Thread by @IllekJakob

Stutz, a documentary by #JonahHill about his psychiatrist Phil #Stutz, is the best piece of content I've consumed all year. Here's why I think everyone should watch it and why it has

~the potential to change our lives~

A thread🧵(1/17)

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1592321491097464832

Six minutes in, Phil and Jonah talk about something that resonates quite a lot:

~The struggle of getting out of bed in the morning.~

Personally, I've got no problem getting up. But only when I have a reason (i.e. school or work) that's literally forcing me out of bed. (2/17)

The struggle begins, when I lack those reasons. When I don't have a clear schedule to my day. When the opportunities of how to spend the most valuable resource - my time - seem to be sheer endless. That's when I press the snooze button. Again and again and again. (3/17)

To keep on dreaming. To keep on escaping. To keep on avoiding. Because it's easier than to deal with the problems that Dr. Stutz calls the three aspects of reality that no one can avoid:

~ PAIN
~ UNCERTAINTY
~ CONSTANT WORK

(4/17)

This is where Stutz presents one of his tools (@TheToolsBook) to deal with this reality: Life Force. A concept with three pyramid-like stages of relationships.

~ 1. Relationship to your PHYSICAL BODY
~ 2. Relationship to OTHER PEOPLE
~ 3. Relationship to YOURSELF
(5/17)

To me that represents an internal force that we can replace the external forces with to drive us out of bed. A force that helps us to deal with the darkness, the shadowy parts that we all carry inside us.

~ Something that Stutz calls "Part X" ~

(6/17)

Jonah points out that Part X is the villain in our story. The one who tries to prevent the hero in us from evolving, from growing and from changing. It's "the voice of impossibility": You can't do it. And it's the aspect that we face when adversity hits your life.
(7/17)

However, Part X is an aspect that we can't ignore or try to shove away. I've tried that in the past but it never works. It will come back with even more force to haunt us. So the only thing we can do is to embrace it and

~ radically accept ~

(8/17)

Accept that nothing in life is perfect. Accept that we are going to lose people and things that we love with all of our heart. Accept that at some point we are all going to die. And accept the uncertainty and the pain and the constant work.
(9/17)

During the documentary they go through a whole set of different tools. Through visualization and concentration thos tools may help to get to that radical acceptance. One of those tools is

~ a grateful flow ~

Creating and feeling situations that we are grateful.
(10/17)

Now don't get me wrong. I do recognize that none of these concepts are extremely groundbreaking or entirely new. A lot of smart people have formulated similar ideas in the past. What is ground- and literally wall-breaking is the way this documentary unfolds.
(11/17)

About half an hour in something shifts. Jonah and Stutz decide to let the audience in on the film-making process. They show their struggles, they show their vulnerabilities and they drop their masks. They acknowledge that "failure and weakness connect us to the world".
(12/17)

To me, this is when "Stutz" truly becomes remarkable and almost magical. Jonah points out towards the end:

~ Even people that we look up to aren't exempt from all the problems that we have ourselves! ~

Everybody has got problems and nobody can figure them all out alone.
(13/17)

And accepting that is the secret to life, Stutz concludes. "Anything that is real and profound has to have 2, not 1. Because it's a vibratory thing. Two people can create a field. It's invisible but that's the force in the universe that makes things happen."
(14/17)

What may sound like spiritual gibberish to some sounds like an elegant way of describing what I genuinely believe to be the glue of the universe:

~ LOVE ~

(15/17)

Just the sheer rawness of this documentary is enough reason to go watch it. But the goal, as Jonah points out, is to make tools that he has learned through therapy available to everyone who watches this movie.
To help the audience to live a better life.
(16/17)

Exactly what I am kind of trying to accomplish through #synthesizing, through writing this and everything else I do. Doing that by talking about the death of their respective brothers and how to

~ Process Loss ~

is absolutely genius and life changing. 11 out of 10.

(17/17)

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