Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 06/29/24

Updated: Sat, 06/29/24

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🦷 What causes oral disease:

99% of oral disease is caused by diet and lifestyle.

If your dentist is just drilling and filling without discussing diet and lifestyle (proper breathing / tobacco avoidance), they aren’t your dentist…they’re just your mouth's mechanic.

💸 What I'd eat:

If I were strapped for cash, my diet would primarily be:

ground beef
roasts (stock up on sales)
eggs (buy in bulk)
butter
milk (optional)
water (filtered tap)

Not expensive.

🥩 How to figure it all out:

Eat a lot of meat. Limit the junk.

It's easy, right?

For some it can be that easy.

For many others, following a step-by-step process is the way.

💡How to achieve your goals:

Here's how to increase the odds of achieving your goals

You have a goal
- Success Rate = 10%
You have a goal + make a plan
- Success Rate = 25%
You have a goal + make a plan + commit to it in your calendar
- Success rate = 50%
You have a goal + make a plan + commit to it in your calendar + have an expert keep you accountable
- Success rate = 95%

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power...Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake. Free of the burden of ambition. Deaf to the demands of the world.

– Naval

📊 What increases happiness:

Researchers used to think that money increased happiness only up to a certain level (~$80k). New research refutes this. (r)

For most, the effect of higher income increases happiness with no limit in sight barring scales not going high enough to capture the joy.

I wonder if this is a result of being able to become one's true self, to become like a child again, free to tinker, explore, and create for its own sake. Free from the demands of the world.