Here's what's new this week
55 Rules for Humans (article)
You're Living Your Life on Autopilot (YouTube)
Next, a few short thoughts this week.
Money
One day, Barrett and Katy were walking together in the Crown Hill Nature Reserve in Denver. The Powerball lottery was up over a billion dollars.
“What would we do if we won this? Where would we live?” Barrett asked.
Well, they decided, they’d have a place in New York City and a ski chalet in Breckenridge. And then they’d live in Lawrence, Kansas––the town they grew up in––where their friends still live.
Then Barrett looked at Katy and said, “What are we doing living in Denver?”
Within a year they had moved back to Lawrence.
I have a party trick. Four questions I love to ask.
If you had unlimited amounts of money––Bezos level wealth––how would you live your life differently?
- What would you start doing?
- What would you keep doing?
- What would you stop doing?
- What changes would you make?
I like these questions because they shine a spotlight on the good. People tend to discover that whatever they desire, if forced to dream as big as they can possibly dream, is actually within their grasp today. It’s their own fear stopping them. Or they’re being distracted by meaningless frivolities.
Both wonderful revelations.
2.
When it comes to spending money, I bias towards optimizing things I do often. Namely, food and sleep. Here's a few ways I spend money to improve each:
Sleep:
-Perfect Sleep Pad to regular temperature ($$)
-Hypoallergenic latex mattress ($$$)
Food
-Tracking which crops are in harvest locally ($)
-Doing a farm share with neighbours ($$)
-Personal chef ($$$)
Health
1.
Perfection is the enemy of progress. Don’t let the feeling that you have to work your way up to the gym or have a perfect program before you start stop you from showing up. On day 1, simply cross the threshold. Show up. Never forget that we were all beginners at one time.
Relationships
1.
Different's good. People who feel different when they’re young often find out later that they were the ones who had it figured out and the rest hadn’t caught up yet.
From A few things that I told Zach Hyman when he was 16
2.
Default to trust. The speed you gain and energy you save from not worrying about being occasionally taken advantage of outweighs the small costs when it happens.
↑ trust = ↑ speed and ↓ cost
↓ trust = ↓ speed and ↑ cost
From 55 Rules for Humans
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Messaged Dad on Tuesday. Invited him to a bike ride. Skipped work Wednesday afternoon and set out with him. He kicked my butt. At 78-years old, he kicked my butt. I'm grateful to have a father who leads by example.
-Jon
P.S. My kids every time
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