Skip the Line

Stormin’

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I purchased this book 4 years ago, and it’s still in my online library on Amazon Prime.

It’s time to review and take notes about what was happening.

• Like me, James seems to have career ADD and has gone through many different businesses and careers during his life.
• Do not engage in Failure porn.
• Memory is a form of time travel. It puts your mind and body back into an old moment.
• Beating yourself up over past mistakes is a waste of energy.
• I want to skip the line and to do better and to be good at the things that I love.
• I am 71 years old, and I don’t have time to follow the 10,000 hour rule.
• James finds the many times he was broke over the years and how hard it was to just get back in the game.
• There are two time periods now, BC and AC, which means before COVID and after COVID.
• Everyone decided they had to make changes and to find something they could do that they love and good enough at it to make money.
• People who had lost their jobs had to find something that they could depend on so that this COVID mess would not happen to them again.
• The key to skipping the line is to constantly live in the world of not knowing what is going on.
• You need to be constantly curious but not threatened by what’s coming next.
• In my case, I am determined to master AI as it can apply to and help the individual in his life and solopreneur career.
• Get a little bit better each day.
• For seniors, concentrate on leg strength as an essential part of your health regimen.
• There is no longer a straight line in careers.
• AI is changing everything in the world of employment.
• I need to develop a system to make myself an AI for the individual expert.
• Make your life 1% better each day.
• In 365 days, I should be an absolute expert in using AI to benefit my life and the lives of others.
• Being the only one to use a particular technique is often more important than being better.
• Find and test out a new prompt each day.
• Every day matters.
• Experiment
  • easy to set up
  • little downside
  • huge upside potential
  • never done before
  • you’re learning something
• You can’t think your way to success.
• You have to do something.
• Failure should be re-categorized as learning.
• Do tiny experiments everyday.
• Make my prompts 1% better every day.
• Create massive volume of content using AI.
• When you learned, you earn.
• Become the scientist of your own life.
• Talk about your troubles.
• Be the only.
• An experiment is always outside of your comfort zone.
• You become an Explorer of the places nobody else wants to go.
• Perform 10,000 experiments to become the best in the world at a particular skill.
• Don’t be the best, be the only.
• Uniqueness plus new knowledge helps you reach the top 1% of any field you choose.
• At some point, you will experience a life-changing crisis, and having the ability to switch interest, even switch careers, and quickly rise to be among the top in the world is going to be invaluable.
• Any skill worth getting good at is a collection of microskills.
• The secret to be among the best at any skill is plus, minus, equals.
• Plus is the combination of all of your mentors.
• Over promise and over deliver.
• Reading is the most important superpower.
• Reading is a virtual mentor.
• Minus is the process of teaching what you know to a beginner using simple language.
• I want to write a book simplifying the application process for many government benefits for seniors.
• Reminding yourself of the fundamentals is a key to continued success.
• You also learn by competing with your equals.
• Nobody can get to the top 1% of a particular field on their own.
• You must connect with people in your scene.
• I am now in a position to remove myself from the negative influences of outside people and to test my new Welfare Queen Dynamics without judgment from others.
• Be sure to test different side hustles, especially online side hustles, that are suitable for seniors.
• In my building, I’m probably at the top of the food chain when it comes to ability to use the computer.
• Obsession is the first clue toward finding your purpose.
• Doing this helps you find out what you’re obsessed with.
• I need to develop a daily practice to help me improve by 1% every day.
• How would I structure my ideal day?
• Create articles and books explaining government benefits in layman’s terms.
• Only late in life do we become nervous about what people think of us and appearing stupid.
• For instance, I’m doing this note-taking session using voice typing which I’ve been avoiding.
• I have to ask myself what I’m afraid of.
• I think my biggest fear is that I am going to have to go totally aesthetic to survive on my current income as inflation eats up my buying power.
• Pick a topic and write out 10 ideas each day.
• Write books now before AI takes over and does all of our nonfiction writing for us.
• Writing down 10 ideas a day helps rewire your brain.
• I might expand this idea by using AI to make the list even longer.
• You have to come up with a list of good ideas before you can execute.
• What are 10 businesses I can do related to AI or Big Data?
• What are 10 ideas I can use to come up with videos for my YouTube channel?
• What are 10 things I can do while I’m watching TV so I don’t waste time?
• You have to choose your frame or it will be chosen for you.
• How many things need to conspire for you to get to the goal you want?
• Start developing your microskills by 1% each day.
• Don’t tell anyone what to do but instead, give them the freedom to decide.
• This is called the advice technique.
• The advice technique will make you a better negotiator.
• If I am going to work hard building up my LLC, I should go all out and create something that will leave a legacy for my grandson.
• To share your ideas, you have to have a network of people to share them with.
• My focus now that I’m in my forever home, is for making the lives of seniors incredibly better.
• You also have to eliminate the time wasters that drag people down.
• Never go to a general networking event unless it’s for a specific topic or purpose.
• Make a list of 10 ways that I can build a network on LinkedIn.
• Never disagree with people.
• Careers are a marathon, not a Sprint.
• Consider going on an attention diet.
• Most people who have an opinion are probably wrong
• Most people don’t care about their jobs.
• Even successful people don’t want you to skip the line.
• You have to take control of your own career and opportunities.
• You have to experiment constantly.
• You have to write down 10 ideas a day to exercise your idea muscle.
• Nobody will come up with ideas for you, so you have to come up with your own ideas.
• This is about not waiting for permission but doing experiments instead.
• When you make a salary, they are paying you just enough to do a job you don’t like.
• If you can explore what you love and get paid for it, then it’s Bliss.
• You don’t really make money from the value you create for the company.
• How can I put the 80/20 rule to use in my new life here in Tampa?
• The average multi-millionaire has seven sources of income.
• How can you find the right 1% of activities so that you generate 50% of the value you are currently generating while using 100% of your time?
• My main focus on my different blogs is what seniors can do to make their lives better.
• What I know from talking to most seniors is that nobody has a total grasp on all the benefits that are available to them.
• When we are sharing lunch or coffee, I take the time sometimes to share different benefits that I’m getting here in Tampa.
• I have to shift my focus from computers to cell phones because that’s where most of the people including seniors are accessing the internet.
• One of the main uses for my cell phone is text messaging which helps me keep up with my doctor’s appointment and the Uber rides I get to those appointments.
• I like using my phone to Google information that I forgot, like the name of a particular actress or actor in a show I’m watching.
• I need to meet more seniors in my area by visiting different churches which is where many seniors hang out.
• Are there internships or volunteer opportunities for seniors near my place of residence which I can get to by walking or by bus?
• Progress is skipping the line.
• Nobody is fearless all the time.
• I get scared every time I hit publish on an article.
• Don’t start a business unless you’re afraid that it could fail.
• Everyone still needs a plan B.
• The three biggest addictions are heroin, carbs, and a stable paycheck.
• A job won’t protect you.
• What protects people is an ability to find new Pursuits and new meaning in their lives, and to quickly get good enough at those new endeavors to provide for themselves and their families.
• Don’t forget idea sex.
• The average millionaire has seven sources of income.
• Being an entrepreneur is only one source of income.
• When you leave a job, you can pick and choose hierarchies.
• Exercise can increase endorphins.
• Being productive means using your time to make a better you.
• Being an entrepreneur will shake up your life.
• Products are always more valuable than services.
• Just get one customer.
• Media attention equals free advertising.
• Build your email list now.
• Nobody is a self-made millionaire.
• Use a spoken wheel method for creating different sources of income.
• And 10 ideas a day, write down all the spokes that can emanate from your different ideas and blogs.
• Nobody wants to create a business serving the bottom third of an industry or a market.
• You need a set of skip the line strategies for reducing the risk of every high stakes decision you make.
• Four books to consider by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb are Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game.
• All life is filled with uncertainty, and often, most of our lives are filled with attempts to create a false sense of certainty.
• The key to skipping the line is often to go to the room least crowded.
• Wake up each morning and say, I’m quite possibly the stupidest person ever.
• The combination of false arrogance and false pride is the quickest way to failure.
• Black swans or things that I cannot even predict or model, since I’ve never had any experience with them.
• Love is often the most painful risk of all.
• Resilience is when you bounce back to where you were, but still make the same mistakes and have the potential for falling apart again.
• If something hurts you, it should make you stronger.
• If you build up the skip-the-line techniques, it allows you to reach for higher and higher stakes, knowing that you have the ability not only to recover quickly from setbacks but to bounce back even stronger.
• You can’t think your way to success, nor can you think your way through every problem.
• You have to experience and do the things you want to get good at.
• Having skin in the game means you have something to lose.
• For every major decision, ask yourself, am I going to lose something if this does not work out?
• Living with uncertainty is always part of skipping the line.
• We have to create a vision that links together our actions, our methods, our activities, and our reasons for doing things.
• 30 is the number of people we can directly know.
• We can retain information and gossip about roughly 150 people.
• A brand is a powerful story.
• If you can craft a story about your product or service that connects with others, you’re in business.
• Stories create value and allow us to cooperate with millions of strangers.
• Success is found where nobody else is.
• Don’t be the best, be the only.
• A superhero is someone who is secretly good to people.
• A loser is someone who is famous for the sake of being famous.
• Good relationships are necessary for a good life.
• Audience selection is better than audience development.
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
• You’re only going to grow when you rest.
• My long walks are important to give me time away from the screens and to rest my brain.
• Bad things will happen, so treat them like opportunities.
• Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself.
• Be creative every day.
• If you are creative, you’ll get further and faster than anyone else.
• Live life as if today might be your last day.
• Read at least one good thing a day.
• Don’t ever say you can’t do something.
• Convenience is worth more than material possessions.
• Don’t read the news.
• Everything worthwhile requires skill.
• If you want to achieve something, you need more skill than all the other people trying to achieve the same thing.
• Break apart each skill into 20 micro skills.
• Each day, figure out how you can get better at each microskill.
• Facts are irrelevant.
• There is always a good reason and a real reason.

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