✏ Monetize those old BASEBALL CARDS

GOOD MORNING PODCAST NATION.

This week, a book recommendation: Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War (US Link) by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei.

This is the inside story of the US–China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

On to the notes!

This week's premium post is a compilation post bringing together the best of every Mind Pump episode we've ever covered. You will learn:

3 Steps to an Ideal Workout
How you can maintain muscle mass at home
The must buy pieces of equipment
8 Exercises you should be doing now
7 Male Fitness myths
4 Best sources of protein
3 Ways to transform your skinny fat body
5 Most overrated supplements
And more!

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1/ Want to be Wolverine, Stoicism Won’t Cut It: “Be stoic, be hopeful, but work your ass off”- Hugh Jackman

2/ US/China DeTangling Continues: The CCP has started initiatives to decrease reliance on American technology and strengthen “chokepoints” that may be vulnerable to American sanctions – Bob Davis

3/ Healthcare is Not Your Health: 80% of your health is determined outside of healthcare. It’s your social structure, your loneliness, access to food and water, it’s your exposure to toxins, food system, your lifestyle, your exercise, your sleep – Dr. Mark Hyman

4/ Contrarians Are Just Usually Wrong: “It’s easy to be contrarian. It’s extremely rare and difficult to be contrarian and right.” – Keith Rabois

5/ Build First, Don’t Raise Capital: Getting big funding separates the team from the product and the customer. Get a technical co-founder or you can learn to build with platforms like freeCode, Camp and Lambda School – Jason Calacanis

6/ The Right Exercise For the Right Person: 3 Steps for Proper Assessment – Mind Pump

Find out your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE)
Get your hormone and nutrient levels tested
Assess your movement with proper priming

7/ What No Code Is All About: Every time the computer industry reaches a new level of abstraction, it unlocks a new category. Now founders, who can’t get funding or engineers but want to validate an idea, can get a product into the – Vlad Magdali

8/ Money, Like Booze, Magnifies Your True Self: “Just like alcohol in the sense that if you’re a small-time asshole, you’re going to become a big-time asshole. And if you’re kind of heart and jovial and compliment people then you’re going to become probably a magnified or exaggerated form of that.” – Tim Ferriss

9/ Reform Capitalism Or Get Revolution: “The only thing standing between American socialism is an inability to reform to meaningfully reform capitalism…and if we can’t do that, then the people take to the streets” – Jon Stewart

10/ Joining The Herd: For common viruses, herd immunity is around 60-70% to protect the general population… The higher the R0, the higher the need for herd immunity – Stanley Perlman MD PHD

11/ How to Monetize Those Old Baseball Cards: There are a ton of places to sell your cards: Discord, Twitter, Instagram, Card forums, StockX, event shows. There’s always Ebay – GaryVee