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Comment on Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (Without Chasing Shiny Objects) by Taylor Pearson

Hey Cindi,

“financial stability and some oversees vacations” is a perfectly fine answer to the question!

if you’d like a more involved exercise, I’ve found this to be helpful: https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/2013/08/what-is-a-perfect-day-for-you/

Comment on Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (Without Chasing Shiny Objects) by Cindi Lamas

Would you be able to give me another way of asking myself the 25 year question? I seem to be having trouble verbalizing/knowing what I want. I am almost 50 and new to business ownership, floundering a bit and don’t even know how to answer that question. Just want financial stability and some oversees vacations. I’ve only ever lived paycheck to paycheck so the idea that I could be financially free on my own seems as possible as finding life on other planets. I do give myself credit for seeing...

Comment on A Simple Marketing Campaign Checklist by Taylor Pearson

Cheers Bryan, glad it helps

Comment on A Simple Marketing Campaign Checklist by Nik Kamal Hassan bin Nik Omar

Great article as usual. easy to understand with example.

Comment on A Simple Marketing Campaign Checklist by Adam Franklin

Great post Taylor. The “starving crowd” is such a huge one! I love the “aspirin vs vitamins” analogy too. Thanks.

Comment on A Simple Marketing Campaign Checklist by Bryan

The list is helpful, we are creating landing pages and funnels for a client this month and I think they are too close to selling vitamins. I will recommend a pivot. Thanks Taylor

Comment on How to Get Lucky: Focus On The Fat Tails by Rich

This highlights a difficult truth… that the key factors for success really come down to grit, persistence, emotional resilience.

The ability to launch project after project, unscalable action after unscalable action, where each has a small %age of being transformative, but most result in nothing.

And the ability to stay the course and keep executing on high-upside-bounded-cost actions. Maybe through weeks/months/years of minimal results.

To constantly override your own dopamine/reward systems...

Comment on The Overton Window and How Creative Business Ideas Arise by Mark Snell

Great article! In my lifetime, my day job (IT Support) has moved from just on the outside edge of the window to commoditised. On the side I’m starting working a network marketing business which seems to fluctuate from radical to popular, depending on who you speak to….

Comment on The Overton Window and How Creative Business Ideas Arise by SuccessVets

Another great article, Taylor. Comes at a great time for me as I’m managing a career change and trying to pursue what may be seen as more “radical.” Your essay really inspires me to not settle for something merely acceptable.

Comment on The Overton Window and How Creative Business Ideas Arise by Taylor Pearson

Rock on Fyodor.