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Take the Lead by Sasha DiGiulian. Sasha was a kid who climbed the walls in her house before stepping into a climbing gym at 6. At a party for her brother’s 8th birthday, she was the only kid to make it to to the top. Within a year she was winning competitions. At 18, she was the woman’s overall ind...

Yet another wellness-influencer had an expose written about them recently. Learn more about Jay Shetty! Maybe one of you can sign up for his Life Coaching program for 7400$ and give us the details:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... elp-empire

Move by Move , by chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley. A short, easy-to-read, self-help book. The concepts include: * Learning to become grateful for mistakes * Examining your greatest strengths to discover your weaknesses * Learning to monitor your overconfidence levels If you enjoy self-improvement ...

Speaking from my own experiences as a rube, there's an audience hungry for being told what to do.

I saw that Russel Brand is pushing that narrative. But not a lot of other people are. By the end of April, it should be clearer whether this was a factual hit piece or fictitious. Also, have to see how Huberman responds.

Beyond one interview on fitness, which I didn't finish, I've never listened to him. But I know a few people that rave about him, and take his advice as gospel. It will be interesting how this shakes out. If he was indeed sleeping with six women simultaneously, and telling each they were in a monogam...

Thoughts?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... rogan.html

Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (interview starts at 4:35). Ashley is an engaging story-teller and I pre-ordered his new book which comes out next week. This podcast is a few years old, and includes how genuine trash-talk can put you in flow and the importance of loving what you teach: https://m.yo...

Hidden Potential by Adam Grant. Having read dozens of self-improvement books, I’d become tired of the genre. Slogging through 300 pages to maybe gain a sentence worth of useful advice had lost it’s luster. So it was a pleasant surprise to read this thought-provoking book. Grant covers a lot of grou...

Y: The Last Man.

Two reviews above I had just finished the first 10 issues (of 60). And now I've finished all 60. I loved it. Best thing I've read all year, and the best thing I've read since Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which was my favorite book of 2023.

Gnar Country. Steven Kotler is a journalist who has written a number of books, many focusing on the flow state. Rise of Superman (about the flow state in extreme sports) being my favorite so far. In this book, he decides at 53, to pick up park skiing (rails, jumps, half-pipe, etc.). He’s been an av...

There’s an extended battle vs helicopters and a spice harvester, that finishes with these OP laser guns. Why didn’t the Fremen just use their OP guns to begin with? They are stationary and would be destroyed by the helicopter. The very next battle, they use the OP laser guns while the helicopters a...

https://www.businessinsider.com/ketamine-therapy-depression-treatment-addictive-drug-clinics-2023-1 I first heard about ketamine a decade ago as a party drug. Then again about five years ago as part of psychedelic treatments along with ayahuasca and psilocybin. I've never tried it, nor do I plan to,...

Watched it for the second time last night. On the positive: I was even more impressed with the visuals. There’s a lot of stunning imagery, usually in the desert at golden hour: the dragonfly helicopters flying in formation; the Harkonnen troops floating up a rock wall; the moons passing in front of ...

I saw it a normal, albeit, nice theater. Same spot for showing 2. It's either a 5 minute drive to this spot or a 25+ minute drive plus paying for parking to go elsewhere. IMAX may have been better?

This was supposed to come out in I think November? Saw it this morning, after months of being hyped. I loved the first installment by Dennis Villeneuve, watching it three times the week of it's release, and being totally sucked into the created world. I went on to read the book, which is now in my t...

Lenny, The camping pads might increase your risk of injury. Yoga mats are sticky and won't move. But camping mats (at least the ones I'm familiar with) are quite slippery. No one controls their parents, their birth city, culture, language, or religion they are born into. My mom died when I was a kid...

In that situation, I would do the jumps on a yoga mat (to soften the landing), land making as little noise as possible (to soften the landing) and ditch the weights. When I was 27, I was paralyzed with indecision. Do I keep living in San Diego? Do I keep working as a personal trainer? Do I keep surf...

Lenny, Another option is simply to jump up a few stairs. For example, there's a flight of five stairs by my apartment. You can start with one stair and step down, progress to two and so on. Focusing on very clean reps, landing with legs almost straight. The boxes are prohibitively expensive, but I l...

Lenny, I think that a hip hinge--that works for that person's body--is good for any sport or general well-being. But what weight? I believe, to a degree, that the weights we use are over-emphasized. Yes, your chest will be be bigger and more muscular if you are benching 80lb dumbbells instead of 40'...

I think good questions are very powerful. But a good question for person A is not a good one for person B. I shared this particular question because I first asked it of a relative stranger, apropos of nothing, and got a thoughtful response. My own answer didn’t reveal anything to myself, but I enjoy...

"The unexamined life is worth living." -- Odin

Ronald, nice share on the Civil War letter. Teared up listening to that guy facing his death and saying goodbye to the woman he loves.

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Cool track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNgrQ1EXr0

I took about thirty minutes after finishing this video to think the question over. While reflecting on “Things Done Well” wasn’t helpful (beyond encouraging myself to keep it up), I found it illuminating to ask “Where Could I Grow?” The biggest gap was in doing fun stuff with people I care about. So...

A few days ago, I was watching a great 20-minute documentary on Alex Honnold’s last project before famously free-soloing El Capitan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4OGs1DehzA&pp=ygUgbmF0aW9uYWwgZ2VvZ3JhcGhpYyBhbGV4IGhvbm5vbGQ%3D At the end of the documentary, the narrator and filmer Jimmy Chin s...