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"We usually have several thousand people from all around the world on a Zoom call planning our goals together."
"you can always just say to Claude or ChatGPT, hey give me a video script for this particular title and it's annoyingly good"
"I've used Zapier. I've used Make. I've used n8n before. I kind of get the theory around how to automate stuff."
"I wear a Whoop. I've got like a I've been using this for the last like 380 days or something. I've got a 380-day streak on it and so this gives me a sleep score."
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"I personally like having a Kindle on my bedside table because then if I'm struggling to go to sleep, I can just read like a spirituality book or something on Kindle."
"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown."
"So, I now go for a run, I put my AirPods in, and I listen to amazing books on Audible."
"The one we've been using for the last 5 years is called Grain"
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"someone who's been like obviously got a ChatGPT generated LinkedIn auto apply application"
"I was like, 'Okay, well, I should probably read Sapiens cuz everyone is reading Sapiens and it was kind of boring and I got stuck on it for like three months"
"When you see films like The Wolf of Wall Street and stuff and you see the stuff like 'Sell me this pen.' It frames sales as this sleazy adversarial thing."
"I've tried reading Wuthering Heights and it was like boring."
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"The Debt of Time, which is a story of like Hermione bringing Sirius back from the dead. Absolutely fantastic book."
"Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Absolutely fantastic."
"Manacult, which is a sort of like post-apocalyptic very dark-like thing."
"Harry Potter and the Year of Darkness, which follows book seven, but from Neville's point of view being at Hogwarts."
"you can plow that money into things like stock market index funds"
"At that point, you can plow that money into things like stock market index funds."
"The easiest way to get started using this is to just have it as like a blank Google Doc. You can name that Google Doc your focus log."
"One of my favorite writing techniques is called the splurge. You set a timer for 10 minutes and then you type on your keyboard as fast as you possibly can and you don't allow yourself to delete anything."
"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."
"My personal preference is Claude by Anthropic for most things"
"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."
"If you're struggling to figure out what to do with your career, this is a framework that really helped me. It's based on the four Fs, which is broadly what people look for when it comes to a career."
"This is where something like the SMART goals framework is actually quite helpful. You know, it's got its issues, but like you know set a goal that's specific, measurable, attainable or achievable, relevant, and timebound."
"This is where something like the SMART goals framework is actually quite helpful. You know, it's got its issues, but like you know set a goal that's specific, measurable, attainable or achievable, relevant, and timebound."
"A good time management system involves time blocking, which is basically where you stick blocks in your calendar for the stuff that is important to you."
"doing content on social media every single day, probably on LinkedIn because that tends to be where richer people hang out"
"doing content on social media every single day, probably on LinkedIn because that tends to be where richer people hang out"
"Once you pick a social media platform, you're going to post on it every day for the next 5 years. If someone's going to take LinkedIn seriously, they're going to post 1,800 times on LinkedIn over the next 5 years."
"This is an amazing exercise... It's completely changed my life. And I guarantee that if you do the exercise, it will give you so much clarity"
"if you want something free, then Fathom is usually one that I recommend"
"If you are struggling with staying focused on anything at all, just tell yourself you're going to do it for 5 minutes."
"There is a wonderful book by my friend Nir Eyal called Indistractible, which is basically about how to take control of your attention span."
"It's from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans who are Stanford business school professors. And they talk about this question of how to figure out what to do with your life."
"This is something I learned from Jonathan Haidt's amazing book The Anxious Generation."