Optimal Agency

Patrick gets into the hot seat this week to discuss his HWT Score, which is a diagnostic tool we’ve created to help you assess where you’re at with your Health, Wealth, and Time-Freedom. We invite you to get your own score here.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 What the HWT Score is and why we made it

📍 The element of HWT that we’ve found most are struggling with

📍 Why we want to be careful to compare HWT scores with others

📍 Why it’s so important to stare at reality, even when it sucks

📍 Why dedicating a day to and for yourself are so essential

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This Wealth Rule is our North Star, so we’re talking about what it means to separate your time from your income, why it matters so much, and how to get started regardless of where you are today.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 Why we shouldn’t expect to make passive money by hustling harder

📍 The beauty of compounding over a long enough time horizon

📍 What the lowest hanging fruit is as it relates to this Rule

📍 How Agency is the result of doggedness, full stop

📍 Why understanding how you define “enough” is so important

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We don’t think enough about what happens when we die, but we should. This week, Jon and Patrick talk about what remembering that does for how we spend our time, build our wealth, and life our lives.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 What Swedish Death Cleaning is and why we should take it seriously

📍 One of the best ways to minimize your needs and maximize your wealth

📍 Some questions to ask yourself before you make a purchase

📍 Why buying fewer things is a radical environmental act

📍 The difference between leveraged and non-leveraged wealth

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

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We’re talking through our first rule of Health this week, explaining what cardiovascular capacity and muscle strength are, why they're both important, what they look like to follow, and how they relate to the pursuit of Agency.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 How CrossFit plays role in pursuing this particular Rule

📍 The importance of Zone 2 and Zone 5 training

📍 What training toward these ends looks like in practice

📍 Why the goal isn’t to get good at what we’re doing in the gym

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

We’re talking about why it’s important to know what we’re aiming at, the ways we work against ourselves in pursuit of our goals, and the importance of understanding the difference between internal and external benchmarks.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 Why we’re programmed very badly as a species

📍 The one big thing to measure as it relates to our agency

📍 Why it’s easy to trick ourselves out of our own goals

📍 How to be motivated by opportunity, not FOMO

📍 Why we need to discover where we’re going through movement

READ MORE:

🔗 One Big Thing

🔗 Internal vs External Benchmarks

🔗 Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

In our first episode, we’re unpacking some of the big concepts we’ll explore and work on throughout this project. We talk about the rules that guide our pursuit of freedom as well as the ultimate goal of that pursuit.

EXPECT TO LEARN:  

📍 The difference between an optimization and a maximization problem 

📍 Why we don’t want to sacrifice our health, wealth, or time for anything 

📍 Why we don’t want to prematurely optimize for impact 

📍 The equation at the heart of Optimal Agency 

📍 Why we offer rules and not suggestions  

ABOUT THE SHOW  

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.  

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email