📝 Mike Posner's Life Learnings & 40 sentences on Nutrition

Sup friends 👋,

It’s been a while - i’ve been away in NY for a team offsite and had a couple of big personal & professional projects i’ve been heads down on.

Here’s a few 📸 summarising my last few weeks:

In any case, i’m back and hoping to get back to consistency 🤞

Onto my five links of the week - let’s get to it 🙂 

p.s. i’ve been digging into OpenAI’s Sora (text-to-video AI model) and it’s CRAZY. here’s my LinkedIn summary post with what folks have created in the past 24h.

#1: 🤔 What I want out of life

Would encourage everyone to write something like this.

What do you really want for your life?

This is one of those “go to a coffee shop, turn off the WiFi, and write” kinda things.

Some observations that Shaan had:

• Looking back a few years later and realising you’ve turned some of these into reality, is an awesome feeling

• Some things change, other’s don’t. The act of writing things down can be incredibly powerful to iterate on your life vision. If they don’t change, great!

• You can see if the things you want are still things you want, and if you haven’t achieved them, hopefully it lights a fire under you 🔥.

Here’s the full thing:

#2: 🎾 Andre Agassi and his Shadow

I remember when I first got into tennis, Andre Agassi was someone I admired - his style, his ground-strokes, his charisma - everything a tennis player needs to get to the top.

I started watching Agassi when he had no hair - I had no idea there was a time when he had locks!

This is a great story of how Agassi started wearing a hairpiece to hide his receding hairline, and spent the whole Grand Slam Final thinking about whether his hairpiece would fell off - he subsequently lost, even though he was the heavy favourite.

After this moment, he decided to get rid of his hairpiece and cut it all off. fast forward 12 months and he beat Pete Sampras in a Grand Slam Final, and in 1995 became the no.1 ranked tennis player in the world.

Key takeaways:

• If you stop hiding your Shadow, if you stop hiding, you get flow. And that’s what everybody wants.

• After he shaved his head, he was scared what other people would say. The only thing found was a passing mentioned from a 1955 piece in the Washington Post (“The wild mane of hair he sported at the tournament last season has been replaced with his new no-nonsense buzz cut.”).

#3: 🎾 40 sentences on nutrition

I’m trying to find the best resources on managing our health and nutrition.

A few sentences that stood out from this tweet:

• Walking before and after meals is a great way to improve digestion and reduce blood sugar spikes

• Meat, eggs and animal organs are the most nutrient dense foods on the planet

• The #1 reason people fail is that they don’t prepare. Meal prep, meal plan, have ready to eat protein sources.

• Your gut is responsible for 70% of your immune system; feeding it sugar and other inflammatory foods is making you sick now and later

• When in doubt, if it comes from the center aisles of the grocery store or has more than 3 ingredients, it’s not good for you

• “Plant-based” foods are made in laboratories and are an easy way to sell overpriced junk to consumers at high margin

• Eating 1 gram of protein per lb of ideal body weight daily will do more for your body composition than spending 30 minutes on the treadmill

#4: 😌🧘‍♀️ 5 Simple Guidelines For Better Breaks

Contrary to hustle culture, science shows us that taking breaks at work is vital.

Some good learnings in this post; a summary:

1. Breaks rock - breaks are a sign of strength, not sloth

2. Something beats nothing - short breaks increase focus and even reactivate our commitment to a goal

3. Moving beats stationary - A 5min walk boosts energy levels and improves your overall mood while reducing fatigue in the afternoon

4. Social beats solo - take breaks with others

5. Outside beats inside - Get out and immerse yourself in a bit of nature!

#5: 💊 Mike Posner’s Learnings..10 Years After a Hit Song

I remember when Mike Posner released “I Took A Pill in Ibiza” - it was definitely a summer anthem ☀️

I loved this thread as it shows awareness, learning and growth.

Some of the examples:

• 26: But you don't wanna be high like me Never really knowing why like me You don't ever wanna step off that roller coaster and be all alone
  36: not even close to alone. spent a decade creating a community of the most loving high powered friends in the world. massive investment into relationship with my mom and sister… best it’s ever been. relationship with God is on a whole new level.
  

• 26: You don't wanna ride the bus like this Never knowing who to trust like this You don't wanna be stuck up on that stage singing All I know are sad songs, sad songs
  36: i am the happiest i have ever been in my life and have sustained faith love and joy mindset for over a year and am not going back.
  

• 26: I'm living out in LA, I drive a sports car just to prove I'm a real big baller 'cause I made a million dollars and I spend it on girls and shoes
  36: donated massive jordan collection, drive 4runner, don’t need to prove anything to anyone other than God, love myself. If i buy myself something nice, it’s because i love myself and i deserve it, not because i’m trying to prove to others i’m good enough.

Check out the full thread below.

That’s all for today - let me know your favourite link 🙂 

Till next week,

Fahim ✌️