Angela Duckworth wrote one of my favorite books... Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. In 2013 she became a MacArthur Fellow, which means she won what some call “the genius award.” This is a sizable 'no strings' attached grant to do research. Not to mention, it’s typically given to geniuses.  She is the Founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development.  She has advised the White House, the World Bank, teams in the NBA and the NFL, and CEOs of the Fortune 500.  Her TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time.  And… she is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Ph.D.  We have a deep talk about what Grit is.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• A good exercise:
  • List the top 25 things you love to do and then make two columns – On the left put your top 5 and on the right put the other 20
  • “Here’s the interesting thing – never ever, ever, ever look at the things on the right list again” 
• You’ll never regret spending time with your family
• When you’re in a situation with someone more experienced than you (like a negotiation), here’s a good thing to say – “If you were to give someone like me advice on what to say now, what advice would you give?
• The average American spends 4 hours and 40 minutes every day on their smartphone, as well as touches their phone 2,000 + times daily
• Improving 1% every day compounds and adds up to a 3780% improvement by the end of the year

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People don't talk about this enough... the life hacks that answer the bigger questions: "How can I make time for things I really love and enjoy?" "How do I get the most out of a day, a week, a year, ten years?" There are a lot of life hacks out there. But I wanted to do something different. I wanted to talk about the little tweaks I do personally to optimize my life and make it a little better bit by bit. Just 1% improvement a day compounds. And adds up to 3780% a year. So here are 6 more things you can try (that all add up) to improve your life.



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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Joe is planning to have Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, back on his podcast for a round 2
• About 50% of his Joe’s podcasts listens come from his Youtube uploads (it used to be only 10%)
• Joe accepts sponsors for his podcast, while Sam’s is supporter funded through his website
  • “My philosophy getting into advertisements was – I’m gonna do whatever the fuck I want to do, 100%, and not allow it to have any impact whatsoever on the content of my podcast. Whatever advertisers I’m going to make deals with, they need to understand there is no way I’m going to change the content of the podcast. If I lose them, I lose them. I don’t care.” – Joe
• Sam has some good thoughts on the future of digital media:
  • On Facebook, the users are the product – their attention is sold to advertisers
  • Companies like Netflix charge a subscription
  • “I’m hoping the digital future looks more like Netflix and less like Facebook”
    • “Ads have anchored everyone to the illusion of free – everyone expects their content for free”
• Your behavior at any point in time is the result of a cumulative force of influences and societal conditioning, much of which is out of your control
• A great quote from Sam:
  • “You can learn that when you suddenly feel anger, if you just pay attention to the experience of it, if you just watch the mere physiology of it, and get out of your thoughts about it, and just become interested in it….the half life of the emotion is seconds. It’s impossible to stay angry for very long if you get out of the story you’re telling yourself about why you should be angry.” 
• It’s a superpower to say to yourself – “Do I really need to stay angry about this?” or “How useful is it to stay angry about this?”
• We should be teaching children at a much earlier age how to self-regulate emotions by becoming aware of them

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Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His podcast called “Making Sense” is available on iTunes & Stitcher.

On this episode, Erik is joined by Jd Ross (@justindross), co-founder of Opendoor. They talk about a wide variety of topics, including mental models, cities, governance, travel, founding myths, and “why all of us are solely responsible for western civilization.”

They start with mental models, talking about some of the most useful mental models Jd has seen and how he identifies new ones (a mental model for mental models, if you will). They transition to talking about cities and governance, including why the Bay Area has a housing crisis, why Jd is very long on Oakland, and the policies that he would import from the UK to fix housing in the Bay Area. Jd observes that cities always endure, even through disasters and massive changes in the nation states surrounding them.

He talks about founding Opendoor, the importance of founding myths, and what he’s learned from Keith Rabois. He explains what you need to scale your company effectively and the difference between entrepreneurs and executives. He talks about some of his mental models for company building and why he says “playbooks rule everything around me.” Jd also talks about taking a sabbatical and traveling around the world twice, but in his words “learning nothing.”

They talk about what Jd is looking for in his next opportunity and how he thinks about what to pick. He says that he’s looking at how to create the most good for the human race over a 1000 year time horizon and explains how Carroll Quigley convinced him that all of us are solely responsible for western civilization. They talk about snark as a contagion in the world today, which Jd says emerges when people don’t feel empowered to make changes, so they fall back on sarcasm.

They have a rapid-fire round where they talk about different people that Jd has learned from, and also play a game of long-short, where Erik names something (fitness cults, the Bay Area, etc.) and Jd says whether he’s long or short on it.

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Tobi is an active advocate for computer literacy and education, and serves as a board member of Canada Learning Code, an organization working to give all Canadians access to digital skills. In 2014, Tobi was named The Globe and Mail's CEO of the Year. He served as Chair of the Digital Industries Table, an advisory board commissioned by the federal government to provide recommendations on how to turn Canada into a digital leader.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Writing for eyeballs (which people read) is quite different than writing for the ear (which people listen to)
  • When writing for the ear, the prose has to be much clearer and crisper
  • “You’re trying to sculpt information so it can be easily understood by the brain”
• A thought on interviewing:
  • “If the interviewer is good, they’re asking questions in a way that allows the other person to shine”
• What makes for a good conversation?
  • “If someone walks away from a conversation and they didn’t learn anything from the other person, then it wasn’t a successful conversation”
  • “A good conversation is interactive for both people. It doesn’t even allow the other person to tune out.”
  • The best model for a good conversation is a friendly game of catch
    • Why? – In a game of catch, you can’t throw more than you catch – it’s an even balance, just like a conversation should be an even balance between talking and listening
• “Consensus is the enemy of innovation”
  • Our best ideas come during times of cognitive diversity
• Listening is really hard for humans because evolutionarily, we don’t really need to listen well (our survival more so depends on how successful we are at being loud to get the attention of an adult who will helps us)
  • For other species though, the ability to listen well is actually a survival skill
• Don’t listen to reply, listen to consider and understand
• “In everyday life, even when you’re not interviewing someone, the ability to see the world through their eyes…the empathy that creates within you is a necessary component to having a really good conversation” – Shane
• A conversation tip – Try not to equate your experiences with someone else’s
• Harvard released a study a few years back finding that talking about ourselves activated the same areas of the brain as sex and heroine

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On this episode of Venture Stories, Erik is joined by Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, “an online tournament for productivity.” Prior to starting Pioneer, he founded Cue, a machine learning company that was acquired by Apple.

Erik and Daniel discuss a wide variety of topics, including why saying something is “insanely great” isn’t necessarily a compliment for a founder, how to play “the video game that is life,” why the best way to get the physique you want is to move (cities), and how Twitter has reshaped the human psyche.

They discuss Pioneer and how Daniel has thought about the decisions that went into its design. He talks about his aim of creating a “digital Ivy League campus” that harnesses the mechanics of games and applies them to more productive ends. Daniel also discusses why he says that life is like "a series of infinite games.”

They also cover a number of other topics, including how Daniel thinks about friendships, the parallels between Pioneer and religion, how Daniel would change the education system, and why people will compete against each other but cooperate against an AI. They close with a game where Erik names a number of prominent individuals and Daniel talks about what he’s learned from that person.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Jack’s goal with Twitter – Make it a place where people can learn from conversation
• Sam has some pretty good ideas for improving Twitter:
  • In addition to a “like” button, there should be a “this changed my mind” or a “I learned something from this tweet” button
    • There was a proposal at one point for the “favorite” button to be changed to the “thanks” button –This would have, in Jack’s mind, allowed people to more easily express gratitude for tweets that they found valuable
  • Twitter should implement some form of dashboard, so people would be able to see how siloed they are in terms of information – “People might not know or be aware that they’re only getting one side of a story”
• As of right now on Twitter, you can only follow an account – not an interest, a topic, or a conversation
  • Perhaps this will change in the future
• Why can’t people edit tweets?
  • It would add a significant delay into the system
    • Certain “Twittters” rely on very real time information – like NBA Twitter
  • There’s also the issue of retweets
    • If you were to tweet an idea or thought, and people were to retweet it, but then you went back to change the tweet to an opposing view…..you can see how that would be an issue for the people who retweeted the original tweet
• Twitter is thinking about implementing some sort of “clarification” function
  • This would allow people to clarify what they meant in an older tweet
• Twitter is looking into allowing users to have the ability to have more control over who replies to specific tweets
  • For example, perhaps you would be able to hide replies from the conversation that people see
• Jack views “tweeters” as the “host of a conversation”
• Donald Trump has not been banned from Twitter because…
  • “We do have a set of rules that we enforce on every account. We have an exception of newsworthiness and public interest, and we do believe that a lot of the things that people might assume Trump to have violated have a public interest aspect to them.”
• “I want to get to a world where people are walking away from Twitter feeling like they learned something new that benefits them”

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jack Dorsey about how he manages his dual CEO roles at Square and Twitter, the role that Twitter places in journalism, how it’s different from other social media, what makes a conversation healthy, the logic by which Twitter suspends people, the argument for kicking Trump off the platform, Jack’s practice of meditation, and other topics.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Here’s what Dr. Perlmutter recommends people track and measure, health wise:
  • Changes in your microbiome with uBiome
  • Your genetic data with 23andMe
  • Your vitamin D levels
  • Your fasting blood glucose levels
  • Your HA1C levels
• High homocysteine is powerful risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease
• No Alzheimer’s Disease drugs seem to be working or even reducing the rate at which people cognitively decline
  • A study a few months back, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that many Alzheimer’s drugs actually speed up the rate of cognitive decline
• Amyloid beta plaques are the response to the cognitive decline, not the cause of it
  • In clinical studies/trials, where it’s been attempted to rid the brain of beta amyloid, patients decline much more quickly
• Aerobic exercise is the best way to increase brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels
  • Baseline BDNF levels have been correlated with future risk for dementia
• We can assess the permeability of the gut by measuring levels of LPS (lipopolysaccarhide) in the blood
  • LPS levels have been found to be elevated in people with major depression, Alzheimer’s Disease, autism, and even Lou Gehrig’s Disease (also know as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS))
• “If you become a type 2 diabetic, which is by and large a choice, you have quadrupled your risk for Alzheimer’s Disease”

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Dr. David Perlmutter is a Board-Certified Neurologist and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain.  In this episode of Health Theory, he and host Tom Bilyeu discuss the important health metrics to pay attention to, how lifestyle affects health, and the importance of connection.

 

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How to use your genetics to your advantage [04:34]

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Why now is the time to prevent dementia [31:30]

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How you can actually prevent dementia [38:54]

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• The carnivore diet is really like an elimination diet – so perhaps benefits people experience, are the result of eliminating much of which causes them issues, and aren’t solely from eating 100% meat
• Marijuana seems to lower testosterone temporarily
• Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, seems to act on a lot of mTOR pathways in the body, and inhibits them
• “The skin is a mouth” – it absorbs readily what you put on it
• Get a 23andMe DNA test – it will give you a TON of useful information
• Lectins can cause certain people to have inflammatory responses to vegetables 
• Things like coffee, rosemary, and thyme, when rubbed on meat, decrease the carcinogenic aspects of the burnt/charred areas
• Try natural/man-made remedies before supplementing
• We actually have photoreceptors on our skin (this is why you should still make the room you’re sleeping in fully dark, even if you’re wearing a sleep mask)
• To reset your internal clock when traveling – Use light, food, and movement
• Ben says CBD can enhance the amount of time you spend in deep sleep 
• THC decreases sleep latency (how long it takes you to fall asleep) -but it reduces the amount of time you spend in deep sleep
• Ben says glympthatic system activity is increased when we sleep on our sides

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Ben Greenfield is a Coach, Author, Speaker, ex-Bodybuilder and Ironman Triathlete. In 2008 he was voted as the Personal Trainer of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and recognized as the top 100 Most Influential People in Health in 2013.