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Like you know, a year is just a collection of 365 days. So you can have a pretty good idea of what your year is going to look like if you look at it on a daily basis. But we tend to downplay each individual day that makes up a year because it's so many days that that go into a year when in reality it's just the composite of those days that make up the year. And I know I'm this is some groundbreaking science here that that we're talking about this some riveting stuff, but it's something that everybody knows, yet they still continue to live their day to day lives as if they don't have any urgency pulling them in the direction of their goals or dreams. So which version of me am I rewarding with today's choices? Am I rewarding my today self by not going to the gym? And you know it feels better to not go put myself through physical pain of working out so I'm rewarding my current self, my laziest self. Or did I choose to go to the gym and endure a little bit of physical pain because I know that my future version of myself will thank me for it when when I turn 40 or when I turn 50 or when I turn 60, that because I've put in the work for the past 20, 30, 40 years, that I would be able to continue walking around and enjoying my life rather than being bedridden and accelerating the aging process because I chose the, the laziest self on a daily basis leading up to that moment. So which version of me am I, am I rewarding with today's choices? Because that's all it is, man. It's all life is. A collection of choices. You will become the person that you choose to become over a long enough period of time. Now I know when you're first born, you. That's why I love, I love the quote. When you're born, you look like your parents. When you die, you look like your choices. I have done a lot of thinking over where along the way this switches, right? Like can you that that. Which is obviously why the legal system punishes adolescents differently than they punish adults. Because there's some varying degree of, of lack of responsibility there. Because you are mostly a product of your environment when you're a 13 year old kid or an 8 year old or a 17 year old or 15 year old. But somewhere along the way, you can't keep blaming all the external circumstances. You can't keep blame, blaming the cards that you were dealt when you were born. You can't keep blaming your parents or your teachers or this external event that happened infinitely forever. You like it. At some point you got to go, well, that was like, for you. Like, you know, I know people today to this day, we're in 2026. Covid was, I mean today as of this recording, today's March 11th. Covid was literally six years ago. Like this week, I think was when they announced the shutdown of the entire country. And I know people to this day who are still blaming Covid for their lack of opportunity, their lack of their lack of success or their current circumstances. It's like, look, I understand that that was a crazy black swan event, upended a lot of people's lives. And I'm not trying to downplay the crazy consequences that came from that, from that, you know, life altering event. However, it has been six years now. So, and you might be listening going like, well, it's only six years. It's like, okay, let's play that game then. Let's play that game. At what point is it going to switch? At what point is it, is it, is it too, is it too long? Is it one year? Is it six years? Is it 10 years, is it 15 years? Because at some point you can't continue to blame this thing for altering the direction of your life. You have to just take responsibility for where your life is and then pick a different direction and move relentlessly toward that direction. You cannot continue to blame these circumstances infinitely into the future. So at what point are you going to just accept that reality? And so what, what version of me am I rewarding with today's choices? Because that's all, that's all we have in life, is this collection of choices, and that's who you're going to end up being next. What am I doing today that keeps me lonely? The reason I put this question in this list of 25 questions is that other show, Travis Makes Friends has sort of forced me to do a lot of research on the loneliness epidemic. And I think that it is one of, one of the, one of the more insidious problems that is facing our culture today. Because it's, it's so invisible. It's, it's, it's in the, it's in the clouds. It's almost this abstract concept, this idea of loneliness. Because we're not, when we're talking about loneliness, it's not necessarily the same thing as social isolation. These are two definitions of loneliness. One of them is an objective third party measurement. Social isolation, meaning that you can measure the volume of hours that you spent around other people. And that is a little bit of an easier fix because if you feel socially isolated, then it's like, okay, well the prescription is stop socially isolating yourself, right? Go get around more people, join this community or go to the gym or be a part of this subculture or go to this meetup or join this Facebook group or whatever. You know, there's, there's more simple prescriptions to take care of that problem. However, loneliness, this is a completely subjective internal state, which is why I think it's so insidious. And when you look at the research and see how many physical ailments, not, not just mental, mental ailments make sense to me at least from that perspective. It's like loneliness would cause depression, it would cause anxiety, it would cause stress in some of these things and like, obviously detrimental for mental health. But the thing that I did not expect when I was researching all of this is how detrimental it is for your physical health. The, this idea of loneliness that it's worse for your physical health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, worse for your physical health than drinking i5 alcoholic beverages a day. The long term effects on your health can be absolutely detrimental. And I think it's so silly that people, that people who would self identify as like biohackers, they're so willing to give up relationships in pursuit of biohacking that they're actually shooting themselves in the foot unknowingly because they're completely missing the point of what's actually going to give them a long, healthy, happy, fulfilled life and being socially accepted, being, being not, you know, the opposite of loneliness. This is one of those things that actually has a major, major impact on your ability to be happy long term. And it's, it's just not talked about any of these circles. Like people will, people will go through a two hour morning routine with ice baths and meditations and saunas and breath work and all this other crazy stuff. You know, they're, they're majoring in the minors, they're doing all these things that are like a, you know, 3% lift or a 1.2% lift or they, this, these 14 supplements, they're like choking down vitamins at the beginning of every day. Yet they, yet they don't spend any time with the people in their life that are most meaningful to them. Or they look at it like, okay, well, I'm gonna stop drinking alcohol because alcohol is bad for my long term health. But then they're giving up on going to the bar with their friends and making memories and building friendships and deep relationships with these people because they're actively trying to avoid this thing. And look, I'm not trying to be a proponent of alcohol here, okay? Obviously there's huge negative, obviously major downside sides to, to being an alcoholic and drinking alcohol. And if you have a problem with that, you should not engage in those activities and you should go find more sober things to do. I'm not suggesting that that's the issue. However, there are some people, I think that take this to the nth degree and they don't necessarily have a problem with, with drinking, but, but because they think that it's better for them to avoid drinking, they'll just stop hanging out with their friends. In social situations where their friends are drinking because they don't want to drink yet, they're just further isolating themselves and it actually is more detrimental to their long term health than the activity of drinking. Just went and had a beer or two, you don't have to drink 12 to have a little bit of social lubricant and enjoy hanging out with your friends. You, you. I, I think my, my point is just to say that I think people are Sacrificing something major in order to optimize things that are really minor. And so that's why I included that, this question in there, because I think this is going to be one of those. This, this is going to be like our generation smoking, you know what I mean? Like, it's so easy for us to vilify the entire previous generation for smoking all the time because they didn't have enough information at their fingertips. And now we have that information and it's easy to go, smoking's really bad for you. You shouldn't do that. And I think this is gonna be one of those things that we look back on in a few decades and go like, oh, remember that one time when we started to outsource all of our social connectivity to technology? That was crazy. That was a really bad idea. Look at all the negative societal impacts that that had. Look at all the negative health impacts that had. Look how that affected even life expectancy of a broader generalization, the broader population. You know, so what am I doing today that keeps me lonely? How, how can I make sure that I am continuously plugging in to the relationships in my life that matter? Then lastly, number 25, we wrap up this whole list of questions to ask yourself. What skill, if mastered, in the next 12 months, would disproportionately change my life? What skill, if mastered in the next 12 months, would disproportionately change my life? This is especially important when it comes to the core topic of my podcast, the Travis Makes Money podcast, because your skills will ultimately determine the, your ability to control how much money you make over the long, over a long enough period of time. And so if you are not in a, if you are not in a position financially that you want to be in, then it's probably due to a lack of skills. Meaning that the skill set that you currently have is either undervalued in your workplace or the general marketplace at large, or, or it just means that you. That there's, there's too many other people that could potentially do your job. Therefore your market pay is going to be lower than what other people's market pay might be. So if especially, especially, especially for your financial life, what's, what skill can you master in the next 12 months that would disproportionately change your life? And the beautiful thing is like, yeah, everybody looks at, like, you know, the Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours thing. And of course, you know, that is the technical definition of mastery as put out by Malcolm Gladwell in, in his book Outliers however, this like base level of mastery, this does not require 10,000 hours. It just requires more than most people are willing to put into that thing. So don't think that this is like, like, you know, if I want to master this next skill, it's going to take me the next 12 years of my life to master this. Just think of it in the sense that like, okay, well how can I make myself better than 95% of the other people that are that are doing this skill? And probably with dedicated work over a course of a 12 month period of time, you'd be able to significantly increase your ability to earn income and therefore change your life in that regard. So what skill, if master in the next 12 months would disproportionately.

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Travis (Podcast Host) (19:16)

Change my life. All right now we're gonna go through all of these one by one as just a quick recap for those of you who are listening and you can go hear a little bit more commentary on each of these. As I went through these. The first four parts of of this series here, but 25 questions to live a better life. When was the last time I risked embarrassment? When was the last time I got something I wanted? It happened. Now what? No bullshit. What would it take? When was the last time I changed my mind about a belief? This sucks. But what's the alternative? What is the worst case scenario and is it that bad? Why am I feeling this emotion? Who do I know that has the results that I want? Number 10. What are our cigarettes? What do we view as normal now that will vilify in 200 years? 11. What could I change about my environment that would make it easier to be the person I want to be? 12. When did I form the aspirations I'm currently pursuing and how have I changed since then? 13. Have I reached a learning plateau in my role or workplace since it time to consider a pivot? 14. Would I be okay if my kids ended up like me? Same habits, same self talk, same friends, etc. Etc. 15. Is this activity on my calendar getting me closer to my goals or further from them? 16. What would my 90 year old self tell me to cut out of my life immediately? 17. Who are the five people I've spent the most time with in the last 30 days and is that shaping me into the person I want to become? 18. What hard conversation am I avoiding and what would change if I had it today? 19. If I lived this day 365 more times, what would my year look like? 20. What story about myself have I outgrown but haven't stopped telling? 21. What am I pretending not to know? Am I building a life I actually want or the life someone else will applaud? Which version of me am I rewarding with today's choices? What am I doing today that keeps me lonely? And lastly, what skill if master, the next 12 months would disproportionately change my life. There's 25 questions to ask yourself every once in a while to live a better life. That's it for this episode of the show. Remember, money only solves your money problems. It's easier to solve the rest of your problems with money in the bank. So start there. Here on the Travis Makes Money podcast. Thanks for tuning guys. We'll catch you next time. Peace.

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