Wip

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

General rules for getting your spark back:

- Create a list of things that give you energy and a list that drains you of energy. Make it impossible to participate in draining tasks (like doomscrolling)

- Understand that momentum takes time. Even if you don't feel enjoyment immediately, feel good that you're building momentum

- Don't fixate on what you *need* to do; do things that you are curious about. Lean on intuition

- Instead of focusing on a "to-do" list, focus on a "done" list. Write down everything you accomplished no matter how small

- Don't force yourself to do things; just give yourself the option to do something constructive or simply do nothing at all

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

The best are always learning.

Read like crazy. 
Think alone. 
Keep a journal. 
Write stuff down the moment you see it. 
Review regularly. 
Memorize the big ideas to fluency. 
Attack your best ideas. 
And never get high on your own supply.

You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.

[Ben Lang @benln]

I often re-read @natfriedman's personal website (former Github CEO)

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

I need your help

I'm making a list of the maxims that are repeated on the podcast

Here's what I have so far

Which ones am I missing?

1. Excellence is the capacity to take pain.

2. Actions express priority.

3. Bad boys move in silence.

4. Belief comes before ability.

5. The public praises people for what they practice in private.

6. There are ideas worth billions in a $30 history book.

7. Successful people listen. Those that don’t listen, don’t last long.

8. Don’t do anything that someone else can do.

9. If you know your business from A to Z there is no problem you can’t solve.

10. Business *is* problems. The best companies are just effective problem solving machines.

11. Relationships run the world.

12. Mute the world and then build your own.

13. Gentlemen, watch your costs.

14. You aren't advertising to a standing army; you’re advertising to a moving parade.

15. Self pity has no utility.

16. Always more audacity.

17. Wisdom is prevention.

18. Go for great. (Munger)

19. Go for freedom. (Zell)

20. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active.

21. Time carries most of the weight.

22. Incentives rule everything around you.

23. Childhood does not allow itself to be reconquered.

24. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.

25. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily.

26. Genius lies in ignoring the unimportant.

27. Intensity is the price of excellence.

28. You can’t save souls in an empty church.

29. Scale and fanaticism combined is very powerful.

30. If you’re not working on your best idea you're doing it wrong.

31. Ease isn’t the goal; excellence is.

32. Become friends with the eminent dead.

33. People are power law and the best ones change everything.

34. By endurance we conquer.

35. Genius has the fewest moving parts.

36. Keep things simple and remember what you set out to do.

37. The founder is the guardian of the company’s soul.

38. In business the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables.

39. Imitation precedes creation.

40. Focus is saying no.

41. Optimism is a moral duty.

42. Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.

43. If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

44. Obsess over customers.

45. Being at the extreme in your craft is very important in the age of leverage.

46. Learning is not memorizing information. Learning is changing behavior.

47. Whatever you do, you must do it with gusto, you must do it in volume. It is a case of repeat, repeat, repeat.

48. If you love what you do the only exit strategy is death.

What else would you add?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

An important reminder: Your tiny daily actions create your future.

Small things become big things.

You’re either paid for your actions from ten years ago, or you pay for them. There is no in between.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

Life hack:

See everything in the world as 100% rigged in your favor.

• Every failed tweet
• Every dissatisfied customer
• Every poor session at the gym

All of these are the feedback you need.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Churchill:

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Your process is your signature

How you organize, prioritize, and execute. Your routines, habits, quirks, and the personal touch you bring to your work

Embrace it—there’s immense power in a workflow that’s uniquely yours

[𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗬 @TheWarKitchen]

He is rich who owns the day

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

This stretch should be mandatory for people who sit at desks.

It's called a T-Spine Extension.

As we get older or if we sit for long periods of time our thoracic spine becomes less mobile. This can cause neck, shoulder, and lower back pain as well as a hunched over croissant type of posture with the body.

The T-spine extension helps you stretch your lats and upper back to reverse age or sitting related mobility issues.

How to do it:

1. Make sure you're in full elbow flexion in the bottom position.
2. Make a double chin so that you don't drift into forward head posture.
3. As you rock back, brace your core and focus on extending through the upper back and flexing through the shoulders, rather than just arching the lower back.

Do this for 6-12 reps daily. Your back will thank you.

[Ross Harkness @THEROSSHARKNESS]

Stop normalising comfort and mediocrity.

Normalise massive ambition, taking risks, mastery + daily challenge.

[Tom Harari @tomharari]

How to retain anything you read.

The hidden power of marginalia:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I have a new Sunday ritual: 1 hour walk with nothing but a small pocket notebook and pen.

No phone
No music
No podcasts
No articles
No audiobooks

I let my mind run free and write down any ideas or insights.

A simple way to prime the mind for a creative, productive week ahead.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

Write more.
Journal more.
Hit the gym.
Have deeper conversations.

You need habits that help you clear your mind.

Stress and anxiety are the enemy of creativity. You feel locked in a mental bubble where you only have access to certain thoughts and solutions.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

"I'm just being honest" is a poor excuse for being rude.

Candor is being forthcoming in what you say. Respect is being considerate in how you say it.

Being direct with the content of your feedback doesn't prevent you from being thoughtful about the best way to deliver it.

[Wip @OptimizeWisdom]

@theoliveranwar Gut

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The value of reading, and of writing things down that we read, or hear, cannot be overstated. Two expert guests (who specialize in speech and memory) on the Huberman Lab podcast explained that when we read text or listen to something and then write key aspects/takeaways down by hand- not typing, it engages our motor control centers in ways that deeply embed that information to our memory. Taking notes, however cursory, turns out to be the best way to remember and implement information later.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

I sat down with @thedankoe for a 3-hour podcast—and we easily could have gone for 10.

• Fitness
• Business
• 10-year plans
• Daily routines
• Leaving Wall Street
• Creative workflows
• Vision to start a cafe/gym hybrid

And lots more.

Watch: https://t.co/1QHBxCssXo

[Romeen Sheth @RomeenSheth]

I've been really lucky in my career so far (and feel super grateful for it). When most people hear "luck" they have a negative visceral reaction - it sounds like it's something unearned.

I think that's partially right. But there's another kind of luck I think every individual should focus on: manifested luck, or what I like to call "the surface area of serendipity."

In the sixth essay of my new series The Compass (with my friends at @Compound), I shared a framework on how to think through creating luck in your career.

Let me know what you think. And I would be remiss not to say...good luck!

[Lewin | Wealth Pill 💊 @Wealth_Pill]

No porn + no alcohol + lift weights + eat clean + daily sun + meditate + discipline + chase purpose.

If you want to set yourself 10 years ahead in life within 6 months, do this...