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The car ran over Chica. My son screamed. In that brief moment everything that Max had worked for, everything he had overcome, everything that he was living for, was gone.

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“Learn Like An Athlete” is the name of a blog post by my friend - david perell

Even though it wasn’t the purpose of the post, it gave me an idea.

“Think Like An Athlete” came into my mind.

Not many people treat their chosen pursuit like an athlete.

When you think about how a sportsperson behaves, everything in their life is geared toward maximising their performance on game day.

Everything.

From their nutrition to their sleeping pattern, the game tape they watch, the drills they run, the conditioning work, their self-talk, the people they hang around with, their recovery, their pre-game ritual, even the content they consume.

Everything contributes to their performance.

And yet when you ask people what they want to do in life, unless it’s a sport pretty much no one takes their preparation this seriously.

“I want to be a world-class podcaster.”

Ok so tell me what you did on the morning of your episode recording.

“Oh well I got up late cos I didn’t get in from the cinema until 1am and scrolled through Instagram for an hour when I woke up-“

Hang on a second.

I thought you wanted to be the best at this?

Why is it that you don’t treat your chosen pursuit with the same level of finesse and sacredness that athletes treat theirs?

This thing is THE thing you said you wanted to do.

Your highest calling.

Your maximal point of contribution to the world.

But you’re leaving so much on the table.

Why is that?

I think the reason is because the parameters for success and failure in pretty much everything except for sport are so messy and hard to define that we always believe we can just “get by” and no one will notice, not even ourselves.

In sport you have very tight metrics of success and failure.

You know how fast you ran/heavy you lifted/accurately you threw in the last match, so you have a benchmark for this one.

You also know where you were at in training and can predict what should have happened on game day.

These tight, objective metrics of success and failure aren’t there in pretty much anything else.

Who’s to say that this podcast/YouTube video/music performance/day with your children was better or worse than the last one?

What even constitutes a good performance here?

The subjectivity and inherent opaqueness of most pursuits provides sufficient degrees of freedom for you to believe you can just “get by” with poor preparation.

And it’s difficult to draw a direct line from you being a worse podcaster/YouTuber/musician/father to the sleep/nutrition/mindset/training you did.

So we don’t concern ourselves with it.

Where could you be in life if you treated your chosen pursuit in life with the same level of dedication that athletes treat theirs?

You’re only getting one shot at this.

Maybe taking it more seriously would be a good idea.

- Chris Williamson

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If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.

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Jump into the colder pool. Walk instead of drive. Pick up the book instead of your phone. Take responsibility instead of hoping it goes unnoticed. In matters big and small, courage is choosing the more difficult option.

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“People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’”
~ DYLAN MORAN

✨ The self-imposed limitations of others can only bleed into your reality with your permission. Protect your energy and be radical with what you consume / who you spend your time with.

✨ You are the main character of your life and to some extent no one / nothing else exists in the way they may seem to for life is entirely a reflection of the happenings in your mind. Every interaction, situation, and obstacle is happening FOR you not TO you. It’s imperative you start looking through that lens as the way you perceive dictates how you speak which will then determine how you act.

✨ Every day is a new opportunity;
a fresh start to take back control of your life.

I know
deep within
you KNOW
you are capable
of so much.

So I feel just how much pain it causes you
to see that potential slowly slip away.

Time waits for no one.

WE ASCEND AS ONE 🕊️

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Decisiveness

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The current moment is always filtered through the current thought.

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naval on the right way to work

“We like to view the world as linear, which is: ‘I’m gonna put in 8 hours of work, I’m gonna get back 8 hours of output,’ right? It doesn’t work that way. What you do, who you do it with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work.

The right way to work is like a lion. We’re meant to hunt like lions. As an intellectual athlete, you want to function like an athlete. This means you train hard, then you sprint, then you rest, then you reassess. You get your feedback loop, you train some more, then you sprint again, then you rest, then you reassess.”

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Dear friends,
We are living through immensely difficult and trying times. The violence and destruction of this terrible war has caused unimaginable suffering and hardship. Our hearts go out to all those who have lost loved ones, been displaced from their homes, or had their lives shattered by this senseless conflict.

In the midst of such darkness, it is natural to feel despair, anger, and hopelessness. The path ahead seems uncertain and the challenges feel overwhelming. However, we must not lose heart.

Throughout history, humanity has endured great tragedies and emerged stronger on the other side. This tragic war will eventually end, and we must have faith that brighter days lie ahead.

We draw inspiration from the extraordinary resilience and courage being displayed by so many - the aid workers risking their lives to help civilians, the families who have welcomed refugees into their homes, and the people who have taken to the streets to protest this injustice.

Their compassion and humanity shines like a beacon, reminding us of our power to overcome hatred through love and unity.
Though the road will be long and arduous, we will rebuild from these ashes.

Let us stand together, united in our hopes for lasting peace and human dignity. Our shared dreams of a better world for our children must sustain us through this nightmare. We will emerge from this crucible scarred but wiser, more committed than ever to preventing such atrocities from happening again.

Have faith, my friends. This brutal war cannot extinguish the eternal flame of hope that burns in the human heart. By holding onto that hope and caring for one another, we will make it through this darkness into the light. Brighter days will come.

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Your body is like a machine:

Use your diet, workouts & sleep to upgrade your hardware.

Use books, peer groups & mindfulness to upgrade your software.

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There are 5 Types of Hard Work... and it helps to know that No. 4 & 5 work better in business than No. 1 & 2...

👉🏼 The First kind is “Labour” based. You put in more effort, more intensity, more hours, and more inputs to gain an output compared to others.

👉🏼 The Second kind is “Efficiency” based. With the same inputs as of the first... You stay more focused for longer, remove distractions, and find smarter ways to either get the same output with the same inputs, or reduce inputs to get the same output.

This is what the Industrial Revolution taught us, and most family businesses teach their next generation. It stems from the thought process of factories and delegation to cheap labour.

👉🏼 The Third kind is “Consistency” based. You do simple things for so long that it outlasts everyone else. It creates an unmatched compounding in your skills, your brand, your reputation and your heritage. You’ve increased the Duration.

This is my favourite and the most timeless, which should be used with all forms of hard work from 1 to 5. This is how brands are built, and compounding kicks into business results.

👉🏼 The Fourth kind is “Opportunity” based. You spot newer opportunities better than the competition and do it faster than others grab on to them.

This is when someone tries new things relentlessly, by learning new skills consistently, without letting failure beat them down.

👉🏼 The Fifth kind is “Leverage” based. You find a new technology or platform that creates huge leverage and propels you way ahead of others because you’re using a new tool that others haven’t adapted to.

Businesses are created by working hard on 4 and 5.

Unfortunately, most keep looking in 1 and 2.

Regardless of what you pick, don’t give up on the No. 3

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Your body is like a house:

Build a strong foundation through sleep, movement, and nutrition.

Give it renovations through weight lifting, cardio, and eating high protein.

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Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.

― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

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Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

-James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

-Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl

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Being dissatisfied with your current level doesn't make you a liability, doing nothing about it does.

- Fuegoreon Vermilion, Black Clover

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