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#032 – Hubermania & Categories of One
Quote, Podcast, Mental Model, Interesting Phenomenon, Tweet.
Dimitri Gremos
October 18, 2023
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#032 at a Glance:
Quote that will get you thinking: Talking vs Listening.
Podcast you should listen to: Why Hard Work Won’t Make You Rich.
Mental Model: Categories of One.
Interesting Phenomenon: Why People Won’t Stop Talking About Andrew Huberman.
Tweet I liked: 10 Lessons from 50 Multi-Millionaires in Texas.
Quote that will get you thinking:
“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”
Podcast you should listen to:
The Game w/ Alex Hormozi: Why Hard Work Won’t Make You Rich
Alex Hormozi discusses the fallacy of equating hard work with success and instead emphasizes the single most important factor for increasing your output:
Leverage.
It’s only an 8-minute short episode. Do your future self a favour ↓
Mental Model:
Categories of One
Recently, legendary author, interviewer, and investor Tim Ferriss was asked by one of his podcast guests how he had managed to succeed in the podcast game.
Tim replied, “It’s not enough to be a good interviewer. I really think you need to seek to be a category of one. It’s a lot easier to be the only than it is to be the best when you have millions of podcasts to compete against. So spend a lot of time thinking about positioning.”
I love that phrase: category of one.
Our own unique set of talents, quirks, experiences, networks, interests, and personalities make each of us a category of one.
You vs You > You vs Others
Interesting Phenomenon:
Why People Won’t Stop Talking About Andrew Huberman
Jamie Dumarch recently articulated something pretty clever about why 99% of the population don’t stop referring to Andrew Huberman at least once in every day conversation:
"The easy explanation for the Hubermania is that everyone likes to feel smart, and listening to a Stanford neuroscientist talk for hours about neurons and circadian rhythms and endogenous opioids scratches that itch."
Huberman has been able to bridge the gap between complex scientific theory with everyday practical hacks and his top-tier Ivy League background grants him the ability to do so.
Want to know a lot about science? No need to sift through hundreds of dense and jargon-heavy research papers. Just listen to an episode of Huberman Lab. Problem solved.
Very clever.
Tweet I liked:
I spent two days with a group of 50 multimillionaire entrepreneurs in Texas.
Here are 10 things I learned:
1. Extraordinary people are just ordinary people willing to play a game for an extraordinary length of time. Very few people are willing to play a game for decades. If you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)
1:20 PM • Oct 13, 2023
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