154) Sahil Bloom - Mental Models for a Happy & Successful Life

Today’s conversation is with Sahil Bloom, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Creator.

Every week, his content reaches and impacts over 1 million people around the world.

Sahil has over 700,000 followers on Twitter, 125,000 subscribers to his newsletter (The Curiosity Chronicle), and a rapidly growing Instagram.

There’s so much to take in and learn from this podcast, including Sahil’s changing and evolving identity over the years from playing professional baseball and studying at Stanford, onto working in the finance world, to the relentless creator we now follow online and proud Dad.

In this conversation, we talk about finding your zone of genius and purpose in your career and busiest, mental models for a successful life, mental errors people make, and paradoxes related to effort, choice, failure and more.

Today's episode sponsor is previous podcast guest, Mike Samuels.

Mike is a copywriter who's been responsible for over $170 Million in online sales for his clients, and now teachers others how to become what he calls 'Coffee Shop Copywriters.' He's personally guided over 300 people to the point where they're now earning their living as highly-paid, highly-respected copywriters, earning up to £350 per hour, and getting paid multiple times for one piece of work

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Twitter - https://twitter.com/SahilBloom

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00:15 How would Sahil define himself

01:32 Zone of genius

02:52 find yours

04:51  telic versus atelic activities

06:06 - Energy calendar

07:50 batching

08:40 education can be wasted on the young

12:12 common thread for highly successful people

13:19 benefits from reading fiction

15:38 baseball team at Stanford

16:40 High school

18:05 punched in the face

20:09 pleasure without pain

22: 36 sacrifice for pleasure

23:38 The wheel of time

28:21 be present

29:48 cold plunge routine

30:35 walking in silence

33:34 Lessons from fatherhood

35:30 Friction

40:28 family dinners

41:20 an easy life can be unhealthy

41:56 spotlight effect

43:27 80 and 10 year old self

46:59 Paradox of effort

49:21 Paradox of Choice

51:29 Failure Paradox

52:30 moment of failure

54:21 Content for Roman

55:44 The important thing in the world

57:19 One lesson that it took the longest to learn

59:22 Where to connect with Sahil