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2️⃣ What's on Page 2 -
- I'm not an SEO expert by any means. But I googled "high protein diets" which has about 100M search results, and the article I published last week on high protein diets was already on page 2. From what I've heard this usually takes months if not years. And I have you to thank for it. The high ranking is because of all the
people that visited, read it (time on page is a big ranking indicator), and shared it. While it might be awhile before we can upend Mayo Clinic and WebMD for the top spots, I really do appreciate you taking the time to check it out 🙏
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👫 What about men vs women -
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🤝 What we become -
- I attended a 4-day seminar last week. I rarely sacrifice that much time unless I think it can deliver transformational results. My biggest takeaway was a reminder that we rise or fall to the expectations of our peers. We become who we surround ourselves with. And if you have big goals, you need peers that live to that
standard. One's that will lift you up to it. You want friends to challenge you. To push you out of your comfort zone, out of your old status quo. A great friend walks a delicate balance between accepting you and loving you as you are BUT at the same time holding you to the standard they live by and you want to rise to.
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🤯 What's blowing my mind -
- There is an artificial intelligence "language" called GPT-3 (generative pre-training transformer). In essence, it's a program that has ingested nearly everything on the internet and doesn't just regurgitate but predicts based on an unfathomable amount of information. It looks like we are getting close to all having our own "Jarvis," a genius personal
assistant at our service.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about -
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
– Warren Buffett
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🥇 What 25 biases get in the way -
- We can all fall into "mental traps." As Richard Feynman said, "The 1st Principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Charlie Munger heeded Feynman's advice, and pointed out 25 ways in which we tend to fool ourselves. He called these The Psychology of Human Misjudgements.
"I had found that theory was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted, as I had early discovered in school where I had excelled without labor, guided by theory. While many others without mastery of theory, failed, despite monstrous effort."
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🚂 What runs my life -
- I've been thinking a lot about "systems." We have systems for everything. What we do after we wake up (i.e. eat, brush teeth, check your phone, email, ect.) is a system. We have systems for how we work and how we spend/invest our money; systems for how we eat and workout; and even systems for how we engage with others and what leisure activities we participate in. Once we have systems in place, it feels like we are in control, like the trains are set on definite
tracks that run on a predictable schedule to an exact location.
- Some systems are "set it and forget it." Once in place, they can run a lifetime and reap tremendous rewards. For example, there is a fairly proven system that if you automatically invest 20% of your income into strategic assets, you'll likely end up wealthy. Or if you have the system of eating a good diet, working out, and getting 8 hours of sleep, you run a system that generates health and vitality.
- But some systems need to get updated. If a certain system has been in place for awhile, but isn't getting you to the location you want, then you have to restructure the train tracks. And some tracks that run up a mountain have to derail. They served their purpose getting you from the bottom of the mountain to the middle, but you have to get on new tracks in order to keep going higher.
- One thing I've noticed with my yearly challenges is that they force me to restructure my systems. It's uncomfortable. It feels like the trains get derailed, direction gets losts, and I lose control. It's not until I run these new systems for a few months, that I feel like I regain a semblance of control. But I realized this chaos is the necessary ingredient to growth.
- Growth is the process of putting new systems in place, running them, outgrowing them, and replacing them. It's a process of setting down new tracks at each stop up the mountain. For example, a startup company runs one set of systems, a multimillion dollar company runs a different set of systems, and a billion-dollar enterprise another. But if a startup doesn't upgrade its systems when it's time, it will die. Because in business if you aren't growing, you are dying.
- The last few weeks I've been reengineering my systems to prepare for my 2021 Challenge. And it has brought along with it the same feelings of chaos, loss of control, and falling behind. I'm trying to keep all my trains on the tracks and running on schedule, while restructuring and building a few new routes. As much as this construction process is uncomfortable, I realize that if I don't update my systems I'll keep getting what I have. Stuck on the level of the mountain I'm
currently on. And while I am grateful and blessed for all I have, there is still a whole lot I want to do. So during times of chaos I like to remind myself that in the next decade I have the choice of having 10 years of progress, or 1 year repeated 10 times. The cost of growth, progress, and personal improvements is putting new systems in place even though it's never comfortable. The good news is, the tracks smooth out pretty quickly, and new destinations are exciting.
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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
P.S.
This year there have been many tragedies highlighted in the news/media. Every day, at every moment, there are countless people and causes that desperately need support. Yet we all have limited resources. We have to "pick our battles" so to speak. Standing up for any battle and "fighting" to help others and the world is commendable.
There is one battle in particular that I care deeply about. One that isn't talked about on the news and isn't spread on social media. So I want to do the little bit that I can to help. Thursday, July 30, is World Day Against Child Trafficking. An organization committed to this cause and saving children from unimaginable abuse is called OUR (Operation Underground Railroad). They
are shining a light on one of the darkest, most horrific areas of humanity. They are literally in the battle. I'll be supporting them monetarily this week, and if you are looking for a cause, a battle worth fighting, check out OUR, and if you can chip in it goes further than you known to saving children.
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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