“Rockefeller would focus on the highest priority.
When he gets into the oil refining business it has no barriers to entry.
It costs $1000 to start a refinery and only requires a few people to run it.
And one thing he notices is that transportation is the largest expense. It costs more to ship a barrel of oil, than to refine it.
So if transportation is your highest priority that means the location of your refinery is key. The site that he chose was genius. He selected a location that was next to both the railroad and on the banks of a river. Why? Shipping by water was 50% cheaper than shipping by rail.
If something is your top priority you should spend the majority of your time thinking about how to develop an edge there.”
—From episode 405 “How Rockefeller Worked”
No one ever suddenly gets lucky, if the stars suddenly align for you, you actually aligned them, consciously or not, by choosing where to live, who to learn from, who to marry, who to befriend, what lifestyle to maintain, what risks to take, and what vision to believe in.
Don't invest in someone based on how much you like them.
“Invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.
And if we just did that, we would save ourselves from 80% of the heartbreak that we're ever going to experience in our lives.” — @matthewhussey
The only person who should be able to offend you, is you. Because you’re the only one who really knows you. Everyone else is shouting at a character they made up in their head with 99% filled in with projections from their own life.
Joe Rogan speechless after learning from NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller that aliens use “Quantum Entanglement” to travel instantaneously:
THALLER: “I don’t want your listeners to think I’m saying something stupid.”
ROGAN: “It’s not stupid. Quantum entanglement just means two things can be connected regardless of the physical distance apart.”
THALLER: “It’s real. Space and time don’t matter. Aliens would be able to respond to each other instantaneously because they’re entangled.”
ROGAN: “This is so bananas. So then what are humans entangled to?”
THALLER: “If humans all came from The Big Bang does that mean we’re connected to everything in the universe in some way?”
ROGAN: “You think this is how some super advanced intelligent life form would travel?”
THALLER: “It would make a lot more sense than using a spaceship.”