Your Prime Is Still To Come, The Truth About Inconvenience, The Most Talented Youtube Video Ever Seen, and The Important Difference Between Lion and Field Mice
Truth #1: Your Prime Is Yet To Come
What makes social media toxic to your mind? It breeds comparison. It's easy to get discouraged when all you see on your timeline is young killers seemingly at the top of their game. (Replace young millionares with the Jones's and the effect is the same)
Here's the truth about age and impact. People enter their primes at different times.
Winston Churchill was 65 when he entered his prime (and made his biggest impact on the world). Mark Cuban started Micro-solutions after 5+ years of f*cking around at age 28. Broadcast.com at 33. Bezos started his first business at 30. (not counting his summer camp for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders). And my boy DC was 38 w/ 4 kids pounding out the best young UFC light heavyweight contenders in the world. (Pause)
That feeling of being behind? It's in your head. They are not you and thus comparing yourself to them is pointless. It's never too late to swing for the fences.
Truth #1: Inconvenience is a byproduct of freedom
I avoid grocery stores, airports, and traffic like the plague.
Why?
Inconvenience. Walking around a grocery store trying to find an item is my version of nails scratching on chalkboard. Wasted time is a full dosage of anxiety for my brain.
But then I had a realization (thanks to last week's pages from the Gulag Archipelago).
Inconveniences are a byproduct of freedom.
Imagine getting frustrated in a grocery store after working long hours for your daily 12oz serving of bread.
Or anger at traffic while riding in the back seat of a bus on the way to the collective farm you've wasted away at for the last 20 years?
It would be inconceivable.
Why not take a moment to appreciate your freedom the next time you experience an inconvenience?
Video I'm Watching: Michael Jackson On Fire Diorama by Bobby Fingers.
I have a promise for you. You have never seen a video like this. This video exists in a category of one.
This Irish man is one of the most talented individuals I've ever witnessed. Let me know which plot twist was your favorite.
Passage I'm re-reading: Are You Hunting Antelope or Field Mice?
I picked this up from a Tim Ferris blog post. This question's original source?
12 secrets of the war room, a book written by Bill Clinton's former political strategists. They shared an appreciation for the effectives of an influential political opponent - Newt Gingrich. Newt was a Washington DC power broker and former speaker of the US House of Representatives. and now is an iWashington DC Political opponent Newt Gingrich.
This was his go-to illustration for how to make a massive impact:
"A lion is fully capable of capturing, killing, and eating a field mouse. But it turns out that the energy required to do so exceeds the caloric content of the mouse itself. So a lion that spent its day hunting and eating field mice would slowly starve to death. A lion can’t live on field mice. A lion needs antelope. Antelope are big animals. They take more speed and strength to capture and kill, and once killed, they provide a feast for the lion and her pride. A lion can live a long and happy life on a diet of antelope. The distinction is important. Are you spending all your time and exhausting all your energy catching field mice? In the short term it might give you a nice, rewarding feeling. But in the long run you’re going to die. So ask yourself at the end of the day, “Did I spend today chasing mice or hunting antelope?”
Time to hunt.
