Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 04/05/25

Updated: Tue, 04/08/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🙋‍♂️ How to get healthy:

There is only one way to get fit and healthy today.

Agency.

Following the status quo, conventional wisdom, and social scripts results in poor health. That's the norm. Instead of taking control, most will adopt a victim mindset and blame external factors.

To buck the norm, you need agency. You need to take the driver's seat of your life and grab the wheel. You can step on the gas and steer it through independent thought, will, and action.

🤔 How to learn agency:

You can learn agency.

Emmett Shear teaches it by prompting people with certain questions.

Here's the flowchart.

😴 Who has agency:

If you're wondering what a person with high agency looks like, ask yourself who you would call to break you out of a foreign prison.

Make a list of why you'd call that person...

Action taker
Self-Permission
Resourceful
Courageous

Goal: Become the type of person that you would call if you were stuck in a foreign prison.

💡 How to take the lead:

When I think of high agency, I think of someone who will take the lead.

Like Utah, for example.

They became the first state to ban fluoride in the public drinking water even though it's still contentious.

It required independent thinking and courage to take decisive action.

P.S.

This is why I think Utah made a good decision, even though the entire dental profession disagrees.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Male depression is nearly always a result of learned helplessness, but health providers treat it like female depression and try to make men feel loved instead of powerful."

– Adam Lane Smith, on male depression and the loss of agency

📊 Where you can see agency in action:

Michael Saylor was fighting a battled against learned helplessness. He couldn't get his company to grow. Inflation was killing it. But as a person of high agency, he climbed into the driver's seat a few years ago and put bitcoin on the balance sheet. It transformed him and the company.

They've kept their foot on the gas—buying another 6,911 bitcoin for $584 million this week, now holding over half a million bitcoin.

It also transformed how other companies are thinking about their reserves.

GameStop announcement that its board unanimously approved a plan to add Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

GameStop is sitting on nearly $6 billion in dry powder...

MARA also announced a $2 billion stock offering to acquire more Bitcoin. Metaplanet added another 150 BTC, bringing its total to 3,350. KULR Technology Group grabbed some, as did The Blockchain Group, nicknamed the "Strategy of France," made its biggest purchase yet: 580 bitcoin.

It's not GameStop. It's more like GameOn.

🎬 What's the agency plan:

Steve Job on agency.

When you're told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind?

How to get around whoever it is that's just told you that you can't do something?

— Eric Weinstein

The agency mindset:

Plan B is another way to make plan A work.

As always, it's an absolute pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!

Kevin

P.S.

Ants with agency.