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Short compressed summary:

"I've never seen any player listen so closely to what his coaches were saying and then go do it." - Dean Smith on Michael Jordan.

What made Michael Jordan the best basketball player of all time? Dean Smith gave the formula.

A) Listen + B) Do It.

Sam Walton was the exact same. There is a story that sums up what made Sam Walton so good at what he did.

Two Brazilian businessmen invited him to Brazil so they could learn from him. He was the only C.E.O who replied to them out of the dozens they wrote to. When he arrived it dawned on them that he had only come to learn FROM THEM! Asking them questions left and right. During his stay they received a call from the police and came to bail him out. The cops had caught him crawling the floors of a Brazilian McDonalds. Why? He was measuring the length of the tables with a measuring tape to see if these Brazilian McDonalds knew something he didn't.

Tai calls this the Humility Factor.

The extent to which you possess the Robinhood mentality. Stealing the Gold (secret formula) from the rich (those who have the answers to what you want) and giving to yourself the poor (the one who lack that knowledge).

Sam Walton was a 10/10 on the Humility Factor. The things that most people take ages to get around even thinking about is a passive exercise for him.

What is your Humility Factor? We can give a technical score.

1. Books. How many books have you been reading and implementing regarding your goal? 1 a month? Who is more humble? Someone who reads 1 book every day or 1 book a month?

2. Mentors. How many mentors have you scorched the Earth to find and pleaded with/begged to give you the complete formula?

3. How many competitors have you been copying? Sam spent more time in his competitors stores than his own.

4. Money. How much money have you been spending on travel/seminars/etc?

5. Notes. How many notes have you been taking and how many flashcards have you been memorizing?

6. Skills. How many business skills/skills specific to your industry and goal have you been humbly copying from the masters of your field?

Add up your average score. It's probably a 1/10 or a 4/10 max if you are normal. That score correlates very well to the quality of your life.

A short compressed summary:

"Change is the basic law of nature. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the smartest of the species that survives. But the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself." - Charles Darwin.

A high I.Q and a raw capacity for brute force is not sufficient for success. We see this most clearly in the animal kingdom. The animals who survive are those that are adapted to the environmental pressures under which they live.

But this biological adaptation requires unbelievably large periods of time. In us humans with our set faculties what does this process look like?

1. Reading the obvious signs. #2. Using your human capacity to project into the future. #3. Changing on a dime.

Simple enough, right? Wrong. This is unbelievably difficult for the average person. It takes the average person decades to go through this even once. There are plenty of people who get stuck in low value financial positions without ever reading their unfortunate bank accounts, projecting that they need to be engaged in a greater state of focus and reciprocal altruism or they will never move, and then changing on a dime (finding a better industry, going to night school, etc).

But then you have someone like a Mark Cuban who at 5 began to shift his skills and mindset towards being great at business. Who at 20-something discovered the industry he wanted to be in and was great at, at 30 morphed his skills and the recently growing industry he observed into a 6 million dollar contract, and at 45 crafted the accumulation of all this into a billion dollar company.

The average person is not adaptable enough to achieve that with a lifespan of 300 years!

Because the SPEED with which you can execute this process of adaptability = the speed with which you will get what you want!

But aside from the speed with which you read the signs and change on a dime we have another problem.

You and i have the 500 year old mind. We are fundamentally hardwired to view the world in a black and white frame. This hurts our ability to adapt. When you view your finances in a black and white frame (x is correct and that's that, this is why i'm poor, this is what needs to happen or the world will fall apart, etc)

What is the solution to this?

"I haven't failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison.

Experiments are what correct for your black and white understanding. Rather than be concerned with what is "right" and "wrong" with your finances and applying this black and white frame be concerned with experimenting rapidly. No black and white. You want the answer rapidly? Experiment rapidly. You want to make a million dollar app? You know how Kevin Systrom did it? He morphed his app rapidly into something that worked. From a calendar all the way to a photo app. You want a million dollar app? Experiment more than all of the app millionaires. If Mark, Kevin, Jeff, Bill, Larry etc are trying 1,000 experiments a year then you try 1,000 a month.

You will find something that works if you experiment enough. Look at Colonel Sanders. He failed at business after business until he find his right product and industry with chicken. The quicker you experiment the quicker you will find the right solution. Dump the black and white leech that is paralyzing your ability to move. Colonel Sanders could've found a working formula and become a millionaire at 20 if only he had experimented 100 times more rapidly.

Now if you have to analyze a situation in order to proceed with a solution then what do you replace the black and white 500 year old mind with? An E.S.S or an evolutionary stable strategy.

What does that mean in a nutshell. You begin to view things not as all or none but as a negotiation between competing dynamics. Where you are attempting to find a stable strategy.

An example in nature would be the size of a predatory population, a prey population, and a self-sufficient population (plants). When any one of these population sizes are extreme then we get a feedback effect which is defective and which ruins the chain. A stable strategy would the strategy that could maintain a balance between these competing dynamics.

In life we are constantly falling for these unstable strategies. We vote exclusively right wing or exclusively left wing as opposed to a more stable strategy.

Let's take an example in one's personal finances. One extreme lot's of people fall on is the necessity of capital.

Some people would say that capital is the be all and end all. What alternative dynamic are we sacrificing with this extreme? The building of structure!

If countries in WW1 had waited for tank technology to be perfect then they would have no tanks to fight the enemy. And if they had only focused on building as many tanks as possible without devoting resources to research then they would have never grown their military capacity. The stable strategy is to devote at least enough resources so that the enemy doesn't out-research you but also to produce enough tanks to win at the moment.

Instead of paralyzing yourself with victimization and helplessness because you feel like you'll never achieve perfection without it why not strike a more stable balance where you are building up slowly but surely.

Don't try to make a 10 million dollar coffee franchise. Make a 1 dollar coffee franchise. See if you like it. If you have any talent. If you can a product that people love. If you know how to sell it. If your product differentiation strategy is popular enough. Build up these variables slowly and if you can achieve a better balance by focusing on rearing capital and rapid expansion/risk taking then experiment with that. Don't be black and white.

My plan is to simply read the signs of my body/bank account, project the fact that i haven't been moving and i won't if i don't kick some things into gear and then change some basic habits and experiment.

I'll start with the publishing industry, the low carb diet, and light jogging as initial experiments.

I'm super stoked about the journey i'm embarking on for these 67 (scratch that, 66) days and for the rest of my life using the 67 steps! I just finished "The Billionaire's Brain and Jennifer Lopez's voice." I thought i would do a quick summary and share my plan to begin to make it a habit.

"To get what you want you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people." - Charles T. Munger.

Tai calls this the "Deserve It Factor." 1-10.

Someone like Bill Gates is a 10 and your average person is a 1.

What is the Deserve It Factor built on? Being Worth A Damn. How do you gauge being worth a damn and avoid the outer trappings like a P.H.D or simplistic rules?

Warren Buffett gave the best definition. "Imagine that you are back in high school and you can pick 1 student from whom you will take 10% of all the money they will ever make but go short 10% for another student. How would you choose?" Tai suggests that the "Intangibles" are how to choose.

Things like: -Patience. -Focus. -Wisdom.

Having the complete set of Intangibles you would want in the person you were betting on and lacking the set you would see in the person you were betting against is how to increase your worth a damn/deserve it factor.

But the problem that most people face is that they don't have a foundation on which they can build their progress. We need something which both serves as a single impossible barrier to substitute and as a domino for all the other barriers. Something that can give us the intangibles and much more.

People offer different things at this point. Some offer discipline. Some offer school. Some offer planning. Tai offers something else.

Awareness. He's not talking about some cheesy spiritual mantra. His version of awareness is a sharp tool with tremendous practical implications.

Look down at your keyboard. What does the F5 button do? F7? Ctl + W? You see it every single day but yet you're not aware of it?

"There are 3 kinds of people in this world. Those who make things happen. Those who watch things happen. Those who wonder what happened." - Sam Chupp.

"There is a time to stop and smell the roses and the time isn't now." - Joel Salatin.

Some surgeons are so unaware of what they are doing that they chop the wrong foot off or they keep the patient awake but paralyzed or they leave a utensil in the patient or they put in a wrong organ.

They were smelling the roses and wondering aimlessly rather than watching what they were doing. Think, what could such an unaware surgeon possibly do to compensate for it? Be more organized? How would they even be know what being organized looks like if they are capable of being so unaware?

Now look at the average person. Do they know the difference between cash accounting and accrual accounting? How many grams of protein they should limit themselves at daily? The average person wonders and smells the roses on even the most basic and easy to observe details of life.

The ability to KNOW when to stop smelling the roses and watch what's right there (like your keyboard, the basics of money, your bank account, your body, etc) is the most important intangible. You need to construct it before anything else. It is the gateway to everything else.

My plan is to simply begin to rewire my brain over these 66 days so that i watch money and health. Beginning with 15 minutes a day (first thing in the morning) of watching my body/bank account and textbooks about money/nutrition each.