took that on, and two things happened. Because I was already looking for the negative, everyone who didn't text me counted and everyone who did somehow didn't, and I isolated myself further than I already was. The end of the year is chaos for everybody, so expecting to be checked on without any effort of my own wasn't loneliness, it was entitlement.

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I was doing bioinformatics work for a biotech group with a big analysis due by the end of the year, and I was badly behind on it. Then they asked me to write something up for a scientific presentation, which was far less work, and I poured myself into that instead and let the main project sit. It did two things for me and neither one was honest. It let me act overwhelmed, like I had too much on my plate, when the truth was I was behind because I hadn't done enough work, and it let the noise of the holidays quietly swallow the thing I'd actually committed to. Nobody came after me for it, which is the trap. I just started the next year weeks behind, catching up instead of building.

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I'd wake up with a list, exercise, ten hours of work, meditate, surf, and then I'd blink and it was 5:30 and I'd done almost none of it. That would turn into me lying in bed at one in the morning as a grown adult, playing the old Miniclip games I played when I was twelve, and the thing is my face in those moments wasn't happy, it was numb. What I eventually worked out is that all of it comes from chasing the perfect, exciting day, which is exactly what pushes you toward the cheapest stimulation available. So now I do the opposite on purpose. I went to a restaurant yesterday with my phone off for the whole day, sat there watching the guys behind the counter make burritos, ended up in a great conversation with a woman whose name I never asked, and I'd take that over another TV episode every time.

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I used to lie to people about the books I was reading, not outright, just by naming books I'd started and never finished whenever someone asked what I did with my weekend. What was really going on is that I'd overcommitted to so many things that I never had the time to finish any of them. There was a Saturday in September, a beautiful crisp fall day with the swell starting to roll in, and I spent the whole thing going back and forth between the TV, a video game and my phone, and by five my eyes were bloodshot and I was disappointed in myself. Sitting with that, I realized I wasn't disappointed about the day, I was disappointed about the year. That's really what this one is about, that how you end your year gets decided in September, not on January first.

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I was sitting in a power systems class when the email came through with my organic chemistry score, and I'm pretty sure it started with a two. I ran across campus in flip flops to ask the TA if there'd been a mistake. There hadn't. The thing is I had studied hard, in the only way I knew how. Go at one thing intensely, drop everything else, get overwhelmed, blow up, repeat. That feels like effort. It just doesn't produce anything, and it gets worst in Q4 when everything stacks at once.

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My New Year's kiss a couple years ago was a bottle of NyQuil. I was sick in bed on January 1st and my mind was still telling me I was lazy, I was behind, I should be doing something. That's the trap for ambitious people. In the moment you most need your head on your side, it turns on you instead. This one gets into why resilience is mostly preparation rather than willpower, and what shame-based accountability actually costs.

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I've tracked my drinking for a few years now. Last year I averaged around 15 a month, this year it's closer to five, and every Thanksgiving and Christmas it roughly doubles and leaves me foggy for a week afterward. That's not really a story about alcohol. It's about noticing. You can't change a pattern you've never measured, and telling yourself you'll do better over the holidays without collecting a single data point doesn't do anything.

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I started a blog in university called Trying to Tech and never made it past post number four. It sat there for years as one more open tab, which is really what this one is about. Every project you start and abandon takes up memory whether you're working on it or not. You don't feel behind because you're doing too little. You feel behind because you're carrying twenty of these, and most of them were optional to begin with.

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When I lived in Santa Cruz there was a route I'd start driving without ever deciding to. Down to the water, past Pleasure Point, over to Cat & Cloud to work, because I was supposedly trying to be in a more productive environment. I'd sit there and act like I was working while my actual output sat on the floor. One afternoon like that is harmless. Three months of it and you hit December wondering where the year went.

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