You’ve heard of the marshmallow test:

Kids who displayed delayed gratification ended up being more successful later in life

But they didn’t tell you the whole story.

Those same kids participated in another experiment immediately before… Prior to the experiment, the kids were in an “art room”

The adult left the room and told the kids they would be right back with crayons

For half the kids, they came back shortly with the promised crayons

For the other half of the kids, they never came back

As promised, here is your 2023 reading list

Most of these books I've read multiple times, which is rare. I have to read 1-2 books/week to find gems worth re-reading.

I've included my favorite quote from each book below as well

12 📚🧵👇🏼 1. Atomic Habits by @JamesClear

"You are what you repeat."

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Automation will inevitably take your job

But it will make you wealthy

A thread 🧵 👇🏼

1/14 Where did we start? With nothing.

The default state of reality is absolute scarcity

Zero wealth/value, only raw materials (potential)

2/14

I lost 50 pounds in under 5 months, WHILE putting on muscle

Here’s the story of how I did it, and what I learned along the way 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
1/18 First, I went carnivore

The carnivore diet is anything that comes from animals (and nothing that doesn’t)

Meat, fat, cheese, eggs, organs, etc.

Here is the best resource on the carnivore diet:

2/18
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Free markets are dead (maybe temporarily)

Trading/investing either long or short is high-risk right now

Our leaders sacrificed the dollar on the altar of centralized, top-down control

THREAD 1/25 2 There are two markets I am referring to when I say that free markets are dead:

Equity and Credit

The intervention and manipulation that has occurred and is peaking in these markets right now removes real price discovery

No price discovery means a distortion of value