I have friends who are older and very fit because of their lifestyle. They don't drink or smoke and exercise daily. They also have the most unfit kids who don't follow their example. This has always worried me as I am raising young children. I have also seen families with hard-working and wealthy parents who raise the laziest and most entitled children.
We always want our children to do better than us, but when and where does this go wrong for most people? I think it comes from the time and attention we personally give our kids and the lapses we allow.
My wife and I are early risers. I have a particular sleep problem I am still trying to solve, but my kids can sleep all day on vacation if you let them. A friend with an older son who had just graduated and was back home, jobless, used to tell me how alarmed he was that the son would go out all night, come back early in the morning, and sleep all day.
I told him then that if he didn't force him to change that habit, he would remain jobless and stay with his parents longer. They eventually forced him to change, and he moved out. He has a job now and struggles a lot. His parents are concerned that he isn't thriving. He is now almost 30, and I think about this all the time. At 25, I was a beast and had started many businesses.
While we want our kids and young adults to experience life on their own terms in a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, we can't help but notice that others whose children were more disciplined are thriving better. One indicator I have seen that correlates with success in younger people is fitness.
A friend’s son started going to the gym regularly, and he even inspired his cousins to do so. I checked on LinkedIn recently, and he is doing exceptionally well as a lawyer and investment banker without any family connections or assistance. His younger cousins, who are looking up to him, are following in his footsteps. I decided to get my kids to spend more time with him.
The role models our children need may be closer to their age than ours. It is why we need to amplify the lifestyles of young, disciplined, and successful people more. Not every person will make it through creative pursuits. I stress this to my kids all the time. There are billions of YouTube channels, but there is only one MrBeast or IShowSpeed.
Social media is highlighting more unrealistic role models than the most useful ones. My daughter is likely one of the most intelligent young children that I know, but because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, she is adapting to popular culture to blend in, in a way that scares me. This sometimes affects the way she learns. While I don't want to restrict her now from experiencing the world, I have realized that she needs different role models.
My son’s role models are nerds, and he nerds out in ways that surprise me and it is also worrying. We can be watching a movie, and he goes online to research it and summarise the plot so he can leave to code. He is not experiencing life enough outside the internet.
They will either eventually be ok in a world very different from ours or struggle in a world that becomes worse than ours, without the skills to build personal resilience and strong social skills.
I recently had a personal experience that made me realize I was fortunate to have left home early and to have different role models from my parents. Having a broken home led to different outcomes for my siblings and me, but the fact that I had strong personalities like my mother’s uncle and the uncles I grew up around helped me learn a lot more about life and priorities.
The world is a very complex place, and life is not a bed of roses. While we want the best outcomes for our kids, we have to finally admit that they will learn far more from others than they will ever learn from us. The best thing we can do for them is expose them to the right kind of people early enough, then hope and pray that we didn't misread those people.
By far my biggest advice to anyone trying to adopt AI properly:
1. Pay a little bit of money to Anthropic
2. Download Claude Code
3. Open Claude Code
4. Press 'Shift-Tab' until it says 'plan mode on'
5. Open Voice Memo on your iPhone. Just talk about all the things you want to accomplish. When you think you are done, just keep talking. Make sure it is at least 10 minutes, hopefully longer
6. Send this Voice Memo to your computer
7. Download MacWhisper and use it to transcribe this voice memo. Trust me, you will want MacWhisper and will use it later a lot
8. Type into Claude Code: "I have never used you before but I talked about some things. I will paste those things in below. Please read the things and ask me any questions you need to in order to help me figure out how to use you to be awesome. Ask me lots of questions until I tell you I am done"
9. Then paste in the transcript
10. Then press enter
Then just let Claude take the wheel, and them please send me a DM if this works.
Also, if this just sounds crazy, just literally take this entire message and paste it into whatever AI you are using and say 'some weird person told me to paste this into you, I want to use it, but I don't know how. What should I do?'
I am just trying to help you get started. Curiosity and persistence are the most important things.
If you find yourself in a situation where you have an ad that is grabbing all spend, ROAS / CPA is not where you need it to be and overall campaign performance is also not there. Please do the following:
Understand that ad that is grabbing all the spend and not converting at your desired rate is likely very engagement heavy and good at getting new and cold people to interact with your brand
By default these people will not convert at your target
If your overall campaign is not performing on top of this it’s because you do t have the necessary touch points to serve to these people after initial interaction
What you should do:
Analyse your top ad and landing page (use AI if you wish)
And literally think of every single question or concern someone could have on that specific journey (from top ad to your landing page, Assume that is all they have saw from your brand (as it likely is))
Then create ads that address these directly
It needs to be hyper specific to your specific top ad and landing page
So if your top ad was “omg I’m fitting into my high school clothes after 60 day supplement challenge”
People would likely be curious about things like
“what was she eating during this period?”
“Was she exercising / hitting the gym”
“Did she see any negative side effects”
“How was her libido during such fast weight loss”
“Was she still going out at the weekends”
The literally just make ads that address / answer these questions
- full day of eating during the challenge
- my workout routine during my challenge
- candid talk about sex life during challenge
- comment reply videos directly answering questions
- before and after videos
You get the point
Assume that meta will show these ads in the correct sequence (as it most likely will after some optimisation)
If you do this correctly, you will print money
$45k–$120k/month pages are quietly being built with ai animated objects like these
they feel like random shorts you’d send a friend
but they’re structured education funnels under the surface
a sad rice ball inside a fridge
a green character explaining digestion
a drink walking through your kidneys
each video teaches one simple idea
one habit
one mistake people didn’t know they were making
ai writes the micro-story
cloudbot generates the characters and environments
the system posts daily without burnout
no face
no influencer
no personal brand risk
just everyday objects turning health lessons into scroll-stopping scenes
attention comes first
trust builds naturally
offers slide in later
this format is about to replace a massive part of faceless health content
rt + comment “animate” and i’ll dm the setup
(follow for dm)