I train founders to move faster with growth sprints and I train athletes to run faster with sprints. Truth seeker ☯️
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Most common reasons for failing in order:
1) Never starting
2) Quitting too soon
3) Not doing enough volume
4) Not doing it consistently enough
5) Doing too many different things
6) Not shooting big enough
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This is seriously impressive and shows why Nayib Bukele is one of the most competent leaders in the world.
He has the right balance of intellect and common sense.
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If you want to train your mind to hold onto a single task instead of giving in to distractions, try this exercise daily for 2 minutes. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Clock exercise.
Take a watch or a clock with a second hand, and fix your eyes upon that second hand. Follow it around its circuit, thinking of nothing else but the second hand. Do not let your mind wander away from it. Try this for two minutes at a time, and see how difficult it is at first, but how much easier it becomes after a little practice.
Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your will, and forces your mind to obey you, and not the other way around.
If you want to increase your ability to concentrate and have more control over your own mind, try this exercise daily for 5 minutes. It was created by one of the most intelligent men of the 20th century, Rudolf Steiner.
Use an ordinary object (a pencil, clothe spin, clip, book, etc.) and think about it for five minutes every day. You take an object in front of you or in your mind and the first time you describe it to yourself aloud. You can also imagine yourself describing it to a blind person.
Use all your senses and make as many observations as you can in five minutes. Repeat this the next day, you will probably notice new details.
After a while you can ask questions about the object: "What can I do with it?", "What is it made of?", "Why this shape?", "What other shapes could it have?", "Where was it made?", "How did I get it?"," How are the raw materials mined?", etc. You will be able to answer some of these questions. If not, you can search for an answer in an encyclopaedia or on the internet.
Your should be able to determine whether your thoughts are correct, otherwise your thoughts will wander. which is not the intention.
You can repeat what you did the day before and build on your previous thoughts. After some time you will have covered all possible questions, then do it one or two more times until you can really find no more issues to think about. Then follow the same procedure with another object.
When doing this exercise you may notice that your thinking gets clearer and sharper, and that your perception, concentration and objectivity increase. Also, your interest grows.
The difficulty of the exercise is that your mind wanders. The challenge is to be able to think about the object for five minutes, but you will find that your mind wanders to something else very easily, that your thoughts are associative and work automatically. E.g. you think of a pencil and suddenly you see in your mind your grandma with a pencil in her hand, grandma has a budgerigar and suddenly you are thinking about the whistling of this bird. Interrupt such thoughts: you wanted to think about the pencil.
The exercise is called control of the mind. The example just given shows that often there is no control over our thinking. We are thought, our thinking is associative and automatic. We believe that we think, but our thinking is often not focused.
Make sure that you do the exercise every day. You can choose a fixed time. Choose a time when you are awake and clear-headed, so not after dinner, but for example before or after breakfast or at 8 o'clock at night. You can also do it while waiting for the train, in a spare moment. Doing the exercise with two or three objects should be sufficient.
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RFK Jr. on his carnivore diet with ferments.
Steak and yogurt for breakfast, meat and sauerkraut/kimchi for the rest.
He lost 20 pounds of visceral fat in 30 days, regained it as muscle, and his atrial fibrillation disappeared.
A strict but effective approach.
What do you think, could a carnivore-style diet work for you?
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Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.
Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.
Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.
That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.
The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.
College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.
Nate retweeted
Jocko Willink dropped one of the most powerful mindset shifts I’ve ever heard:
When someone attacks you and says “This is your fault” — even if it isn’t — take full ownership anyway.
Feel your ego flare up? Anger rising? That’s your red flag. Call it out, detach, and respond with:
“Yes, this is my fault. Here’s the mistake I made. Here’s exactly what I’m doing to fix it.”
Even when you’re not fully to blame.
Because the second you own it, you stop being the victim and start controlling the outcome. You win.
Lewis Howes was visibly mind-blown listening to it. I was too.
Extreme ownership isn’t just theory — it’s a weapon you can use in arguments, work, relationships, and life.
When was the last time you took full ownership in a tough situation even when it wasn’t entirely your fault — and what happened?
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The best early stage hires are radically different from a few years ago: multi-hyphenate, commercial generalists.
The engineers want to talk to customers and the business people write code.
High agency and AI native instead of heads down 10x performers.
Read the full story here. Was very fun to chat with @JenniferHli @yrechtman @simonlast and @akothari for this!
wired.com/story/silicon-vall…
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You dont want a yacht. You dont want a big house. You dont want a super car, a $40,000 watch, or shoes you worry about getting dirty. You want free will.
You want to wake up naturally on a Tuesday and you want to go to bed when you’re done having fun. You want to say yes to everything that excites you without having to request time off. You want to go to the the gym at noon, in absolutely no hurry. You want to spend 18 hours a day doing what you love. You want to be exactly where you desire being, always. You want to spend as much time with the people you care about as possible.
You’re saying you wanna be rich? In what?
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New podcast on sales - Sell the Truth.
00:00 Be Credible
03:18 “Yes, And”
04:31 Selfish Honesty
05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love
07:56 Don’t Manage, Lead
11:16 Hunt Together
14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions
18:57 Sell the Truth
21:07 Good Deal or No Deal
23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns
Nate retweeted
Osso Buco is the most underpriced cut of beef
It’s commonly sold as “soup bones” or “cross cut shanks”
My local rancher sells grass fed ribeye @ $32/lb & Osso Buco @ $4/lb
The Osso Buco takes < 10 mins to prep w/ an Instant Pot & provides bone marrow, broth & collagen rich 🥩
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These two dudes were benching next to each other at the gym today
One of them had 225 on the bar
The other had 375 on the bar
Between sets, the dude with 225 on the bar looks at the guy with 375 on the bar and says “How the fuck did you get so strong???”
Dude with 375 on the bar: “I pick a weight that’s hard for about 5 reps…once I can hit 8 or 10 hard reps I increase the weight. I’ve been doing this for 20+ years.”
This is it, people…this is IT
But I actually think if I can push a certain weight to 10 reps conveniently, I should increase the weight and restart from 5 reps and above.
This is how I build my Progressive Overload and how I set my PRs.
What's your take on this, Dean? @DeanTTraining
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this is the beauty of X, you learn about these incredible stories that capture the depth of tradition and noble qualities
I’ve lived with eagle hunters for 4 years. Here’s everything I’ve learned:
1. While Mongols raise their birds from eggs, the Kyrgyz befriend their birds in the wild, hunt with them for 12+ years, and then release them back to the wild.
2. Eagles hunt with sight hounds called Taighans. Taighans only exist within Kyrgyzstan and have been specially bred to run alongside eagles, and retrieve captured prey from them. It is said the strength of one Taighan is enough to fight and win against 6 wolves at once.
4. When stationary, eagles wear leather hoods to protect them from overstimulation. Once the hood is taken off, the eagle will lock in and attack the first living thing it sees (that it could eat) — this includes rabbits, goats, sheep, wolves, coyotes, and, in rare instances, children.
5. We primarily use eagles for pest control, the protection of livestock from predators (wolves, jackal, coyotes, etc.).
6. Eagle hunting has been passed down in an unbroken chain from father to son across a more than 1,000 year history.
7. The current total number of eagle hunters is 31. Eagle hunting was nearly extinct due to the oppression throughout the Soviet Union. Some hunters claim they were free to practice the art throughout the Soviet Union. Others describe a perpetual life on the run in the far, frontier regions of the mountains fleeing from the ever-nearing Soviet, secret police, across 20+ years, to protect their birds.
8. Locals say the origin of eagle training comes from their ancestral folk hero, Manas. Hundreds of years ago, Manas unified forty nomadic tribes within the Altai mountains to then venture to the region currently identified as Kyrgyzstan and build the Kyrgyz Khaganate.
The Manas myth is the longest epic poem in the world, several magnitudes longer than the Bible. Locals have preserved all of their traditions through this myth. Each retelling adds a new element of culture and expands the narrative.
Ancestor and hero worship takes precedence above all other beliefs. It is this mentality that has preserved both the semi-nomadic way of life and the eagle hunting traditions.
This summer I’m taking 20 writers, filmmakers, publishers, fighters, and vloggers to go eagle hunting on the longest horseback riding expedition in the world, more than 500km across Kyrgyzstan. We’re riding to the World Nomad Games, an Olympic sporting event for traditional, Central Asian sports, ranging from sheep bone throwing to horseback wrestling.
Here’re some more photos of what to expect on our expedition:
Nate retweeted
I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain.
Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me.
In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently.
None of us feel as sharp as we used to.
I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot.
P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless