I Do Not Equate Productivity To Happiness.

It's Lonely At The Top. Ninety-nine Percent Of People In The World Are Convinced They Are Incapable Of Achieving Great Things, So They Aim For The Mediocre. The Level Of Competition Is Thus Fiercest For "realistic" Goals, Paradoxically Making Them The Most Time-consuming And Energy Consuming. It Is Easier To Raise $10,000,000 Than It Is $1,000,000. It Is Easier To Pick Up The One Perfect 10 In The Bar Than The Five 8s.

I Take Notes Like Some People Take Drugs.

The Benefits Of Becoming Fluent In A Foreign Tongue Are As Underestimated As The Difficulty Is Overestimated. Thousands Of Theoretical Linguists Will Disagree, But I Know From Research And Personal Experimentation With More Than A Dozen Languages That (1) Adults Can Learn Languages Much Faster Than Children When Constant 9-5 Work Is Removed And That (2) It Is Possible To Become Conversationally Fluent In Any Language In Six Months Or Less. At Four Hours Per Day, Six Months Can Be Whittled Down To Less Than Three Months.

But You Are The Average Of The Five People You Associate With Most, So Do Not Underestimate The Effects Of Your Pessimistic, Unambitious, Or Disorganized Friends. If Someone Isn't Making You Stronger, They're Making You Weaker.

There Are A Lot Of Things That Can Be Learned From The Darker Corners Of Athletics. You Have Doctors Who View Bodybuilders As Cavalier Amateurs Of Science. And Then You Have The Bodybuilders Who View The Doctors As Too Conservative To Do Anything Interesting. So I've Tried To Become The Middleman For Putting Some Of Those Pieces Together.