Jamie Jackson

Joined June 2020

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Between two skies and towards the night.

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Bite-sized Thoughts on Resistance
Some people don’t want to acknowledge their dreams because then they’ll have no excuses to not pursue it. Some people don’t want to be successful because they fear change and judgement from others.
By Jamie Jackson5 years ago in Poets
What I've Learned from Arguing Online for a Decade
I’m good at arguing. You may scoff at that as if it’s not a real skill compared to sporting prowess or mathematical ability, but no matter where it ranks on the social scale of approval, a skill is what it is.
By Jamie Jackson5 years ago in Humans
There's a Difference Between Being a Writer and Being an Artist
I’ve written all my life. I guess everybody has. You learn to write in school and then you don’t really stop; filling out forms, taking notes, scribbling down phone numbers on the back of envelopes and writing shopping lists in dog-eared notepads.
By Jamie Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
2 Years of the Wim Hof Method
Doctors and swab-taking, needle-poking nurses have said for years I don't have an immune deficiency but that didn't stop me from ending up in the hospital several times from immune responses that were akin to blowing up a house just because a window needs replacing.
By Jamie Jackson5 years ago in Longevity
4 Simple Steps to a Perfect Early Morning – Advice from a Night Owl
I am a night owl. Well, not literally. I don’t have wings, live in a tree and swivel my head around 270 degrees. Rather, I am genetically predisposed to getting up and going to bed later than most people. My body clock is set slightly later than the average.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Motivation
AC/DC ‘Back in Business’ - The Song to Play as the World Falls Apart
Millennials have killed guitar music. Killed it dead. There's never been a generation that hasn't been defined by a rock and roll movement, until now.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Beat
In Defence of Therapy and Becoming Vulnerable
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they don't need therapy, I'd have about $12 and then I'd have to lose some of that in commission, exchanging it for pound sterling.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Psyche
I Stole Some Hallucinogens as a Teenage Delinquent and It All Turned Sour
It was a warm, summer night in 1995. My friend and I had found a large, soggy paper bag of magic mushrooms in the back of a camper van off a suburban road in North London.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Potent
Red Flags That the Self-Help You’re Consuming Is Bullsh*t
If I could be bothered to research and then draw up a pie chart of what made up web content, the largest piece of the pie would be porn. Of course it would.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Motivation
7 Steps on How to Sell Anything
Not so long ago, I had the bizarre misfortune to spend a whole, arduous Saturday sitting in a windowless hall in West London listening to conmen (and women) trying to sell me their get-rich-quick schemes for thousands of pounds.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Journal
My Love (And Hate) Letter to London Underground
Growing up in the far-flung depths of North London – so far-flung that residents argued if they were actually in London at all – I am well accustomed to using London Underground, where trains rush back and forth through the venous tunnels of the city.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Wander
The Greatest Podcast Episode You Haven't Heard - Yet
I have a confession to make. My name is Jamie Jackson and I am a personal development junkie. I've had a serious, self-help habit since 2014, and it shows no signs of abating.
By Jamie Jackson6 years ago in Motivation