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Friday Thoughts & Learnings

This week I learned how progress depends more on how well you learn than how hard you work, the power of 1% compounded gains and how social media is like giving cocaine to kids and resisting it is both uncool and cool. Enjoy!

Learning to learn better

Adam Grant has released a new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things.

It's a book about how to raise aspirations and exceed expectations. His key point is your progress depends less on how hard you work and more on how well you learn.

He provides frameworks and systems that have helped create opportunities for those that have been underrated and overlooked.

He's a great storyteller which makes this an easy book to deep dive in or skim across the surface to get the key points.

The power of 1% compounded gains

The Game podcast by Alex Hormozi ep 617.

Alex is an entrepreneur who started with nothing and used grit, resilience and a growth and learning mindset to create a net worth of US$1bn.

What I like about him is he cuts straight to the point on what he's learned and how he approaches business and solving problems.

In this episode he shares how he made 1% improvements over and over again to double one of his portfolio businesses revenue in 60 days.

How being an ‘uncool’ Dad is cool

I'm learning about how social media apps, like Snapchat, affect the developing minds of teenagers. My 13 year old son is begging me to let him start using it.

All his friends have it. He tells me 'cool dad' would let him have it.

What I'm interested in is how these apps impact the developing minds of teenagers and whether they will create 'brain damage' that can't be undone.

It wasn't long ago that we thought smoking was OK for teenagers.

What I learned this week is that social media apps activate similar mechanisms as cocaine in the brain.

What I want to learn more about is whether these impacts create permanent harm such as a distraction dysmorphia or dopamine addiction that is hard to undo later in life. The learning on this will continue.

Until then I'm 'uncool dad'. And I’m cool with that.

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