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Posted - November 8, 2023 at 8:00 PM

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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75" - Benjamin Franklin. This quote highlights the lack of fulfillment and purpose that many experience after the age of 25. Here are four reasons and solutions to combat this issue. Firstly, the absence of milestones beyond 25 makes time seem to fly by. Secondly, the shift in caregiving responsibilities towards one's parents can be overwhelming. Thirdly, the education system fails to prepare individuals for the real world. Lastly, the support system of family and friends diminishes after 25. To address these challenges, create recurring events, take regular breaks for self-reflection, embrace continuous learning, celebrate the 25th birthday as a significant milestone, and establish meaningful rituals. By implementing these solutions, we can bring more purpose and fulfillment to our lives.

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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75" - Benjamin Franklin Why? 4 reasons and solutions:

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Reason 1 - Milestones 0-25 is a well-designed video game. You level up each year. There are regular milestones as you go from infancy to school to entering the workforce. You constantly feel like you're making progress -- and have reflective milestones.

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After 25, it's a terribly designed video game. Society places you on your own. If you don't have the agency to design your own 25+ video game, the only milestones life will give you are the funerals of your loved ones -- followed by your own funeral.

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The lack of milestones is one of the reasons why the 25+ crowd complains that time goes faster with age. All the days blur together like a book without any chapters. One day you wake up, and you're 64 years old unable to recognize the aged face in the mirror.

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Reason 2 - The Parenting Switch Nobody prepares you for this: You become the parent to your parents Typically after 25+, the caregiving duties slowly switch -- and then suddenly, you notice you're now more competent than they are.

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Most only realize the parenting switch after a tragic phone call. They are met with 2 life shaking outcomes: Your lifelong crutch can't help you -- and on the same day, you're now their crutch.

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Reason 3 - Institutionalization When someone leaves prison, they struggle to reintegrate back into society. They've adapted to prison life. When someone leaves the education system, they can face a similar problem. They've adapted to a game where there's a leader in the room.

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The current education system was designed to produce factory workers for the Victorian age -- and that's what it produces. It's like training knife fighting for 21 years -- and then getting dropped into the trenches of WW2.

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Rule of thumb: The best training systems will closely mimic the environment they are training you for. The bigger the gap -- the worse the training system. The current education system has little resemblance to the world it's preparing you for.

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Reason 4 - No immediate support group From 0-25, you have family and friends around you every day. Upon 25+, this environment fades away unless you actively design it.

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Enough of the doom and gloom: Let's crank up the optimism and agency dial in life's video game. 5 solutions for these problems:

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Solution 1 - Create recurring events with friends and family Schedule something in the diary. Make it recurring. When you catch up with an old friend -- don't wait for chance, schedule the next meeting in the diary before you leave.

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From 0-25, you are swimming downstream to see your family and friends. The environment makes it easy for you. From 25+, you are swimming upstream to see your family and friends. The environment makes it difficult for you. Diligent planning can combat this -- or years fly by.

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Solution 2 - Take a break every quarter. This acts as 4 milestones every year. Sit there with a notepad and pen. Stop the momentum. Create a new chapter. Design another level for life's video game. Question all goals and values. Re-design a new prototype for the next quarter.

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Be Like Japan: When I ask people where they want to travel to: Most say Japan Japan practiced an isolationist policy called Sakoku for 265 years. They largely cut off the outside world -- resulting in a unique culture. Once per quarter, practice Sakoku for a weekend or a week.

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Solution 3 - Learn How To Learn The bad news is that society put you through an educational program designed to create Victorian factory workers. The good news is that everyone else also went through it -- so your competition is starting from the same point.

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The last time most adults learn a new skill is when they learn to drive. This is PTSD from the education system. Fall in love with learning again. If you learn how to learn, you can learn anything

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Rule of thumb: Design all learning projects like a fun video game.

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Solution 4 - Celebrate the 25th Birthday If your brain fully develops at 25, this should be a huge milestone -- like a Bar Mitzah-style birthday. Society treats this like any other birthday. This doesn't make sense.

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As a society, the 25th Bar Mitzah should have the following rituals: 1. Embrace adulthood - A clear milestone that gives meaning. And passes the guard of the Parenting Switch. 2. Remind them not to lose their child-like inhibitions - Creativity. Curiosity. Having fun.

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Solution 5 - Create Rituals As society becomes less religious and more rational, it's like a product with amazing back-end technology -- but terrible front-end UX. If you're gonna opt out of religion -- make sure you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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If you're not religious -- try to take some of the wonderful things it has: • Sabbaths with family • Deeply designed values • Barmitzhas for big birthdays • Give away % of money to a cause • Water and food fasts once per year

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Note: I made a mistake by not uploading what designing things like a video game should look like. Here's the full image of turning a to-do list into a video game: H/T my man @TrungTPhan for spotting this. https://t.co/UqFume9Tkd

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Posted - July 30, 2023 at 1:44 PM

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In this collection of ideas, we explore various topics. Firstly, we delve into lagging measurements and discover a perfect graph for visualization. Next, we highlight the significance of exercise and its impact on our well-being. We also shed light on the scale of America's economy, comparing it to other nations. Additionally, we question the validity of the 10,000-hour rule and emphasize the importance of feedback. Reflecting on personal experiences, we realize the value of sleep and the benefits of planning our days. Furthermore, we discuss the factors that separate knowledge from experience, including the pain of failure and the dopamine of success. We then introduce the Joe Rogan Razor, a principle followed by successful content creators and artists. Lastly, we marvel at the UK's ability to overcome the immense debt incurred during WW1 and WW2. For more insightful ideas, visit http://georgemack.com.

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0.1% of ideas this week The rabbit holes -- without the distractions. 7 examples:

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1. Lagging Measurements I've been looking for a graph that visualizes lagging measurements. This one is perfect.

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Reminder: The smoking of this decade is not exercising.

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25. The Importance Of Exercise The mortality gap between a smoker and non-smoker: 40%. The mortality gap between the bottom 25% of exercise fitness and top 2%: 400% The best marketing minds of their generation created anti-smoking ads -- where are the pro exercise ads?

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Exercise has been found to be a significant factor in determining mortality risk. The hazard ratio, which measures the relative risk or benefit of an intervention, indicates that exercise has a longer impact than diet. A hazard ratio of 1 means no benefit or harm, while 1.5 indicates a 50% increased risk. Smoking has a hazard ratio of 1.4, meaning smokers are 40% more likely to die in a year compared to nonsmokers. Hypertension has a hazard ratio of 1.21, resulting in a 20-21% higher likelihood of death. Comparing someone in the bottom 25% of fitness to someone in the top 2% shows a hazard ratio of 5, indicating a 400% difference in mortality.

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Speaker 0: You thought diet was this unbelievably huge lever. It seems now that exercise is one of the longest, if not maybe the longest. Speaker 1: I think it is. Certainly the data would suggest that. A hazard ratio is a very important tool in statistics to understand the relative risk or benefit of any intervention. So a hazard ratio of 1 means that this intervention has no benefit and no harm. 1.5 means this intervention is 50% riskier. What's the hazard ratio of smoking? 1.4. And that's for all cause mortality. So that means if you compare a smoker to a nonsmoker, at any point in time, that smoker is 40% more likely to die in a given year than the nonsmoker. If you look at hypertension, it's about 1.21. You're about 20% to 21% more likely to die in a given year than someone who's identical to you in every way, except they don't have high blood pressure. If you take somebody who's in the bottom 25% of fitness, 25% of the population are, and you compare them to somebody who's in the top 2% for their age, the hazard ratio is 5. It's 400% difference in mortality.

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2. The Scale Of America's Economy If California was a nation, it would be the 6th largest economy in the world. Texas' economy is bigger than South Koreas -- and almost bigger than Russia's. Via @VisualCap

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3. How To Disprove The 10,000 Hour Rule If 10,000 hours is enough to master something -- why doesn't everyone have world class speaking skills? Answer: They never listen to themselves. 100 hours with feedback >>> 10,000 hours without feedback

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4. Mack Data At the end of each day, I ask what one thing would I do differently if I could re-wind the day 2 realisations: • Sleep is the biggest mover • I prefer having a planned day that I can edit in the present moment if a better option arrives.

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5. Knowledge vs Experience What causes the nodes that separate knowledge from experience? My thoughts: 1. The pain of failure 2. The dopamine of success

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6. The Joe Rogan Razor My favourite content creators and artists all follow this principle: • Create what you would consume. Create things you can do for 5,853 hours -- and still find it interesting.

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7. The UK's WW1 and WW2 Debt If you think covid debt ratio is bad... Wait until you see UK's WW1 and WW2 debt. It's incredible the UK managed to bounce back from that debt level without falling apart.

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Posted - July 13, 2023 at 7:13 PM

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What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians? Here's the full list of 25 examples:

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Posted - April 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM

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The media often overlooks important topics that will be studied by historians. Examples include the HeadlineDeath Gap, the Friendship Recession, and the impact of remote work on the global economy. Other topics include the global millionaire migration, Norway's wealth, the UK housing market inflation, Saudi Aramco's scale, and YouTube's dominance. These issues have significant implications for society and should be given more weight by the media.

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What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians? 8 more examples:

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1. The Headline-Death Gap 67% of deaths are from heart disease, cancer, and road incidents. The New York Times barely covers these topics. Why?

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2. The Friendship Recession • 15% of men have no close friends. • 10% of women have no close friends • This has increased massively since 1990 -- and is continuing to grow

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One of the biggest factors for health: The quantity and quality of close relationships you have. via @ChrisWillx

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3. Global Millionaire Migration In 2019, the USA had a net migration of 10,800 millionaires. In 2022, this dropped to 1,500 millionaires. That's an 85% drop in 3 years!

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4. Norway Is So Damn Rich In 2022, Norway's oil fund was larger than the combined wealth of the 10 richest people in the world. It makes $1 billion per week -- and holds 1.4% of the world's shares. (Nuance: Be skeptical of individual Forbes net-worth figures)

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5. UK Housing Market Inflation It's the most unaffordable since Victorian times 93% inflation in 28 years: In 1994, it was 4.4x the average salary In 2022, it was 8.5x the average salary

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6. The Scale of Saudi Aramco If you stopped most people in the street in the West, they would not know of Saudi Aramco. In Q2 2022, it reported more net profit than Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Tesla combined.

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7. The Borderless Economy If you wanted a job in New York or London -- you previously needed a VISA. Now you just need a wifi connection. Remote work is moving billions from the developed world to the developing world.

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Remote work is the best thing to happen to skilled people in the developing world. It's the worst thing to happen to skillless people in the developed world. The 2nd order consequences of remote work might be more impactful than any aid program could ever be.

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8. YouTube Is The New TV TikTok and Snapchat are associated with Gen-Z by the media But YouTube is another level One-in-five teenagers report being "almost constantly on YouTube"

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🚨 Nuance alert: The media-historian gap isn't that these topics have never been discussed by the media The point is that historians will give them way more weight than the present-day media does.

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