Wealth
1/ Beware The Big Guys: Be careful of working with bigger companies because sometimes they’ll try to take advantage of you and try to screw you over - Palmer Luckey, CEO of Anduril
2/ Elon’s Going to Keep Buying Bitcoin: “It’s quite annoying to see your bank balance drop live in Europe because they have negative interest rates” – Elon Musk
3/ HELOCS: The benefit of a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) is that the closing costs are very low. The downside of a HELOC is it’s not a fixed rate – it has a higher interest rate than a standard loan, and that rate can go up as interest rates go up – Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast
4/ Raise Your Prices: With inflation, five or six years of not increasing rent can put you so far behind, that you’re never going to catch up - Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast
Health
5/ Killer Drones Are Already Here: “The Chinese, in particular, have a variety of companies that are building weaponized drones with a really lethal system on them and those are being sold to other countries right now” – Palmer Luckey, CEO of Anduril
6/ To Build Arms: Low reps, high weight for compound moves; high reps, low weight for isolation moves – Mind Pump
7/ Basic Ayahuasca Chemistry and Pharmacology: Harmine – alkaloid, strong MAO (Monoamine Oxidase) inhibitor stimulating neurogenesis. Tetrahydroharmine – MAO inhibitor and serotonin inhibitor – Dennis McKenna
8/ Make Sure To Keep This OUT of Your Ayahuasca, Brugmansia: a very dangerous plant. It’s toxic and produces a sense of delirium (true hallucinogen rather than psychedelic). If you have a dry mouth, you are dealing with a dangerous brew with likely malintent by the practitioner – Dennis McKenna
9/ Strength vs. Gym Strength: If you want to be strong in the real world – don’t use a lifting belt; if you want to be strong in the gym – use a lifting belt when you’re pushing your maxes - Mind Pump
10/ It’s Not Just That We’re Diagnosing Autism More: It’s other factors like; fast pace life, chemical exposure in utero, processed foods, sedentary lifestyle, screen time, etc. - Nicole Beurkens, PhD
Wisdom
11/ We Have Abstracted Meat So Far From The Killing That We Miss What It Is: In order for life to go on, another life form needs to die. We’ve removed ourselves pretty far from this life cycle. – Michael Easter
12/ “Discipline is the Bridge Between Goals and Accomplishments”: Always look backward – when failures start to pile up, remember why you started in the first place – Novak Djokavic
13/ You Need to be Bored: Our boredom is often combated with unproductive methods (Cell phone, Netflix, etc.). Boredom should be utilized as an opportunity for your brain to look inward rather than outward - Michael Easter
14/ The Future of Child Psychology: Must include discussions about nutrition, sleep, screen time, movement, and stress level – Nicole Beurkens, PhD
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