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- 3 days ago53 min
7 strategies for reading to retain information you can actually use
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thetwelfthhouse.substack.comA lot of what we’ve talked about at Holisticism and The Twelfth House over the last five years pertains to how to create systems, and about how those systems (or lack thereof) influence our personal information worlds.So often the major problems we face as creative entrepreneurs and makers — burnout, overwhelm, unceasing existential dread — are foregrounded by the way we consume and create knowledge. It’s so boring to talk about, but I think we can all agree that there’s an ideal consume:create ratio that allows us to take in new information, get inspired, and transmute that new knowledge into something that’s our own. But getting to that ideal consumption-creation balance is easier said than done in a world where you’re constantly pelleted with Cocomelon-level high stimulation content.Today — per reader request! — I wanted to explore strategies for reading to retain information, because all of us need to do research for one reason or another. If you’ve ever looked up from a book only to realize you have no idea what you just spent the last 20 minutes reading; if you’ve ever lost yourself in a scroll hole while “researching” for work; if you’ve ever struggled to articulate to your partner what, exactly, was so interesting about that article from The New Yorker that you just read… this guide is for you.Or, if you’re just someone who identifies as a life-long learner and wants to make research a more satisfying hobby, read on.To retain, or not to retainFirst and foremost, why do you need to retain information when you read? Or, maybe, when do you need to retain information?I don’t find the need to retain everything I read or consume; in fact, much of what I consume leaves me thinking, Damn, wish I could delete that out of my brain and reclaim some of my cognitive RAM.Personally, I am not interested in annotating a work of fiction unless I’m writing an essay about it. Fiction is my escapay. But there’s a hell of a lot in the non-fiction category that I research and take in that I do want to recall later, a few reasons being:* because I’m working on a project, and I want to build upon the ideas I’ve already generated with new concepts I read about* because I want to participate in a conversation (literal or metaphorical) and feel informed about a topic* because I want to learn a skill or acquire new knowledge, and what I’ve read walks me through how to do that thing* because I want to critique or rebuttal what I’ve read to establish my own divergence of thoughtMaybe you identify with some of my Remember Reasons, and you likely have your own reasons for wanting to retain ideas from what you read or consume. Ultimately, I believe understanding why retaining the information is important to you — aka so what? what will you do with that information? — informs the strategies you use when reading for retention.Pre-ReadingGet your bearings
- Apr 5, 20265 min
a theory from the 1970s on how to turn a bad idea into a good idea (and a good idea into a great one)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thetwelfthhouse.substack.comThere’s a 1971 academic article that I’ve been thinking about a LOT lately. It’s called “That’s Interesting!” It’s by a sociologist named Murray Davis, and it is technically about how to develop academic theories that people actually give a s**t about — ideas that are not just important, but are also interesting. I read it as part of my PhD research, but while I was I kept thinking: this is copywriting. This is pitching. This is why some content makes you stop scrolling and some doesn’t. This is MARKETING, B***H. This is how to stress-test any idea for sticky-ness. This is how to come up with ideas that make you a thought leader.Davis’s central argument is that a theory becomes important not because it’s true, but because it’s interesting. Truth has almost nothing to do with influence. (See: the entire internet.) What makes an idea sticky is that it disturbs something the audience already assumed. It catches them mid-expectation and redirects them somewhere they didn’t see coming.Quick aside for holographic repatterning healer rec:
- Jan 31, 202652 min
building an altar to almost anything will expand your surface area for experiencing synchronicities
📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeableTo be blunt and unpoetic about it, a way to increase your surface area for synchronicities is to just start noticing things.In the Feldenkrais Method we talk a lot about habituation and differentiation. The whole point of a Feldenkrais class can be boiled down to this: I’m trying to bring your attention to your habitual way of being, moving, and thinking by introducing some type of novelty into your experience; the novelty helps you notice the things you’ve grown accustomed to which have been “invisibilized” in your life.By bringing your new awareness online, you give yourself options for responding to the world differently. You illuminate choices. You create doorways where there were once walls.And that’s the whole crux of synchronicity practice — we’re trying to create more opportunities for synchronicity to show itself.Archetype practice can do this, sure. But today I want to talk about an even more obvious option for inviting a different reality into being — altar work.What’s an altar? An altar is a place made sacred.The word sacred comes from the late Middle English sacre, which means to ‘consecrate.’ An object or place that’s been consecrated has been set apart from the average and the ordinary to accomplish something specific. We might also describe these objects or places as holy.A sacred space is a place where wonder can be glimpsed. - Joseph CampbellWhen we focus our attention on building and tending to altars we transform a space from regular-degular — mundane, if you want to get fancy about it — to holy and magical. An IKEA BILLY bookshelf becomes a hallowed shrine. The top of your ancient apartment refrigerator turns into a reminder of the omnipresence of our ancestors. The dashboard of your somehow-still-kicking Honda Civic becomes “a sacred place,” as my obsessed toddler has taken to saying. (Shoutout to the Moana writers for introducing that banger to our home, it’s familial canon now)The spaces we might take for granted because we’ve become habituated to thinking of them in a certain way are called into new light. We can see things differently … And if we begin to see one thing differently, maaaaaybe JUUUUUUSST MAYBE we can open up to the possibility of seeing many things differently.How you use your altar depends entirely on your cultural and spiritual beliefs and practices. But altar practice itself? Universelle. We find evidence of altars and shrines going waaaaaaay back to the Paleolithic era. Permanent sacred spaces tucked into narrow caves and carved into stone underhangs. ‘Mobile’ altars that could be taken on-the-go by migratory peoples. People have been doing this s**t forever.I think that altar creation is hardwired into our DNA, even if that’s not how we necessarily clock it these days. Is a thoughtfully designed tablescape for a dinner party not an altar to kinkeeping? Is an organized, dedicated crafting corner not a shrine to creativity? Is a well-tended back garden not a cathedral of nature?All I’m saying, really, is that making an altar doesn’t have to be this buttoned up ceremonial, Wicca-adjacent act full of vermillion red candles and money bowls and sc
- Jan 9, 202654 min
how to see signs, increase the frequency of synchronistic experiences, and use tarot as a sign-cipher
📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeableThe first rule for creating the conditions for a most magical year is that you gotta look alive.Expanding your surface area for luck and magic is not a passive inheritance; it’s co-creative. You gotta but your big boy pants on and be accountable for your part in all this, while also keeping your ego in check and surrendering to the group project vibes of this whole endeavor. Operate in the faith that if you do your part with as much integrity as possible, your creative partner (god, source, universe, benevolent aliens, ancestors, unicorn spirit guides, whatever your belief is) will act that way, too. As above, so below, right?When I say look alive I’m being ridiculously literal. Use your eyeballs. Look and see.What are you looking for? Well, signs, of course.Are you looking or are you seeing (obnoxious but important!) As I was thinking about this episode, my list for why looking for signs is a high-leverage practice kept expanding. Sign-finding is one of those low-effort, high-return activities because its a non-boring way to practice paying attention.Like, you could meditate in silence for 20 minutes. Or, you could pretend you’re living in a life-sized version of an I Spy book … either way, you’re going to slow waaaaay down (clues are hard to spot when you’re sprinting through life). Slowing down forces you to clock what’s coming up, like:* sensations in your body,* thoughts, ideas, patterns in your mind* information in your physical environment that you might usually take for grantedNow, noticing “the signs” is sort of a daunting task. I’m getting overwhelm-schwitzy just thinking about it. Everything is a sign if you’re looking for signs, which seems like the worst version of confirmation bias and perhaps something that can send you into light levels of spiritual psychosis.We don’t want that. Which is why we’re turning to tarot and archetypes today to be our guides.Why this works no matter if you’re too “advanced” for tarot or if you’re a newborn baby when it comes to tarocchi You might be reading this like, Really, tarot? Doesn’t that feel a bit… remedial? Give us something COOL and ADVANCED! Something tricky!OK, yeah, I hear you. You might be o-v-e-r tarot, which is your right! (Maybe check out Zener cards, if you feel you’ve ascended beyond the humble tarot deck)But if you’ve graduated onto more esoteric methods like, say, black mirror scrying, I actually think this is the perfect time to blow the dust of ye olde tarot deck and look at the cards and their symbols with fresh eyes.And if you’ve yet to crack the spine on the Tarot for Dummies book that’s been camped on bedside table for the last seven months, great! You’re in the right place, too.Tarot is an incredible tool for accessing the unconscious mind because it is non-linguistic. Language is a somewhat modern technology. Cormac McCarthy explains it better than I can, but humans had thoughts and ideas for thousands of years before language developed. We can assume, then, that language developed as a cognitive
- Dec 5, 202550 min
so you've accidentally cursed yourself
📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeableI know, I knooooooow. You didn’t mean to! Yet here we are, and somehow every time you put a quarter into the metaphorical vending machine of life expecting a gumball, you get served up a turd instead. Two quarters? Two turds. When it comes to a *certain* area of your life, it seems like it doesn’t matter if you try harder, sink more money into it, or spend more time on it — things just get more fucked worse. You read the title of this post and thought, “cursed myself? Yeah, that kind of checks out.” Today I want to (cheekily) help you reverse your self-curse. How to know if you’ve cursed yourselfClose your eyes. Be honest. What part of your life feels like it’s been cursed by a bridge troll? Where are you running up that hill only to slide back down even faster? Where are you investing $50 and somehow losing $60?That’s your curse zone, baby.(Important caveat: When I say “curse,” I’m talking about areas where you have agency and control.) Four Ways You Might Have Accidentally Played Yourself1. You’re performing vulnerability or authenticity with ulterior motives Are you sharing something deeply personal because you genuinely want to, or because you think it’ll perform well? Are you trauma-dumping for engagement? Are you trying to sanitize your shadow by talking about it before you’ve actually worked through it?Listen, I’m not saying you can’t be vulnerable. But if you’re using your emotional experiences as content strategy, that energy gets muddy. And muddy energy = gunky outcomes.2. You’re sharing from an open woundThere’s sharing from a scar (good), sharing from a scab (risky), and sharing from an open wound (you’re gonna bleed on people, and they don’t like that).When you share something that just happened — before you’ve had time to sit with it, make sense of it, or get any perspective — you get a pretty flat, superficial take. Premature sharing can actually keep you stuck in that painful place instead of moving through it. And yeah, that can definitely make you feel liked you’re been cursed. 3. You’re building in public with the wrong materials at the wrong time Building in public is great advice… sometimes! But if you’re sharing your nascent idea — the one that’s still so delicate a light breeze could knock it over — you’re building with materials that can’t withstand pressure yet. One strong exhale from the internet and your whole thing collapses.Wait until you have cement bricks. Or at least plywood. Your baby ideas need protection and nurturing, not a tomato-throwing audience.4. You’re being weird about change Two sides of the same cursed coin:* Option A: You changed dramatically overnight (from the audience’s perspective) because you were hiding your evolution the whole time. Now everyone’s confused and feels bamboozled.* Option B: You’re resisting change even though every fiber of your being wants to evolve, and that resistance is making you miserable.Both lead to the same outcome: things feeling cursed because you’re not being honest about your becoming.How to Reverse the CurseStep 1: CleanseSalt bath. Cleanse your space. Cleanse the specific area of your life that feels cursed. Step
- Nov 26, 202538 min
self-surveillance is reducing your surface area for luck and magic
📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeable Has the whimsy, magic, and sparkly intuition has been seemingly Dyson-vacuumed out of your existence? Do you feel trapped by your own identity or paralyzed by indecision? Have you noticed that it seems like the universe hasn’t winked at you in a while? (Rude!) Congrats — you played yourself. This one’s for you. Let’s talk about self-surveillance Self-surveillance is becoming the cop in your head. It’s that voice judging everything you do as you’re doing it. It’s the part of you watching yourself from outside your body, constantly monitoring how your actions look to other people. It’s censoring yourself before you speak, curating your identity online, and performing actions because they’d look good on Instagram rather than because you actually want to do them.And here’s the problem: you can’t create and judge simultaneously. When you’re self-surveilling, you’re stuck regurgitating old ideas instead of channeling something new. You’re closing yourself off from sensing, feeling, and intuiting. You’re reducing your surface area for luck and magic.Self-surveillance keeps you trapped in the realm of the known, using old materials to try and build something new. But magic lives in the unknowable! Synchronicity happens beyond the border of the comfortable! When you’re performing a human life instead of living one, you miss the glimmers of opportunity that are right there in your peripheral vision! So, basically, we need to cool it on the self-surveillance to invite intuition, magic, flow, synchronicity back into our lives. Listen to the full episode for practices on dropping the surveillance loop and letting your freak flag fly. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thetwelfthhouse.substack.com/subscribe
- Nov 14, 20258 min
12H+: how to do a lightest-lift-heaviest-reward launch before the end of the year
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thetwelfthhouse.substack.comHi! Welcome back to The Twelfth House+, our bi-monthly behind-the-paywall podcast episodes. Every month, I record two episodes — one BTS, “inside voice” convo, and one audio course to help you navigate living a creative, intuitive life with more ease, abundance, and wonder.In this episode, I dive into Colin Bedell’s recent video about the state of astrology and the problematic ways fear-mongering and rigid control dynamics have infiltrated spiritual spaces. Colin’s call for a “big reset” — one that centers sovereignty, nuance, and grace over black-and-white thinking — had me kicking my feet under my chair in abject GLEE. (I also love when his New Jersey affect popped out… it was truly perfect, absolutely no notes.)And and AND I extend his critique beyond astrology to the world that Holisticism inhabits — a smorgasborg of intuitive business advice, wellness/well-being frameworks, and creative work. If you haven’t watched Colin’s video yet, I highly recommend it. For my full thoughts (messy and unedited, for better or worse)… just press play on the episode.Now, let’s talk about something I do love: planning! If you’re thinking about launching an offer before the year ends (yes, there’s still time but we’re reaaaaally pushing it!), here’s your roadmap.
- Nov 9, 202555 min
writing a book in a week, self-publishing strategies, and feeling less bad about social media (!) with Amelia Hruby
📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeable I sat down with amelia hruby, phd of off the grid clubhouse / Softer Sounds / Thought of You talk about her new book Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — and what resulted was one of those rare conversations where you literally feel #blessed for the opportunity to have even floated through it. (Amelia tends to have that effect.) Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is a philosophical manifesto that refuses to accept the attention economy as inevitable. It’s not about 30-day internet detoxes or generic just-put-a-timer-on-your-social-media-time advice. It’s about reclaiming agency, understanding what algorithms actually are, and asking whether the tools we use can actually deliver on their promises.In today’s episode, we talk about how this book has been in the works for three years (but only took a week to write), why we should rethink the term “attention economy,” why business books are boring (sorrryyyyyyy they are! they are!!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and Amelia gives us the inside baseball on the process of moving from a traditional publishing contract to self-publishing this book to profitability. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thetwelfthhouse.substack.com/subscribe
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