I just read Life Force by @TonyRobbins and urge you to read it if you're interested in the science of living longer. (1/6)
I have found that there aren't many subjects that people care more about, that have shown greater scientific progress, and that most people are more ignorant about than longevity. (2/6)
That’s because up until now, too much information has been scattered all over the place to review and digest. In creating Life Force, Tony, who has devoted his life to making people healthy in mind and body, (3/6)
spoke with the greatest luminaries in the field of longevity to collect the most important concepts. Then he synthesized them in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way and beautifully packed it in this perfect gift of a book. (4/6)
So, if you're interested in the subject, I urge you to read it - or if you have people you care about who are interested in this subject, I urge you to pass it on to them. (5/6)
By the way, Tony is giving away 100% of the money he earns from the book for people’s health so it will be a contribution to others too. tonyrobbinslifeforce.com (6/6)
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The external conflict gauge shown here measures the levels of economic, political/cultural, and military conflict between pairs of major countries. (1/4)
As shown, the greatest conflict is between the US and China, the two greatest powers in the world that have comparable amounts of power—more than enough to make a war between them the most devastating in history. (2/4)
The amount of this conflict is 1 standard deviation above normal, which is pretty severe in relation to past conflicts between countries. (3/4)
That is because all investments are exchanges of lump-sum payments today for future payments. (1/7)
What these future cash payments will be is determined by growth and inflation, what risk investors are willing to take in investing in them as compared to having cash in hand is the risk premium, (2/7)
and what they are worth today, which is called their “present value,” is determined by the discount rate. (3/7)
As of this writing there are varying amounts of conflict going on within different countries, as shown in this chart. (1/5)
Internal conflict is especially high in the United States, which appears to be in Stage 5 of the cycle (when there are bad financial conditions and intense conflict), while China appears to be in Stage 3 (when there is peace and prosperity). (2/5)
Changes to this measure can happen quickly—e.g., the changes that produced the Arab Spring, the conflicts in Hong Kong, internal wars in Syria and Afghanistan, recent big protests in Peru and Chile, etc.—leading to revolutionary changes in their internal orders. (3/5)
I threw a lot at you in the last post. You might want to watch again slowly so you can see if the sequence makes sense to you. (1/8)
To summarize, around the upward trend of productivity gains that produce rising wealth and better living standards, there are cycles that produce prosperous periods of building in which the country is fundamentally strong because (2/8)
there are relatively low levels of indebtedness, relatively small wealth, values, and political gaps, people working effectively together to produce prosperity, good education and infrastructure, strong and capable leadership, (3/8)
While historians assign dates to the beginnings and ends of civil wars, they are arbitrary. The truth is that almost no one at the time knows that a civil war has begun or that it has ended, but they know when they are in them. (1/5)
For example, many historians have designated July 14, 1789, as the day the French Revolution began because a mob stormed an armory and prison called the Bastille. (2/5)
But nobody at the time thought it was the beginning of the French Revolution or had any idea how terribly brutal that civil war and revolution would become. (3/5)
These changes are the natural consequence of needing to make big changes that can’t be made within the existing system. Almost all systems encounter them. (1/4)
That is because almost all systems benefit some classes of people at the expense of other classes, which eventually becomes intolerable to the point that there is a fight to determine the path forward. (2/4)
When the gaps in wealth and values become very wide and bad economic conditions ensue so that the system is not working for a large percentage of the people, the people will fight to change the system. (3/4)