On Zero-to-Hero Transformations
Photo: The Legendary Dan Gable, from my Instagram page
In this episode, we don’t have any special guests, unless you count the multiple personalities in my own head.
We are not talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger, black-market chemists, Josh Waitzkin, Jamie Foxx or anyone else per our regular interviews. Today, I’ll be responding to questions you upvoted on Reddit.
This episode includes gems like:
My favorite books
Learning to take better notes
How I develop skills
Things that I’m excited about in the next 3-5 years
Plus much more…
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Selected Links from the Episode
Interested in AcroYoga? Check out Jason Nemer
40 oz. Hydro Flask Water Bottle
Will you be in San Francisco? Visit flour + water
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
The 4-Hour Workweek
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Set up social accountability and/or a betting circle:
Coach.me | Stickk.com | Dietbet.com
How to Lose 100 Pounds on The Slow-Carb Diet and The Perfect Posterior
Listen to my conversation with Cal Fussman
Learn more about the Buxton School of Wrestling
Interested in cryonics? Read this article on Wait But Why
Learn more about Coach Sommer for gymnastics training
Check out developments in virtual reality: Valve and Vive
Learn more about MDInsider.com
Dog training resources: Crate Training by Ian Dunbar
Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
Watch my video describing The Most Important Skill to Teach Your Dog
Learn more about renting the SS Jeremiah
How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek
Interested in the ketogenic diet? Listen to my conversation with Dom D’Agostino
Keto Clarity by Jimmy Moore and Eric Westman, MD
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny and Ron McMillan
Lying by Sam Harris (listen to our conversation here)
Why I love Japan – Spirited Away and KARATE by BABYMETAL
Guide for Travel in Japan – Hacking Japan
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (audiobook here)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Slaine: The Horned God by Pat Mills and Simon Bisley
The Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino
The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Show Notes
If you were to do a zero-to-hero transformation with someone, what would be the path you would take? [8:17]
If you were tasked with building a person from a blank slate, a la Frankenstein’s creature or an android, what skills/qualities would you give him first? [15:21]
How do you build rapport with your podcast guests? [18:10]
Expand more on your teens and twenties. What were you doing? What kind of person were you? What were your influences? [21:32]
Do you believe that people have personal callings? [23:52]
Do you believe in coincidences? [26:22]
What is something you are increasingly getting excited about in the next 3-5 years? [28:31]
Dogs and positive constraints [32:15]
What have you learned about human behavior from Molly? [38:02]
How did you meet and become friends with Kevin Rose? [41:45]
If you were to go back to college, what would you choose to major in and why? [43:00]
What do you think of studying abroad? [47:26]
My exact note-taking system [47:38]
Comparing the ketogenic diet and The Slow-Carb Diet [50:32]
Cheat days and managing sugar cravings [51:14]
Do you have any practical tips for dealing with people you dislike? [56:22]
Why I love Japan [1:00:08]
Most gifted books [1:02:28]
People Mentioned
Sean Thackrey
Neil Strauss
Dan Gable
Seneca the Younger
