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1. Exercise

   1. Strength (calisthenics and Isometrics)

      1. Maybe Maps Prime, Anabolic, Performance, Hypertrophy?

   2. Endurance (running and cycling)

   3. Skill (Bjj)

2. Eat healthily

   1. Mostly Plant-based to minimize inflammation 

   2.  Low-glycemic to maintain sugar levels

   3.  Enough Protein to maintain muscle mass

   4. Gut Health because of its dramatic physiological impact

3. Write

   1. This is the best way to organize your thoughts and learn how to think. It also helps with communication.

   2. Write essays about questions that you are naturally curious about. Questions that you are dying to find the answer to. A good start can be the normal day-to-day google searches. How can you turn these into essays? 

   3. Learn how to argue, respectfully. 

   4. Learn how to story tell. 

   5. Persuade (speak)

4. Code and Computation

   1. This permissionless skill will allow you to learn more about tech and build cool things at little to no cost. No education is required.

   2. Value comes from building abundance. 

5. Read

Q: What are my top 100 books? 50 books? 25? 10? 5?

Topics:

5. 1. CS

   2. Physics

   3. Design

   4. Mathematics/Logic

   5. Science

6. Wealth 

   1. Naval Ravikant: https://nav.al/rich

7. Principles to live by. 

Q: What are my top 5? 

1. Discipline = Freedom

2. Seek experiences where compound interest is your friend. 

3. Be mindful.

4. Ask yourself every day "if this was my last day on earth, am I happy living it the way I plan to?'

5. Move from Zero to One

Principles to Live By (Extended)

1. Discipline = Freedom

   1. Sisu

   2. Extreme Ownership

   3. No cheap dopamine.

2. Zero to One

   1. Reason from First Principles Thinking

      1. What is truth? Scientific method? 

   2. Specialized Knowledge

      1. Figure out what product you can provide and then figure out how to scale it (Naval, 2018).

3. The Power of Compound Interest

   1. Stop wasting your time on generating business ideas, go make some money. 

      1. Take Action

   2. Anyone can reinvent themselves in five years. Be better than who you were yesterday. 

   3. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. 

   4. Persistent and Deliberate Practice 

   5. 80/20

      1. There are no solutions, only trade-offs. You will win some here, and lose some there, but am I moving in the right direction? That's the real question. There are only three ways the human body can go: backward, stand still, or forward. People can learn to be biased towards one. Disciplined and successful individuals have a bias toward moving forward. 

   6. You'll become clever through your mistakes. 

   7. Small progressive movements towards goals. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7lF6yN2oWU)

      1. Most days are mundane. 95% of your life is mundane. It's rare that something monumental happens. 

      2. What was the most significant thing that happened to me today and how will it influence my life tomorrow?

      3. Five years to reinvent yourself. 

      4. Take the terror out of training. 

4. Mindfulness

   1. Reason from First Principles Thinking

      1. What proves something is true? Scientific method? 

5. Go about life as if it was your last day to live. Memento Mori. 

   1. Live your best adventure. 

   2. Build things.

   3. Grow your everyday skills. Read, Write, Code, Speak, and Mathematics.

   4.  Health, love, and your mission in that order (Naval).

Note: Each one of these points was at one time a stand-alone thought. However, they seemed to all fall under five principles.