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You’re here because you understand one thing:

The quality of your ideas impacts the quality of your life

Luckily, today’s issue is here to help.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP LESSONS

Call me Mr Reply Guy

As you know, last week’s review unearthed the power of replies. As such, this week I did not hold back and fired replies wherever I could.

Above is a collection of the replies I shot out this week that had good responses.

Looks like people like talking trash about the world government and reinforcing some positivity. Good to know!

While not as successful as last weeks reply, this has still generated me impressions and new followers.

25 new followers since last week which is closer to 20% growth rather than the ~9% shown below. Either way, growth is good and is getting me closer to that 500 monetization mark

Another positive is the increase in engagement - showing that followers are engaging with my content and that I am responsive to reactions on my tweets.

This is what’s happening in reality too, as I find myself having interesting conversations on twitter and use it as a large meeting place of ideas and individuals, as well as a place to test my writing skill and ideas.

This weeks Lessons

1. Replies are still the #1 way to achieve engagement and growth

2. Consistency is king

3. Be authentic, people respond to the humanity behind the message

What Next?

I am now consistent with my tweeting. I have scheduled my tweets in advance using a tool called Hypefury. This way I don’t have to spend a lot of time on Twitter and can do my writing in bulk.

Now its about refining my tweets to be more engaging to my audience. I’ll experiment with more images/ videos this upcoming week and remix some of the tweets that worked this past week.

Btw, If you’re interested in growing your Twitter (or other social platform) as well, send me a DM and I’ll add you to my creator community!

HEALTH/ EXERCISE/ LIFESTYLE

Movement is a nutrient

Man 1: Goes to the gym to exercise and builds up his arms. Requires constant returning to the gym and a lot of food to maintain all the bulky muscles, and to always be carrying that bulk around with him.

Man 2: Does a variety of things in his life, some labour and some leisure. Builds up the required muscles and trims down unnecessary bulk. Is strong, slim and efficient, doesn't require a lot of food, just continues living life as normal.

People understand they have to exercise.

Most people don’t understand why they have to exercise!

The reason will become obvious by the time you finish this article.

You see, our bodies are meant to move.

In fact, when you isolate movement and remove or reduce it from a person’s diet, aka their lifestyle, we find that their health deteriorates.

When we add movement back to their lifestyle, health is restored.

A simple test like this can show you why you can and should look at movement as an important nutrient. It’s not just carbs, fats and protein.

What’s funny is that they (the accepted medical literature) include carbohydrates as a nutrient but does not include water. One can definitely survive without carbohydrates but not without water. Just another example of how broken our standard health system and knowledge is.

Exercise is not movement.

Some types of movement can be classified as physical activity. Some types of physical activities can be classified as exercise.

Exercise can be classified as specific physical activity done to bring about a positive physiological adaptation

Based on our evolutionary past, and the active hunter-gatherer lifestyles we evolved from, we were using our bodies to move, in a variety of ways and through a large part of our waking lives.

This is natural for we are animals at the end of the day.

Technology has saved us time, energy and movement

Most technological inventions such as those in transportation or cleaning help us in that they save us time, energy and ultimately movement.

By eliminating a certain kind of movement from your life, you become deficient in the stimulation it was providing to various muscles, bones and the other parts of your body.

As a result, we become stiffer, slower, less flexible.

This is where we can engineer opportunities in our lives to have more deliberate movement - which we call physical activity.

Adding in these kinds of activities in your life will restore the deficiency in movement brought by technology such as cars and chairs. You can think of these kinds of activities as somewhat strenuous movements you have to do as you complete a certain task (like cleaning the house or visiting friends).

However, if one doesn’t move enough and have enough physical activity in their day-to-day life, they should absolutely have dedicated sessions towards exercise.

This is what I’d say are specific movements to engage in to actually strengthen the skeleton, muscular and other systems of the body.

The more our lives are deficient in movement and activity, the more we need to supplement it with exercise.

The cost of not enough movement, activity and exercise

As technology’s dark side reduces our ability and need to move more, we find being lethargic and sedentary the norm.

To combat this pressure, we must engineer our lives with more physical activity and even specific exercise sessions.

Those that are unable to take care of their bodies over time and move enough, will find their bodies stiffening and deteriorating.

It is then the person will end up at a doctors office or hospital and has to undergo specific rehabilitation or even surgery to restore movement and function

The world wants you to move less, you must move more

As mentioned above, the cost of not moving enough in your life is drastic and significant. One needs to treat it with the same level of care as one picks and prepares their food to eat.

And much like our varied preferences over food, we also have varied preferences over movement and exercises.

Find out what suits you the best and do it.

However, keep adding new kinds of movement into your daily life that work parts of your body you wouldn’t normally use.

Look for ways to increase low energy movement in your day, which will reduce the amount of specific exercise you’d need to correct for that deficiency.

Look at chores as mini-workouts that prevent you from getting to hospital and increases your resilience.

Move like your life depends on it.

Because it does.

PRODUCTIVITY, LIFE

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If you haven’t figured it out yet, Notion is my favorite thing right now.

It is amazing when it comes to its flexibility and features as a knowledge and task management system and overall personal productivity hub.

As I’ve found better tutorials on using it, I’ve also migrated some of my existing systems and habits into Notion for an even better, integrated experience.

A key part of the journey, or of anyone who is serious about self-improvement, is to have a regular review of your own performance.

The weekly review is the ideal candidate for this, as the weekend usually marks the break between the intense work sprints during the week.

This is a good time to reflect on the past week, take stock of accomplishments, learnings and setbacks. It’s then a good time to plan and set priorities for the following week, and to put in corrective measures to enhance your performance.

Feedback is extremely powerful.

A system with a feedback loop can improve as much as 20 times faster than one without.

Add in a weekly review to your current workflow, and try out August’s method via Notion.

I’ve found it incredibly useful in gaining what I call “vertical congruence”, as well as streamlining my thinking and overall work systems.

If you find it useful as well, reply to this email and let me know. I am curious to hear how others are implementing Notion and/ or this process.

1. Katy Bowman - Move Your DNA: The Difference Between Exercise and Movement (and Why It Matters)

   • Inspiration behind The Idea for this week. Go deep into the aspects of movement and its profound role in our health

2. Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400

   • A light-hearted wide-ranging stimulating conversation and look into one of humanity’s most impactful minds

3. Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals | Huberman Lab Podcast

   • Dr Huberman is back with a protocol focused episode on how to set goals optimally based on how your brain works

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- Karmsheel