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My five GREATEST podcast episodes:
In honor of @spotify's Forever Favorites...
• @tferriss w/ @level5leaders
• @PeterAttiaMD w/ @AnnieDuke
• @ShaneAParrish w/ @naval
• @patrick_oshag w/ @tobi
• @ChrisWillx w/ @george__mack
Here are the 15 ideas I learned from them
MEGATHREAD...
In honor of @spotify's Forever Favorites...
• @tferriss w/ @level5leaders
• @PeterAttiaMD w/ @AnnieDuke
• @ShaneAParrish w/ @naval
• @patrick_oshag w/ @tobi
• @ChrisWillx w/ @george__mack
Here are the 15 ideas I learned from them
MEGATHREAD...
Starting with Modern Wisdom's Mental Models 101 with @george_mack and @chrils_wilx.
I've recommended this episode to more people than I can count.
The three best ideas:
1. High-agency
2. Optimizing for time and energy
3. Inversion https://open.spotify.com/episode/1j1zKuMmTRCf7eemCjMnK1?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw
I've recommended this episode to more people than I can count.
The three best ideas:
1. High-agency
2. Optimizing for time and energy
3. Inversion https://open.spotify.com/episode/1j1zKuMmTRCf7eemCjMnK1?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw
1/ High-agency
The number one indicator of future success: high-agency.
It's a simple binary: do you believe you can influence your own outcomes or not.
High-agency: This is an inconvenience. How can I solve this?
Low-agency: This is an inconvenience. This sucks.
The number one indicator of future success: high-agency.
It's a simple binary: do you believe you can influence your own outcomes or not.
High-agency: This is an inconvenience. How can I solve this?
Low-agency: This is an inconvenience. This sucks.
2/ Optimizing for time and energy
The best mental model for measuring new opportunities: will this bring me more time and energy?
Time and energy are our scarcest resources. Use them wisely.
The more decisions you make with this in mind, the more your decisions will compound.
The best mental model for measuring new opportunities: will this bring me more time and energy?
Time and energy are our scarcest resources. Use them wisely.
The more decisions you make with this in mind, the more your decisions will compound.
3/ Inversion
Avoiding poor decisions is easier than making the right ones.
The inversion principle is simple: instead of thinking of what to do to solve the problem, ask how you could guarantee the problem persists.
Then just avoid doing those things. https://www.dickiebush.com/articles/inversion-mental-model-munger
Avoiding poor decisions is easier than making the right ones.
The inversion principle is simple: instead of thinking of what to do to solve the problem, ask how you could guarantee the problem persists.
Then just avoid doing those things. https://www.dickiebush.com/articles/inversion-mental-model-munger
Next on my list of greatest podcasts ever:
@peterattiamd and @annieduke talking decision making, poker, and trusting the process.
The three best ideas:
1. Process over outcome
2. Premortems and Backcasting
3. Life lessons from poker https://open.spotify.com/episode/2c1k8KvSJbhUOPvw9yeO5D
@peterattiamd and @annieduke talking decision making, poker, and trusting the process.
The three best ideas:
1. Process over outcome
2. Premortems and Backcasting
3. Life lessons from poker https://open.spotify.com/episode/2c1k8KvSJbhUOPvw9yeO5D
4/ Process over outcome
Auditing your decision-making process is ESSENTIAL for long-run success.
Successful operators separate luck from skill and process from outcome.
Bad outcome, good process -> works in the long run.
Good outcome, bad process -> fails in the long run.
Auditing your decision-making process is ESSENTIAL for long-run success.
Successful operators separate luck from skill and process from outcome.
Bad outcome, good process -> works in the long run.
Good outcome, bad process -> fails in the long run.
5/ Backcasting and Premortems
Backcasting: reverse engineering your outcomes.
• Decide on an outcome, implement the system to achieve it.
Premortems: reverse engineering failures.
• Fast forward to a future failure. Think about what led to it. Avoid doing those things.
Backcasting: reverse engineering your outcomes.
• Decide on an outcome, implement the system to achieve it.
Premortems: reverse engineering failures.
• Fast forward to a future failure. Think about what led to it. Avoid doing those things.
6/ Life lessons from poker
• Be mindful of table selection.
• Respect the law of large numbers.
• Having skin in the game leads to better decisions.
• Keep a tight feedback loop - learn from every hand
For more, check out @AnnieDuke's "How to Decide" https://www.amazon.com/How-Decide-Simple-Making-Choices-ebook/dp/B07TRJB3S3#
• Be mindful of table selection.
• Respect the law of large numbers.
• Having skin in the game leads to better decisions.
• Keep a tight feedback loop - learn from every hand
For more, check out @AnnieDuke's "How to Decide" https://www.amazon.com/How-Decide-Simple-Making-Choices-ebook/dp/B07TRJB3S3#
Next on my list of the greatest podcasts ever: @naval and @shaneAParrish on The Knowledge Project talking reading, leverage, and mental models.
The three best ideas:
1. How to think about reading
2. The importance of compounding
3. Thoughts on happiness https://open.spotify.com/episode/5W0RQCDr28VSxVZOYJn3f5
The three best ideas:
1. How to think about reading
2. The importance of compounding
3. Thoughts on happiness https://open.spotify.com/episode/5W0RQCDr28VSxVZOYJn3f5
7/ How to think about reading
• The number of books you read is a vanity metric. Read for understanding and curiosity.
• Treat books as blog posts. Exit the ones that don't resonate.
• Read what you love until you love to read.
For an epic deep dive
https://twitter.com/AlexAndBooks_/status/1260392438688026626?s=20
• The number of books you read is a vanity metric. Read for understanding and curiosity.
• Treat books as blog posts. Exit the ones that don't resonate.
• Read what you love until you love to read.
For an epic deep dive
https://twitter.com/AlexAndBooks_/status/1260392438688026626?s=20
8/ The importance of compounding
All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
The first rule of compounding: don't interrupt it necessarily.
The punch-line of compounding. It's so big we can't wrap our heads around it.
All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
The first rule of compounding: don't interrupt it necessarily.
The punch-line of compounding. It's so big we can't wrap our heads around it.
9/ Thoughts on happiness
Happiness is a skill.
Happiness is a choice.
Happiness takes practice.
Happiness is a lack of desires.
Happiness is consumption equilibrium.
For more, pick up a copy of @ericjorgenson's Navalmanack w/ @naval https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant
Happiness is a skill.
Happiness is a choice.
Happiness takes practice.
Happiness is a lack of desires.
Happiness is consumption equilibrium.
For more, pick up a copy of @ericjorgenson's Navalmanack w/ @naval
https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant
Next on the list of my five greatest podcasts ever: @patrick_oshag w/ @TobiLutke talking modern businesses, feedback, outcomes vs systems, and finding success.
The top three ideas:
1. Raise your ground state
2. Crave feedback
3. Find your next box https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yS1MkEKX45HKq1f17OQvD?si=7Jk8vDQYQGSihJ-2zvtpDA
The top three ideas:
1. Raise your ground state
2. Crave feedback
3. Find your next box https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yS1MkEKX45HKq1f17OQvD?si=7Jk8vDQYQGSihJ-2zvtpDA
10/ Raise your ground state
We are the sum of how we spend our time.
Your ground state is your baseline level of habits.
Successful people have elevated ground states.
Raise your ground state <==> raise your output.
Read more from @investing_city https://twitter.com/investing_city/status/1260676545280184322?s=20
We are the sum of how we spend our time.
Your ground state is your baseline level of habits.
Successful people have elevated ground states.
Raise your ground state <==> raise your output.
Read more from @investing_city
https://twitter.com/investing_city/status/1260676545280184322?s=20
11/ Craving feedback
The highest performers crave feedback and get it from different sources.
They see honest feedback as a gift.
They see failure as the discovery of something that did not work.
They seek a barbell of feedback from juniors and superiors.
The highest performers crave feedback and get it from different sources.
They see honest feedback as a gift.
They see failure as the discovery of something that did not work.
They seek a barbell of feedback from juniors and superiors.
12/ Find your next box
Life is a series of moving from box to box.
You are constantly breaking out of a narrow box to a relatively large one.
High school -> college -> entry job -> management job -> ... etc.
The corollary: focus on learning from people two boxes ahead of you.
Life is a series of moving from box to box.
You are constantly breaking out of a narrow box to a relatively large one.
High school -> college -> entry job -> management job -> ... etc.
The corollary: focus on learning from people two boxes ahead of you.
Last but not least on my list of greatest podcasts: @timferris and @level5leaders talking greatness, awareness, reflections, and finding your hedgehog.
The three best ideas:
1. Find your hedgehog
2. The flywheel concept
3. Bullet, bullet, cannonball https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DlEmtxuxhbM9nwOy4PxE7
The three best ideas:
1. Find your hedgehog
2. The flywheel concept
3. Bullet, bullet, cannonball https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DlEmtxuxhbM9nwOy4PxE7
13/ Find your hedgehog
The most successful people found their hedgehog.
Your hedgehog is something that:
• You love to do
• You are encoded to do
• Pays you well to do it
To find what to do, focus on finding your hedgehog.
The most successful people found their hedgehog.
Your hedgehog is something that:
• You love to do
• You are encoded to do
• Pays you well to do it
To find what to do, focus on finding your hedgehog.
14/ Bullet, bullet, cannonball
When making decisions, start with calibration.
To do this, take small risks - shoot bullets. Do this until you have high conviction.
Then go all in and take huge risk - fire your cannonball.
Just remember: bullet, bullet, cannonball.
When making decisions, start with calibration.
To do this, take small risks - shoot bullets. Do this until you have high conviction.
Then go all in and take huge risk - fire your cannonball.
Just remember: bullet, bullet, cannonball.
15/ The Flywheel principle
The Flywheel principle - a series of good decisions, supremely well-executed, taken with discipline thought, that added up over time will inevitably produce a great result.
Flywheels thrive from consistency and momentum.
Leverage them.
The Flywheel principle - a series of good decisions, supremely well-executed, taken with discipline thought, that added up over time will inevitably produce a great result.
Flywheels thrive from consistency and momentum.
Leverage them.
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