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Get your copy for FREE by clicking this link. Enjoy! :) Now, back to the regular program. Did you know? The average American consumes 900 more calories per day than the equivalent citizen in an OECD country. USA: 3,864 Calories / Day OECD: 2,960 Calories / Day I’ve experienced how easy it is to eat too many calories. Especially when consuming caloric-dense foods like (e.g., olive oil, macadamia nuts, dark chocolate) or highly processed meals. To know how many calories I consume daily, I’m tracking my calories more or less consistently in MacroFactor. Jeff Nippard, the “science-based gym bro,” is co-owner of that app. So far, I’m pretty happy with it. It creates a customized program based on what your goal is (gain, loos or maintain weight). In my case, I wanna get back to 80 KG (currently 84.05 KG) and then see how I feel. Maybe I will go even lower (i.e., 78 or 76 KG) if I feel good. Back in 2016, my ideal weight was (I guess) between 76-78 KG. Over the past years, I built up more muscles and hence my “ideal body weight” could have gone up. But let’s figure this out on the go. One thing I like about tracking my calories is that it makes me more conscious and helps me better guess the calorie amount of individual foods. I’m not claiming to do this until the end of my life. Rather, I’m doing it to bring awareness about how many calories I eat on a daily basis. New Podcast Interview After watching some YouTube videos of podcast host Chris Williamson getting interviewed about how he grew his show Modern Wisdom to 1bn+ downloads, I thought bringing on some new guests to my podcasts could be interesting. This week, on Friday, I had my first guest on the show after quite a long time: Lea Bochtler, high-performance coach and Columbia University grad. We mainly talked about what it’s like running a coaching business in China and how she got 120k followers on China’s biggest social media platform, WeChat. The episode will go live tomorrow here. Asking Stupid Questions I started to watch Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s video series Dragons, Monsters and Men about becoming a good man (which is great to say the least). One thing he quickly touched on was asking stupid questions. Quick story: JBP’s daughter, Mikhaila Fuller, is running Peterson’s businesses. When they started out, she didn’t really know what she was doing. But one thing she kept doing was asking so-called “stupid questions” because if you ask a stupid question, you only need to ask it once if you are alert. So she became better and better to the point where she’s (that’s what I presume) quite good at doing business (I think the amount of customers they’ve got, and the follower count, speaks for itself). Asking a stupid question can be quite scary and anxiety-inducing. Why? Maybe people will perceive you as low-intelligent or think you haven’t done your homework (and maybe that is true). However, as JBP pointed out, if you’re in a room/lecture full of people, 80% have most likely the same question as you have, but are too cowardly to ask it. The idea of asking a dumb question is perhaps part of the reason why I had this rule during my master’s degree time to raise my hand at least once during a lecture to contribute something. Either I would ask a question or give an answer to the question the professor had. This had two benefits: 1) I learned sometimes something new 2) I reduce my anxiety of talking in front of other people After doing that consistently, almost in every lecture, I became less nervous (although I’m still quite jittery sometimes when speaking in front of a crowd). So after watching the first part of the JBP’s series, I got a great reminder to ask more stupid questions. Have a great start to the new week. Crush it! Nicola PS: Share this article with your friends here. Catch The Zenith PodcastI do a podcast where I pretend to have a Swiss accent (wink). 200+ episodes online about high performance and business. You can subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. This week’s episode: Episode 201: Modern life has trained our brains to crave constant stimulation, leaving focus, creativity, and peace harder to find than ever. In this episode, I break down how I unfried my brain after years of internet overload. Click here.
Next week’s upcoming episode: Episode 202: What’s it like to grow a coaching business on China’s biggest social platform, WeChat — and serve hundreds of clients in a completely different cultural context? My guest, Lea Bochtler, will tell us more. It will go live tomorrow here.
Inspiring Things This Week:1. Taking Big Risks “Outsized returns often come from betting against conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is usually right. Given a ten percent chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. But you’re still going to be wrong nine times out of ten. We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs. The difference between baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step up to the plate, you can score 1,000 runs. This long-tailed distribution of returns is why it’s important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.” — Jeff Bezos 2. Improving my Podcast In-person work creates trust, and trust creates productivity. When you’re in your 20s, work in person as much as possible. There’s so much unstructured learning that happens on-site. A learning I got from Dave Ramsey’s Interview. Quote of the Week:“Pick the job you’d do when you wouldn’t be paid for it.”
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