A Delivery System For Your Thoughts

From:
Scott P. Scheper
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
Tuesday, 11:47 a.m.

Dear Friend,

As many of you know, I have a newborn baby. Last night, I am ashamed to admit that I did not handle things like a mature adult. You see, I have the night shift duty, meaning from roughly 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. it's my turn to watch little baby Fitzy. I do this while my incredible wife catches up on sleep.

Most of these nights, little Fitzy has been quite a good sport. I proceed to feed him, rock him, change his (yellow curry filled) diaper, and then put him in his rocker as he sleeps. Last night, however, it was complete chaos. He did not sleep one iota. He was constantly crying, constantly sharting, constantly hungry, constantly burping, constantly throwing up on my shoulder. No matter what I seemed to do, he was always in "need" of something.

After the first hour of this, I handled it quite well. However, after a weekend of taking care of our little baby, all of these little things started adding up——compounding on one another. For instance, holding my child, I screwed up my neck somehow and couldn't turn my head to the right and look downward. This combined with two hours of my baby crying...

Drove Me to the Edge!

Leading up to the birth of Fitzy——I had heard horror stories from parents. I had one of my friends even admit to me that for the first three months he thought about finding someone else to take his baby. Yes, it was that bad. He had no help at all——and he was up most of the day and all night——as was his wife.

I thought that he sounded outlandish and downright even cruel. However, after experiencing over two hours of a crying baby, I finally cracked. I simply broke after he was crying for two hours straight. I literally put him down in his rocker and I walked out of the room. I said to myself, I can not do this anymore. I can't fucking do this!——there's nothing I can do to calm him down! I didn't want to wake up my wife for help. She was literally running on fumes.

I found myself getting extremely frustrated and then an even more pernicious cycle took place. I felt guilty and bad about feeling frustrated with my child! I'm supposed to be an all-loving peaceful father. Instead, I feel like punching the freaking wall!

I have since looked this up on Reddit, and it is quite common. A lot of parents get extremely frustrated and angry and it sets them off at hearing their little baby. There's an important quote that I found that I'm now trying to remind myself of, and that is:

"Your baby is not giving you a hard time. He himself is having a hard time."

I like this quote because it reminds me to have grace——even when I'm extremely frustrated and tired and sleep deprived. Furthermore, there were many other things going on. I felt like I couldn't wake up my wife because it was only 9:30 PM. But the fact is I simply could not——and honestly, it would not be fair to my baby to be frustrated and annoyed when taking care of him.

Therefore, I tiptoed into the bedroom, gently woke my wife up——and she proceeded to save the day like she always does. Still, I couldn't help but feel like crap. In fact, this feeling carried forth into this morning. I felt like, heck, perhaps I don't have the patience to be a father. Honestly, I want to skip this newborn phase crap. And fast forward two years to when he's two years old, I'm hoping then he'll be a lot more fun. Babies as newborns, they have no personality. All they do is whine and eat and shart into their diapers.

However, I'm trying my best to regulate myself——which I'll admit is sometimes difficult for me to do. One thing I've noticed——and this may be the case for you too——is that after about an hour of reading and writing by hand——you calm your mind down and are better able to function in the face of chaos.

I'm writing this to you today as I am in the midst of putting together the finishing touches of Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter. Issue No. 22 outlines the most overlooked yet important aspect of Zettelkasten. This aspect of Zettelkasten is so prevalent and obvious. In fact, it is hidden in plain sight. The Zettelkasten is not a note-taking machine. It is something else altogether.

I'm going to be revealing this to you in Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter, but more importantly, I'm going to be covering something that is critical if you intend to be an independent writer, researcher, entrepreneur that makes money from his or her knowledge. What I'm talking about is something called a delivery system.

You see, at a high level, there are only three things you need to worry about:

1. Developing thoughts

2. Writing thoughts

3. A delivery system for your thoughts

One of the delivery systems that I have for my thoughts is the very medium you are reading right now, and that is: email.

So many times I see new people come into the world of the Antinet. They end up taking notes all day——and yet they fail to turn those notes into meaningful knowledge that gets distributed. The reason why is partly due to mindset——and the other part is due to the fact that...

They Haven’t Thought About a Delivery System for Their Thoughts!

You see, I have a tremendous advantage. The advantage is I can take everyday challenges and difficulties and ideas and thoughts from my readings and distribute those thoughts through a delivery system such as email. Literally, if you look at this email right now, I started out by outlining a very challenging time I had last night with my newborn baby. I've ended up stringing that event into something where I talk about Zettelkasten and deliver my thoughts and knowledge.

In turn, I routinely get emails from people sharing their thoughts and their lessons, which help me a great deal. This is something that I have carefully constructed into my knowledge business. I have three critical delivery systems and I'll be sharing this with you. Believe it or not, Niklas Luhmann himself had a very carefully constructed delivery system. Too often I see people that are new to Zettelkasten and the Antinet and PKM do everything there is other than...

Figure Out and Construct Their Delivery Systems!

This is something I'll be covering in Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter. I highly advise you pick up Issue No. 22 of The Scott Scheper Letter. There are only six days left at the time of this writing.

This is why I implore you to say yes to a 30-day trial of The Scott Scheper Letter.

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I'm confident that this issue could contain the missing piece of the puzzle for you if you've struggled to actually get your thoughts out into the world. It may seem obvious that you need a delivery system for your thoughts——yet you'd be shocked at how many people don't consider this critical piece of the puzzle.

The delivery system is often the final piece that removes the dam from the flow of your thoughts. That let's you finally release all those ideas. That unleashes the waterfall of unrelenting genius levels of ideas you may have been dying to create.

Every month, a fresh new copy of my analog newsletter will arrive on your doorstep. It will be the most valuable piece of knowledge you look forward to reading every month.

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Warm regards,

And always remember,

To stay crispy, my friend.

Scott P. Scheper

"A Man Who Who Is Embracing The Life of Fatherhood One Curry-Filled Diaper at a Time!"

P.S. The Scott Scheper Letter introduces cutting-edge thought frameworks relating to Zettelkasten, writing, entrepreneurship, marketing, and——becoming a successful solopreneur.

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