Capability Amplifier

If you’re 50 or older, how would you like to feel like you’re 30 again? You can build character based on how you treat your body. Mike is 52 and Dan is 75 but their bodies and health don’t match their chronological age. Mike feels like he’s 30 and people are often really surprised when they find out how old Dan is, which leads to the conversation we are going to have today.
 How do you do it?!
 
 
 
 In this episode, we’ll get practical and tactical by diving into several areas that have helped us reach optimal health and wellness:
 
 * Fitness
 * Diet
 * Supplementation
 * Hormone Replacement Therapy
 * Health Hacks That Turn The Clock Back
 * Tech, Tools, And Equipment We Use
 * Functional/Traditional Medicine
 * Energetic Medicine
 * Our Brushes With Death And Disease (we’ve both had cancer!)
 
 For developing character and optimizing health, Mike and Dan both stick to a daily morning routine. You can learn from other people’s practices, but they’re hard to imitate because everyone does them for very specific reasons. Experiment and find what’s best for YOU.
 
 Dan’s daily recipe for his capability optimization looks like this:
 
 * Green drink with protein
 * Gym for about 80 minutes to burn 1,000 calories before breakfast
 * Meditate for 20 minutes (47 years strong!)
 * Doesn’t worry about food for the rest of the day
 * Tries to eat organic: lots of greens and fruit, fish and meat
 * Makes sure to get enough protein (because of how much he exercises)
 * Drinks mostly water and green juice with an occasional glass of wine or beer
 
 Mike's routine goes something like this:
 
 * Heads to the beach and hangs by arms on monkey bars for a full body stretch
 * Pull ups
 * Gymnastic exercises for core (push ups, crunches, and sit ups in the cold water)
 * Squat jumps
 * Runs barefoot in the ocean for 1-3 miles
 * Swims out into the ocean, flips onto his back, meditation, and WIM HOF breathing
 * Home to shower
 * Takes supplements (customized based on his blood readings)
 * Eats (organic smoothies, veggies, meat, and fish)
 * Drinks tons of water (3 quarts minimum daily)
 * BHRT (Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy - the silver bullet to get your mojo back!)
 * His whole routine can be done in 20-30 minutes!
 
 A few more health optimizing topics covered in this episode:
 
 * Tricks and “Unfair Advantage Hacks”
 * Peptide and protein supplements
 * Muscle is the key to everything! (balance, metabolism, energy, and motivation)
 * Measurement and reporting are key to making progress
 * The importance of getting your blood work done
 * Finding a good, functional medical physician
 * Age-reversing technology (get a free copy of Dan’s guide.)

Here are some of the tools, tech, and resources we’ve found to be highly beneficial:

* Wim Hof Inhalation and Exhalation exercises
* Peloton Exercise Bike
* The Vasper
* Muse 2 Meditation Device
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Personal and business reinvention doesn’t always have to be painful. Virtually every billionaire entrepreneur has a “Phoenix Rising” story about how they made and lost millions before they had their big break.
 Mike admits he’s rarely spoken publicly about it for fear that his customers and employees would abandon him, but he’s been on the edge of financial disaster more times than he cares to admit.
 Learning how to predict, anticipate, or control the variables or learn how to live and deal with the stress of building and growing a company is what determines the character of an entrepreneur. Resilience!
 The thought of leaving behind what you have in order to do something different can be scary, but it's something that practically every entrepreneur has been forced to do because a market or entire industry changes or disappears. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs talk about how reinventing yourself is a logical and necessary step, and how it can benefit you and others.
 Here are a few key points Dan and Mike talk about:
 
 The products we want: An interesting distinction Dan and Mike have found is “we all write the book we need to read” and “we all make the products we want to buy.”
 
 Transparent and honest: Your objective as an entrepreneur (and both your personal and company brand) is to be as transparent and honest as possible in such a way that someone is attracted to and sees all aspects of you in a very authentic way.
 
 For others: You can direct the capabilities and strategies you've acquired toward helping other people do what you've already done for yourself.
 
 Fewer and deeper: It might be that you can impact a lot more people by impacting fewer people more deeply. Transformational products, services, and brands don’t always require “narrow and wide” market penetration to cause massive change.
 
 Personal realm: Often, the biggest catalyst for growth in an individual comes from igniting a personal transformation.
 
 Who you are: When you figure out your greatest value as a human being, you can get paid for who you are as opposed to what you do or what you know. This requires constant tweaking and market testing.
 
 Keeping score: Not everything in business is about money, but money can be a way of keeping score.
 
 Reacting and adding: Being a great entrepreneur means reacting and responding to the marketplace and trying your best to add some scientific principles and wisdom.
 
 Reinventing ability: As an entrepreneur, you have the ability to reinvent and to rewrite the rules of who you are and how you're going to behave.
 
 Without prep: If you're cooperating and creating with the right people, you can create magic without very much preparation. Dan and Mike are both big improvisers and have managed to create businesses that thrive on their unique capability to create on the fly and produce products and services their clients love to buy.
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Too often, we meet people and think it would be beneficial to have some kind of relationship with them, but then we learn down the line that it was a bad idea. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs share questions to ask to make sure that someone you meet is a good person to get involved with.
 Technology for relationships: Good technology enhances your ability to have great relationships.
 
 Four criteria: There are four criteria you can use as filters for relationships: 1. Do you like the person? 2. Do you trust the person? 3. Do you admire what they've created? 4. Do you respect the way they’ve gone about growing what they’ve created?
 
 More expensive: The expense it costs to get out of a bad relationship outweighs any benefit you might get at the front end.
 
 Passion questions: You can learn a lot about someone if you get them to talk about what they're really passionate about.
 
 No trust: If someone declines to answer a question about their future goals, it might mean they want to get information from you but they don't trust you.
 
 Good attitude: A person who has an attitude of, “I’m buying future experiences, and I'm very careful about who I get involved with” tends to do well.
 
 Positive or negative: If someone can’t accept positive feedback, they might not be able to accept negative feedback either.

There’s an element in humanity that might be even more important than systems such as capitalism, socialism, and marketplace organization. In this episode, Mike Koenigs and Dan Sullivan talk about Capableism, the natural desire in all humans to grow their capabilities.
 Natural desire: Every individual, regardless of where they are, is born with a natural desire to expand their capabilities in any way they can.
 
 Capability systems: Systems like capitalism, socialism, science, and technology are ways of channeling many individual capabilities in order to produce much bigger results that can serve everybody.
 
 Unhappiness prevention: When people attempt to prevent or control the combining of capabilities, a great deal of unhappiness results.
 
 Must cooperate: Because each individual engages in teamwork for their own purposes, they have to cooperate with other people to get what they want.
 
 Teamwork places: People like to be in places with massive, spontaneous teamwork.
 
 Jumps in teamwork: The biggest jumps that entrepreneurs take in their careers are when they're in teamwork with other people and produce a bigger result than they could achieve by themselves.
 
 Bigger world: We love people who give us a bigger framework in which to demonstrate our skills.
 
 Investment for growth: We invest in other people, and the return we’re looking for is mutual growth.
 
 Willing to ask: Being a capable person includes being willing to ask for help and knowing that doesn’t mean you’re not capable.
 
 Spills over: What you learn from one relationship automatically spills over to all of your relationships.

Download the Dream 100 Manifestation Template that we discussed in this episode!
Many entrepreneurs sell themselves short and end up being limited by their situations. In this episode, Mike Koenigs and Dan Sullivan talk about how to identify and then share feelings and values in a way that will increase people’s perception of your value.
No longer served: It often happens that someone realizes that the constraints of their current situation no longer serve them.
 
Takes courage: Even when you’re unsatisfied with a situation, it takes courage to leave it because you don't know how things will turn out.
 
Resonance needed: If you’re living a business life of no compromise, you have to feel like you’re resonant with those you work with.
 
Paid for: You get paid for doing, then you get paid for knowing, and then you get paid for who you are.
 
Own stories: While some people need to be part of someone else’s story, entrepreneurs have confidence in their own personal stories.
 
Ideal of yourself: It might be that the type of client you want to attract is your highest idealized version of yourself.
 
Our product: We all create the product we need for ourselves.
 
Coaching importance: Coaching is as important in the 21st century as management was in the 20th century.
 
Feelings in advance: Just by crafting words, you can let people experience the feelings they desire ahead of time.
 
More valuable: Experiences are more valuable than any product or service.

Some of the rules we’ve gotten used to no longer apply, and the world is going to continue to change. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs talk about how to adapt and reinvent yourself so that you always come out on top.
 No normality: Things will not remain stable or “normal,” but humanity will always adapt.
 
 Loss and opportunity: Society is going to be rocked by artificial intelligence entering the workplace and making jobs disappear quickly while also creating opportunity. Reinvention and innovation will be rewarded more than ever before.
 
 Broken contract: Americans have had a sort of social contract since the Second World War saying that no matter how much money you spend on higher education, the future’s going to pay it back. But it’s not true anymore.
 
 More chaos: Many people think of the use of mobile phones as a grounding mechanism, but it really just creates more chaos and more addiction.
 
 Recognizing chaos: The ability to reinvent and create massive value for oneself is a process of recognizing and realizing that society as a whole is addicted to chaos, and that chaos is the enemy of innovation and peace.
 
 Valueless commodity: It used to be that if you did well in school, the world would take care of you. Now, it’s easy to simply become a drone and a commodity, and the world doesn’t value commodities at all.
 
 Inherent value: The best situation is to prize yourself and be prized by a category, for your value to be inherent. This can be done by creating a category for yourself that you own and dominate.
 
 Telling stories: The telling of stories is increasingly crucial to reinventing yourself. The ground underfoot can change one day, but if you’re quick-minded, you can start telling a different story and stay upright.
 
 Reinvent and expand: A fundamental part of expanding your capabilities is being able to reinvent yourself.

Everyone wants to do bigger and bigger things, but they have to be thinking in the right way first. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs talk about the mindsets necessary to grow, to reinvent, and to maybe even dominate a category of business.
 Positive domination: Anyone who creates a brand new capability will dominate a category, and it’s transformative to many others if they’re dominating it enough to create a lot of good for other people.
 
 Two approaches: You can see a category dominator either as a threat or as something that can amplify your own capability.
 
 Negative connotation: “Domination” can have a negative connotation for people who have been dominated recently or for people who have been dominators themselves and then lost that power.
 
 Great story: For category domination, everything that you do in connecting with and communicating with the world has to be supported by a great story.
 
 Human qualities: To differentiate yourself in this digital world, you have to do it on the basis of desirable human qualities that you not only show but actually live.
 
 Starting point: The starting point for reinventing yourself is to get clear on the mindsets of the kind of people you want to create value for.
 
 A higher level: If you look at the best relationships you’ve had in your life, you’re seeing qualities outside of yourself that you’d like to take to a higher level for yourself.

Being aware of coming changes can help you find the biggest opportunities. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs talk about technologies that will be making huge impacts in industries in the not-too-distant future.
 World multiplier: Who you are at your best is being multiplied by the world around you.
 
 Category domination: Find a unique way of telling your story so that people instantly acknowledge and recognize you as an authority, expert, and thought leader. This allows you to charge premiums, command the stage, and command the media.
 
 Worldwide upsides: Overall, the global population is better off than ever before, and abundance is a key part of that.
 
 Humanity is bigger: Humanity will always be bigger than anything that humans create. What we do is use technologies to grow.
 
 A big shift: A shift in context, language, and category changes people’s behavior and their thinking structure.

Dan Sullivan and Mike Koenigs set out to help you expand your business and your personal life, and provide helpful tips, ideas, and strategies with examples to get you there.
 Natural desire: Every human being has a desire to increase their capability, however possible.
 
 Be interested: People who are very interested are also very interesting.
 
 Find opportunities: While artificial intelligence representing the new frontier might mean the loss of many jobs, it also means the creation of many new opportunities.
 
 Perceive your value: As someone increases their skills over time, they don’t always perceive their own value as having increased as much as their customers’ perception of their value has.
 
 Earn more time: If you double your prices and get better customers, you’ll have more time to think, create, and manifest.
 
 The bottom 80%: A worldwide survey showed that when organized by profitability, the bottom 80% of customers that accounting firms worked with were actually costing the firms money to work with them.
 
 Bigger game: Dropping the bottom 80% of your clients not only frees you from something unprofitable and uninteresting, it also lets you jump into bigger opportunities and play a bigger game.
 
 Best 20%: Looking at your most profitable clients, figure out what activities you love doing most and if there could be a business in doing only that. This formula can be applied to anything.
 
 Good questions: Ask questions that reveal what someone is interested in and passionate about and, more importantly, what they see value in and where there’s a history of repeated value.
 
 Always evolve: In any capital-intensive, evolutionary, entrepreneurial business, you’ll either outgrow your customers or your customers will outgrow you. You have to decide to elevate, escalate, and evolve on an ongoing basis.
 
 Grow in relationships: If you admire someone else’s growth, and they reciprocate, the relationship will last forever.
 
 Handling change: To be great at dealing with change, you have to be a master of knowing what won’t change.