I’m tired of athletes talking about why athletes really aren’t as rich as we think.
You touched $7 million and bought your parents a $3 million dollar house? You’re dumb.
Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.
They did not accept.
The best mosquito repellent for your patio costs $20 and runs on a wall outlet: a fan.
Mosquitoes are terrible fliers with a top speed of about 1-2 miles an hour, slower than you walk, and they struggle to make headway against even a gentle breeze. Point an oscillating fan at your outdoor seating area and they'll physically struggle to get to you.
It works on two levels too. A mosquito finds you by following the plume of carbon dioxide you exhale, plus the heat and scent rising off your skin. A fan scatters all of it and erases the trail that leads them in. So it knocks them out of the air and helps hide you from their senses at the same time.
This isn't folk wisdom. The CDC notes that fans reduce mosquito landings, and studies have found that using a fan can substantially reduce mosquito bites.
Citronella candles offer only modest protection and are generally much less effective than a fan or EPA-registered repellents. Plug in a fan, aim it at the table, and take your evening back.
Dave: "Hello caller, you're on the air."
Caller: "I put all my emergency savings into an investment."
Dave: "Oh no. How much did you lose?"
Caller: "It made $5m in 37 months."
Dave: "Well you got lucky."
Caller: I converted my 401k into a similar investment & borrowed $8M."
Dave: "that’s the most irresponsible thing I’ve ever heard."
Caller: "It’s worth almost $20M and cash flows to me at $80,000 a month."
Dave: "That's speculation."
Caller: "I sold my house and used all the equity & borrowed another $15M to do the same thing."
Dave: "What is wrong with you?"
Caller: "Dave the investment is worth $250,000,000 today and I’ve refinanced it twice returning all my equity plus $100M, tax free."
Dave: “How many times have you heard me say All debt is bad debt?”
Caller: “I started raising money from friends, family & customers and now I am doing it for them.”
Dave: “Partnerships are risky.”
Caller: “I have 20,000 investors & sent out $100m in cash to them last year.”
Dave: “Who are you?”
Caller: Grant Cardone, CEO of CardoneCapital, $5.3B of real estate holdings, and $2.2B in debt and free cash flow of $112M.”
Dave: Hangs Up
This sentence from Carl Jung hits hard.
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
Walk more. Walk for no reason. Walk to think. Walk to reset. Walk to learn. Walk to escape. Walk to get better. Walk to solve problems. It changes everything
The investment: ~5 hours a week. Lifting heavy objects 3x a week, 2 work sets per exercise, 2-3 exercises (at least one compound movement) to failure and hiking or jog for an hour or so 1X a week, sprint intervals one day (usually 4 days after leg day…)
… for 35 years
An elderly man accidentally rear-ended a brand-new sports car.
The young driver jumped out, furious.
“LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY CAR! You owe me $10,000 right now, or I’m going to beat you half to death!”
The old man looked shaken.
“Oh my goodness,” he said. “I don’t have that kind of money. Let me call my son — he trains dolphins. He’ll know what to do.”
“DOLPHINS?” the guy scoffed, rolling his eyes.
The old man dialed his phone.
Before he could say a word, the angry driver grabbed it.
“So you’re a dolphin trainer, huh?” he barked into the phone.
“Well your old man just wrecked my car. I need ten grand RIGHT NOW — or I’m going to beat BOTH of you to a pulp!”
A calm voice replied, “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
Exactly ten minutes later…
...a Jeep screeched to a stop.
A man stepped out, walked straight up to the bully, and absolutely flattened him, leaving him groaning on the pavement.
Then the man turned to his father and said, “Dad… for the LAST time. I train seals. Navy seals. Not dolphins.”
I don’t seem to recall three Bishops doing a lengthy interview with 60 Minutes to denounce President Biden’s policies that unleashed unrestricted chemical abortion pills into every state and killed over 700,000 children made in God’s image last year alone.
To be brutally honest, you’d have to be an absolute fucking idiot, with the critical thinking skills of a lobotomised goldfish to need any reminder of the glaringly obvious truth: that pumping your body full of powerful drugs which destroy your sexual function, libido, and long-term physical health, while hacking off perfectly healthy body parts in some deranged quest to “transition,” is an absolute catastrophe for your mental health.
And let’s not sugarcoat this insanity: even after all that self-mutilation and chemical castration, you still don’t come anywhere close to resembling the opposite sex.
You just end up looking like a grotesque, surgically butchered parody of a human being trapped in a broken, infertile shell with irreversible damage, skyrocketing regret, and a shredded psyche that was already fragile to begin with.
Wake the fuck up.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
Jason Day was asked ahead of The Masters whether he has any empathy for what Tiger Woods is going through and he gave a brilliant answer that a lot of people can probably agree with:
“So yeah, in regards to Tiger, it just shows
the human element and the human side of
someone that is struggling with some sort of
an addiction. He's not immune to it just
because he can hit a golf ball really well. He's had 25 to 30 something surgeries, and when you're going through that many procedures, it's painful coming out of those procedures. I've had procedures done and I typically try and stay away from all that stuff because I just know that -- painkillers, there can potentially be a downfall to it.
“Granted, when I look at that, I look at it and go, he's just a human being like everyone else and we have struggles. It's unfortunate, the only thing that I don't understand is that it's a little bit selfish of him to drive and put other people in harm's way, as well.
“But when you're the player that he was and how strong-willed he is, he thinks he can do almost anything, and that's probably why he's probably driving and a little bit under the influence.
“He was my hero -- he's my hero. He was my hero growing up. The reason why I play golf is because of this tournament and Tiger. It's hard to see him go through what he's going through, and especially under the microscope that -- it must be hard to be who he is and have everything, everyone look on, kind of down on him.
“Some people want him to fail. Some people obviously want him to succeed. It's really difficult for me to go through that and watch him, and I know that he's getting the help now, which is good. I'm just hoping he comes out on the other side and is better.”
Well said.
@JDayGolf@TheMasters