03-29-15 Sponging It Up

67 Steps - Tai Lopez (audio) (45mins)
- Step 2
- Adaptability
- Run an experiment and know when to adapt with change
- Evolutionary Stable Strategies
- Cut a Deal, its not black and white

Meditation (30mins)

Write out goals

Buffett (book) 50mins
- knack for numbers early on
- firsts years hard
- great depression
- early choice to make money a priority
- early exposure to financial business

Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins (book) (45mins)
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- "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know."
- Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
- 1. Emotional Mastery
- Virtually everything we do is to change the way we feel
- 2. Physical Mastery
- "digging our graves with our teeth" (Thomas Moffett)
- 3. Relationship Mastery
- 4. Financial Mastery
- "the key is not mere pursuit of wealth, but changing your beliefs and attitudes about it so you see it as means for contribution, not the end-all and be-all for happiness."

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability to man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." (Henry David Thoreau)

Made In America - Sam Walton (book) (35mins)
- Master at Adapting to any and every situation

- Committed, knew what he wanted

Focus - Daniel Goleman (book) (40mins)
- "Bottom-Up" - subcritical circuitry, though its efforts break awareness by notifying our neocortex, the brain's topmost layer, from below.
- "Top-Up" - mental activity, that can monitor and impose its goals on the subcritical machinery
- Peak of automaticity can be seen when expertise pays off in effortless attention to high demand.
- The topmost levels become a mental game: your mind state determines how well you can focus, and so how well you can do. The more you relax and trust in bottom-up moves, the more you free your mind to be nimble.
- Recipe go a screwup
- Prefrontal Cortex: when activated you start thinking about how were doing, how to do what were doing, how to do what were doing, or, worse, what not to do, giving over some control to circuits that know how to think and worry, but not how to deliver the move itself.
- Flubs: escalate degree we are distracted, stressed, or otherwise mentally burdened. Mental prime increases likelihood of mistake.
- Overloading attention shrinks mental control
- The Bottom-Up Skew
- "Cognitive Bias Modification:" invisible therapy, subtle repatterning of bottom-up circuitry and attention
- Marketers want to mobilize our bottom-up brain
- 9 to 6 months, how long it takes for a change that was initially unpopular to become the new, accepted status quo.
- " We attend to the present, what's needed for success now, but this is bad for farsighted goals, which are not given the same priority in the mind. Future focus becomes a luxury, waiting for current needs to be taken care of first." (Elke Weber)
- "Politicians are in charge of our welfare. They need to know people will thank them later for a hard decision now. It's like raising teenagers --- sometimes thankless is the short term, but rewarding in the long" (Elke Weber)

Drawing (1hr)
- Tracing Flash
- Sailor Jerry

Meditation (30mins)