Frank Teunissen

Web4 CEO. web3 developer, property investor, computer scientist, former military pilot, aviation enthusiast -- all thoughts are my own - not investment advice.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Tim Ferriss just revealed his exact system for learning ANYTHING faster than 99.9% of people on Diary of a CEO.

After mastering languages in weeks and advising Uber, he broke down the DSSS framework.

Here's how it works + 8 other principles for superhuman performance he revealed:

The DSSS Framework:

Deconstruction - Break goals into parts
Selection - Pick the 20% that gives 80%
Sequencing - Right order matters
Stakes - Create incentives

"If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with six pack abs."

His language hack is wild:

Spanish has hundreds of thousands of words.

Tim reached fluency in 8-12 weeks using just the 500 most frequently used words.

Stop learning random vocabulary. Learn frequency lists.

Tim's career planning rule:

He's NEVER had a 5-10 year plan.

"If you have a reliable 5-10 year plan, you're playing so safely you're selling yourself short."

Instead? 6-12 month projects with 2-4 week experiments inside.

How he picks projects:

Two criteria ONLY:
1. Relationships (new or deepening)
2. Skills that transcend the project

Example: StumbleUpon advisor → friends with founder → years later founder texts about "taxi problem" → becomes Uber advisor.

The "mini retirement" rule:

Once a year, disappear for 4 weeks.

No laptop. No phone (except Maps/Uber).

Forces you to:
- Build systems that run without you
- Test if your business needs you constantly

"If you panic, that's your wakeup call."

His relationship rule from annual reviews:

"Did I spend enough time with my top 5-10 people last year?"

If NO → Reinvest in them FIRST

Only overflow goes to new relationships.

He's had the same annual reunion for 25+ years.

Why most quit before winning:

"People expect linear progress. It doesn't work that way."

There WILL be plateaus.
There WILL be dips.

If you know they're coming, you weather them.

If you don't, you quit right before the breakthrough.

Tim's ONE optimization rule:

Energy over passion.

"Passion is imprecise."

Energy is simple:
- More awake or sleepy?
- Can you do this 5 more hours?
- Want to stop in 15 minutes?

Optimize for biological energy, not philosophy.

His sequencing secret:

Learning swimming? Forget breathing first.

Learn gliding. Kicking. Get comfortable underwater.

THEN add breathing.

Most try everything at once.

Tim asks: What's the FIRST domino that unlocks everything else?

My key takeaway?

Stop treating subjects as silos.

Swimming, Spanish, startups—same principles.

Master the FRAMEWORK once.

Apply it to anything.

"Develop ONE framework you apply to ANY subject."

Bottom line:

Pick the right 20%.
Sequence properly.
Create forcing functions.

Compound over 6-12 month projects for YEARS.

That's how you go from suicidal college dropout to world-class performer.

[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

How To Be At The Top---Napoleon Hill.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This Speech Will Transform Your Entire Outlook on Life Forever ‼️

[Lexi.Tips @Lexi_Tips]

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[𖣂JIK𖣂 @OS3992]

Motivational video for the day

"If you don't sacrifice for what you want then what you want becomes a sacrifice"

(24/365)

[Atem @AtemPsyche]

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

- Marcus Aurelius

[Psyche Wizard @PsycheWizard]

And Taxes

[Library Path @LibraryPath]

15 Powerful Lines about Life and Psychology:

1.

[Frank Teunissen @DefiFrank]

War stops, when resources are abundant. - paraphrasing #JoeRoganPodcast

The question then becomes “how do we create and share resources, without the fear of scarcity undermining human survival prospects?”

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

This is the king of marketing:

Russell Brunson.

He has worked with Alex Hormozi, Tai Lopez & Tony Robbins.

And last year alone, his company made $265,000,000.

10 of his marketing principles you can learn to print money at will:

[Frank Teunissen @DefiFrank]

"Words have power, especially those we tell ourselves, choose them wisely." -anon

[James @heyoliverjane]

6 visual summaries of the best books in the world:

1. Atomic Habits

[Frank Teunissen @DefiFrank]

Great quote.. "A man is what he thinks about all day long".

_Ralph Waldo Emerson

#motivational

[Frank Teunissen @DefiFrank]

Great leaders often make great managers, whereas great managers generally don't make great leaders...

The concept being that you lead people, but you manage things... if you "manage" people, like they are "things", you are doomed to fail as a leader.

#leadership

[Frank Teunissen @DefiFrank]

How the rich get richer...

[Adam Khoo @adamkhootrader]

The sharp rise in the JPY/USD is causing a massive unwind of Yen carry trade positions and contributing to the sharp decline in US stocks. For those who do not understand how this works, a brief explanation

1) Many traders were borrowing Jap Yen (JPY) at low interest rates, converted them to USD and used this to buy US stocks

2) Now that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is raising interest rates, the JPY has strengthened significantly against the USD.

Now, these traders are in big shit. Not only must they pay higher interest for the JPY they borrowed, they are now facing huge forex losses as well. The USD assets they are holding may not be enough to repay the JPY they have borrowed.

3) This is causing a huge unwind of these trade positions. Traders facing big losses and margin calls are selling their US stocks to raise USD, converting back to JPY and paying back their loans.

4) This can lead to more selling pressure on US stocks and even more declines in the short term. Middle east war escalation, US political uncertainty is also adding to the fear and panic.

As an investor, this is great news because this type of short term crisis and panic is what gives me the opportunity to scoop up high quality US stocks at bigger and bigger discounts. take advantage of temporary mis-pricing caused by short term crisis.
This is how we get richer.