only read the summary notes but 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big' by Scott Adams seems surprisingly insightful. He covers a lot of ground in it.
basically what I walked away with his his "goals are for losers" mentality and that the most important metric in your life is your energy levels.
What he means by "goals vs. systems" concept - which is not original, I think Dante Nero the relationship expert talks about something similar - but Adam's crystallized it for me.
The way he explains it is "I want to shed 20 pounds" is a goal. Instituting a diet or a exercise regime is a system - and by the way, that can be as simple as always keeping your pantry full of filling foods and meals so you don't order take out or binge eat junk food because you're too stressed/lazy to cook a proper meal.
They both might accomplish the same thing, the difference is that once you've shed 20 pounds with a goal mentality you're probably gonna indulge yourself afterwards and eventually undo all your hard work.
Another example he says is if you've been hired for a nice job, immediately start looking for a better job. The way I think of it is, 1. You're already in the Job seeking mindset and have momentum in it, 2. You're not ready for the better job - but you want to be able to capitalize on it when you are and a job opportunity comes you way (1/2)
>The title is a metaphor for optimization. So is it saying that what you normally do in say, 8 hours, you can do in 2 sort of thing?
Where do you find clients/customers?
Carson Gomez
(2/2)
The other thing I walked away with is that your personal energy level is the most important metric you have.
The way I understand it: If you're energized then you might have twice as much energy as a day where you're tired and groggy. That means that on a energized day you can dedicate 50% of your time to something and get the same result as a tired and groggy day where you put 100% of your focus on something.
To put it another way, your energy level multiples your effectiveness.
>Don't have that another beer at midnight, you'll pay double for it tomorrow morning
TL;DR >'How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big' taught me: >Explains why you should institute permanent "systems" that chip away and maximize your chances of accomplishing stuff >Personal Energy Levels is paramount, because it multiplies your effectiveness.
Christian James
I hire devs to make my apps that I monetize. I don't have clients.
Oliver Perez
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Jaxon Clark
Also, unironically, this book. I only flipped through it while I was at a girl's house but it blew my fucking mind just the short bits I read. I'm a very untidy person, but there are two things that blew my mind: >Your bookshelf is a statement of the kind of person you want to be perceived as, if you haven't read a book - why are you keeping it? If you have read a book - why hold onto it? >Have a "In Box", a physical spot where you put things that need to be done. For a while I tried to implement this, I'd put all my shit on top of my pillow so I couldn't go to sleep until I had put all the shirts on hangers, all the books on shelves, read all the articles/magazines whathaveyou...That way those things would get DONE, and immediately. But I ended up just dumping shit on the floor and going to sleep anyway, but it's a great idea - I just need to hack myself and trick myself into implementing it.
It all relates back to Scott Adams and systems thinking, if you constantly tidy up things, throw away old magazines and clothes, a series of constant small acts you're always "tidying" and you don't need to have a massive "clean up".
Just like Scott Adam's thing about dieting and goal weights.
Noah Moore
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Do you hired marketers too? Where's your funnel?
Ryan Harris
No funnels. All organic traffic from App Store.
Jordan Mitchell
Nice. On average how long does it take to develop an app?
Jace Baker
Few weeks at most.
Jason Ward
user, you are not concerned about copyright issues? I mean, the developers "stealing" your idea?
