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0:00 •ARWGF 9: Looking back, looking forward

4:55 • We'll be talking about goals

16:49 •What's been your favorite episode so far?

26:55 • Lead measures and lag measures

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Podcasts mentioned

* Noah Kagan Presents
* Noah Kagan NPR episode
* Noah Kagan 5AM challenge
* Noah Kagan's scheduling thing for leisure

* Fizzle.co podcast
* They talked about burnout
* Targeting audience etc.
* How to start a podcast

* Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History
* Bill Simmons + Malcolm Gladwell

* Pat Flynn with 5-minute journal founders UJ Ramdas and Alex Ikonn

* 3-month vacation
* Psychotactics
* Copywriting

* MF CEO
* Theme: bodybuilding and patience

Books mentioned
* The War of Art
* The Brain Audit
* Malcolm Gladwell's books

Links
* 5-minute journal
* Rick Rubin quote
* "Break it down to the narrow" — Wally, but probably someone else

0:00:00 • Welcome! Wally talks slow motion
0:06:42 • Ces stumbles through explaining what keto is
0:19:04 • Wally recommends something manly
0:26:52 • When did you realize wrestling was fake?

Is that... Jason's music?!

0:30:44 • Jason dials in before the biggest weekend of his life
0:39:15 • Which wrestler does Jason feel like?

We're re-thinking the book-a-week format because we can't read fast enough. Instead, we each recommend acouple of podcasts. Cesrecaps the Iron Man Match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.

Show notes on the way!

This week's book: The Obstacle is the Wayby Ryan Holiday.We tried following a lot of the advice in the book and it continues to be helpful.

(On the other hand, we didn't followsome of his other advice: Please, Please, For The Love Of God: Do Not Start a Podcast)

Quick chapter links —

[00:00] Wally goes to Disneyland, Ces doesn't renew [04:40] Listener questions! How do you keep things balanced? [10:50] Book intro: The Obstacle is the Way (TOITW) [21:53] TOITW: Will and Vegeta [28:50] TOITW: Terrell Owens's 3 Ds [38:54] Wally offers Ces a donut [47:56] Quote vs. Quote: Wally claps BACK

Notes —

00:00 — Wally goes to Disneyland, Ces doesn't renew: We start this off with the usual weekly updates. Wally talks about his trip to Disneyland. Ces gives an update on fitness and nutrition.

04:40 — Listener questions! How do you keep things balanced?
Wally grabbed a question from an offline conversation during the week and we run it as a listener question. We set up an email address for actual listener questions.

10:50 — Book intro: The Obstacle is the Way (TOITW)
We start talking about The Obstacle is the Way, which we've both found really useful in our lives during hard times. We try talking about when we specifically apply these things in the past

21:53 — TOITW: Will and Vegeta
Ces goes long on a bad Dragon Ball Z analogy.

28:50 — TOITW: Terrell Owens's 3 Ds
Wally takes a concept from an NFL receiver and changes what the letters stand for to create the premise of our future ebook littered with newsletter links.

38:54 — Wally offers Ces a donut
One episode ago, Ces talked about having non-coffee dessert Frappuccino. He continues giving unsolicited nutrition advice.

47:56 — Quote vs. Quote — Wally claps BACK
Wally closes the show with a great quote from the book. Ces rambles.

Links —

• The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
• Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
• Please, Please, For The Love Of God: Do Not Start a Podcast by Ryan Holiday
• Stocisim (Wikipedia)
• Cell kills Trunks (YouTube)
• Lush Overworld Speed Development - RPG Maker MV (YouTube)
• The Wizard (1989) final game scene (YouTube)

http://franciscortez.com/active-recall-ep…tacle-is-the-way/

Links

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

SPI 255: Deep Work with Cal Newport - The Smart Passive Income Blog

How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven

William H. McRaven commencement speech

Floss one tooth

Walter & Francis

Barking up the Wrong Tree (book on Amazon•blog)

Filtered people are the ones who did very well in school. These are your valedictorians.

The only issue? They're successful, but they aren't wildly successful.

We went over Eric Barker's Barking Up The Wrong Tree. It'd be good to apply some of the advice from the book. Here's something relevant:

"Good enough is good enough."

It's a great book. We'll doanother episode down the line to do it justice.

This is the first time trying out podcast chapters.I didn't even know podcast chapters were a thing until a couple weeks ago when I listened to John Gruber's episode with Ben Thompson.

The podcast has multiple chapters and so does the book, but we only discussed the first chapter. It's about defining success and two types of personalities and the environments they succeed in.

(The book also helps redefine what success is. By the end of it, maybe those wildly successful people actually aren't actually all that happy. Meaning maybe a filtered approach is better. I'd bet money that the answer is somewhere in the middle.)

Full book notes on Grit:https://franciscortez.com/book-notes-grit

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• I'm in California and Wally is in San Diego. We decided to record on a Wednesday morning to accomodate schedules. Not sure that matters since we haven't really picked a day to consistently publish.

• Our podcast is on iTunes now. I think it actually has been for the entire week. I thought there was an approval process or something. Now that it's on there it feels sort of official. I have that iMessage drawing of Frankenwalt the Frankenstein monster. It feels a little toocasual.

• Tim Ferriss talks about how the average podcast only lasts like 3 or 6 episodes. I bet a lot of them thought "It's the audio that matters" or that silliness is a part of it. By week 12 I want to make sure the listing and landing page looks way better. Actually I need a landing page at all.

• I was scrambling to buy the Zoom H1 because I wanted to record in the hotel room. Then I remembered Tim Ferris's rule for podcast audio: make it mono and make it loud enough. The EarPods are fine.

• I bought the Zoom H1 but was recording on the EarPods. I'd love to see a chart of my success rate on Slickdeals with finding a good deal plotted against how many times I check and refresh the site. Truly a slot machine.

• One day later I actually was walking over a highway. And yes, it was super sketchy. All to get In-N-Out. All worth it. On the off chance that you care what I think about In-N-Out vs. Shake Shack: both are great. Shake Shack's beef is better. It's also more expensive.

Here are some topics we go over in this week's episode.

Check out the full notes

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:I finished reading Flow a couple weeks ago and thought it'd be good to pick up Csikszentmihalyi's other book. Speaking of…

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (also) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:Great book. It's from 1990 and things have probably gotten worse as far as distractions go.

Deliberate practice:If you rolled your eyes hearing the phrase deliberate practice again, you're exactly the audience we're looking for. At least if you're anything like me. I can't get enough of this echo chamber!

5 Whys and 5 Hows:Judging by the results when I searched for 5 Hows, it's not exactly an original idea. That's fine.