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• Not all practice leads to perfection; it's the quality and focus of the practice that counts.
• Mastery requires not just time, but also the right approach and mindset.
• Efficiency in the wrong areas can lead to stagnation rather than growth.
• Reflecting on our methods is as important as the practice itself.
• Identifying what truly matters is the first step towards meaningful improvement.

• il segreto del successo secondo Malcolm Gladwell
• cos'è la regola delle 10.000 ore
• la ricerca di Anders Ericsson sui violinisti berlinesi
• la regola delle 10.000 ore funziona davvero?
• 3 insegnamenti da trarre dalla regola delle 10.000 ore

This week Joe and Robert cover the big news out of Disney. Do they really have more subscribers than Netflix? Are they the greatest media company of all-time? (the answer is yes)

Axios sells to Cox Enterprises, creating a local media opportunity that may be unprecedented. At the 5x revenue valuation, the boys ponder how a content marketing division could be valued (revenue or not).

Lyft creates a media division...but the real story is the ongoing diversification of audience and customer revenue.

Rants and raves include online gambling content and whether it's better or worse to work from home.

This week's links:

Disney's Upside Surprise

Axios Sells

Media Exit Multiplier

Lyft's Media Operation

xQc Wagers $685 Million

Malcolm Gladwell on Working from Home

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Do you continue to learn? What do you do to feed your body, your mind, and your spirit?

Long time listeners know that I read, at least 30 - 45 minutes per day in the morning when I first wake up as part of my daily routine to get ready for my day. The house is quiet and my wife and kids are still asleep (most mornings).

Each year, I like to do an episode on some of more impactful books I've read the previous year, which is the topic of today's Crushing Debt Podcast episode.

While I don't talk about every book (there were 26 of them this year), I do give you brief summaries and take-aways from the following books. My hope is that you find some books in the below list that interest you, that you can read over the coming years:

• You Can Negotiate Anything - Herb Cohen
• Shark In The Housing Pool - Matthew Cox
• Clockwork - Mike Michalowicz
• The New Great Depression - James Rickards
• Why My J.O.B. Quit Me - Mechiel Kopaska
• Remarkable Business - Contribution by Shawn Yesner
• Your Best Year Yet - Jinny S. Ditzler
• The Energy Bus - Jon Gordon
• Bitcoin Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
• The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Pumpkin Plan - Mike Michalowicz
• Building a Story Brand - Donald Miller
• The 401k Revival - Michael Watkins
• The Creature from Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffin
• The Diabetes Code - Dr. Jason Fung
• Permission Marketing - Seth Godin

I had the privilege to interview some of these authors about their books on my show during the year.

• Mike Michalowicz - Episode 231, Become Debt Free with Profit First
• Michiel Kopaska - Episode 263, Stuck in a J.O.B.?
• Michael Watkins - Episode 284, Sidestep the Market Crash (plus episodes 196 and 97)

I would also like to know what books you've read that are not on this list, that I can read this year or next.  What books have had the greatest impact on you, or you have enjoyed reading? Please email me at Shawn@YesnerLaw.com.

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Virtue signaling is another feature of a rule-keeping morality and the flip-side to our obsession with calling out the hypocrisy of others. Talk of it is everywhere. What, then, is virtue signaling exactly and, more to the point, what drives it? In this episode (part 3 of a 3-episode arc), we explore the social science of self-justification and the human tendency towards self-flattery. Most importantly, we explore how—by naming and labeling virtue signaling—we can choose a different path to real virtue, beyond mere appearances.

In deze podcast bespreken René & Valentina het onderwerp gewenste moeilijkheden. Soms zijn interventies gewenst om het leerproces te bevorderen, maar zijn leerlingen er moeilijk voor te motiveren.

In Blink, Gladwell shares stories that celebrate the power of quick decisions, as well as those moments when our instincts betray us.

In this episode of On books we cover: Thin-slicing, and "The Right - and Wrong - Way to Ask People What They Want." This includes stories of Coke vs. Pepsi, Butter vs. Margarine, and a man who can predict with 95% accuracy whether a couple will still be married fifteen years later (just after meeting them for 15 minutes).

Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

Jenny and Joe talk vaping, the ban, nudge culture, and harm reduction.

References:
Jonah Goldberg's podcast on the Opiate Crisis: http://feeds.podtrac.com/taRpAr7jgli1
Malcolm Gladwell's book containing his 2006 New Yorker essay about a new solution to homelessness: https://www.gladwellbooks.com/titles/malcolm-gladwell/what-the-dog-saw/9780316075848/ 

Music: "Ride of Your Life" by The Vergency
https://music.apple.com/us/album/ride-of-your-life/749159654?i=749159679

3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, and the world's greatest Uber driver. Each of the 333 chapters is dropped on the exact minute of every new moon and full moon until September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show as well as the world's only podcast by and for book lovers, writers, makers, sellers... and librarians. For more info check out: www.3books.co 

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of five New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What The Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. His latest book, Talking to Strangers, was published on September 10, 2019. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. Foreign Policy has three times named him one of their Top Global Thinkers, and he has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.

Chapter Description:

Who we are is a function of where we are.

Do you agree with that?

Who you are depends on where you are.

We’re different people in different places, right?

You’re different in the board room than you are on vacation. You’re different with your parents than you are with your kids. And, as for me, I’m different hanging with with Malcolm Gladwell in the West Village than I am sitting in my basement as I type up this blog post.

And that theme is one that we get to open up in Chapter 37 of 3 Books with Malcolm Gladwell. Guys, I was so nervous for this podcast. I mean, super nervous. I couldn’t sleep for a few nights before. I read his three most formative books. I listened to his podcast Revisionist History. I got an advance copy of his brand new book Talking To Strangers. I mean, I was so nervous that I showed up for the podcast an hour early. (Who does that?)

So Malcolm invites me into his place and we get settled around a table surrounded by books. Top to bottom! Floor to ceiling! And, no big deal, all hardcovers. I’m intimated but at the very end of the podcast, right after I clicked stop on the recorder … he said three words that completely chilled me out. (I’ll tell you what they were after the show.) I found him extremely down to Earth with a beautiful calming energy.

We talk about raising great nerds in a world forcing us into the mean, how to find tribes where we truly fit in, who he thinks is the best non-fiction author alive, why thrillers are incredibly instructive, what his biggest advice is for aspiring authors, and, of course, his three most formative books.

I hope you enjoy Chapter 37 with Malcolm Gladwell.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• Why should we reread books more often?

• Are we all simply products of our environments?

• What book has Malcolm read every five years since the age of 15?

• Which book does Malcolm call “appallingly marketed”?

• How do we preserve our privacy in an endlessly connected world?

• And much, much more…

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Our culture today is all about getting a head start. Start early, focus intensely and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as you can. But what if that’s actually not the best path to success? In his new book Range, author David Epstein argues going broad—not narrow—is the best route to success. On this episode, we talk about the dangers of early specialization, the value of breadth of experience, and how this all applies to the way you think about your career, your hobbies, and even the way you parent.

In this special holiday episode, former NFL scout Matt Manocherian (@mattmano) of Sports Info Solutions and football analytics pioneer Aaron Schatz (@FO_ASchatz) of Football Outsiders welcome John Shirley (@JshirleyAK) of the SIS R&D team to the show to discuss his recent article arguing that the Zero Blitz should be utilized more often (0:35). The podcast concludes with a re-air of Matt's appearance on The TaekCast (@taekcast) with Davis Mattek (@DavisMattek) from October 26, 2018 (10:28). You can read "The Case for the Zero Blitz" by going to Football Outsiders or by clicking here.

In this special holiday episode, former NFL scout Matt Manocherian (@mattmano) of Sports Info Solutions and football analytics pioneer Aaron Schatz (@FO_ASchatz) of Football Outsiders welcome John Shirley (@JshirleyAK) of the SIS R&D team to the show to discuss his recent article arguing that the Zero Blitz should be utilized more often (0:35). The podcast concludes with a re-air of Matt's appearance on The TaekCast (@taekcast) with Davis Mattek (@DavisMattek) from October 26, 2018 (10:28). You can read "The Case for the Zero Blitz" by going to Football Outsiders or by clicking here.

In this episode I speak about reading The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, a very profitable investment by Kobe Bryant, the surprise Kamikaze album that Eminem dropped overnight as well as his four-part interview with Sway.

The Spun Today Podcast is a Podcast that is anchored in Writing & Random Rants, but unlimited in scope. Give it a whirl.

Links referenced in this episode:

CocaCola Press Release about Body Armor Investment: https://www.coca-colacompany.com/press-center/press-releases/the-coca-cola-company-and-bodyarmor-announce-new-strategic-relat

Dear Basketball Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCrLyZnyfY

Eminem x Sway - The Kamikaze Interview (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqh3zNhC5Kg (there are 4 parts)

Joyner Lucas - I'm Not Racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gm3CJePn0

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Our guest Steve Magness is a coach to top distance runners including Olympians, World Championship qualifiers, and top 10 finishers at Major Marathons. He is also a lecturer and writer on the topic of science of performance. He has two books, including The Science of Running and the latest titled Peak Performance, which drops in June, along with numerous articles and a newsletter at the scienceofrunning.com, and a podcast called "On Coaching" that can be found on iTunes. As many know, Steve's also an accomplished runner himself.

Topics discussed with Steve:

• Steve's favorite topic these days in the sports world: psychology and the mind, and in particular what he's learned coaching collegiate runners.
• The distinct patterns of coping with pain and fatigue that he observes in his athletes - what the top performers vs. the rest do naturally.
• Mental toughness with NO limits!
• One thing Steve is sick of hearing or talking about: Weekly volume and/or weekly mileage - that's missing the point!
• Steve has a coaching program that's unique from others out there - what is his work all about and what makes it different?
• "We are consumed with becoming experts on the physiology and the technical, which is all well and good. But we've lost our teaching roots."
• For coaches, what matters: concepts or details? Steve has a more detailed article on this here.
• We have to understand WHY we are doing certain things for our athletes, not just execute details.
• What are some of his "rules of coaching." See the full article here.
• At the end of the day make sure it's simple + usable.
• "In an age where we are inundated with information, the problem is no longer collecting what the greatest minds on the planet do, it’s in making sure it is applicable."
• When working with an athlete and you see passion that could go too far and become destructive how do you "fix" that without bringing them down?
• Why he thinks Malcom Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule misses the point, especially for endurance athletes. Read Steve's full article here
• "Instead of telling everyone they can be an expert with deliberate practice, let’s just say, you never will find out where your ceiling is without a lot of work. And to me, that’s what the journey is about. "
• Seems like 10k hours is different with endurance sport where too much doesn't always equate to success especially if you pile on too much too fast?
• For athletes, is deliberate and smart practice for at least THREE years a better rule of thumb? It takes time to absorb training and figure out racing, and after 3 years it's just beginning.
• On patience!
• Tackling battle between the scientific side and the practical side training. Where does Steve stand on this? Is there a balance and synergy between the two?
• Some of us at EP want to know: What's your definition of "tempo" is and where it fits with Z3, marathon effort, threshold?
• Steve's recommended reads
  • The Biology of Desire - by Marc Lewis
  • Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing - by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
  • Letters from a Stoic - by Seneca
  • Ego Is the Enemy - by Ryan Holiday

If you’ve ever wanted to improve at a skill, sport or job or become the best at whatever you do, but have been told you’re not talented enough, didn’t start early enough, or that you don’t have 10,000 hours to spare, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Anders Ericsson, a preeminent leader in new science of expertise, and the researcher behind Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule from his book Outliers. He’s also the author of a brand-new paradigm shifting book I believe and hope will set the stage, for backbone of education and performance for decades to come.

Today we’ll talk about expertise, what it is, where it comes from, how you can achieve it, what we all can learn from others who have it, how to help develop it in ourselves and our children, and why we can almost all dramatically improve our performance in almost any area we put our minds and hearts too.

That plus we’ll look at homo erectus and homo exercens, Maverick, Viper, and Iceman, Blue Bunny Ice-Cream, Paganini and the Broken Strings, and What a Banana Monk and a Pot have to do with anything.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. Expertise – how you can achieve
2. How we can develop expertise in almost any area we put our hearts and minds in
3. What does Mozart have to do with expertise
   1. Why Mozart wasn’t really ‘born’ with his music skills
   2. Why perfect pitch can be trained (particularly early on)
4. How a study of Japanese children showed they were all able to learn perfect pitch
5. What powerful lesson we can learn from the Sakihabara study
6. How learning Mandarin as a first language can help you as a musician or singer
7. What is the story of Steve Falloon
8. What our memory can be expanded much more than we ever thought
9. How we can improve our memory
10. What is the new science of expertise?
11. What’s the typical approach we take to practice or learning and why doesn’t it get us very far?
12. What can we learn about Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule (business, career) that came from Anders Ericsson's work.
13. Why doing what you already know how to do is NOT very effective practice
14. What is the right sort of practice?
15. What’s the importance of getting outside of your comfort zone
16. How to improve endurance running performance
17. How to improve running speed
18. How the right training helps the body to adapt tremendously
19. What is purposeful practice and feedback?
20. Why tasks require the “correct” action.
21. Why the 10,000 hour rule needs to be corrected
22. Why practice doesn’t make perfect
23. Why experience is not necessarily an advantage or the answer
24. Why feedback is so important for improvement
25. How do we harness adaptability
26. What do the brains of London Cabbies have to do with anything?
27. What do Maverick, Viper and Iceman (and the Top Gun Program) have to do with anything?
28. How to refine and entrench your new skills
29. Why it’s so important to have a situation where you can make decisions and get immediate feedback
30. How to simulate tests (such as GRE, LSAT, SAT or otherwise)
31. Natalie Coughman Olympic Medalist – how she had a breakthrough moment in training by shifting her focus
32. What’s wrong with the concept of “will power”
33. How do you build your motivation up?
34. What’s the importance of a teacher or a mentor?
35. Why parents should find an activity they can do with their children
36. Why having an expert on your side is so important
37. Why having a parent who supports and helps the child is so important
38. How important belief in your child is, even if they don’t display talent
39. The story of Olympic Runner Gunder hagg
40. Why belief that you can do something is so powerful
41. Why we should all make the assumption we can do something (until really proven otherwise)
42. Why giving children an early experience of what training can do for their performance is so important
43. Laslo Polgar and Clara and their experiment with their kids
44. Stages to improve our performance
45. First improve the motivational aspect – get motivation first
46. What does it mean to “get serious”
47. Why a good parent wants to start with 15-30 minutes and gives good feedback
48. Why the worst thing you can do is to push someone well beyond the point at which they can concentrate
49. Why you do not want to burn someone (especially a child) out.
50. What’s missing from Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule
51. Why the Beetles 10,000 hours is inaccurate or doesn’t explain their composition.
52. Why sleep and rest is so important – especially for experts
53. Why napping is so important for performance
54. Why shorter chunks are so much more valuable for training
55. Why you’re never too old to change, but why having an advisor is so helpful to help you gradually make the change
    1. What are some of the things that would motivate someone to begin making the changes
    2. Why the age ceiling for change is a myth
56. What we can learn from violinist Paganini playing on a single string
57. Why childhood prodigy’s are not what we think
58. What we can learn from the University of British Columbia and an experiment then did
59. Why deliberate practice means deliberate improvement
60. Why we should all have a goal or a project

World Expertise Expert Anders Ericsson Shares Secrets to Mastery and Peak Performance For Adults & Children, How to Improve at Anything, Why Talent’s a Myth & Why Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule Needs Updating. Business | Career | Psychology | Health | Fitness | Motivation | Self-Improvement | Self-Help

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Malcolm Gladwell is best know for his work as an author including five New York Times Best Sellers: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996 and is also the host of one of the most popular podcasts: Revisionist History. Malcolm sat down with Lance in New York for an engaging discussion on a variety of topics including: the order of triathlon events, sports nutrition, the use of power meters in cycling, Edward Snowden, and much more.

I write a little blurb like this for every episode, but I feel that some books hardly need any introduction. This is one such example. Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most celebrated journalists and writers of the early 21st century, and his book Outliers caused a splash in people's thinking about success.

Why? One answer is that it popularised the idea of the so-called "10,000 hour rule", initially discovered by K. Anders Ericsson, concerning how much "deliberate practice" it takes to become a world-class expert in any field. "Popularised" is the key word here, as several others were writing the same thing, but when Gladwell writes, everybody reads. And, for the most part, everybody believes. (So another answer to "why did the book cause a splash?" would be "because it's Gladwell, and he's famous, and everybody likes him.")

The strange thing is, the 10,000 hour rule makes up a minority of what he writes about in his book, but people seem to often forget the rest of the ideas. Since we've already seen the power of extended deliberate practice described in other books (Bounce, Genius Explained, and The Talent Code), it's actually these remaining ideas where we find Gladwell's unique contribution to our knowledge of the development of expertise. And it has a message with is quite at odds with the spirit of the 10,000 hour rule.

Gladwell's unique yet oft-forgotten contribution, then, is the idea of success as being a gift. He's not talking about talent, which he more or less rejects by reference to the aforementioned 10,000 hour rule, but about life circumstances. You don't choose where or when you are born, or the culture you are born into, or the state of the job market or of national demographics or of technology as you are growing up, and yet these very factors have a profound effect on whether somebody is successful. Would Bill Gates have become so rich were he born in Burma instead? Or in the 1920s? Or in fourth century Phrygia? 

Although some of Gladwell's historico-cultural musings can be somewhat open to doubt, in several places he gives evidence strong enough to convince even the careful reader that something funny is indeed going on. In this episode, I hope to help you see where he might be onto something, and where we need to be wary of the potential of his masterful storytelling to obscure his shaky arguments.

Enjoy the episode.