It’s so easy: The ‘do this, and’-fallacy. It’s what we are bombarded with daily. Numerous times. Ads, full of ‘do this, and’. Do this, and you will lose 20 Pounds. Do this, and you will be happy. Do this, and you will be rich. Companies have made ‘do this, and’ …
Is cycling a means to an end or a goal itself? I see my daughter starting to cycle and she does very well. The bicycle and she are inseparable. She simply loves the practice. Observing this made me realize that for me cycling became a means to an end, over …
Once you change from goals driven to pursuit of purpose driven, everything changes. Tie your self worth to pursuit. As opposed to of outcome. Because pursuit is the only thing you can control. It’s about showing up every day. Just fucking show up. And then everything becomes practice and just …
Every once in a while I get remembered how important it is to articulate your plans and intentions. This week I was reminded of this when I shared my plans for going running in the morning on a daily basis, with my girlfriend Bernice. I was thinking about this for …
I was brought to the attention of Charlie Munger’s inverse thinking by Alex Hormozi. I find Hormozi a brilliant business thinker and he shares his ideas in a very accessible way. Inverse thinking is the concept of thinking about a problem the other way around. What’s a great way to …
Last week I talked with someone about the topic of ‘inspiration’. And our common habit of seeking inspiration and wanting to store inspirational quotes and images that resonated. Apart from my post on internalizing, from 2019, I do practice storing beautiful quotes, articles (and more). Once in a while, I …
Every time you think about something, you deepen your knowledge of the topic. It seems obvious that once you’ve made up your mind about how you think about something, you wouldn’t need to reconsider. However, in the assumption of continuous expansion of your vision in life, the same thought will …
Being enemies is a narrative. It’s perspective that has been chosen (conscious or not) and being enemies means you’re both on a different perspective in the same situation.
Recently I’ve come across some trouble in business that after analyzing it, it seems to come down to a paradox I have known for quite some time. Hard choices easy life, easy choices hard life. By world champion Jerzy Gregorek. But this truth seems to far exceed ‘discipline’, what Jerzy …
I’ve recently come across the relationship between CAC (customer acquisition cost) and LTV (lifetime value). This relationship is broadly used in thr startups and investments world. The CAC starts high and ends low. LTV starts low and ends high. The crossover in time is magic: When LTV outgrows CAC. A …