You’ve already experienced heaven.
You’ve lived through moments of serenity and bliss.
Loved ones around you and sunshine.
Everything was absolutely perfect at that moment.
But you don’t think about it and you don’t appreciate it because your mind is hijacked.
You are constantly anxious about what’s to come.
And ignoring the memories of heaven because you’re thinking of the hell you’ve lived.
Your mind chooses misery.
I'm a cardiologist. Erling Haaland just scored twice to knock Brazil out of the World Cup. And the fuel behind the freight train is the most fascinating nutrition story in sports — because it quietly rejects almost everything the "performance nutrition" industry sells.
No protein powders. No shakes. No engineered supplements. Just real food — around 6,000 calories a day of it.
Beef heart. Beef liver. Tomahawk steaks. Sea bass. Eggs on sourdough. Raw honey. And milk he drives to a Cheshire farm to buy fresh from grass-fed cows.
He said it plainly in his documentary: "People say meat is unhealthy. Which meat? The one from McDonald's — or the local cow eating grass right over there?"
That distinction is the whole thing. And as a cardiologist, it's the distinction I wish every patient understood.
Here's the science under the eccentricity.
Organ meats — heart and liver — are the most nutrient-dense foods on earth. Beef liver is arguably nature's original multivitamin: staggering levels of B12, folate, vitamin A, copper, and iron in a form your body absorbs far better than any pill. Beef heart is loaded with CoQ10 — the exact cellular-energy molecule I recommend to patients, the one statins deplete, the one that powers every heartbeat. Our ancestors prized these organs and ate the muscle meat second. We reversed it, then wondered why we needed supplements.
His food philosophy, in his own words: "Eat real, with as few ingredients as possible." That is, essentially, the entire evidence base for cardiovascular nutrition compressed into six words.
Now — the honest caveats, because I'm a physician, not a hype man.
6,000 calories works for Haaland because he's a 6'4" elite athlete burning through it across a 50-game season. For a sedentary adult, that's a fast track to metabolic disease. Copy the principle, not the portion.
Raw milk carries genuine infection risk — the CDC and European food agencies warn against it, and I don't recommend it for most people. Grass-fed and pasteurized captures nearly all the benefit without the danger.
And that much red meat isn't automatically optimal for everyone. Your ApoB, your Lp(a), your genetics, your metabolic health all determine how your body handles saturated fat. I've written about this — same diet, different DNA, different arteries.
But strip away the extremes and Haaland is teaching a lesson worth learning: the "performance nutrition" aisle is largely a marketing invention. The most powerful fuel on earth isn't in a tub. It's food your great-grandmother would recognize.
There's a detail I love most. Despite earning £525,000 a week, he still cooks his own food. And before big home games, he eats his father's homemade lasagne — the same father, a former Premier League player, whose legacy he told himself as a boy he'd surpass. The man he's trying to eclipse is still in the kitchen, feeding the monster he helped build.
Talent gets you noticed. Discipline in what you put in your body — every single day, when no one's watching — is what turns a gifted kid into the machine that ran through Brazil.
Most people will just watch the goals and say "he's built different."
He is. Because he decided to build himself that way — one plate of real food at a time.
Every trader says they want consistency.
Few ask a better question.
"What version of me would naturally produce consistent results?"
Until you change the person, the results rarely change.
Breaking your rules. Regretting your trades. Starting all over again.
Eventually, you begin to wonder if this cycle ever ends.
It does.
But not through more willpower.
"How strange and foolish is man.
He loses his health in gaining wealth.
Then, to regain his health he wastes his wealth.
He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past.”
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
"The greatest sin you can commit against your own life, is to know what you want...and not to act." - Stafford
Do not betray yourself.
Take the Chance.
Underrated life advice: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.
The Washington Post tested the major AI chatbots with political questions. ChatGPT answered 80% of them with only left-leaning arguments, and gave a purely right-leaning answer just 3% of the time.
Google's Gemini was the most balanced. The answers were capped at 30 words to force a clear stance. 🤖