Chase Cap

Podcast Marketing ~ YouTube Growth ~ 5.5 yrs with @tombilyeu~ now @chriswillx; Snowboarding, Nature, & Sinatra

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

I would have never gotten into podcasting if it wasn’t for an @naval interview on Tim Ferriss’ show 10 years ago. It changed everything for me.

Having a hand in this episode is a real special moment for me and a highlight of my career.

Hope everyone gets to enjoy. And proud of my man @ChrisWillx for bringing it home!

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Brand new 3+ hour episode now live with @naval 🚀

This has been a very long time coming.

Shot in downtown San Francisco in a beautiful old library room. We brought in a fantastic steady cam operator so there’s some incredible roaming shots which really bring this one to life. Gorgeous buttery tones throughout.

Expect to learn the true price of success, whether sacrificing your happiness is worth it, what advice Naval would give to his younger self, what the true source of unhappiness is for most people, how to overcome low self-esteem, what Naval would add to his ‘How To Get Rich’ thread, how to become comfortable being unapologetically selfish, what Naval sees as the next big trends in science and technology, his take on the escalating culture wars, how to get comfortable with death and overcoming grief, the best and worst ways to spend your wealth and much more…

Watch now on YouTube and Spotify x

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

If you’re in your 20s, someday you’ll be 37 like me. So read this.

I just turned 37. In my twenties, I thought my life would be over at this point lol.

Ironically, I’m in the best shape, mental state, wealthier than I could of ever imagined, healthiest, and imo most attractive I’ve ever been in my life (before you roll your eyes, I was gross in my 20s… not hard lol).

I literally have everything I ever wanted. Including a wonderful wife.

But only because I sacrificed.

No one I know personally growing up went to the extremes I did to learn about health, self-development, social skills (which I had zero of). No one tried as hard or as long as me to get rich.

I’m not saying look at me, I’m special.

I’m saying I sacrificed a lot, took a lot of risk, and was very uncomfortable all the time.

And what I’m trying to convey to you is that the sacrifices you’re taking or considering taking are 500x worth it. You should sacrifice more actually, and do it with glee.

Go live in a $500-a-month apartment in Thailand and burn everything at the altar of your character arc.

I literally wish I had just done that at 20, trained Muay Thai and BJJ, and built harder. Big life regrets.

Anyways.

People (losers) will tell you you’re being crazy and missing out. Stop being money-focused. Stop trying, being so vain. Live a little.

They are wrong. Really fucking wrong. So unbelievably wrong that I would literally jump off a bridge if I had to switch lives with them and suffer the consequences of their life of no sacrifice.

You are missing zero. You will regret zero. Proudly go psycho monk mode and become as great as you can be.

You won’t regret missing getting drunk at the same bar 500 times with people you don’t even talk to at 40. You won’t regret missing the pointless dating. You won’t regret taking risk and failing.

You will deeeeeply regret at my age not sacrificing. You will start to see the decade of choices deeply and permanently in your and other men’s—you knows—lives.

And you will see this post is the truth.

After your twenties, the lifestyle, women, and all that shit you want will figure itself out and just come to you.

Hell, it’ll probably come to you in your early 20s and try to distract you because you’re building up so much power.

Keep sacrificing. It’s all completely worth it, and you’ll realize it’s actually the most fun part.

I work and sacrifice more now than I ever did… because it’s awesome pursuing the best possible potential for yourself personally.

Anyways, eat the shit. Skip everything. Picture your perfect character arc and light everything else on fire to get it.

And when you are at an age in the future that seems terrifying now, you will actually be enjoying the best times of your life.

Move fast, young man. You will be an old man who’s about to become an even older man soon.

[Nilen @limroul1111]

David Foster Wallace was exactly right when he said that your ability to derive meaning comes down to your ability to concentrate. It's so painfully true I uninstalled Instagram.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.

Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.

Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.

Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:

1) What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
2) What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?

Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.

If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:

— one place to visit
— one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime)
— one thing to do daily
— one thing to do weekly
— one thing you’ve always wanted to learn

What does “being” entail doing?

Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.

Here are a few examples:

1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help

2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker

Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.

Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization.

Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.

Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.

If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.

The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

The LA equivalent of scaffolding in NYC is gardening trucks

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

There is no evidence reincarnation is linear. Your next life could be thousands of years ago.

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

@JonahLupton Salt & Stone saffron & cedar is a great alt. Smells 90% the same

https://t.co/QmkTahm5aP

[RUBBABANDGRANT @RubbBandGrant]

As a man you must learn the art of quick resets, a bad day shouldn’t lead to a bad week & a bad week doesn’t mean you have a bad life.

[lusso @luusssso]

A mid century modern marvel with a river running throughout it

Woodsong by architect Alfred Browning Parker

Coconut Grove, Florida (1968)

[Still On The Road @StillOnTheRoad_]

Bob speaks in @nytimes

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

@blakereebs19

[L.A. Material @LAMaterialNews]

Why are L.A. restaurants so freaking loud?

A screaming martini order at a packed Los Feliz hotspot sent writer and humorist Dave Schilling down a surprisingly revealing rabbit hole.
https://t.co/VUa7jyr0eg

[CNBC @CNBC]

Meet the YouTube whisperers, a booming class of advisors behind MrBeast and other million-dollar channels https://t.co/Kok4JoDx4T

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

I literally click around Google Maps for like 4 hours a day. I might be retarded.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

2 am and i just realised most of my problems would disappear if i simply stopped being a coward about what i actually want

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

The greatest trick the devil ever played was swapping out fully validated parking for discount parking

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is that every day has to be renegotiated from scratch.

[Chase Cap @ChayCap]

This is the modern day equivalent of interviewing someone born in 1993

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

This is absolutely fascinating. In 1977, a 109 year old woman born in 1868 is interviewed about her life.

When asked whether she has ever been on an airplane, she says never, but that she might now because she is “more venturesome.”

When asked about the biggest change she has seen, she replies:

“Everything. Nothing is the same.”

Living from the horse and buggy days to the jet age in one lifetime.

I also love the way she commands the English language. It feels like an art form that has been lost over time.

[Ƶ @archibaldxiv]

her: why are you acting strange?

me:

[414EvanRytlewski @Evanryt]

One thing Sublime knockoffs (including even Sublime with Rome) never understood is that Sublime is not vibey lifestyle music, it's a very particular POV, dirty and squalid but also hopeful and romantic, that scans as instantly forced and fake if you try to carbon copy it

[Northeast Urbanist @skytopjf]

I put the Declaration of Independence through the LinkedIn slop generator. Incredible.