🚀 3-2-1: Tom Cruise's genius, environment anchors & the mymind app
Hey — It’s your captain speaking.👨✈️
Welcome to ✈️ Flight #205. Estimated flight time = 2.5 minutes.
Here’s the flight plan.
3 ideas
2 mindsets
1 recommendation.
We’re cleared for takeoff. Lets gooooooooo!!!!!
1/ Three questions to ask when things don’t go as planned.
What did I fail to anticipate? What caught me off guard?
Did someone or something trigger my poor behaviour?
What narrative/mindset/false belief am I telling myself that is holding me back?
2/ Doodle your diet.
If I slide a napkin across the table you should be able to doodle what your diet looks like.
Your doodle should capture how you eat so a 5-year old could understand it.
Here’s mine. Hmm. It looks like a 5-year old drew that.
PS. In case you can’t decipher that…
M1a → Fruit + Fat
M1b → Protein + Veggies + Fat
M2a → Fruit + Fat
M2b → Protein + Veggies + Fat
M3 → Fruit + Fat
PSS. If you can’t do this, then you don’t know how you eat — and that’s a problem.
3/ Environment anchors.
Use your environment to cue desired behaviours.
I was reminded of this based on something my father does every night.
To remember to take his blood pressure medication in the morning, he puts a small glass of orange juice on the night table by his bed.
That glass acts as his cue. And an empty glass lets him know he took his medication.
I’m using the elevator in my dads building as a cue.
He lives on the 17th floor.
Whenever I am in it alone I do push ups.
I get at least 50 extra push ups a day as a result.
1/ How Tim Cook dealt with the volatile Steve Jobs.
“What I learned about Steve (Jobs) was that people mistook some of his comments as ranting or negativism, but it was really just the way he showed passion. So that’s how I processed it and I never took issues personally.”
Tim is using what I call The negativity flip.
Step 1 → Identify something everyone sees as a negative.
Step 2 → Flip it so you see it as a positive.
Step 3 → Reap the rewards.
Jobs ended up naming Tim cook his successor as Apple CEO. I have no doubt Tim’s ability to see Steve differently than everyone else played a big role in that decision.
2/ Tom Cruise advice that changed actor Glen Powell’s life.
How great is that take?
Cruise doesn’t choose great roles. He chooses great movies and makes the roles great.
This is the opposite of how most actors think.
And he has built a legendary career as a result.
There’s a common thread with greatness.
People like Cook and Cruise do the opposite of everyone else and reap remarkable rewards as result.
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🙏 That it for today.
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