Life lessons from my father that I want to teach to my son:
1. You can tell everything you need to know about a person by observing how they treat service workers.
2. Hard work will never be overrated. You have to work hard if you want to get ahead.
3. You don't need to have an opinion on everything. It's perfectly reasonable to have no opinion on something that you haven't researched or don't understand.
4. You can get pretty damn far in life by just saying what you're going to do and then doing it.
5. Showing up early costs very little and pays off handsomely in the long run.
6. Waking up early is the easiest way to improve your odds of success. You don't have to wake up early to be successful, but you rarely find an early riser that isn't winning.
7. Having good posture is a physical and mental unlock for life.
8. Being kind to people is the only real life hack. Kindness remains severely underrated.
9. Consistency is everything. You should never bet against a person who just keeps showing up.
10. Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners. Friends are pleasant and easy to come by, but intellectual sparring partners question our assumptions and force us to level up.
Those are 10 life lessons I learned from my father that I want to teach to my son.
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How to win in life:
• Wake up early
• Go for a walk
• Don't look at your phone
• Pick a needle moving task
• Devote full focus to it for 2-4 hours
• Go to the gym
• Relax or do something fun
• Read and follow your curiosity
• Be in bed by 10pm
• Repeat daily
My book is called, "Super Mentors."
A few cool stats:
It has driven $500k+ for my businesses.
It's used in 50+ college career centers.
It has now sold over 16,000 copies.
But here's the crazy part:
I'm "just a writer" (like you).
The biggest mistake most twenty year olds make is staying in their comfort zone/not taking huge risks because they have “time”.
Then they get to 30 and wish they did.
Avoid repetitive experiences/comfort at all cost.
Start fighting.
Take huge business risk.
Filter out non ambitious people.
Take your health crazy seriously
Go live in other countries
Avoid a repetitive party life style
Party/fuck off a bit, but don’t make it your core experience like most or you’ll just only have 10 years of the same experience.
Give yourself a crazy foundation to launch from at 30 vs a large collection of unsolved problems and lack of exposure to risk/new things.
My regrets despite becoming a millionaire by 24 (back when a mil was actually a lot lol) in order. Hopefully helps.
Not picking up combat sports in my 20s, what a waste. These will get your head straight n push you in every other area of life.
Not finding and developer equally ambitious friends
Not taking bigger risks in business aka being in a 7 figure comfort zone, trying to grow things that were not scalable
To much focus on fun time with friends, same nights out 1000 times. Total waste. No need to relive the same experience over and over.
Didn’t live in other countries (minor)
US Obesity costs $1.72 Trillion dollars a year.
If obesity was a fortune 500 company, it would be the biggest fortune 500 company.
If obesity was a military, it would be the biggest military by cost.
If obesity was a government, it would be the 3rd largest (after US & China).
Joe Trying to bully Dr Hotez?
Interesting
Let me address 5 issues with your tweet:
1. Bullying
Millions of Americans from all walks of life were bullied into taking the vaccine.
Some forced
Many coerced
Many threatened to lose their jobs
Thousands of businesses went bankrupt
Families were divided on the vaccine issue.
Late night hosts doing skits dressed in a syringes
Mayors of NY city offering free fries if you took the vaccine
NIH director flip flopping on masks
MSM calling those who questioned the vaccine “conspiracy theorists”
And you call @joerogan a bully? 🤔
2. Capitalism
What makes capitalism work
Freedom to buy
Freedom to sell
Freedom to try
Freedom to fail
Key word is “FREEDOM”
You told me 10 years ago that your favorite book was Atlas Shrugged. I even gifted you a 1st print, 1st edition of the book 8 years ago.
A story of a dystopian 🇺🇸 in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws & regulations.
Of all the people who knows what happened the last 3 years, it’s YOU.
We all know who got destroyed in that book.
The small business owner
The man/woman who risked it all for a dream
These men & women who are heroes to society were bullied, mocked, silenced and disrespected during the pandemic.
How were laws and regulations during COVID?
How many small business owners lost everything?
You have the stats.
You know the numbers.
You know you’re against this.
I sometimes wonder what you fear?
What is preventing you from using your logic, experience and common sense (that YOU have a ton of) to share that POV with YOUR followers? 🤔
3. Debate
I’ve watched you closely over the years. You’re great at debating.
So great that you could argue both sides of any issue.
I think you ought to make a run for the 2024 presidential election.
You have some very good points.
I digress.
You say let’s not disrespect all the medical professionals that dedicate their lives to saving lives, like @PeterHotez & the 800k plus doctors in the country that believe vaccines save lives.
One of the benefits of living in 🇺🇸 is its health care system.
My Dad was supposed to be dead 37 years ago after having a MASSIVE heart attack. He wasn’t supposed to live past 65.
We just celebrated his 81st b-day thanks to great doctors who took care of him.
But just like cops, we know 99% of them do the right thing but the 1% who don’t, should we not hold them accountable?
All Joe is asking for is a debate.
If Dr. Hoetz is right, then what does he have to lose?
Is he too good for it?
You sure don’t fear debating anyone?
Why protect Dr Hotez instead of letting them get in the ring?
Debating is the American way. It helps us get closer to the truth.
4. Comparing @elonmusk & Rogan to mainstream media
That’s a bit of a stretch but I have an idea of why you would say that.
Before October of last year, these types of conversations were NOT possible on twitter, FB or YT.
Only in private settings
Many content creators were silenced if they interviewed people with opposing views on COVID.
Our @RobertKennedyJr interview was taken down on YT 2 years ago.
Content creators were walking on egg shells afraid of being deplatformed.
Musk isn’t silencing anyone who argues for vaccines.
He’s actually creating a climate to have the debate.
Just this week MSNBC & CNN both said they won’t air Trump’s speech because they already knew in advance that he’ll tell lies. As if JB only tells the truth? 🤔
That sounds like a dictatorship where the elite know what’s best for you & I.
As if we can’t think for ourselves. A bit arrogant + pompous, don’t you think?
Thank God for @Twitter, @Spotify, @Rumble and other platforms who allowed for the discussion to happen.
5. Cost Plus Drugs
As a marketer, I respect your strategy of getting into this thread to promote costplusdrugs.
A lesson for small business owners.
Keep pushing the envelope. We need as many voices as possible.
"Pfizer has been a “habitual offender,” persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results. Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards."
https://t.co/8aPgEMmxen.
Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.