Question: What would you do if you had zero fear of judgment?

Framework: Truth Tellers

A "mental model" is a way to think about the world. The world is infinitely complex, so the aim of any good model is to provide a lens through which you can simplify, evaluate, and make decisions as you walk through life.

The Winner's Game vs. Loser's Game is a mental model with powerful applications for your career, business, investing, and life. A Winner's Game is won through incredible shots. A Loser's Game is won through avoiding unforced errors. Most games of life are Loser's Games.

Two lessons to apply: (1) Avoid the Complexity Trap and (2) Embrace Self-Awareness.

Question: If you hired the best CEO in the world to be the CEO of your life, what actions would be on their 100-day plan?

Framework: Return on Luck

Here's an interesting thought: Failure is a skill. But unfortunately, failure is not a skill that any of us learn to develop in school. In fact, people who are high achievers throughout their school years are often the worst at failure in early adulthood, because they've never had to contend with it.

The system I developed to fail better—to handle, deconstruct, and use every single failure to set the conditions for future success: (1) Set a failure timer, (2) Become a scientist, (3) Time travel to the future, and (4) Take action.

Your entire life will change the moment you stop fearing failure as a foe and start embracing failure as a friend.

Question: If you were writing the story of your life, what would the current chapter be called?

Framework: The Einstellung Effect

Last week, I came across a beautiful story that impacted me so deeply that I found myself telling everyone about it. Each time I did, I saw their eyes light up as the lesson struck a chord deep within.

The lesson of the story: You choose your own worth.

You can choose to place yourself in environments where people will see you for your highest potential. You can choose how you treat yourself. You can choose your value.

This is the most important choice of your life. Choose wisely.

Question: Cheap is expensive.

Framework: The man, the boy, and the donkey.

Being a father has been my highest calling—my son has brought a joy and purpose into my life that I didn't think I'd ever find.

With last Sunday being Father's Day, I spent time reflecting on the lessons, life principles, and values that I want to pass on to my son.

I am as imperfect as they come, but in my eyes, he is perfect. So, consider these the lessons from an imperfect father to his perfect son...

Question: One decision to remove hundreds.

Framework: The PO Creativity Method.

Albert Einstein devoted three years of his life to deep focus on the specific task of generalizing his theory of relativity. He didn't work on ten things during this period—he directed all of his precious attention to the one thing that really mattered.

Attention Residue is the scientific concept that there is a cognitive switching cost to shifting your attention from one task to another. When your attention is shifted, there is a "residue" that remains with the prior task and impairs your cognitive performance on the new task.

To fight back, here are 4 strategies you can implement today: (1) Create a boot-up sequence, (2) Schedule focus blocks, (3) Take a walk, and (4) Leverage Parkinson's Law.