weekly Go Flip Yourself

if you want to be able to briskly climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness.

Getting new things feels exciting. Simply having the things you already have, even if those things are immensely valuable, doesn’t usually feel like anything. The relative view only allows new acquisitions to feel strongly rewarding for a brief time, before you fully assimilate your new identity as an iPad-haver or Blundstone-wearer.

Feeling the full wealth of what you’ve already got is possible only when you measure that wealth from zero. Then you can feel its absolute value, rather than its relative value.

How to Win Friends & Influence People. Essentially, the book can be summed up into five simple steps:

1. Pay someone a genuine compliment. It has to be sincere. It can’t be a fake compliment. 

2. Ask them a question about their favorite subject, which is typically something about themselves. And then just listen, listen, listen, and listen until they’re done talking. 

3. Try and quickly assess their needs.

4. If you were trying to sell something or get something from someone, consider a trial close. Give the person a chance to either lean in or opt out. 

5. Close. The only difference between four and five is the word if in form. 

• the act of handwriting is powerful

• mental model of your thoughts in space

• notebooks as the first sociel media (Netherlands back in 1600s)

This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.