Saturday Seven's : Sat 18 March
A compilation of my findings, interests, and actions from the past week that might be of interest to you. It allows me to share the results of my weekly routine, and you can follow too!
Hello you!
Here you will find my findings from this past week, things I’m thinking about, and discovering. If you enjoy it, feel free to forward this along to friends (they might enjoy it too!).
This weeks youtube video:
What I’m currently reading:
“The illusion of money.” - Kyle Cease
“What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence” - Stephen A Schwarzman
What I’ve listened to:
Audible book I’ve listened to:
The best of Les Brown (audio collection) - Les Brown
Quotes I’ve liked:
“Those who tell the stories rule the world.” - Plato
“If it gets easy, it becomes less interesting.” - Peter Jackson
“Once we begin to understand that we are the source of what we’re looking for instead of in lack of what we’re looking for, life will begin to bring all the things we used to chase back to us as a by-product.” - Kyle Cease
“Money is never the cause of the way you feel; it’s an effect.” - Kyle Cease
“It’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.” - Bill Watterson
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”―Bill Gates
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…”. - Rumi
“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sigh. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.” - Steven Pressfield
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” - Michael Phelps
“Success is never so interesting as struggle - not even to the successful.” - Willa Cather
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” - Henry Ford
This week’s curiosities, interests, and thoughts:
Thoughts:
Do less, but do it better. Make decisions to focus 100% on what you’re doing here and now. No matter how hard it may be, and don’t seek other things. Become too big for your current space. Don’t seek to be elsewhere. Seek to be of higher worth right here. Having more than one thing to do, and trying to master multiple things, is a waste of time and energy. Striving for something, no matter how bright and shiny it is, if its for the wrong reasons, you’re going the wrong way. It will feel off. There is no need to spread yourself thin. Seek to do what you are doing well. Don’t throw away an opportunity to better your life to impress people.
We aim multiple things, because we don’t fully believe in ourselves accomplishing what we’re aiming, we’re not fully invested. “If this doesn’t workout then… I’ll have plan b, c, d, to fall back on…”. Master one skillset and then change direction. Failure is part of the learning curve. If you haven’t mastered it, you cannot move on.
Don’t seek to start a side-gig when you don’t even have the capacity of entertaining a gig. Strive to get skills first. Then when you’re established, do whatever side-gig you want. Before then you’re just wasting your time.
He who rules the future, rules the present. If you rule the present, become the person who’s vision of the future is 1) the most compelling 2) the most achievable possible ( you have to be able to achieve it) 3) the most exciting. To rule the future, you must first and foremost know what is possible ‘without limitations’, you must also have an open mind as to what is highly probable, be open to the eventuality of black-swan events that shift the course of humanity, and of course to be concretely certain of where the world is going. If you know peoples needs, and what the world craves, you can gain insight into peoples incentives to do what they do.
Pain is fuel, Vision is direction. Action is decision. Momentum is continuity.
The past is a reference. The future is your possibility.I’ll tell you a secret. Success doesn’t come from the material. It comes from the skills and mindset you develop. It doesn’t come from the car, the soccer boots, or the new iPhone you're clamoring after. It comes from you being great. If you’re terrible at what you do, it’s probable that your results will be too.
Banks need major transparency:
Customer vaults → For stable currency of value.
And the possibility for banks to interact with customers to propose the possibility of loaning customers acquired capital/value for a profit.
OR
Giving customers the option of Declining capital risk. Which creates a more stable system based on trust.Customers want transparency over what their banks are doing with their funds. Rather than having banks take the decisions, rather than having banks take risks with our funds for 1). A minimum ROI interest rate for us. 2). Lend to people with our funds without our consent, which creates massive profits for them and none or very little for us consumers. 3) Lack of responsibility when it comes to the GAP they create between lending to people. The GAP is the reason we have bubbles and economic recessions and 300 Trillion global debt. To who? Ourselves? To nature?
The main thing is to allocate time to executing doing things and in order to do things well, we must learn about them first:
A)Make a list: what to learn?
B)Make a decision from A): Most important and urgent to learn?
C)Make a time reference of events + likely opportunities to come.
D)Make a list of decisions of things to concentrate on in relation to C) those events and opportunities.
Execution + Discipline can only be applied if we have clarity and decision.
Your priorities = your time. If you don’t have time for dating = it’s not a priority.
Why do you want that new phone?
First of all, does your old phone still work? What is ‘wrong’ with it?
Why we want a new phone: we want better communication abilities. But these won’t get better with a newer phone. If you have power problems, change the battery or reinitialize it.
Your current way of Communicating with others = pain.
So if you have a pain around communicating with others, there is a need to be in a group, to be accepted, to be embraced, to be special, to be worthy…What does the phone represent to you? Do you think you’ll be loved, accepted, cherished if you have a new phone? How will your life actually improve if you buy it?
Perhaps a better question to ask is, How can I better myself to produce the results I want?
If you had to spend all of your money because it was going to loose all its value and you’d get more if you let go of it; what would you spend it on, and why?
Write a letter to ‘Money’ as if it is a person, and have a conversation with it. See where this leads you.
When faced with an abundance of options, we are drawn to the rational decision.
Mental paradigms:
Nutrients over taste = health.
Taste over nutrients = Experience
Performance over comfort = optimizing for results.
Execution over Emotion = Performance over comfort.
… Fill in the blank for what ever paradigm you’re striving for.
What is a daily routine you’d be happy to repeat every single day without fail and never want a holiday from? If you can determine specific habits, actions that you are okay to take every single day and that fill you up and make you better, what would they be? What do they accumulate to and what does their compounding result look like?
School defines learning as our ability to retain.
But learning is our ability to comprehend and think. This also defines how sharp we are, if we have a clear purpose or if we feel lost. If I can’t think straight, or if I’m not clear, its because I don’t understand. If I don’t understand, I feel lost.
Indoctrination + Retention without a clear future/ vision to go to = LOST.
Learning + Thinking = Clear future to go towards = Purpose driven.
You must have your own train of thoughts, not faster, not slower, but your own. And if you don’t have mental momentum and continuity, you’re off track and serving someone else’s plan. You’re living in their frame, you become a sidekick actor, rather than the hero.
Habit of FOCUS:
To focus for long periods → Depends on the decision to do so → Creates the momentum to focus well → The decision to focus → Stay on task → Constance → Consolidation → Sharpness → Progress → Self-confidence → Happiness.
The Belief paradigm:
The religion belief system you choose to adopt directly influences the life you believe you can life right now and in your future. → Your future defines directly the actions you take right now → The actions you take right now create the future that you want (if correctly aligned).
Modular religion: [Create your own religion like a lego statue]
Create future models, life structures that fit the outcome you would like to produce. → Add models and pick the life outcomes with God supporting you. If you create a belief system, of which the effects are beneficial to everyone then everyone wins.
If you believe in karma, then your actions will reflect that. If you believe that if you ‘sin’ you’ll go to inferno, then you will strive to do good. If you believe that there are no repercussions to bad actions, you will do anything you want, because you’ll believe the other shoe will ‘never drop’. Whatever you believe in will influence the style of life you live. Hence why atheists tend to be highly rational although very low on faith in external situations “the average IQ of atheists was 6 points higher than the average IQ of non-atheists”. Although I’m not preaching for atheism, or any other religion or none-religion out there, what I am saying is that maybe it’s worth defining a form of faith that molds our belief system and perhaps there are belief systems that are worth integrating into our lives. If it can shape the form of success we garner, why not? Why not entertain the thought of a modular unique form of faith that the individual creates himself based upon a specific structure, like a kid with Lego blocks?
The things you ‘Lack’ right now, should not define the actions you take in your present.
The feeling of Lack withdraws from your ability/confidence/belief to do a great job with what you have at hand. → If you make decisions to get money → You will miss out on the actions you need to take to be Free of the dependence of money (or the fear of not having it).
Lack of money should not force you towards situations where you’re “in need of money”. Rather, your belief should be ‘what will attract money?’. Like women, when you’re not begging for their attention and don’t care if you lose them, money is also interested if you don’t mind losing it/ or don’t fear losing it.
Always function from the vantage point of not needing more than you have. Maximize the outcome with what you have. If you’re “In need”, by definition, you’re in lack, and you’ll attract the circumstances that translate your thoughts: “Lack”. Chances are, you have a lot more than you think, you just have to be grateful for what you have at your disposal: open your eyes.
“For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”
- Matthew 25:29 New King James Version (NKJV)
Create a compelling future to go towards. An alternate reality that does not yet exist, or even that does exist but you’re not aligned with yet. And then repeat that future to yourself, and start taking present actions.
“Those who tell the stories rule the world.” [Because those who tell the stories define the future]
To define The future :
Where is the world going in the next 40 years?What is inevitable?
What is highly probable?
What tools do we already have?
What advancements could we see by combining all our current tools (A.I., Quantum computing, investment banking…)?
What does the world most need?
What needs to stop and come to an end?
What do people need?
What are people conscious of?
What is human nature and what is the most probable outcome that will arise from advancements x innovation x creativity x natural resources?
What is outdated? What is crumbling? What is on its way out the door?
What makes people angry/ what do they hate? What do people find pleasurable? What is the global pain to pleasure direction humanity is heading?
We get angry at ourselves for missing out on a financial opportunity (stock goes up as we predicted, a business takes off, and so on.) because we don’t have the skills (or the right skills) to earn money. So our entire survival depends upon succeeding in that one opportunity. And if we fuck it up, our chances of getting money and all the benefits seem to be ‘gone’. The pleasurable potential future: Gone.
Choose a specific focus direction. Don’t do tasks that don’t make sense. (Unrelated, uninteresting, urgent but not important, distracting, unproductive, entertaining, survival based…) such as internet search, fixing laptop, buying ‘that thing on amazon’, stocks investing, texting, tidying, … because this has nothing to do with the tasks related to your goals.
You must be unwilling to compromise on doing what you know is in your best interest.
Retention of desires + Prevention of spontaneous/unmastered thoughts that create ‘the desires’, while having a desired outcome (planned in advance), and structure your thought process. → Fortify the direction you have chosen with discipline, hardwork, consistency, repetition. => You are in control.
ON LEARNING:
For me learning means:
Having enough references, sources and angles, the comprehension of what does what, and why. Enough to describe it in my own words. Points of reference to relate, compare, and fit together in the mind puzzle.
→ My own words → My own comprehension with my own references.
If you can’t find points of relation to what you already know, it will seem foreign to you and so it will be difficult to comprehend.
If it fits together = you understand.No one ever taught me how to learn. So I wasn’t sure of how to learn things, so I failed in school at first because school taught me that learning = to remember. While in real life, learning is to understand how it works and how to implement it well.
Questions:
How can I - instead of keeping up with what is happening - remain ahead of the pack?
Are you one track minded? Do you practice a positive single point of focus every single day?
You have to be rigid in going towards the vision you have for your goal. ‘How can I excel at what I am aiming to do?’
You can also give me your feedback on Twitter @check_goldberg. What did you like most about this week’s findings? What would you like more or less of in this newsletter? Any other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @check_goldberg and put #saturdaysevens at the end so I can find it.
Also, if you find any of my ideas interesting make sure to check them out in
‘The creators guide to the galaxy’, and ‘Addiction’ on amazon!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Much love to you and yours,
Cherokee