Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Two fundamental rules people have trouble accepting:
  • Life is suffering
  • People have the capacity to be malevolent
• Take EXTREME OWNERSHIP of your life
• A good question to ponder:
  • “How many things am I doing that I know are wrong, that I could fix, that I’m not fixing?”
• Whatever job you’re working, try to make yourself indispensable
• Meaning is found through responsibility – the more responsibilities you take on, the more meaning you’ll find in life
• Discipline Equals Freedom
  • The more discipline you have in life to get the hard things done, the more freedom you’ll have as a result

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0:00:00 - Opening

0:21:27 - Who becomes evil?  And Why?

0:31:59 - Taking ultimate responsibility.  

0:41:43 - Dangerous but disciplined.

0:59:40 - Discipline and kids psychology.

1:05:08 - How to be successful.  Breaking the loop.

2:04:42 - Self Authoring.

2:34:36 - Determining personality traits.

2:53:35 - The rise of Jordan Peterson.

3:00:29 - Using praise and rewards carefully.  Participation trophies?

3:13:25 - Support JockoStore stuff, Super Krill Oil and Joint Warfare, Origin Brand Apparel, with Jocko White Tea and Psychological Warfare (on iTunes). Extreme Ownership (book), The Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual. 

3:41:39 - Closing Gratitude. 

 

with @annieduke, @pmarca, and @smc90

Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage -- and every individual, whether for themselves or others -- makes countless decisions every day, under conditions of uncertainty. The question is, are we allowing that uncertainty to bubble to the surface, and if so, how much and when? Where does consensus, transparency, forecasting, backcasting, pre-mortems, and heck, even regret, usefully come in?Going beyond the typical discussion of focusing on process vs. outcomes and probabilistic thinking, this episode of the a16z Podcast features Thinking in Bets author Annie Duke -- one of the top poker players in the world (and World Series of Poker champ), former psychology PhD, and founder of national decision education movement How I Decide -- in conversation with Marc Andreessen and Sonal Chokshi. The episode covers everything from the role of narrative -- hagiography or takedown? -- to fighting (or embracing) evolution. How do we go from the bottom of the summit to the top of the summit to the entire landscape... and up, down, and opposite?The first step to understanding what really slows innovation down is understanding good decision-making -- because we have conflicting interests, and are sometimes even competing against future versions of ourselves (or of our organizations). And there's a set of possible futures that result from not making a decision as well. So why feel both pessimistic AND optimistic about all this??

You should be too busy to “do coffee”, while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Recommended books and resources for learning about mental models and how to think better
  • Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanac
  • “For learning about mental models, you won’t find a better resource than the Farnam Street blog
    • Shane Parish’s (creator of Farnam Street) new book – The Great Mental Models– is also a good resource
  • Check out Naval Ravikant’s How to Get Rich tweet storm and his new podcast
• “Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading, cultivate curiosity, and strive to become a little wiser every day” – Charlie Munger
• The Feynman Technique For Learning
  • Teach it to a child
    • This forces you to simplify the concepts
  • Review the material over and over until you can explain it to a child
  • Organize and simplify
    • Turn your notes into a simple story that flows
  • Transmit it 
    • Try conveying the knowledge to someone who understand the subject fairly well
• 5 Mental Models Sean Uses on a Consistent Basis
  • Asymmetries
    • Look for opportunities in life where the upside is incredible large and the downside is near negligible (or vice versa)
    • Positive examples – starting a podcast, hosting meetups, DMing people on Twitter, writing online
    • Negative examples – drunk driving, texting while driving, cheating on your taxe
  • Direction Over Speed
    • If you’re pointed in the wrong direction, it doesn’t matter how fast you’re traveling
    • If you’re locked into your desired destination, all progress is positive, no matter how small – you’ll reach your goal eventually
  • Contrast Bias
    • How we value things depends on what we compare them with
  • Second-Order Thinking
    • This is thinking which considers the second- and third-order consequences of your actions
    • For example – Eating a chocolate bar might satisfy you in the moment, but will over time create the problem of poor health
  • Inversion
    • Turning a problem on it’s head
    • If you’re trying to figure out how to live a better life, first consider what might lead to a horrible life – then avoid those things
    • “Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance”
• Parting Advice
  • Read broadly and think deeply about your own frameworks

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This solo episode unpacks some of the mental models & frameworks Sean uses to learn! 

Books 

Poor Charlie's Almanack 

Seeking Wisdom From Darwin to Munger 

The Great Mental Models 

Additional Resources 

https://fs.blog/

https://twitter.com/naval

Learning Technique- Feynman Technique 

Mental Models & Frameworks 

1. Asymmetry 

2. Direction Over Speed

3. Contrast Bias

4. Second Order Thinking 

5. Inversion 

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Podcast, author, and retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink talks about his life and philosophy.

Ben Greenfield, health & fitness expert, reminds us of simple ways to improve our health based on ancient wisdom.

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Instead of focusing on how to become successful/happy, just figure out what you need to avoid in order to do so
• Walking through a hospital makes you realize how lucky you are if you have your health
• A first principle that George thinks about often – optimizing for time and energy
  • For every opportunity, try to ask yourself- “Will this give me more time or energy?
    • If the answer no for both, don’t proceed
• It’s important to be able to hold two opposing views in your head at the same time
  • “You want black and white thinking, It’s the shades of grey where you go to die.”
• Consume more content that has stood the test of time and less of what was produced in the last 24 hours
• Systems > Goals
• “High agency behavior is THE MOST IMPORTANT personality trait out there”
  • Being high agency = being extremely resourceful 
• Look for asymmetric opportunities in life and business (where the upside is limitless and the downside is almost negligible)
  • One of George’s favorite asymmetric actions – DM’ing people on Twitter
• Look specifically for situations in life where the first-order consequences are negative, but the second and third order consequences are positive
• EMBRACE being weird
  • In order to get anywhere worthwhile in life, you need to stand out
• Doing > reading about something
  • The fastest way to learn is in the arena

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I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round interesting individual George MacGill to break down how we can make better decisions in all areas of our lives by using Mental Models.

If you imagine that your mind is an operating system, Mental Models are the apps you install into it which improve your ability to effectively make decisions. Today we are upgrading our minds by thinking about thinking, as we delve into some of mine & George's favourite mental models along with a mass of our best examples and resources.

Huge thank you to Social Chain for letting me record in their beautiful studio and Video Guy Ollie from SC HQ for filming everything.

Extra Stuff:

Follow George on Twitter - https://twitter.com/george__mack

Farnam Street Blog - https://fs.blog/

Farnam Street's 109 Mental Models - https://fs.blog/mental-models/

The Great Mental Models Book by Shane Parrish - https://amzn.to/2VijWDE

Shane Parrish on Art Of Manliness - https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/mental-models-decision-making/

The Psychology Of Human Misjudgement by Charlie Munger (full speech) - https://youtu.be/pqzcCfUglws

Why Not To Start A Startup by Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

Check out everything I recommend - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Alex Lieberman thought his career would be in finance. But he had an idea for a daily newsletter, and started building it. Today, his idea is Morning Brew — the 8-figure newsletter with 1 million subscribers. Hear Alex’s story.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• The main hormone associated with the stress response is cortisol (also known as a glucocorticoid)
  • One downstream side effect of cortisol is that it increases glucose levels in the blood (it facilitates its release from storage sites in the liver and muscle)
• “What your childhood is like has a lot to do with what sort of adult you’re going to wind up being”
  • Being stressed while pregnant leads to changes in the amygdala of your child’s brain (the part of the brain which controls emotions) (the child’s amygdala increases in size)
    • Because of this, that child will be more prone to anxiety when they get older
• Sleep and Cortisol
  • When we wake up, that’s when our cortisol levels are highest
  • Cortisol inhibits melatonin secretion
  • Elevated cortisol levels lead to less delta wave (deep) sleep
• Depression is genetic…to an extent
  • Research has shown that if you’re exposed to childhood stress/trauma AND have the specific gene variants associated with depression, there is a greatly increased chance you’ll experience depression as an adult (~20% increased risk)
• More negatives from chronic stress:
  • Chronic stress actual makes the amygdala work better than it should (neurons become more excitable and form denser networks) and increases its size
    • (This is a bad thing – it makes you more prone to negative emotions like anxiety and fear)
  • Due to the effect on the prefrontal cortex, chronic stress makes us way less empathic and reduces the control we have over our impulses

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In this episode, Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., discusses the widespread impact of stress on our physical and emotional health as well as the mechanisms by which it can precipitate chronic illness, dementia, depression, and more. He also provides insight into the factors that contribute to the stress response (and our ability to handle it) such as social rank, personality, environment, and genetics. Lastly, we discuss how our behavior is altered in the face of stress and how that not only has a pervasive effect on a personal level, but also on society as a whole in how we interact with each other. 

We discuss:

• Background, interest in stress, and Robert’s time in Kenya studying baboons [7:00];
• Physiology of a stress response, and why it’s ingrained in our DNA [14:00];
• Individual variation in the response to stress, and how everyone has a different optimal level [24:00];
• How social rank and personality differences affect our stress response [30:15];
• What’s happening in the brain when faced with stressful situations? [39:15];
• What makes the human brain different than all other species? [48:15];
• Imprinting stress to your kids epigenetically [52:00];
• The role of stress on memory and the consequences of hypercortisolemia [57:15];
• The impact of subjective socioeconomic status and social media on stress levels and health [1:01:45];
• Tips for managing stress in the modern world [1:17:45];
• What Robert learned about himself studying the social behavior of baboons [1:29:30];
• The multilayered factors behind every human behavior, the context of “good and bad,” and exploring the human capacity of the wild extremes of violence and altruism from moment to moment [1:34:30];
• PMS: How two women with identical hormone levels can have completely different emotional experiences [1:39:00];
• How much of a role do genes play in depression and other emotional states? [1:42:45];
• Why is cortisol elevated under sleep deprivation? [1:50:15];
• The impact of stress on cancer [1:54:30];
• The impact of stress on atherosclerosis, dementia, addiction, and depression [2:01:15];
• Impulsiveness, impaired judgement, and lack of empathy in times of stress [2:05:45];
• What advice would Robert give his 25-year-old self? [2:12:45]; and
• More.

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