Thanksgiving Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media)

what is it about this writing style that's so slippery that i just can't get it's like a tiktok feed i can't get out of it you know and so i would say it's like more like a door where you kinda gotta go knock and and take a leap of faith that there is something on the other side of this you can't see exactly what you're gonna get until the door opens alright we're live the cool sweatshirt what's going on oh dude i already told i couldn't i can't talk about it on on air but i am you know there some days we're a fire there's a fire on the third floor and do you gotta grab the ex and go put it out and so that's what i've been doing today is putting up and i'm glad that i did this which is we had a bunch of family come in town for thanksgiving wife was like oh yeah it's great we got my sister come and we got this person coming this person to come from india like oh god okay she's like you know we should host thanksgiving i said you know i love the giving spirit i love the idea but we're not hosting anything on thanksgiving why because we have an commerce company and black friday is the biggest sales day of the year and she said well what are we gonna do like you know it's just gonna sell online like we're not gonna go to the warehouse or something and go fulfill it yeah so what do we need do i said sometimes you gotta create space because you just wanna be available you wanna have buffer you don't wanna be fully booked in case you need to do it maybe you have an idea that's something you could do to drive sales or in this case what if shit absolutely hit the fan and you had to do something to recover which is exactly what happened today i created space my coo was like oh i'm just gonna go pick this person up from the airport that day should be no problem guess what she's in the car the shit hitting the fan and she can't get to a computer and she did not create enough space and so that was a a great that's an evolution for you because you are not the man at creating some not a space creator that's that's come with you know some gray hairs and wisdom is is this idea so i'm glad i did it because shit's hitting in the fan today and you know i'm just hoping that i told you before this i hoping that you know my my safety my savings my under the mattress savings of good luck needs to be cashed in today i'm just i'm reaching under the mattress i'm hoping it's still there i feel like i put it there i'm hoping that good luck is still there i need it today well okay so i've got so what we're gonna i we're gonna talk about a products and media that we like but and i have a couple i got one thing in particular that's gonna make a difference on your day today actually okay when we could talk about it later but so today's episode is we're gonna talk about products and media that we've consumed throughout the year that we think are cool because i like talking about gadgets and and and media and so the stuff that you talked about lapse last episode was actually quite amazing that article about data and how it's easy to read data yeah just kinda like a great find it's kinda is that the idea great fine these these exactly we've had this year whether it's a product or it's a piece of content great fines i think that's in the the thanksgiving spirit like you know been thankful for it but also people have time they hopefully people are create a little space you know you you spent some family time and but but me people have time over the holidays there's a good chance to either buy this as a gift for yourself for somebody else or to just check something out that you haven't tried before alright well let's start do you you name one and i'll name one or i can name a couple what do you wanna do okay let's do let's i think we both have an app that we really like two different apps so let's do the category of apps so what's a great find you had that's an app this year okay unfortunately a lot of the things i might name are gonna involve fitness a lot of them are gonna be able wonderful relate this influencer life for a lot of them will be money related though actually and relaxation in mindset so the first one zero it's called zero i believe kevin rose started it okay so i've i i never thought that i was intermittent and fasting but in order just not to over eat throughout the day i just wouldn't eat breakfast turns out that's called intermittent faster i but that's not why did it this app called zero it's free they have a paid version which honestly i don't think it does anything but the free version you you you say when you had your last meal and it just tells you don't eat until and then you in my case it's sixteen hours it's awesome i love it i can't believe how that one app actually makes me wanna stick to it as opposed to what i'm on my own so that that app has made a meaningful change in my are you fasting you're doing yeah sixteen eight are you doing more intense than that i do i do sixteen eight so so basically i'll stop eating at eight pm and i'll eat again at noon right so six that'd means sixteen hours not eating eight hours eating and when you eat in your eight hours are you like you know eating kale salads or you eat whatever you want in those eight hours what do you i don't eat whatever i want i usually eat meat in vegetables that's what i i i work party to you size are no portion sizing within that eight hours you're fine you just eat till your full yeah i i portion control yeah definitely i i very yeah i for sure i try to eat twenty five hundred calories a day good good alright so i have anything else on zero i think that's a that's a good i tried as well i like it it's a super clean interface it's like i like apps that just do one thing really well and that's what that does okay here's an app i think i've talked about this but i got being into breath work and so there's two apps that if you wanna have kind of like a happier life there's a lot of apps that will distract you instagram tiktok whatever there's apps that will make you more productive but they'll distract you from the real world that's like email slack maybe twitter and then there's apps that actually center you and ground you and so my phone had enough of the distraction apps that i had enough of the productivity apps where i was lacking was hey how can i use this magic wand that's how i think of my phone it's a magic wand i make i just i install an app and that's like a spell that i just should do some magic that i can get food to appear at my doorstep i can you know summon in a car or i can do all kinds of different crazy stuff i can put my you know my mom thousands a miles away her face can show up on my phone well this one gets me grounded and so there's two apps i wanna call out one i think we've talked about before it's called the five minute journal ended up meeting the guy who yahoo who who made this app it's says of those was an app i thought it was a notebook there is a notebook and then there's the app so i it's a paid app i think it's three bucks or five bucks or something like that which is so funny because when i saw i was i don't pay for apps i was like wow like my threshold for paying for shit on a phone is so low compared to like you know right a parking it's a parking meter but i could use this app forever that some guy created and coded and makes it do all these things so five bucks and what it does is you open it up and it basically just has like quote while it loads it's always a good quote they do they have good selection and then it basically says one of three things you're grateful for today and the act of writing those down is this looks great you know not to get super cheesy but basically the more grateful you are or the less stressed you are you cannot be grateful and stressed at the same time you cannot be grateful and afraid at the same time you cannot be grateful and angry at the same time so if you just wanna not be any of those bad things just focus on being grateful rather than not being whatever it's like when you tell somebody relax when they're really pissed off guess what they don't really relax very well so you're telling somebody to not be angry or not be stressed doesn't work but telling but getting somebody to shift their focus to being grateful works actually really well what questions does it ask just as what three what three things happen today that you're grateful for and it's today it's things that happen today not like what are three things in your life that you're grateful for and you just sort of mono relentlessly you say my health my family and my friends it's like no what happened today that i'm grateful for what's a moment of today then it forces you to slow down time because you're like shit what did i even eat for lunch today what did i do today and then you like you think of one thing and you're like god there must have been something more than that that i'm grateful for you kinda suck out at the first day and you suck out at the second day by the third day something happens during the day and you're like i'm gonna write this in the app tonight like that's the thing and and so it forces you during the day to actually take note of what you're grateful for which makes you a more grateful person alright that's what let me just tell you something really quick so andrew hub one of the things on my list andrew hub recently had a new video come come out called the science of gratitude and how to build a gratitude practice andrew lieberman was on our podcast he's got this amazing pod in youtube channel where he talks about the science behind different things and how you can use it to help you and his latest thing is on gratitude and he says that he's been doing gratitude and i don't wanna get into the science but basically there's something about like the prefrontal cortex and how gratitude actually releases don't dopamine mean and it's proven to make you more motivated and happy and he said a lot of people including him did exactly what you did and he goes i think that works but we have loads of studies that show that the actually slightly more effective ways is to do one of two things and i believe those it is you try so the most effective thing is that you you read or you remember you you read something that someone has written to you and so someone's expressing gratitude to you of course that's not entirely practical right and so there's a few things that you can do the first thing is that you can think of a story when someone was helpful to you and if you if you focus hard enough it actually feels real yep and the second thing that that that i do i mean my wife is every a couple days we have a set time that we sit down and was say here's what i'm thankful i'm thankful that that you did this and then the second thing that you can do is you can actually think of a story in what the opposite we just say everything we hate about each other every two days and and then that sounds good then we get get it off for chest she loves she's really good at the game i'm getting better it's just that's a good thing it's called the hateful eight just eight minutes of just like head each other and the second thing that you could do is you can think of a story of of someone being helpful to another person and they put these guys i believe in mri and they scanned their brain and they watched a movie or a story about holocaust survivors being helped and surviving and it like changed something in their brain and it was proven to make them more motivated but how why is that the most convincing thing ever everything that they're like they did a fm mri study they scan people while they watch this the brain lights up like a christmas tree it's like the most like that's the most i'm just gonna make that up whenever i wanna be more convincing with my thing i'm like yeah people who buy my my power writing course we've done brain scans it shows that actually they're are they're you know how there's a part of your brain you can access with this discourse you actually access it the the scans they speak for themselves i did meditation thing and it's like a a style of meditation and they like i went to the seminar and there they're like it's proven with brain fans to be different than might and i was like really i mean like you're both you're you're the kind of the same thing you're being quiet and just like like i don't understand how but anyway that's what they said so anyway go ahead by a second well one more on that greenfield people feel the same there's one other technique that i it's less convenient but when you do it it's awesome it's called flooding have you ever heard of this no alright flooding is when you basically you to create a flood of memories of great moments in your life the easiest way to do it is you open up a photo album and you flip through it or you go through your camera roll so if like me and my wife we get together we'll we'll have our camera roll open and it will just be showing each other photos from you know three years ago remember that trip remember that day remember this thing we did laughing about it what happened that day and just if you just do that for even ten minutes you just revisit those photos i'm not a big photo guy i actually hate taking photos in the moment i find it to be incredibly like off putting my wife's like the opposite opportunity she loves taking photos of everything but i gotta admit this flooding shit is amazing it works i literally love her more after we do it because i remember all these amazing times i've had with her and i don't have to try i just like look at the photo and it's there it's better than i'm better than my my imagination so that thought you're gonna have to do today in order to get over your heartache your money loss i know i know we'll have to figure it out one more app one more app so the other app is called other ship so this is this just came out i invested in this thing because i i'm i'm a believer in it i struggled with meditation meditation was very hard for me so even though i was friends at the founder of calm and they gave me a free account or whatever never really used it couldn't couldn't get myself to enjoy doing it and i'm the type where if i don't enjoy it it's just very hard for me to stick with anything i don't enjoy i don't have enough power or don't want enough willpower power out i don't know what it is but i'm not great at it so i wanted the benefits of meditation but i didn't enjoy doing it breath work has become like a revelation to me it's a form of meditation it's very similar but focusing on breath and a guided breath work session so i've tried wim hof loved it wim hof has a great app too it's a free app and other ship is like a soup up version of wim hof and this guy robbie created he's amazing at it he guides a lot of meditations himself he built his own like home oasis and his he was like really early at ethereum and he like he was the first marketing guy the ethereum foundation when it was like whatever you know sixty cents or something that's like rich so he got like you know even with barely putting any money in he got like kinda loaded and then he sold some of it i was like okay i'm gonna turn like half of my i'm gonna make this huge like kinda cabin out the the garage type thing like a mega garage he turned it into like this like twenty person sauna plus cold plunge plus like amazing meditation room plus greenhouse and all this other shit you went to it no he's invited me it's in canada i haven't gone yet but if amazing he hosts a lot of people there he invited us actually so you're welcome to go anytime and they do like guided whatever like micro dosing lsd if you wanna do that or whatever no you can do you can do any you can do anything in this place long story short he got really into breath work along this journey and create now this is what he he's like i'm gonna i create this app i'm gonna i'm gonna bring breath to the masses and i do it every morning and it's amazing so that's my other ship is the name of the app alright i dig that alright i'll i'll tell you one alright so there's this subreddit that i go to and i love it it's called fat fire and the idea is people who wanna retire relatively young with a lot of money so they can live a fat life without working and there's this guy and so basically if you post on there a lot the mods the community leaders of the subreddit will verify your net worth to make your sure you're not full of shit by the way did you have a goal like this like i wanna retire by x age or i wanna be like yeah this wealthy by this age what what was your like how did you phrase your goal i i wanted to have twenty million dollars by age thirty gotcha alright that's what i wanted that was michael goal i created that goal when i was in my when i was like nineteen or twenty years old alright i mean i can't confirm or deny but you know mission accomplish is what i would say i i sold my company i i achieved it at thirty one i sold my company at thirty one right and so my that was my goal because i asked a a rich person who i knew i asked him how much money do you spend a month and they told me sixty thousand dollars a month and at the time i was like i don't know like i can't imagine there's a world where i weird yeah yeah i'm like that just sounds crazy but whatever like i asked like eight people and this person had the highest number and i was like okay i'll just do that because i'll be conservative and then if you withdraw only three percent of your twenty million that gives you like six hundred thousand dollars a year to spend there that that's that number so i just fire philosophy and fire stamps for financially independent retire early so that's yes so you can you can you can spend a percentage of your of your liquid portfolio and right basically it continues to grow have enough money that the earnings of the the the the sort of compounding earnings on the money being invested in something safe like the stock market s and p five hundred type of thing can can cover your burn rate so there's two things that matter what is the what is the amount that i have invested and what is my life burn rate that's why a lot of people who like fire they go move to like you know bump fuck you know middle of nowhere and they like oh yeah i got rid of my car and it's great now i can you i got rid of everything i own and me and my wife we only need apple cores and now we were retired it's like but fat fire is different fat fire is like now i kinda wanna ball out i'm not trying to like skim on my lifestyle so okay what do i need to achieve and what do i need to optimize while still not giving up like what i find to be enjoyable in terms of lifestyle yeah so that's how i made up that number and i even i spent fifteen thousand dollars a month so i don't spend even close to that way but i i saw this thing yesterday which is somebody was saying they posted like my company here's what my company's revenues were for the it's i think it's i chris it was like whoa company's revenues for the first seven years and it was like you know zero thousand twenty thousand fifty thousand hundred fifty thousand three hundred fifty thousand seven million twenty one million or something like that right i i'm making it but there's some slow build and then suddenly things really take off and i think they sold their company it was a soap company i think for a hundred million dollars i think i have that right is that correct you know this guy no i know who you're talking about he tweets great stuff you said his name right yeah so okay so so he tweeted that and i suddenly got me thinking i was like it's it's true a lot of success i would say i'm common you know when success comes through the front door this is how it arrives slowly and then suddenly it when it rains at pours for when it rains at pours and i started thinking okay is that true in my life and i started writing down i wrote down how much money i made from the age twenty to the age thirty one because i also got wealthy basically at thirty one and and it was like you know zero thousand dollars then negative thirty thousand dollars with that first start then i i got a job and the job paid me a hundred and twenty thousand dollars i thousand was doing great that was hundred and twenty hundred and twenty hundred twenty and then went to one and sixty and then it like stayed there for a bit and then i totaled it and i said wow at age thirty one i made more than the previous eleven years before that combined and i was like you know and this is my advice to young people always is if you're gonna take a traditional path like entrepreneurship or betting on yourself rather than a corporate career track corporate career track you should be increasing you know every two years by a certain fixed percent and you're great that's your lifestyle if you take the traditional path you go try to get content creator entrepreneur or something else it's gonna be this slowly than suddenly path and don't if you're twenty two don't count your earnings at twenty two or twenty three or twenty four you're gonna check the score board at age thirty was my my motto my or or regardless of thirty or not after like eight or nine years you could give it give it a decade and you what you need to is total it up in ten years how did i do versus what counting every year because you're gonna lose lose lose lose lose win big and that's off that's off in the past so i curious for you if you do that is your a path similar or if you charge it out for twenties to thirties i don't if wanna share the exact or whatever but yeah i can share some i mean when i sold i had saved a like seven figures of course that includes my wife and i and she also worked at airbnb and so airbnb went public and she had worked there for a long time airbnb went public in december i sold my company in february so it was like december first and then like february first was like that those two or three months was like massive right and so but prior ignore that it take her out because we don't wanna put her business out there so let's just talk about you you in your early twenties what were you making so from age twenty two to probably twenty six and twenty seven i paid myself something like two grand a month so in the brain so the first year of business i probably paid myself twenty thousand dollars for the first year and then i paid myself forty thousand dollars for the next two years and then seventy thousand dollars and in the last year that was twenty four k a year and then forty k year and then you said seventy k roughly you know it was like twenty forty forty seventy yeah so that's four years in and then the year we sold i'd paid myself close to three hundred thousand dollars right and i had a few other investments like some angel investments and like some weird things that kinda paid off but basically like for the longest time i mean i was living i the way i rigged it was in san francisco my rent was only four hundred dollars because i rented out this big place and i only had twenty five grand in my name and i spent all of it to rent out in fur this place and then i rented it out the people who basically subsidized it for me so i was living like a poor person and so i was able to save a little bit of like a like a wealthy person really you were living in a place and it was only costing four hundred dollars a month which is great example by the way because there's a lot of people that will be like why don't do we francisco but i can't afford it all you're saying to me is i lack creativity and resourceful because what you did is available to everybody go find a place that's at market or slightly below market price and what you did i think is you kinda deal with the landlord you're were like i'll never call you for anything yeah i totally it breaks i'll fix you i think you lived there for like a decade or something some shit and you'd never set like seven years you never moved to the person yeah i never saw him i had i not one that ever seen him i don't what the house you wouldn't know who that is you i would not i don't even remember what he looks like i can't even tell you what he looks like i think his name was chris and so you cut this deal and you're were like look i'm you basically became the landlord well i showed i showed up and i was twenty two and it was a four thousand dollar if i i figure forget how much was it forty five hundred dollars a month for a four bedroom house and he goes is it just you i go look it's just me right now but i'm gonna get like some friends to move in i'll like sign a lease a sub lease with them and i and i can have you approve it right but basically like i'm gonna pay you on time all the time and my the preferred relationship you and i have is i never see you again and are you okay with and he goes yeah he goes don't don't be late and i go okay deal and we are never late i never one time i i i'm an idiot one time i shot a bib gun into the toilet and it broke the toilet and so we just went to home depot like bought a toilet and just replaced it you know what i mean so we do something like that all the time if somebody said hey which of your friends shot a baby gun into the toilet i feel like i'm like oh you know sam sam's great it's a great guy i bought we bought like an air soft gun or something we're like let's see how strong this is that we they wanna to shoot it in the house because i went through the couch anyway anyway it yeah and so at this point yeah so it was a slow build it took like five six seven years but then with crazy is i'm thirty two now i started hustling at age twenty probably twenty like making like real money on my own like l money and at this point at h thirty two i'll make more this year from a couple like side investments like a real estate deal that i did i'll make more this year than collectively all of my salaries combined while working at the hustle exactly and that's that's the exact same same case for me and i think that's actually really common and i think the reason i bring that up is because it's interesting to me be i think that's really comforting to people because when you're in it and you're not making any money and it looks like other people are all making hell of money it feels it could feel very bad and you can question if you're on the right path or not this doesn't mean you're definitely on the right path but it means when this path of entrepreneurship works that's commonly what it looks like so don't be surprised alright so let's get back to which by the way when i was getting going i was always so en of other people like my friends i'm like fuck you gotta job at google you make a hundred and fifty grand a and you have all these benefits i've haven't been to the doctor forever this is awesome i'm so jealous so you you come to my office and you'd be like to this is your office i yeah yeah then you'd would be eating something you'd be like this is this cheese just always available this whose cheese is this they just pretty nice cheese i felt like i would like you'd be like look this cheese from whole foods this is expensive cheese i'm like bro you stop talking about the cheese right now now but it was like i remember you were noticing all those things in a funny one i was you guys have an espresso machine he's got a women's bathroom what at the hell gonna start espresso special machine yeah i remember i was like freaking out that you had an espresso like espresso was like what the hell is this and i i remember like i used said take food to go so anyway yeah it it accumulated quickly and i think it for most people it's i mean it like i think that it's basically it's like your poor your poor your poor and then it's like suddenly it's like oh holy crap i'm not anymore and right you know you you have that moment and there's this subreddit called fat fire and they talk a lot about that and there's this guy who has a series of threads called confessions of a he millionaire and he's doing like eight parts and i linked to it in there i see at five here yeah and the mods have basically approved it so basically the mods have like this guy dmt him damned his accountants or account information or something so they like verified that he's as wealthy as he is but basically in the beginning thread he says you know i'm worth north of a hundred million dollars i got wealthy originally because i was an employee at a tech company that made me thirty million dollars and that was like fifteen years ago and then i invested in this and then i did this and then i did this and i'm gonna answer a lot of the questions that i think a lot of people ask here and the mods have approved that i am who i am and i'm gonna tell you all about work and purpose my time and routine why i keep a low profile how relationships are are complicated what i spend on a monthly basis what my investment in portfolio management is and it's incredibly fascinating i love this stuff where you get behind the scenes of people who normally never have access to and so it's a great series it's a great thread it's awesome awesome i love it great find okay let's do some more so what do i wanna do okay let me do you want me to do you want me do a quick one while you're think do it a quick one okay and i can keep brad out so you just let me know so alright this is a little black hat here but i'm gonna tell you so there's this company call i think it's made by the same company it's called web archive it's the greatest thing ever i love web archive and may have got this side project called archive today so archive dot today have you ever seen this yes i have seen this it is awesome so if you ever wanna read so there's a bunch of products out there on how to read articles that are pay walled or behind some type of like thing that you can't see them so there's outline dot com which is kinda cool there's this other one that's called twelve foot and and yeah it's called twelve foot ladder and so it basically says show me a ten over the pay wall yeah so listen to the tagline show me a ten foot pay wall i'll show you a twelve foot ladder brilliant right genius brilliant and it it doesn't work all the time pretty well that's the problem with till yes is yeah archive today works i've never used it and it not work and so if you ever wanna read something and you don't feel like paying the paper like you just wanna read like article and not all like pay for it archive today is the greatest thing i've ever seen yeah and the internet archive is just like a treasure right like it's a non nonprofit thing it's a great way to go look up what did the original version of the airbnb website look like you can go the way back machine which is something they've created and you can type in airbnb dot com you can go back and you could see oh wow it used to be called air bed and breakfast and it was like catered towards conferences because that's how they initially got their start and blah blah so you know the internet archive which is the the nonprofit behind it is amazing they actually bought our friend's company they bought xavier book company as well because they're gonna like scan all the books to make them available for people and things like that so that they just it's it's amazing you know they're based in inner sunset right where my office was right that's right okay let's do some more okay so i basically made a pretty big and i think at the at the risk of us sounding like kinda like overly obsessed with fitness which is like ironic at least at least you're ripped so yeah i think you can get away with being obsessive fitness i'm not ripped yet so it's like a little bit it's a little bit weird when i talked too much about happy you're pretty big best in this because and your and your improvement has been massive i basically when i was much you weigh when we first started filming do you know i have no idea but i basically gained like forty or fifty pounds over the course of like my last startup and like never lost it so you think you wait i used to be like two fifty not too fifty i think the most everyone was two twenty five and i don't even weight much less than that now but it's a different weight yeah it's like muscle versus fat like converting right so so yeah i basically you know balloon up like you know i used to be whatever one seventy five or whatever and then all of a sudden up two twenty five and felt really bad and you know it just it's not healthy it doesn't look good all this i would when i would see a photo of myself i think that's a bad photo myself and after three years i'm like hey how come all the photos are just bad photos of me oh wait maybe i'm like actually just like massively out of shape here so i invested in basically three or four things now that have paid off and i'll tell you one that i don't think paid off so so i think fitness takes a couple things at least for me and that's time so i was like okay what are some things that if if going to the gym is taking too much time what's a way that i can hack that so first of all i built a home gym so there's no going anywhere but even me you could put a a peloton right next to me that doesn't mean i'm gonna write it you could put my foot in the straps it doesn't mean i'm gonna push like there was many reasons for many years that i didn't exercise regularly and so one was just bringing the gym home then i got a trainer because i said well if some dude shows i'm not just gonna ignore him like i'm clearly gonna like do the workout i think that's the biggest thing that made a difference i like i i have a friend who is who who is a wealthy guy and he was like hey can you tell me what to do and i'm like no man get a coach for like two fifty bucks a month and they'll and they'll tell you what to do and you don't think you just do what they say and he was like that's really expensive i'm like dog you live in a four million dollar house like why do you like your your body's your house and you're gonna spend three hundred dollars or something to fix it yeah that's wild but my dad does that my dad's like oh you spend on this personal trainer five days a week like that's crazy i have this trainer i found in india he just does it on zoom and he's only four dollars an hour i was four dollars an like yeah he wanted six but i got him down to four he was so proud and i was like oh that's i mean that's amazing okay he's an indian thing like yeah he's really good he's really fit no no i like no a good for you he's like oh well i you i don't really do it like you know it's he's like it's only four bucks i don't even mind if i skip it i was like exactly like you literally don't do it it's not working for you you're not exercising regularly you're not getting in better shape so how is it really that good so anyways i invested in a bunch of stuff and i took an approach which was like i wanted to leave myself no outs so i took it like burned the boat strategy so first i talked about it publicly and i talked about it publicly because if i talk about it publicly i'm gonna be humiliated if you know i'd feel embarrassed if i talk about this and i don't do it i don't back it up same i i i i i vouch for that i made it super convenient so i did home gym and i brought i had a trainer come to my house i paid the extra to to make sure that that happened okay so now i'm doing the workouts okay cool now how do i do it where i actually enjoy it well i invested in making the space nice so like i went to your gym and i was like wow this feels great i need to get a floor like this and i bought these rubber tiles and i did all this stuff to make the gym feel better and i like got like the sound system i did a bunch of things to make the environment one where i would not dread going there i would enjoy i would want to go there and a bunch of things like that so those were all great investments i felt like a great finds for me it was like these little rubber tiles and it took time and energy to research these and i didn't outsource this i was like no i need to find the best one because i want this to feel a certain way and i i crafted that kind of vision for myself same thing i just got a sauna set it up yesterday did the first sauna session in i'm like this is amazing it's right already i already this isn't one of my great purchases of the year and i just have had it for one day i got this clear light son infrared on and i know that some people are like don't do infrared and some people are like by this other brand instead whatever no clear good clearly that's a great brand you know but some people are like you should do the dry on not the infrared from what i could tell it's totally fine and it's importantly it fit into my life whereas us the other one would required like a whole bunch of like waiting for like a bigger space and electrical and all these changes to be made in order to work as long as as it can get hot enough it's good yeah exactly so those have been for me the best one now here's the worst the worst buys the the worst things i did i anything that i attached to my wrist has just failed so i bought an apple watch lost it sorry got stolen slash i don't what happened was at the office and was gone second one bought a fitbit lost it whoop band have it batteries dead don't charge it right really enough for it to be useful so everything i've tried that's like a fitness tracker that is like a wearable device it doesn't work for me because i'm too disorganized and lose shit and don't keeping things charged and ready for the morning and then charge it for sleep i had an order ring i lost that too i have i have failed on like five wearables this year so i got a same count myself out on that do wear wedding ring lost my wedding ring as well so that's same you for bonus points dude i that's why wear these like so what y'all rubber ones yeah mine was only a sixty dollar wedding ring anyways so i didn't feel i mean the sentimental loss yeah but you know i kind of knew that hey i don't know if i'm a ring guy i never wore ring in my life yeah sure enough just taking it on and off ended i lost mine the first week so yeah i lost mine on my honeymoon the world's best husband alright okay let me give you a a different one have here we're gonna shift to media great podcast article youtube channels whatever that we really like i have a whole category called canceled comedian which is like there's a whole bunch of people that i love their content they're canceled by you know society but i love they're still they're just as funny as they were before everybody found out that they like you know like to have sex with the eighteen year old girls or whatever like so there's this guy crystal who got canceled i don't know a year ago i found him really funny before i find him really funny now and he also has these little like almost like inspirational moments in between the comedy that i love there's this video he has called life rips have you heard this video no but i love him all he's saying is like you know this shit was happening in my day or whatever he's like he has his phrase life rips which is like he's saying like life life is awesome he's like just remember he's like that life rips and then he he he tells the story it's just inter he's a great storyteller amazing storyteller he tells a story about life rips it's a feel good moment it's a reminder that actually yeah you're right instead of focusing on my problems all day let me just focus on the fact that life actually really freaking rips and and then he he brings that in he brings that as a callback into a bunch of other podcast that he does where he'll tell a little stories he's like you know this is a life rips moment and just that philosophy has like made me really happy he does this thing also where some he'll be recording the episode and you you'll relate to this he's he he's kind of like i think a lot of great entrepreneurs and artists are this way where they're like sort of like perfection in a way like they want things to go well they want well well made stuff and so let's say there's a technical problem where he's like he's like let's pull up that clip and then like the computer crashes or like somebody walks by and unplug his microphone like midway through or whatever like it kicks out the put power cord to the lamp and instead of in that moment getting mad he just has he just replaced it with this thing where he just goes yes the cord ripped out of the wall he'll just like something he'll be like yes we can't find the file i he'll be like yes dude yes we absolutely can't show the thing although i'm talking about yes nobody has any idea what i'm trying to say and he just like instead of being like oh no this sucks which is like such a pattern that we can fall into he just does this little yes thing and i kinda stole it in my daily life my wife hates it she thinks it's like very annoying that i do this like doesn't understand what i'm doing she doesn't know the reference now she will but it oh she list the podcast either so she she purse still probably won't but it's such a hack dude it's such a hack to just instead of just letting this little inconvenience this little thing that went wrong f up your mood just like rewire the response to something that's almost it's like sarcastic but it actually becomes real by the time you do it jo who's this guy who goes on joe rogan he does the same thing he's just like crazy i don't know maybe seal type dude super hardcore and his whole thing is around like you know pain is good and so i he'll be like you know oh you got shin splits good like just run i love that run is be fired up just he'll be like you know oh you know your uber ride didn't show good time to have a hike it's like you know he replaces own oh that sucks well good time to time to get tough are good you good gotta go and earn more money i lost all mine and like you know whatever it's like almost come comedic how like how extremely is it it but not gonna lie this shit actually works and so that's my that's my content recommendation do do you have i've got a alright i've got a bunch but do you have a car any type of cardio machine at your house treadmill yeah and arrived yeah you do have a grower i have like a like you have like a grower that makes you feel like you're on the swiss canal or whatever i have like a rink dink you know hundred twenty dollar costco grower alright i don't think you're gonna wanna do this then but i was gonna say tomorrow so i've been doing i'll do it on my shit grow i've been doing these things where like i'm like alright everyone the sunday sixty minute row post results such plus a fitness influencer move motivating do you well do do you have a bike you don't have a bike do you a bike i have a bicycle not like a not a spin bike i have a of it might be easier if you do in the bike so i'm gonna get up early tomorrow like seven thirty or maybe seven and i'll get this thing done and just post your results and be like i just and so i tweeted it out go tomorrow is a ninety minute day we gotta because and people are like isn't that boring and i'm like yes that is the point we should go through pain tomorrow before we get thankful right so if you wanna do it with me do a ninety minute any type of ninety minute steady cardio nine minutes good i don't think you know one to watch my kids good i don't think excuse me ninety minute bike ride but them well actually you gotta get it early could do it you gotta like go through heart some hard time i don't think you're gonna be able to run for ninety minutes but even like a brisk walk honestly for ninety could work but just like i want your heart rates like one forty ish yep alright let me let me let me let me tell you five or four i'm gonna go fast on some bits of media the first this happened earlier this year there's this amazing video of rose nam units this awesome fighter but the reason she's interesting is she's like really quiet and intros intersect and seems like a sweetheart not like a fighter and there's this amazing video of her about to fight this badass ass woman from china who just looks like the terminator and she's repeating to herself i'm the best i'm the best i'm the best and when i first saw that i tee up it's the greatest that yeah it's it pumps me up it's amazing the second thing primitive technology by the way i just give yeah recommendation there for people who don't follow the you they're gonna watch it they get back whatever you know if even if they wouldn't watch it it wouldn't have the same emotional resonance if resonate for you because you know how much of a terminator that other girls you know roses backstory and as she struggles like anxiety she's not bra provide type of person so for her to say on the best it's not bra provide and trash talk it's literally self talk so she you know can perform your best and and not let anxiety get the best of her so you know the backstory story but i think everybody should have these go to's these the stash of like inspiring moments that you were there for that you know the context you know the backstory and then you could just put it's like that flooding thing think i talking about earlier you can just go back to it and you can instantly get that feeling and you should just have well of these which i like i i think that people should know that i mean like successful people i don't know if people consider me successful or not but i know that like way more successful people than i'd do this but i rely on like like i'll like read a book about someone who i admire and i'm like how would this person react to this situation totally like i i do that all the time or i'm like sometimes even do it with like fighter or i'm like this guy just got punched in the face and he got up like i could do it like so i like that rose number i'm uni thing the second thing is primitive technology have you heard a primitive technology no what's that click the link it's in there so this guy has ten million subscribers on youtube in his videos of which there are how many are there maybe fifty you're talking about this guy he's like a caveman man which so there's there's maybe only twenty videos and his very first video has thirty one million views it was six years ago and it's him not talking not saying a word he's in the woods and he's building a hut and eventually it works out to build like a proper house and he does it without saying a word and he does it with only using things that he finds in the woods no power tools no nothing he builds a kiln he builds a tile roof height that on that video it starts as he's just pant the camera is just planning at this just a spot on the ground in the middle of the forest it's clear like there's nothing here i'm gonna build a little lot here now click click start click to the end click to the end he's like a clay hut with the fireplace in there with a fireplace and a chimney yes and the whole video he doesn't say a single word all you do is he literally his bare hands yes just building it and then he'll like make like a hammer out of like some he'll make rope and then he'll make a hammer out a rope and a stick or a and a a rock and a stick do you know this guy's backstory like this guy looks just like everybody went to do with like who is this guy why does he know it's in australia i believe and he owns the land and so if you go to his about page he just it just says where is this and he goes queensland australia do you live in the wild i don't live in the wild but i love going out into the land these projects yeah and so he doesn't talk much he doesn't do anything his channel has gotten one billion views and all he's doing is building like there's another one i'm watching him make fire just with the he's just rubbing his hands together like this with a stick in between he just made a fire while you were talking it's so relaxing it's so awesome i love it do you love be honest do you actually want because i see this i'm like this is so cool and i like click through one and then i'll be like oh this is just something i'm gonna go tell other people about i don't i wouldn't never actually sit here and watch this for thirty minutes i've watched all of them do you have apple do you have apple tv no i don't but i have apple tv so so my version of tv is youtube so first thing when i sit down the couch i go straight to youtube and i'll just watch like a thirty this thirty it's like this is like that tv show house stuff's built do you remember that yeah but you do in the background or you actually just watch pay attention to him yeah maybe i'll like be talking to sarah or cooking yeah i'm like oh my god wait watch this like what he's doing yeah i maybe it's in the back i mean do you i don't actually sit down really watch tv unless it's a movie or the challenge or the challenge okay so so this is amazing okay primitive technology like alright let me keep going let me keep going i'm gonna roll okay the the third one how to be great just be good repeatedly this is an article by steph smith who works for me there's two reasons why i love this article the first that is one of the best headlines i've ever read yes it is a wonderful headline and she writes this article about how great things rarely are you like trying to be great it's more so just like being kinda good but doing it consistently and in my life i have found that with this podcast with a bunch of other stuff like i'm like i don't wanna do this today it's like alright fine i'm gonna do it anyway even though i know today i'm not gonna do a good job of it i'm just gonna get it done and she does a really good job of articulating why that works so i love that article alright i'm gonna keep going the the next one there's this guy who's got a youtube channel called more plates more dates yeah i watch this guy he is amazing he looks at pro athletes and actors and he and he's a i guess he's a i think he's a doctor i don't know what his background is he sounds like he knows he's talking about and he tells you what steroids he thinks different people are on i even every time i do i regret so much of i'm like what a waste of my life i just did but i he comes up in my feed and i'm like oh i know that person yeah are they on steroids and then like thirty minutes later i'm like i cannot believe i've let this be in my brain for the last thirty minutes it's one a waste of my brain it's interesting though because he'll explain like the science behind it he's like you he's like a lot of people think that this athlete is doing ep you wouldn't do ep because the way that your body works is this this this and this and he like so it's kind of interesting he goes but you would do h because the way ach works is it's proven to so it's like a science it's interesting right and then gossip but yeah there's a little bit of science of it's it's gossip from a person who i believe is reputable not in having first firsthand knowledge of the people but first firsthand knowledge and doping and the final thing i found this book it has two reviews on amazon only two reviews on amazon it's amazing and so apparently the in the four or in the forward they say that's one of the most popular books in russia but i i didn't know that and they translated into english so these two journalists from the ussr in nineteen thirty three made a deal with the us government that they would let them come in and spend three months doing a road trip and so they saved up a little bit of money they came here and they bought a camper van and they spent three months traveling america talking to people with nothing to do really just all they just wanted to learn about of america and from an outside perspective they show what makes america special and it's incredibly fascinating because we take a lot of things for granted and they criticize america and this is in the nineteen thirties so this is this point is particularly particularly true they criticize like our race relations and things like that this is like this is crazy how people treat each other but there is a lot of good including they say there's something about americans that i've never seen ever before which is they always think that they are going to overcome any adversity and they always are optimistic about like some situation and also oddly they're friends with their bosses so like they work together to achieve things and they don't like like their friend like you could be friends with your boss and you cannot hate them or wanna rob from them right and people are and and and it's a wonderful book it's written in the thirties it's awesome that's my book oh it's called little golden america nice that's great you've read to you whole thing i yeah i'm finishing it up now and i actually posted a link on my twitter where it's free like a pdf okay cool i like that okay i a couple quick ones so a chrome extension that i'm liking a lot it's called every everyday and it's basically a i habit a tracker so so if you go to the website i think it's called everyday let me just find everyday dot app i think is the thing look it up and basically you just say what you wanna do so you're like oh i wanna like for me for example i have morning routine i have clean lunch clean dinner i have workout i have my gratitude thing and then i have cool that's it and so and then basically what it does is it just lets you create a streak so you just say yes i did it this day i i'm a i intentionally skipped it i'm a allowed to skip where i missed and it just keeps track of your streak and it creates awesome green grid of like as you do your habits you give this really satisfying completion of like your grid being green and just shows i'm doing the things i said i wanted to do which for me is ad most is all of the challenges all of the challenges not oh i don't don't know what to do it's i'm not doing the shit i know i should do and this is just you know a great tool and i i it's great because it's chrome so it's in your face you don't have to remember to check it it's every time you open a new tab in your browser it's gonna remind you oh yeah i could i dock that out right now you know yeah i could actually just do that right now and i can i can get it done so it's i actually have my own chrome extension and i've replaced it with this one that's how good it is so you know this is one of my one of my downloading it now okay let me give you a a couple other things and i think are are really cool you showed me this cam it's an app for your iphone now we spent a lot of money in time you may not be able to tell right now because we're both not in our main studio or i'm not in my main studio you're you're in a different spot i look good i know you're like no i'm not traveling you've been traveling so if we you know on on different videos we have different level of quality or whatever but we did the you know we both tried it on our own and then we hired people to like hey how do we go get that fancy ass blur and like super hd videos like so hard and they're like oh you gotta buy this canon which one fifty d forty d sixty d seventy d which which d do i buy okay i'll get this one oh then i need like some kind of cord or like a capture card or how am gonna do that it's it's so much super paint a butt batteries oh but the battery is gonna die during the episodes so you have to actually get a a double battery or a dummy battery pain in the ass so and a thousands of dollars you the camera itself was like fifteen hundred dollars or something like that so it's really expensive and you were like oh dude i'm just getting using them this iphone app called cam that just you just download the app and then it just uses the native iphone like portrait mode to make your camera look good and you're like look i'm using my phone i look just as good as you i was like yeah i'm using the two thousand dollar thing and it's really hard to set up you know sick it's only thirty bucks and i'm traveling and i just bring this with me because it's my phone i was like oh my god it's i think it's forty or fifty bucks i don't know if it's this a thirty maybe it's i don't remember i the new ios it's just this is just baked in actually i think they i don't think you even need this anymore but for now and if you if i don't if i'm wrong about that ios you mean it's coming out soon like in the new ios there's it's gonna be part of the native camera so you don't need an app to do this i think you meet but one coming out soon or one out now i don't know it's now soon something this is something like that so but in the meantime this app cam is kind of amazing great business by whoever's doing this and amazing timing because the whole world went promote and everybody wants to look good so that's definitely one of the best product analogy we made or someone made is having cam it's like in the seventies and eighties and nineties when it mattered that you wore suit having a cam is like showing up in a meeting in a nice suit exactly exactly so so i think that's a great product okay i'm gonna give you a youtube channel so you did more plates more dates the binge i've been on is like kind of a embarrassing almost it's these old school direct sales seminars so i'm like okay how do i i don't know why i like this i'm not even doing anything that has direct sales like there's not not a product i sell that's direct sales i'm not a salesman i've never been one but i'm just like fascinated with the art of persuasion and say which ones and so so there's a couple that are really good last night like for example i fell asleep last night while listening to it if you just search tony robbins sales rare and it's like there's two there's one where he explains how he sold how he got his career started he doesn't talk about this much he got his career started selling audio cassettes like music music tapes to people you know to to people and he'd would do these like you know he'd go and and he's like yeah like the way we would do it is that woman would reach out to the potential customer and they would say we'd love to have we'd love to give you a free gift and we'd love to tell you a little bit about our company and that'd be like free gift he's said yeah a free gift it's usually worth about hundred dollars and we'd love to give it to you and you know feel if you'd meet with her a person and then tony was that person and he would feel like he would walk through the step by step thing and he'd be like i would say this and why am i saying that i'm saying that because blah blah here's the thing about how people buy he's like and he's got his whole philosophy and he even says in this thing he's like you know would i do this now no because i feel like it's a little too pushy and but i'm always the type where i wanna know what's the real potent shit that works i wanna know the borderline illegal version of sailing in persuasion and then it's up to me to decide am i gonna keep the knob on level twelve or do i wanna turn it down to nine but i don't wanna this i don't wanna be a level six because i was too afraid to ever find out what is what does maximum persuasion look like you know what is what's the channel called i don't i just looked at the individual videos it's not any channel so like who look gary hal rare or gary hal nineteen eighties or gary hal original seminar tony robbins young tony robbins rare tony robbins original seminar tony robbins direct sales tony robbins info informational and i'll go either i'll just find their material and i'll d it myself like what's working like we had craig cl on and craig clement comes on the podcast and he's a friend of ours and he's doesn't he he's a great person on the pod but he doesn't go first he doesn't talk a lot about his company so he's got golden hip they've sold like over you know i think he's sold over a billion billion dollars worth of product in his lifetime and golden hip will do you know over a hundred million dollars in sales but it's like hey what golden temple as a holding company one of the companies underneath and he doesn't really like go list out the thirteen companies or whatever it however many there are underneath it and nobody really pushes him for that and he's kind of like at the made it stage now but his he got start early on doing salesforce a guy who's was like a dating coach and it was like i bought that i you're dating and like how to how to basically it's all different titles that all mean how to get late and if it was a wife as i how to get the man of your dreams how to get a husband how don't whatever and he and so i find these old interviews or old seminars he did with that guy even pagan and i'll go watch those and i'll see oh interesting he's talking about this headline he wrote and why this headline is amazing why he thinks it worked and this other one in why it totally didn't work and what he learned from that and i just find these to be like it's like puppy chat to me it's just i i can't stop consuming it even though i have no direct use for it i just love it so i'll tell you guys listening gary hal so the gary hal the sky he died somewhat recently from just like a heart attack or something and he was an amazing copywriter and he might have died in prison or soon after he was in prison for a handful of years because he sold something ironically that's the guy i wanna learn from yes and the world famous that's took it too far i'll like he will wall street i'll gonna learn from him i'm not gonna take it as far but i learn from person i think he went to prison for mail fraud or something like that so basically people bought stuff and he just didn't fulfill it and so he was just like i i sold it and i just lied and that's obviously wrong but you can learn a lot from him and he's got these amazing things called bo the letters from bo they're bo letters sorry i understand and they're all free so if google gary hal bo letters you can find of for free it it's a series of letters that he wrote his son bond from prison and he teaches him everything he knows about life and selling yes and so like you can go and read it them all by hand because i was just so and you're gonna read it you're like what why would you why is this so good it's so good if you know why it's so good it's almost like that it's like it's not it's clearly good like you start you fall down like his slippery slope you're like why is this so interesting well why do i wanna keep reading this exactly you don't know it's not like like it's not a it's what i'll call a door not a window so a window opportunity is one where you look right in and you could see what's in it for you and you're like okay like for example listen you wanted to get better at copywriting the thing is not called how to get better at copywriting and then he doesn't say here's five copywriting techniques no he actually writes he's says letters to his son and then he just shows you great copywriting and then he sprinkles in lessons as he goes but it it doesn't come to like letter five or whatever there's like it takes you you you're just interested you're hooked you don't know why and that's the technique and then you gotta like figure out why is this so damn good what is it about this writing style that's so slippery that i just can't get it's like a tiktok feed i can't get out of it you know and so i would say it's like more like a door where you kinda gotta go knock and and take a leap of faith that there is something on the other side of this can't see exactly what you're gonna get until the door opens yeah this is a winner alright well i think i think we just like laid out a ton of interesting stuff ben neither there and by the way we should put links as much of these as we can in the show notes i'm also gonna send out a newsletter of just like summarizing these just on like whatever my my own like my weekly newsletter whatever sean dot com and because i think these are actually really good but most people listening to this it's probably really fucking hard to be like what am i supposed to do write these down and go google all these different things these you guys are turn out yeah give need the links what do you think ben yeah it's gonna be great at the bottom of the show notes we'll just put long list of all the links so people can find everything but this is awesome which just spewing cool products that we could consume by the way i there's i i have half of you told me about this two minutes or you told me before but i was busy i learned about this premise two minutes before the show and i actually still have like five things that we didn't even get to it i know you have like ten things we didn't even get to so we may wanna if people like this we may wanna do one more of these i like and the point of this is it's supposed to be thanksgiving special right so you guys are just you're fat with turkey you're sitting on your couch you you got some time on your hands you can just start clicking through all these links check out all this stuff buy some stuff watch some things have a good time i think it's mostly free stuff by the way that we mentioned yeah a lot of it is free or very cheap ben i love that that sales pitch that was great who who who's you been watching these videos too are we are we sharing youtube accounts what's going on yeah just had to step up my game after you're talking about all this copywriting and sales stuff that's the mormon and you you of natural salespeople you guys are the the world's greatest salespeople i get more just never get old no probably not that's some stereotypes are we have so few stereotypes are allowed to access these days that when there is one that feels like it's okay you just gotta hit over and over again good i'm down well thank you alright i'm out i gotta go beat with my family see you happy thanksgiving you you too