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December 5 - December 19, 2016
“What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?”
create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself. There is value in the latter, but it’s mostly past-tense: It’s a rearview mirror. Looking out the windshield is how you get where you want to go.
When in doubt, work on the deficiencies you’re most embarrassed by.
Dom suggests a 5-day fast 2 to 3 times per year.
Tell people what you want, not what you don’t want, and keep it simple. In
“If you’re over 40 and don’t smoke, there’s about a 70 to 80% chance you’ll die from one of four diseases: heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, cancer, or neurodegenerative disease.”
Psychedelics usually give you what you need, not what you want.
It’s easy to use the medicine as a crutch and avoid doing your own work,
Keeping it simple, Dan suggests you start with 2 to 3 floats inside of 1 month.
In Africa, they say ibogaine is a ‘controlled-death experience.’ So you go into the land of the dead, and you’re given information by your ancestors, which you can then take back into this world and apply to your life.”
etc., “What am I continuing to do myself that I’m not good at?” Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.
Honey + ACV: My go-to tranquilizer beverage is simple: 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (I use Bragg brand) and 1 tablespoon honey, stirred into 1 cup of hot water. This was taught to me by the late and great Seth Roberts, PhD. Some of his readers also noticed large and immediate strength improvements in exercise after a few days of using this pre-bed cocktail.
5 Morning Rituals that Help Me Win the Day
Realistically, if I hit three out of five, I consider myself having won the morning. And if you win the morning, you win the day.
#1—Make Your Bed
#2—Meditate (10 to 20 minutes)
#3—Do 5 to 10 Reps of Something (<1 minute)
#4—Prepare “Titanium Tea”
#5—Morning Pages or 5-Minute Journal (5 to 10 minutes)
More than 80% of the world-class performers I’ve interviewed have some form of daily meditation or mindfulness practice.
I believe there is a minimum effective dose for meditation, and it’s around 7 days.
Start small and rig the game so you can win.
keep the practice from becoming a burden. If mindfulness practice feels like a chore, it’s not sustainable.
Mental fitness and joy on demand both start here, with one breath.
The standard pace is for chumps. The school has to organize its curricula around the lowest common denominator, so that almost no one is left out.
Once You Have Some Success—If It’s Not a “Hell, Yes!” It’s a “No”
To compensate and cope, here’s my 8-step process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be at a computer screen. Email is the mind-killer. Make a cup of tea (I like pu-erh) and sit down with a pen/pencil and paper. Write down the 3 to 5 things—and no more—that are making you the most anxious or uncomfortable. They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and so on. Most important usually equals most uncomfortable, with some chance of rejection or conflict. For each item, ask
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ONE to-do.
“I didn’t survive, I prepared.” Nelson Mandela’s answer when Tony asked him, “Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?”
behaviors. As Tony recounted, Buffett told him, “Investing in yourself is the most important investment you’ll ever make in your life. . . . There’s no financial investment that’ll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that’s what’s going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It’s those skill sets that really make that happen.”
Jim Rohn famously said, “If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.”
The reason you’re suffering is you’re focused on yourself.
I’ve wasted a lot of time journaling on “problems” when I just needed to eat breakfast sooner, do 10 push-ups, or get an extra hour of sleep. Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life’s purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.
Four Commonalities Across the Best Investors
Capping the downside:
Asymmetrical risks and rewards:
Asset allocation:
Contribution:
All you need to know is from World War II
Follow What Angers You
TF: Is there a common saying, or some public pronouncement, that you can disprove by making art about it? By doing a test? What makes you angry?
Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, “spiritual windshield wipers.” It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.
Could bitching and moaning on paper for 5 minutes each morning change your life? As crazy as it seems, I believe the answer is yes.
In doing an 80/20 analysis of your activities (simply put: determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want), you typically end up with a short list. Make “easy” your next criterion. Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do? You can build an entire career on 80/20 analysis and asking this question.
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”—Thomas Edison
Be a Meaningful Specific Instead of a Wandering Generality
“Money is a story . . . and it’s better to tell a story about money you’re happy with.”
“If a narrative isn’t working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn’t done to you; the narrative is something that you choose.
Lesson #1: If you’ve formulated intelligent rules, follow your own f*cking rules.
If you didn’t get into the prospect’s mind first, don’t give up hope. Find a new category you can be first in. It’s not as difficult as you might think.
