Chapter 98: IN-Q invites intimacy, intentionality, and interstellar inquiry

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I’m very pleased, privileged, and proud to introduce or re-introduce you to the sunbeaming sage that is IN-Q.

IN-Q is an award winning poet, multi-platinum song-writer and the bestselling author of the book Inquire Within which I highly, highly recommend. It deserves an even bigger spotlight! It’s a wonderful collection of IN-Q’s poetry. Poetry? Oh yes. Oh, oh yes.

His achievements include being named to Oprah’s Super Soul 100 list of the world’s most influential thought leaders, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque du Soleil, and being featured in HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. His poetry on YouTube has gotten over 100 million views and if you want to check out his work in deeper format I recommend his Amazon Prime exclusive IN-Q Live at the Ace Theatre.

He’s also a songwriter. He has written songs for Foster the People, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. If you know the song, "Love you Like a Love Song,” that’s him. He wrote that song. It went multi-platinum and won INQ a BMI award. You wouldn’t know by talking to this chill and humble spirit that songs he’s written have over a billion views.

What is this guy all about?

What inspires him? What can we learn from his walk through this world … and bring into our own?

IN-Q entertains, inspires, and challenges audiences … including our own.

3 Bookers, please get comfortable on the couch between us to talk about time, God, slowing down, moving energy, traveling solo, love, the metaverse and, of course, IN-Q’s 3 most formative books.

I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Let’s flip the page into Chapter 98 now…

What You'll Learn:

  • What does it mean to live in the now?

  • What is time?

  • What is God?

  • How do we slow time down?

  • How can we reconnect with the deeper wisdom of living in the now?

  • How should we move energy?

  • Why is it so important to put intention into our actions?

  • Why should we regularly check back in with our goals?

  • Why is traveling solo so powerful?

  • Why should we make time to be alone?

  • Why is choice so empowering?

  • How can we travel in our own cities?

  • What is love?

  • What will it be like to live in a meta universe?

  • What are the risks of living in a fully animated world?

  • What is Life’s purpose?

  • Why is the world actually one?

  • Why should people share art?

Notable quotes from IN-Q

“Where we came from and where we're going is the infinite oneness and hopefully holding those two thoughts in your mind and in your heart at the same time will allow you to fully embrace the experience that you're having without getting so lost inside of it that you don't remember that you're also something bigger.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“I think I am better at writing about life than living it.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Most of my poems are me trying to remind myself of lessons that I have to continually learn over and over again.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“My poems are me needing to express a moment through an art form to move energy, you know, emotion, energy in motion.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Life is incremental and cumulative.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

On living life with intention - “I wish I had the answer, what I have is the question and the exploration of it.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“I don’t think that happiness is a point; it’s a range. … It’s a process not a product. It’s a journey not a destination.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“I do think that if you can focus your energy on just trying to make incremental and cumulative steps in the now to being the best version of yourself that your life starts mirroring that back to you.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“I wouldn't even want to be enlightened. It sounds not fun….I wanna take the ride is my point.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“When you're in pain, a minute feels like forever, but when you're enjoying (life) a minute just disintegrates.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“It's so great when you find those artists that are living in he same time as you are. They're (also) telling you what they think about a culture and where the world is.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“You're here to change the world and you're here for the world to change you. And if you stop either one of those things from happening, you're not living it fully.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“​​If you want to change your life, the fastest way to change your life is to change your environment.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Your primary relationships in life are your anchor to the world.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“People are so afraid of being alone and that's when you learn how to be with people.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Knowing that you have choice is so empowering.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Try to love the people that you don't love at all. Even people that you hate. They probably need it most of all. And if you can't love them big, see if you can love them small.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Life has a mind of its own.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“I actually believe that my life purpose is just to be a part of evolution.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“Life wants to evolve life. I don't think it even cares more about human life than life in general. I think life has a direction of its own.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

“If we don't kill ourselves off, we will wind up realizing that we are one world.” IN-Q #3bookspodcast

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