Michael Ashcroft: Alexander Technique, Coaching and Roam Culture

07/16/20 • 57 min

In this episode, we talk with Michael Ashcroft, a consultant, co-founder and Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Centre, a UK-based non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance sustainable carbon removal.

He is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, an awareness-based educational process that helps people live with greater ease and freedom, and a Co-Active coach, working with clients in his spare time.

We talked about:

How he stumbled into Roam Research from Building A Second Brain
His workflow when building his second brain
The Alexander Technique, and using Roam to expand his understanding of it, and applying it to coaching
How he uses Roam as a self-coaching tool
#roamcult as a culture, not a cult: The filter for meeting interesting people

Enjoy!

Timestamps

02:08 Michael's origin story and meta-realization: Building A Second Brain
04:29 Michael's workflow and version of smart notes
07:09 Deconstructing how to take book notes
8:58 Determine if ideas have their own pages
11:14 Letting go of note-taking structure in advance Re: Evernote
12:41 If Einstein had a Roam...
14:13 Subconsciously building a digital garden
16:29 Multi-graph connections, and unique blocks across Roam
18:09 Synchronising public and Private Roams
19:58 "The onboarding is the #roamcult"
20:44 The Aha! Moment and the many possibilities
21:53 Exploring emotions in Roam and self-introspection
23:53 Co-Active coaching and the Saboteur
25:20 How Michael Ashcroft uses Roam to do self-coaching
27:33 Projects, Areas, Roam, Archives
30:24 Alexander Technique: Undoing habits
34:05 Roam to enhance understanding of Alexander Technique
35:33 Using the right words that resonate better
37:23 Alexander Technique teachers tend to impose jargon on people
38:46 Michael Ashcroft's future plans for Alexander Technique
40:11 A course as a universal resource
41:59 The world is hooked on doing or caring
44:02 How can we help?
46:00 Caring is interference
47:43 Non-doing, and to frame something as a battle is interference
49:42 How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it yet?
51:06 What does Roam mean to you? Roam Culture
52:28 The secret handshake is #roamcult
54:19 PKM meetups are a filter for interesting people

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07/16/20 • 57 min

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