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1️⃣ What is my real motivation -
- I did a Facebook Live for the first time thanks to a fellow Saturday 7 reader. Although a health coach, Mike had reached out to me to discuss something other than nutrition and fitness. He wanted to discuss topics that I am deeply passionate about but don't get to talk about as much - like what really motivates me and drives my current life's purpose.
As you can see - we had a good time 😂
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🥩 What I don't go a week without -
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⚖ What law I've been thinking about -
- "What gets measured, gets managed." But Goodhart's Law states this can have untoward ramifications. The law says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- The Soviet Union wanted to improve their nail producing factories. So they gave these factories a target for how many nails they needed to produce each day. In no time at all, these factories started churning out lots of small useless nails. So then the Soviet Union changed the target from number of nails to the total weight of nails produced. Factories then made a few giant nails. Prior to using these targets, the number and weight of nails produced correlated
well with the success of a factory. But once they were made targets, the measurements lost their value. And this law impacts more than just factories.
- In Britain they wanted to fix the long wait times at hospitals so they instituted a penalty if waits got too long. What resulted was not more efficient patient processing, rather hospitals would tell the ambulances to stall and take the long route to the hospital.
- Because of Goodhart's Law I find myself always asking "what is the real outcome I'm after?" Is it more sales? Higher customer satisfaction? Usually it's not just quantity or just quality, but a metric that encompasses both and gets to the core of the outcome desired.
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🧒 What is "youth" -
- Samuel Ullman wrote a short essay "Youth" that was widely admired through much of the world, but remains relatively obscure in the United States. He says youth isn't about age. Rather, it's a state of mind.
"Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals."
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about -
"If true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs...some physical labor or hobby, good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive."
– Nassim Taleb, Antifragile (this book is high on my to-read list)
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📚 What else is on my reading list -
- I've read a few books by Nassim Taleb and there are a few others that are still on my reading list (like Antifragile). His books are insightful and often eye-opening, the kind that changes the way you see the world. Those are the kinds of books I love and search for. And one way I find them is I see if that author has reviewed other books. Luckily, Taleb has
reviewed a number of books - which subsequently got added to my reading list.
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🔪 What skills look like -
- Here's 60 seconds of normal people doing things at an abnormally crazy skill level.
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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