Hey, Jai here.

This is my journal where I brain dump interesting things i’ve learnt or done recently.

You’re in the 0.5% of my audience that get to read this. Here’s the latest (<5 minute read):

I lived in a chateau in the South of France for almost a month. Back to back residencies, and 30-ish Art of Mondays members & team rolled through during that time. I stayed nearby with some of our team on a deep work sprint. Pretending not to hear about all the fun the residency crew was having next door.

We were in a tiny little town called Valflaunes and it kinda felt like we owned it. One day we will own a village like it. I’m just waiting for time to catch up.

At the end of our street I found a dope little vending machine filled with fresh baguettes and croissants. I averaged 2 a day (probably more).

The only other consistent theme was at 7pm, when we all closed the laptops and headed down to the local pickup soccer field to play 3v3 and soccer tennis until the sun disappeared.

Sometimes followed up by a cheeky iced latte and late night lock in sesh (shoutout Stan & Ev for pioneering this movement)

My intention for the month was to “be all there”. Completely present to what i’m doing at that moment in time. Fluid. No expectations.

Some social stuff in case ya missed it:

I posted on IG for the first time in forever.

and dropped a banger Youtube video from our team house in France.

always curious to hear what you want to see more of on YT.

Random things that have given me great value lately:

• I bought a Kindle (paperwhite 2024) and ditched audiobooks. I finished Make No Small Plans in 3 days, and was blown away at how similar it is to the journey we’re on with Art of Mondays. A great read, especially at 4pm on a wednesday, perched on a rock in the Mallorcan sun.
• My buddy David made a video called “dumb content strategy that made us millions”. Underrated YT channel worth watching imo
• This tiktok of J Cole explaining the 2 key ingredients for success. I watched it 2 years ago in the Tenerife airport and remember being lost in my journalling shortly after, almost missing my flight to Morocco. If you’re a dreamer, watch it.
• This song “There She Is Again”. Listen to it during a breathwork or meditation. It’s genuinely healing. Bonus points if you visualise yourself like J Cole suggests in the last point.

School of Mondays

It takes just as much energy to go for a small goal as it does to go for something big, crazy and world changing.

For me, that’s re-inventing the schooling system and building School of Mondays.

The idea: Cohorts of 100 students (aka people building something) live together for 1 month sprints. We bring in some of the greatest entrepreneurial and spiritual minds of our time to accelerate growth. Students are sorted into 'houses' like Harry Potter and there are fun inter-house competitions, hackathons and sports throughout the month. You meet friends for life. Build your most ambitious ideas. Eat organic food, workout every day and get more sun than most people do in a year. Dedicated offline day every Monday. Etc etc. You get the idea.

Pic for the vibes, thanks mr GPT.

I’m sharing this for no particular reason. Maybe because there’s someone reading this that can:

- help us find a property to buy
- share a cool idea worth trying
- get inspired to thing bigger

If nothing else, I guess i’m taking you along with me. I hope you realise how fucking early you are. Thanks for being here and reading this far :)

This Journal kinda reminds me of when I made my weekly “Monday Diaries” series on youtube. I did it every week without fail, for a year. The most committed i’ve ever been to building in public on the internet.

and it changed my live.

Not in the ways you’d expect: None of the episodes went ‘viral’, and I didn’t make a crazy ROI right away. But the more I reflect, the more I realise actually how deeply impactful it was for me and a handful of people on the internet.

I still get messages today (almost a year later) asking when they’ll come back.

2026… maybe. MAYBE.

Hit reply and lmk. And if you’re an OG, what did you genuinely like about them when you watched?

Okay 2 last lil tid bits for ya before I wrap.

I flew to Mallorca to spend a month in a tiny, quiet beach port. Just me, Alina and Flizzy (he’s the one who made the latest YT video btw).

We gotta be the youngest people here by at least 20 years. But it’s beautiful. And home, for now.

Shoutout to Jay and Faith for dropping by for a few days too.

Next month I head on the craziest trip of my life. My Misogi for the year.

hint: 🚲⛰️📵

And finally, a thought to ponder.

Imagine you’re playing tennis in high school. You know you want to play college-level and you have the best college tennis coach in town.

You ask yourself “what would a college tennis player do?” and apply that to your training, your habits, your games, etc.

Now, what would change if you decided you want to go pro, and instead asked yourself “what would a professional tennis player do?”

and I bet you get a VERY different process.

For one, your current coach won’t cut it. There’s probably no coach in your city qualified to train you. And you wouldn’t be playing with other highschool players.

In fact, there are very few pathways to actually make it to pro, so your options become very limited. They simplify. You go straight to the most high-impact options, and you cut out all the noise.

Ironically, it’s a better and more efficient way to make it to college-level too.

Most people make the end goal (college) the target. I’m saying you gotta reach wayyyy further (pro).

This is nothing to do with tennis, btw.

Whatever your current goals are, 10x them and then ask yourself how you would achieve it. I bet you find a better path with less noise & more impact :)

Seeya when I have something worth saying.

Big love, Jai

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Journal Entry // September 29th, 2025