- Ginger & Sauerkraut for muscle
- experimentalists keep theoreticians honest- Michio Kaku
- Separation of expertise means both sides suffer sub-optimal results
- The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.
- 2.5% provides 95% of the result, 30% provides 98%
- look for hypotheses worth disproving- proactively skeptical, not defensively skeptical
- How do you become more productive? “Work out.” – Richard Branson
- MINIMUM EFFECTIVE DOSE: Smallest dose that will provide the desired outcome (non-scalable- consider Tipping Point) Boil water at 100 deg, not 150 deg.
- Everything popular is wrong- Oscar Wilde
- Know the rules so you can break them effectively- Dalai Lama XIV
- CHARLES MUNGER- right hand man to Buffet, super good thinker, De Bono style, READ HIM
- Counting calories is parking lot science- looking for your keys under the street lamp because you can see better there, even if you lost them elsewhere
- Underexploited paths- heat and hormones
- STICKINESS- WILL IT STICK
- Avoid methods with a high failure rate, even if you believe you’re in the diligent majority- everybody does when they begin.
- THE DECENT METHOD YOU FOLLOW IS BETTER THAN THE PERFECT METHOD YOU QUIT
- causality- short bodybuilders- why short? why bodybuilders?
- absence/presence- vegetarians live longer because less meat, or more veggies?
- specific demographic- yoga makes you healthier- healthier people do yoga?
- “maintaining peak condition year-round is a ticket to the mental ward”
- cycling- key ingredient in body redesign
- “healthy/fitness/optimal”- weasel words. BE SPECIFIC. ACTIONABLE.
- IT’S NOT WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR MOUTH THAT COUNTS, ITS WHAT MAKES IT TO YOUR BLOODSTREAM.
- 3 factors: Digestion, protein/carb/fat ratio, timing.
- fourhourbody.com/wisdom
- fourhourbody.com/almanac
- fourhourbody.com/stoicism
- friends
- fourhourbody.com/munger
- Swaraj: Dispassionate self-assessment, ceaseless self-purification and growing self-reliance
- WHY NO CHANGE
- 1: Consistent tracking, even if you have absolutely no knowledge of what you’re doing, will often beat advice from world-class trainers
- 2: Need a sufficient reason for action- pain not painful enough
- best way to experiment- follow the scientific method- follow a rigid template and make observations
- INJURY PROOFING REQUIRES CORRECTING L/R IMBALANCES
- what gets measured gets managed
- MAKE IT CONSCIOUS
- MAKE IT A GAME
- MAKE IT COMPETITIVE
- MAKE IT SMALL AND TEMPORARY
- every model is wrong but some are useful
- observer/Hawthorne effect- people are more productive when they think they are being observed
- measurement = motivation
- do something at least 5 times to START building a habit, 30 times to have it
- fear of loss/benefits of comparison
- use peer pressure to your advantage
notes from 4 hour body