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3 MINUTE MONDAYHi friend, I’m coming back to the UK & Ireland with a brand new live show 🚀 Live should be lived by design, not default. “It’s one thing to get what you want.
But it’s another thing to want what’s worth getting.” — Shane Parrish
This is the danger of not spending time working out what you want to want. Kyle Eschenroeder explains it beautifully… Blindly following your desires makes you a slave to your impulses — slave to the assumptions of those around you, the advertisements you’re exposed to, and the confused chemical signals of your body. If we don’t pause and ask ourselves what we want to want, we will spend our lives focused on unhealthy aims defined for us by others and the worst parts of ourselves. We will pass these bad assumptions about life onto our children and loved ones. We will reinforce these boring, desperate defaults in everyone we encounter. To achieve freedom we must be able to think for ourselves. If we don’t cut to the core and program our wants (our desires) then our best-case scenario is to be a successful, rich, or famous slave. If we never peer into our programming then we may end up being the cleverest rat in the room, but that’s hardly worth celebrating. TLDR: your default factory settings are awful. Do not follow them. The people who do will never actualise their potential - either for happiness or success. “They do not what they intended but what they happen to run across” — Seneca Your desires define your own paths of least resistance. The goal is to arrive at a point where we actually want what we want to want. Your life should be lived by design, not default. MODERN WISDOMI do a podcast where I pretend to have a British accent. This week’s upcoming episodes: Monday. Thursday. Saturday. THINGS I'VE LEARNED1. “The percentage of guys with 130+ IQ who enjoy both books and bar fights is incredibly small.” (h/t Link) 2. “It is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. The only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.” — BeautyOfSaas 3. “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” — C. S. Lewis LIFE HACKHow I’ve trained for the last year. RP Strength’s training app is fantastic. It's a science-based coaching app that actually tracks your progress. Follow the exact same training plan I use. Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom Big love, Try my productivity drink Neutonic. PS |
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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, See my brand new solo live show in the UK & Ireland this October 🚀 Get your tickets now. I’m in Northern California on a meditation retreat. This will probably be the longest time I’ve gone without any screens in probably 20 years. May come back insane or enlightened, stay tuned to find out which. Anyway, onto what I've been thinking about this week... How much should you try to optimise your life? How much should you be thinking about ways to improve? How much...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’m coming back to the UK & Ireland with a brand new live show. Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Exeter, London, Dublin (Sold Out), Newcastle & Belfast 🚀 Get your tickets now. I came across a great question to help you understand why a decision might be hard. “When I am faced with this decision, how old do I feel?” Maybe you’re trying to decide on something right now, if not then imagine a decision from the past. When you bring up the...
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, There is a very painful transition that everyone eventually needs to make in their career & productivity journey - from operator guy to idea guy. At the beginning of your career, the only advantage you have is your work rate because you have no experience to draw on, and any natural talent is capped by your inexperience, so you just work hard to get ahead. You answer all the emails, take all the “would love to connect” calls, you send the invoices, write the copy,...