10 Actions for an Asymmetric Life
Below is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning.
Instead of writing an essay today, I wanted to give you some quick hits to trigger your mind to consider the long term. Therefore, think about the span between your now and your destiny. Take 5 seconds to dwell on each of the below questions, then review my 10 suggested actions below.
• What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
• What would you do if you knew all your wrongs would be remade into rights, as layers in a masterpiece?
• What if your sinking was just to give you a quick rinse to get the mud clouding your eyes?
• What if the threats you see now are actually opportunities?
• What if your hateful passion was really hidden love?
• What would you do if you knew you could never die?
Love means accepting the unknown far too soon.
10 Actions for an Asymmetric Life Now
- Find someone to spend your life loving. Do not love them because they are worthy, but because you are not, and need someone to love.
- Find an evil problem to defeat.
- Write the three hardest things you are delaying doing each Saturday morning. Do those before you can eat your next meal. Those are your only priorities. They’ll get done.
- Keep your cell phone in a different room at night. Once you’re up, you’re up.
- Every person has at least 2 hours of important work to do before they look at their devices each day. And it should all be done alone in silence. Silence attracts power.
- If you’re not working 16 hours a day, five days per week, you’re not even trying—yet.
- The only people who diversify are those who think they are wrong. Go all-in—short or long—on what you know best. Look for asymmetric upside—in investments or pay-to-play opportunities. Then bet heavy and often.
- The role of a parent is the same as the coach. You build-up those on your own team, and ruthlessly defend them against those wanting to attack them.
- It is always worse in your imagination than in reality. Never go to bed without saying the difficult thing you are avoiding.
- If an action doesn’t have any upside, it only has risk of downside. Don’t do it.
" Silence attracts power. "
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