What's going on everybody? Welcome to week 15. Pretty crazy week. A week full of injuries in COVID news that honestly makes it extremely difficult to break down the weekend. Tonight we still have some issues as far as injuries and COVID news goes but this weekend I know I'm going to get a lot of start-sick questions and frankly the answer for a lot of them will be I don't know yet and we'll just have to track the news but welcome on in to the Thursday Night Football Fandall Fantasy Q&A. I'm your host Brandon Gadoula from the Managing Editor at Numberfire.com. You can find all of my content over at Numberfire and specifically for tonight I took on the single game preview. So I have some detailed notes, some simulations are up there in that article talking about some trends that I'll go over here as well but that's a good reference for tonight and then for the weekend I have a start-sick column and if this is anybody's first time talk about this often but my start-sick column looks at basically every relevant fantasy football asset and goes through the odds that they finish at a certain threshold. That's for quarterbacks and tight ends. It's top 12 weeks. There are odds to be a top 12 performer for running backs and receivers. It's top 24. Now a lot of that is going to change based on the news that we've gotten. I'll need to make updates to that. I'll do my best to keep that as updated as I can but again I know I'm going to get start-sick questions even though we're focused on the single game slate for Thursday night. I'm going to try to keep that updated. I'll tell you to go there. Check that out as I can update stuff. Check out the Player News section on Number Fire. Have the Fandal Scout app to get push notifications sent to you. It's just one of those weeks. There's not a whole lot we can do. I mean we can kind of try to read the tea leaves but for the most part this week is going to come down to being really proactive to the news. I think that kind of covers the editorializing that I feel like I need to contextualize how this next half an hour is going to go because again I'm going to do my best. I can run some stuff through the simulations but we find out a player's rolled out. That's going to change things. I'm going to do my best so just bear with me. The COVID list is long. The injury list is long. It's just one of those weeks where there's no way around it. So get those questions in. I see a whole bunch of questions coming in already. You can hit up the chat on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or Twitch for questions pertaining to tonight's single game slate. This weekend as well I'm focusing primarily on the Thursday night slate and as always I will start there and then branch out and see where the questions take us. So get those questions in. I see a bunch rolling in but I'm going to start as always. Kind of get the base level stuff out of the way. Look at the game from a top-down perspective for tonight. We get the Chiefs the Chargers. It's a second time around Divisional Match if they played early in the year over under here 54. The spread is three in favor of the Chiefs on the road. It's going to be a high-scoring game. It should be a high-scoring game based on that total. It should be a close game based on that spread. Of course, crazy things happen but honestly it's shaping up to be both of those. I think high-scoring back and forth, tons of fantasy points and that's going to determine the way that we build our lineups for tonight. I'll jump over to my spreadsheet here. Look at some match-up stuff. The past defenses overall pretty middling so we don't have to avoid either past defense. We don't have to feel like we need to target either past defense with the quarterbacks. Of course the quarterbacks both Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert have really high salaries. You can roster them both together but it's really restrictive with what else you can do in your lineups. So talk about that if we have questions there. The rushing match-ups much better. Both teams just bottom tier in terms of rushing success rate allowed to running backs. The Chargers give up a ton of expected points on the ground. Tons of adjusted fantasy points per carry allowed on the ground. It's the way that they built their defense. The less you run on them with the attempt to limit the past which primarily comes against receivers. They're second in adjusted fandal points per target. So what this number does is it actually adjusts on a player level basis. So I go through and we know that targets again from Tyree Kill are different from targets thrown to Byron Pringle. Not trying to throw Byron Pringle on the bus but it adjusts on a player level basis and with that the Chargers have been really good against receivers but weak against tight ends and I think that's relevant for tonight with Travis Kelsey. And then the final thing I like to do from just that sort of game level preview is look at the pace and pass rate of each team. Both teams play pretty quickly. Both are top 12 in pace according to the data that I use which looks at each side's pre snap win probability whenever it's between 20 and 80 percent kind of weeds out that garbage time number. Both teams like to play pretty fast run a lot of plays and both pass heavy both ranking top eight in the NFL in pass rate. Now high total tight spread. What does that typically mean for a single game slate single game off those what do they look like. I pulled since 2019 games that fit you know this type of mold total of over 50 spread between one and five points so that tight spread there what happens what's most likely to happen. Quarterbacks still the most likely by far opposition to finish as the MVP makes sense. There's enough points to go around for quarterbacks to rack up multiple touchdowns passing which is what quarterbacks typically need for a really huge game from a fandal standpoint. Running backs drop by about nine percentage points here in terms of their odds of finishing as the optimal MVP. I think we can feel pretty good with this number here tonight simply because Austin Eckler is expected to play but have his workload limited. The chiefs employed a three man committee last week although I think there are reasons to like Clyde Edwards you layer not really any of those guys shaping up to be great MVP picks as primary plays. I'm not going to talk anybody out of playing Austin Eckler as the MVP but again reports are that he will be limited tight ends just always a low probability it's a little bit different with Travis Kelsey but even whenever he's in these single game slates doesn't really finish as the MVP very often and then for wide receiver we see about a five percentage point boost to receivers being the optimal MVP again makes sense enough points enough touchdowns to go around for receivers to overtake running backs and be you know better plays than the full sample of single game slates. One thing that's really interesting is that the favorite and the underdog have come up with I think it's a sample of 76 games yet the same amount of MVPs and optimal add-ups that's down from 59% usually for favorites it's half and half here and the one number that really jumps out to me is that underdog quarterbacks are the best sort of play in comparable games to what we have tonight that is really appealing for Justin Herbert I'm just going to leave that out there. Kickers I always like to talk kickers a little bit less likely than average to finish in in the optimal lineup still about you know over a 10 finish as or finish inside the optimal lineup let me turn off my wifi here I think I'm lagging a little bit and then whenever the underdog does come or whenever the MVP does come from an underdog side it is very very heavily very often that quarterback so I think Justin Herbert makes for a really standout play tonight from an MVP standpoint I'll pull up the simulation results these are based in number fires projections I simulated out the slate 10,000 times to see how likely players are to finish inside the top five with the most fandal points pull up some touchdown props because really touchdowns drive a lot of scoring in all games but on a single game slate touchdown odds are something that we should really consider so love this game the pace the pass rate the over under should be a lot of points I think the best play at MVP is Justin Herbert I think I'm going to be a little bit light on Austin Eckler because of the reports that his workload will be limited and with that I will dig into questions all right starting at the top here grim fan on YouTube's asking who do we use for Lockett's replacement and we'll see them play Monday um okay so for Tyler Lockett's replacement I don't think there's going to be a one-to-one replacement for Lockett with him on the COVID list if we're looking for a big beneficiary honestly it's probably DK Matt Kaff because DK Matt Kaff's volume has really been down while the team is just focused on Tyler Lockett I think the secondary beneficiary is Gerald Everett who I talk about quite often on the NFL heat check podcast I do with Jim Sonos previewing the main slate the full slate of Fandall games I think he's in a good spot to be a safe volume bet for this week if we're looking for you know outside of those guys who gets a boost probably going to be DS Gridge he's been playing more and more snaps as a rookie came on slow I would say that he's the guy with the best chance of you know really overperforming because Tyler Lockett's out I do think that it's still good for DK Matt Kaff from a volume standpoint but one thing always to keep in mind is that efficiency bumps down whenever you take good players off the field that's something that we should be a little bit worried about um with the Seahawks offense especially with you know frankly Tyler Lockett being the driver for a lot of that efficiency and then as for Thielen they play Monday this would have been the first week or first day of the week that Minnesota had a practice report from what I'm seeing Thielen did not practice and it doesn't really sound like there's any indication that he's going to play Monday that's the best I can do reading again reading those tea leaves doing my best um doesn't sound like he'll play so probably another big role for KJ Osborne another question from Grimfan how does Matt uh Metcalfe's value um how is Metcalfe's value affected by Lockett being out again we should see better volume for DK Matt Kaff which really hasn't been there um but I would honestly anticipate decrease in offensive efficiency with Tyler Lockett off the field that leads to fewer red zone chances fewer touchdown chances for DK Matt Kaff so for him specifically it might honestly work out to a wash where he needs more volume anyway than he's been getting and he's good enough uh to generate touchdown chances himself so I would say it's not really a huge bump but for the other guys like even like a DS Gridge Rashad Penny I think it's I think it's a downgrade for this offense pretty easily uh Grim okay uh question for tonight Grimfan's asking value for Hardman would you play a kicker does Kelsey finally break out of his touchdown drought okay a lot of questions here um I will start from the first question here I made a note in my Thursday night helper on again Number Fire Miko Hardman's role has just been getting worse he's not really their number three that's now Byron Pringle um that's been the case in two post-buy games uh Pringle let me see here 72 percent route rate in two post-buy games to Marcus Robinson 56 uh 58 percent Josh Gordon was at 32 percent but he's on the COVID list I think he's technically not really out yet but he almost literally can't play kind of be a miracle but even he is over Miko Hardman who's run 28 percent of the route so I don't really like Miko this uh for tonight I would rather go with Byron Pringle um I'm kind of just down on Hardman running as like that'd be the fifth receiver behind even um just Pringle and Robinson as well as Tyra Kill and Travis Kelsey you play a kicker tonight again it's really not what we see it's not more likely it's not terrible these aren't terrible odds um if you want to go double quarterback uh if you do that I think you're like 8800 left for your yeah on average I mean it's doable um I would I'm not really into the kickers tonight that much just because there are enough producers I'm much more likely to go with a one quarterback play and assume that you know Tyree, Kelsey, Keenan, Mike Williams, Clyde Edwards, DeLair these guys have enough points where you can't really miss out on them just to get to both quarterbacks and then drop it down for like you know seven eight points from a kicker not really how I'm going to play it but if it makes a perfect lineup work for you not against it and then for Kelsey I made another note in my primer on um Numberfire his red zone role has been really weird he's at a 15% red zone share and a 6% end zone target share Tyree Kill by contrast is at 26% and 35% respectively I don't know what it is I tweeted about this a few weeks ago um one of my few tweets in the season but they're not throwing the ball to Travis Kelsey in the end zone it's a you know straight up regression says the whole score soon the usage has been really worrisome so I don't want to just say like yeah you know look at Travis Kelsey in his game log he's going to score eventually like he's going to we know that he's good enough but the usage is really really strange so I'm not necessarily looking at like this is a must situation for Travis Kelsey that being said um again it's a much better tight end matchup against the Chargers than it is for receivers so I like Kelsey tonight I'm just not saying he's like a lock for a touchdown due to regression because the the usage of the red zone role has been really really really strange for a player of his caliber um Chris is saying Vikings bears minus three and a half what do you think um um that's not a game I've really dug into but for me I'm going to go to the Vikings there I don't really like what the bears have going on um Justin Fields still not quite where I want them to be um again that's a Monday night game so I'm not quite that far ahead um but yeah I would lean Vikings there um of the two uh DG's asking Miko Hardman or Jared Cook on Facebook yeah so that's again goes back to um just the role for Miko Hardman getting worse the role for Jared Cook with uh Keenan Allen coming back it's going to go down but his role has been like justifiable so for me it's going to be Jared Cook pretty easily uh between the two and I feel honestly pretty good about that um his red zone role has been fine uh with Keenan Allen back on the field it's going to help the offense move the ball better so I'm going to go Jared Cook there uh between those two Evan on YouTube is asking start three Echler CEH Mitchell Monti Jacobs thank you for the question that's a really good boy that's a really good one um um I'll pull up my start sit simulations here um I'll leave Echler there because he's already in this um that's a that's a so my assumption here is that these are these are all powered by number fires projections um I'm going to assume that Echler is in here despite the concerns of the limited workload I'm not looking at the the Sims I want to see what my my instincts say but my instincts are going to say Josh Jacobs I don't know I just don't know if Eli Mitchell is going to play um let me pull up that practice report this is such a good question I don't know if you have to risk it with Echler because the reports are just the of a limited workload and they probably don't need to run him into the ground so Eli Mitchell didn't practice Wednesday I don't I don't know um you're going to need to make a decision I'm going to say Jacobs Montgomery and then I'm going to put this one on you if you think Austin Echler is going to play a full workload play him if you think that he's really going to be limited I would go with Clyde Edwards E. Lair because Edwards E. Lair had eight of fourteen running back opportunities for the Chiefs in the first half before that game where they got out of hand last week um I don't want to say just wait and play Eli Mitchell because I don't think he's going to play um but Jacobs Montgomery I'm good with Echler it's just uh you know what the theme of the show has been stay tuned to the news keep keep tuned into the news see if we get any more clarity on just how good that workload's going to be um and if Echler is more than like 50% I would play him over Clyde Edwards E. Lair because his CEH's ceiling is probably about 50% of the snaps um so I don't want to overreact too much to Austin Echler um the projection's a little bit high for me from Number Fire but um I'll say Echler Jacobs Montgomery as of now unless we really find out that Echler will be severely limited tonight um sorry for the roundabout but you know sometimes you got to think think things through um you know for for an extra second um okay Evan's asking what about the CEH upside tonight um that's two group fans but uh I'm gonna I'm gonna stick I'm gonna stick with CEH here I'm gonna go to see what the Sims say for CEH so he's projected for 11 points um as a median not very likely to lead the Slade and Fandall points but again it's a dream matchup against the team that just invites you to run the ball against them and yes there was a three-man split between CEH Derek Gore and Dara Williams last week but again the the first half workload if you isolate that out really did favor Clyde Edwards E. Lair who did fumble on the goal line was out for a bit but came back in on the goal line or like on the sixth or whatever um which is where he found was like it was like deja vu uh you know kind of same play but he was back out there um at his his first half work again uh seven carries one target so eight of 14 opportunities he's got red zone work he should be the primary back so I think there is upside with Clyde Edwards E. Lair despite the limited snap rate okay um question from Ralph on Facebook pitman or penny in flex that's a good one um I'll assume half PPR here there's a lot of buzz around Rashad Penny and I frankly love Rashad Penny coming out of college but I think I'm going to go with Michael Pittman here uh I know I know that it's not the best defensive matchup but Michael Pittman has a really strong role um and you would think that the Patriots will do what they can to limit Jonathan Taylor and I think that will come at the expense of letting Michael Pittman be a little bit more freed up Rashad Penny I know broke out with really great results last week but his workload wasn't that phenomenal I know Alex Collins is now on uh the covid list Adrian Peterson should play probably just take on that Alex Collins role it's never fair to do this but if you take off like the the huge touchdown run for him it was a good day um it wasn't like an 85 snap rate day uh so I think that the the individual rushing matchup for him a lower implied team total taking Tyler lock it off the field probably making the offense worse I'm going to go with Michael Pittman there uh between the two um okay another see another question about CEH I think I talked about him enough Austin on twitch is asking if James Conner doesn't play who should I start at RB 2 Michael Carter supposed to play that's what I've seen as well we're going to pick up Eno to replace Conner if Edmunds doesn't return from IR um okay the Jets are also really depleted but I think you should so this is a tough one because I don't know who you have to drop to get that um that you know like to get the insurance of having you know Benjamin on your team that's a little bit tricky but I don't think that Michael Carter is a bad enough play to go against just saying play Michael Carter because when he was healthy he was their guy um he got tons of targets um I know quarterback change probably doesn't help him get a bunch of targets but I would say pick up Michael Carter and just go with uh with Carter if we get word that Conner uh doesn't go grim fans asking thoughts on Donald Parm tonight so let me check what exactly what he did last week um the issue is they're getting Keenan Allen back and that doesn't help him it's going to hurt uh Jaylen Geithen Josh Palmer as well let's isolate this just a week 14 Donald Parm just eight routes two targets that's not enough for me as in the role should get worse with Keenan back so personally I'm not going to get there I assume you're probably asking because the salary's low and he might make a two quarterback lineup work I'm not against it because Donald Parm still can and does get red zone work and if he scores that might be enough but really uh and this is one thing I want to do address is like if you're if you're trying to jam in both quarterbacks you're really making you're betting against these guys here you're betting against big games from them because if they put up you know 15 to 20 points you know so let's say two of them you're not going to have enough salary you're not going to have enough fandal points from the guys like Donald Parm to overcome that gap you're going to need multiple guys in this range with more affordable salaries than both quarterbacks so it's going to depend on the way that you play things I would not play Donald Parm without playing both quarterbacks and there are going to be a lot of like those sort of tertiary quaternary options down here um you know you might play like a Joshua Kelly and think that Eckler's not going to play a full workload Kelly or Justin Jackson might get other Jackson salaries higher 10,000 I think yeah 10,000 um like that's kind of the trade-off you have to make Parm by himself I'm not interested in unless you're really playing the angle that Keenan and Mike Williams just get basically blanked tonight. Harrison Butcher, Nick Folk love that I typically always go with the favorites in this spot and Butcher is projected for an extra fandal point kickers again they're not bad plays on high scoring slates they're just a little bit worse than average but they're also not better than average and this just goes back to like it depends on the overall roster construction that you're going for if you're saying that it's it's Herbert and Mahomes going back and forth but they just spread the ball out nobody really has a big game you want both of those quarterbacks with the kicker who's just nailing extra points maybe you know two field goals that game script does exist especially with teams that do spread things out you know with Travis Kelsey talked about the red zone and end zone equity issues Tyree kill you know they he can get limited the chargers do their best to limit downfield passing not the best week for Tyree kill to have a big game definitely wouldn't bet against it but this is my favorite part about single game DFS is I can look at the Sims and see what's most likely to happen that's always going to point me to quarterbacks at MVP almost always aside from like last week whenever it was very evenly split between you know Daven Cook, Dodgy Harris, other guys along with those low upside quarterbacks but you have to think things through with each lineup and just say what's the path for this lineup actually to lead this late and be the optimal lineup if you can't sell yourself on that try to make changes but the kickers I think do fit with a double quarterback lineup and you assume that you don't need to get back up to Tyree or Kelsey or Echler in that lineup okay um with your question from DJ asking with your question from Grimfan would you still recommend starting Kelsey so in a in season long absolutely um tonight yeah I still would I would still like Travis Kelsey I don't want to make it sound like I'm down on Travis Kelsey I usually am more up to date with my regression numbers um but Travis Kelsey has so this is about two four six eight like it's got one touchdown in his is past like 12 games or two touchdowns sorry it's past 12 games with the yardage even being down that's still not really enough touchdowns for the yardage in this sample um Travis Kelsey though his story does overperform in the touchdown column so you could say if you just look at his like his whole career he's just sort of averaging out but I don't think that's the case that the only drawback is like he's not getting red zone work to the degree that he usually is but again this is a much better matchup uh for him than it is for for Tyree Kill so I think that Travis Kelsey absolutely is in play I would not play him at MVP very often just because even someone as good as Travis Kelsey doesn't typically end up as the MVP in optimal lineups tight ends don't have generally as much yardage upside the way that you sell yourself on Kelsey as MVP as you say it's a lower scoring game um and a hundred yards in a touchdown is enough for him to lead this late if you think it's a full on shootout Kelsey probably doesn't have it have enough to outscore the quarterbacks in that type in that type of game so that's kind of where I'm with Kelsey I I'm I'm down on him but not to the point where I'm going to recommend you know not playing him in single game or especially not benching him in season long Shane's asking can I play Mike Williams Austin Echler Keenan Allen in the same lineup in season long ppr yeah absolutely you can do that um you want to play the best plays you can in season long those are all great plays um especially if you don't have any better options with Echler potentially being limited it's still a really good matchup for Echler on the ground and I wouldn't I wouldn't bump off of any of those guys just because they're all in the same lineup um Mike Mono's asking Mike Davis Craig Reynolds Durance Johnson Gainwell or Ty Johnson I know I know but here I am um okay yeah so I'm gonna say Mike I'm gonna say Mike Davis he's playing a lot of snaps he still has some red zone work there's a lot to Cordero Patterson but of those the best bet for snaps and some points gonna be Mike Davis um Barrett's asking what are your thoughts on Michael Carter and his upcoming weeks again Michael Carter was really featured in this Jets backfield when healthy I think that'll be the case again I don't know why why they would just go away from him um you know the Jets don't have a whole lot really to play for but it seems like they want to get him involved and see what he can do and I think that he'll be featured again it's just the issue with someone like Michael Carter is the offensive expectations will always be low but I do think that he's worth picking up if he's you know available on your waiver wire um and I think that he'll be a good sort of high-end flex I won't even call him a low end RB2 because he gets passing work and that matters even in standard scoring leagues um okay I see CEH here this will be the final question for tonight um James Connor CEH Echler Eli Mitchell AJ Dillon Aaron Jones start one flex to running backs in PPR so that's a little bit difficult with the uncertainty around Echler and Mitchell and Connor Aaron Jones did not practice today so I gotta pick three here I'll say I will say the first three um and if Connor doesn't play then we pivot to uh potentially AJ Dillon because Aaron Jones might not play so that'll do it for me um great questions uh for tonight got to talk a lot about game theory for the single game slate which I don't typically get to do a lot it's a my favorite part of doing these Q&As um but best of luck in your season long leagues I know it's tough I know there's a lot of injury news to try to keep up with just stay tuned uh check out the player news section on Number Fire and if you stay up to date you will have an edge in season long and in DFS so best of luck for tonight big thank you to Joy Affleck for producing the video side of this show uh let's hit a big stack you can follow me on Twitter at Kodola13 check out everything I do on Numberfire.com but um let's have a great game tonight and a better weekend in week 15


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Welcome to the art of charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger The art of charm brings together the best coaches in the industry to teach you guys how to crush it and life love and at work If you're new to the show But you want to know more about what we teach here at the art of charm Listen to the art of charm toolbox at the art of charm podcast comm slash toolbox looking forward to meeting all you guys here at AOC Today we're talking with Ty Lopez a modern renaissance man We're going to talk about how to deserve what you want fighting the idea of the four-hour work week and the Offensively simple way to accomplish in a few months what takes everyone else a year We're also going to talk about why it's crucial to go straight to the top when seeking advice How to find the right field for you and why humans are hard-wired to be social last but not least why Competition actually makes us happy and of course the principle of the whole interview the more you learn the more you earn And we're going to wrap with a fashion tip from Aaron Marino. So enjoy this one with Ty Lopez I'm not even sure how to introduce you man You're an aspiring renaissance man most importantly though that sticks out as you read a book a day Which I honestly did not think was possible until I have an intern that does that and it's probably the coolest thing ever But you're the only other person I know besides him that does this I Actually learned it from one of my mentors He read a book before breakfast every morning Alan nation and I remember I was 18 and I was like That's impossible, but you know Peter Drucker the great business guru says most humans have to cope and deal with their disabling ignorance and I Think for most people many things you think are hard aren't so hard I've got this little inner circle where I mentor people and this guy was at my house who lives here in LA And he's reading a book a day and it took him a year to just try it and once he tried it He's like it's not very hard. 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Sure, what do you think that's gonna do to the success that you have in life? It's so you know life is simple, but it's not always easy and this is one of those simple principles The sooner and you know is it one book a day is that the threshold? No, but one book a day is better than one every three days is if you can only read that one book a week But better than one book a month. So it's a gradual. It's like lifting weights, man Everybody wants a six pack of the stomach.  What makes homo sapiens the dominant force on the planet for the last 150,000 years is the brain the neocortex So you the more you push it without a doubt like Buffett said I went to the Berkshire Hathaway meeting the shareholding meeting 15,000 richest investors really in the world show up there and He Buffett in the trade floor had this he has this new little company teaching kids How to be successful and make money and I bought his little child's book. It's like for eight-year-old Animated, you know cartoons and I open it up in the first chapter is the more you learn the more you earn and I mean all these people and I'm like You got to go back to fifth grade. You got to go back to first grade and learn that It's not just about money either, you know when it comes to women, you know I'm an investor in some of the biggest online dating sites and I've owned nightclubs and I own one of the biggest Modeling networks in the world.  You want beautiful women. You want money You want the good life health wealth love and happiness. It's yours to earn Absolutely that makes a lot of sense as well. Of course a lot of people there's a trend going on right now where it's like Hey, you know, you can start this podcast and make a bunch of money passively or you can earn money from home Or you know the four hour work week and we can get to all that stuff No, no hated on Tim. Obviously he works well well over four hours a week It's just that that's a trend where people think I can work really barely at all and still make money And I think it's an unhealthy mindset But backing up the truck a little bit.  Well, that was back at 2007 one of my buddies was a casting director And he came to me and he said because I was on the second episode It was still a pilot, you know, and my my buddy was like, hey Do me a favor. I need I need young people to be on millionaire matchmaker. I got all these old millionaires I need someone young So I said, I don't want to be on tv man And he's like dude do me a favor. Nobody will ever see this show. It's just a pilot I get paid if I cast it So he finally talked me into doing it and so I was like I don't want to do it But my friend was in town. So I said, we'll do it together. So, uh, we yeah I did that back and and it became the number one most watched episode ever So every time that millionaire matchmaker comes on around the world my phone will get like Well, let's see right now. I have a thousand and forty one unread text It's not all from millionaire matchmaker probably 20% is but I get I'll know my episodes on in sweden and norway and so tv is a powerful medium man You know media that's what i'm focused on now. I mean, I live in the hollywood hill So it makes sense that i'm into media but media controls the world Whoever could the way that the human mind works can't separate fact from fiction That's why you jump when you are in a horror movie even though you know, you're safe and secure or that's why coca-cola puts You know copy puts celebrities holding the coke and uh, we subconsciously that's called the associative cognitive bias There's 25 cognitive biases that cause us to decide or make mistakes and the associative bias we go well if that person Is at the olympics and they eat mcdonald's well surely if i eat mcdonald's i'll end up at the olympic So it's a bias and uh tv exerts that bias.   Exactly. So they you bite into it and you go.  You just Shovel it out of your mouth with your tongue and then start over again after they touch up your lipstick Um, well the best thing the best thing about mcdonald's for b I just Is the story of ray croc if you haven't picked it up. It's a teeny book. It's called uh grinding it out And it's his story, you know, I went from selling paper cups and at 52 He hit he met the mcdonald's brothers part licensed it from them and built, you know, became the wealthiest man in america It's it's I love the title though grinding it out. You know, you're talking about four hour mentality and all this and I got in a little twitter battle the other day with tim ferris kind of popped into my twitter because I was talking with somebody on how I just don't see that philosophy as remotely accurate and So he popped in and we went back and forth on that and my buddy I got a pretty big twitter follower. I follow. I got 160 000 people or something. So this guy sent me yesterday I thought you'd like this a quote from a page With from thomas edison the founder of you know g e He also became one of the wealthiest people has a thousand and I think 50 patents Basically invented electricity and started g e which is at one point the biggest company in the world He says I was wondering what would have happened to be if some fluid talker had converted me to the theory of the eight hour day And convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in the work I'm glad that the eight hour day had never been invented when I was a young man If my life had been made up of eight hour days I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal The country would not amount to as much as as it has if the young men of 50 years ago I've been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for so he's going holy crap Thank god the world doesn't work on eight I didn't work eight hours a day and we got this mentality and I you know tim ferris is a very smart guy and I'm not a hater on people's success and he's been successful But i'm all about accuracy. It's not about right or wrong to me But if your goal is the good life, which I just one of my favorite books And I think maybe the best book ever written is uh an essay by Freud called civilization and his discontents And he goes through what what constitutes human happiness And so if your goal is some level film it human happiness Then we know what road you have to go up.  So four hour work week brings Uh to me It's an inaccurate one if you're trying to get wealth It does not bring fulfillment. I I put it this way and this is what I when I was talking to tim ferris on twitter I said I said look if I came to you and I said hey tim i'm at the girl of my dreams. I'm so exciting amazing girl Uh, you got congratulations. We're getting married. Oh awesome. And I said oh ps by the way I figured out a way to only spend four hours a week with her. That's the real exciting thing Your response would be any sane person's response would be like Ty, are you sure you want to marry somebody that your main goal is not spending time with her? Why not marry someone where time becomes Uh a non-issue where you want time? We all know when you're with the right person or doing the right thing the famous University of chicago guy. He has a super long last name. He talks about he calls it flow Optimal yeah, me holly chick sent me holly, right? Yes. Yeah, I was just talking to jonathan height I'm pretty good friends with a lot of the top I mean i'm the biggest book club in the world. I'm an investor I get access to pretty interesting people and I was taught I've talked to jonathan height a few times and He's kind of the number one living guy him martin seligman and david bus Are pretty much the number one experts on human happiness and uh, you know, what makes you happy is nothing remotely similar to anything resembling a four-hour work week What makes you happy is very simple uh the good life Obtaining some uh levels of the good life, which are physical health now me and jonathan height a little bit You know, he's the university of new york. He's done three ted talks, but we don't completely see eye to eye on the issue of health He thinks physical health is less important and in a sense. He's probably right to happiness There's people who are happy that are diabetic and massively overweight But I would argue that one all day and there's good science, but but what we do agree on is What freud said a long time ago when he's asked what makes you happy.  It's you know Shafa and liba. It's love and work. So you align those two things Okay, and so you're gonna get the good life. You gotta be good on those you have to get it So there's a whole mentality here at entrepreneurs. I do big parties at my house. I Some I actually almost do the biggest one according to the la pd I basically do the biggest parties in hollywood hills and I did one last thursday or a couple thursdays got about five six hundred people end up coming and I got all these top entrepreneurs Uh, and then I got all these people that are more pursuing this new thought of entrepreneurialism And I see the difference right all the guys that are old school are rich And all the people trying to do lifestyle hacking in 80 20 pareto optimization. I'm like, I just told this It's a tip first too. I said Tim if I read your book And bob my neighbor reads the book we both outsource we both do 80 20 pareto fishes blah blah blah Then we're even those efficiencies negate each other. We both are doing them Then it becomes raw hours in and so elon musk, you know Cameron Diaz I said my neighbor that they were dating or rumored to be dating I got invited to this little thing with elon musk and I heard him talk and he said, you know If you work 100 hours when everyone else works 40 You accomplish in three and four months what takes people a year and if you do that long enough Guess what happens? Yeah, you're 10 years ahead of everybody. Exactly man. Well, look, I also here's a I Develop this thing that a lot of people are interested in it's this 67 steps. So I took since I was 16. I've been trying to I've always been fascinated by greatness Even from a little kid. I remember five six years old. And so I've been compiling Some of it is just quotes books that I've read Much of it. I've been to 51 countries read. I don't know 3000 4000 books Uh, I've compiled over these years quotes, you know, they're on my evernote They're on no cards. They're in my brain and they're from I've had five mentors Three multimillionaire and two at the billionaire level and I've 12 business partners now in different vent What I do now by the way for a living I go out try to find the best people in any industry And I cut a deal 50 50 with them. So I I find people a hell of a lot smarter than me Uh, I was just I did a ted talk and I was in europe and I went and I and I bought a company in eastern europe Put the number one guy there So it's a compilation these 67 steps of everything I've learned internally But more importantly what I've learned from people much smarter than me and I've distilled them down It's literally like 500 frameworks and principles and I put it into 67 and one of these 67 Is what I call the one tenth rule Meaning whoever you copy and surround yourself with and idolize at best you're going to do a tenth Last week I was with my buddy edon ravine and he's the top, um Trainer for all the pro basketball players. So lebron james kevin durant all of these guys and This principle he agrees with so let's say I want to learn to play basketball Most people copy from their friend who's pretty good at basketball right coach Who's pretty good? Yeah, if I copy my friend I'm never going to be as good at his style as he is But if I copy michael jordan, even if i'm one tenth of michael jordan, right i'm pretty damn good You're pro. Yeah, you're pro level athlete. So look at this entrepreneurial lifestyle or look at you know I know you're talking a lot about relationships and women People are cost the blind leading the blind if you copy somebody who figured out how to make one million dollars at best You're gonna make a hundred g's. So I ask people I have no problem with you reading modern books, whether it's you know lean startup or Or jim collins or four hour week work week. No problem, but i'm gonna ask you this Before you read that because first thing's first Did you read sam walton's book which is five dollars on amazon? It's a paperback It's called made in america the man made 160 billion dollars for himself and bill I'll take a tenth of that. Yeah, exactly. And when it comes to every avenue of life, you go straight to the top So part of the thing there's so much noise in life people aren't going straight to the top go to the top And you'll be surprised what happens with osmosis amazing and that makes a lot of sense I think it there's definitely ways to make yourself more efficient So you have more time to do what your core competencies are But I think a lot of people fail at realizing that and they instead look for The way to use this as a shortcut to do less work so that they can go Oh, good. I don't have to work anymore I can do things that I actually enjoy like watching Netflix or whatever and it's There's people that use these to become more effective and there's people that use these to avoid doing work because they hate it And the that ignores the larger problem Which is if you're doing something that you don't like then you're in the wrong field Like bud williams says he says If you have to go on vacation from what you're doing never come back Or what pablo piccasso said you must avoid the dichotomy the dichotomy is doing what you don't like in order to Make cash to do what you do like he said do not do that the great art Maybe the greatest artist of all time made 51 000 pieces of art. Who would you rather be? Somebody who figures out how to automate some phantom mirage business, which will never hold But let's say you could hold it and make 10 grand a month on autopilot And then what do you do salsa dance across argentina and you know do karate in china? Maybe that's exciting for some people, but we already know under a brain scanner You're experiencing extremely low levels dopamine and testosterone the receptors aren't there. You're not that happy So why pursue the mirage? You're not happy A martin seligman the university of pennsylvania, you know genius He put published work on learn helplessness which is important into this conversation But also on authentic happiness and he already laid it out the science is in three levels of happiness You have hedonic pleasure where you're just pursuing whatever laying on a beach and Barbados You've got authentic uh life and the meaningful life and the higher you go up of those three The more you want to be that person you want to tap dance through life, man It's not always getting what you Be careful my mentor one of my mentors joel salatin. He's pretty famous guy now But he wasn't as famous when I started mentoring me He said, you know The worst thing in life is getting good at the wrong thing and so many people are spending their life chasing the mirage Getting good at something that at the end of the day if they were independently wealthy They wouldn't be doing do what you would do if you're independently wealthy now You may have to do a few twists and turns to get there But you know and one of them I know your shows because I'm a business guy But I'm also super in this, you know a lot of people are like, hey, you're the most social person ever And when it comes to social Everything I'm talking about is the same if you want to be good socially if you want to be good I'm assuming by the way and I'll jump in What's that's a big part of what you talk about right art charm women social life Right it has much more to do with the mindsets that you have as a man and much less to do with women and girls getting chicks That's that's that's pretty unimportant in the scheme of things right but but you know, I mean health I say the good life you have the four pillars of life. So you have health physically You have wealth which is the acquisition of scarce resources in the modern world We define that as cash in general and then the third thing is social which is Which is friends family and romance romance for sure is a massive part of us as humans and species It will be important your ability to attract a high quality Person into your life to devote some level of their attention to you It I mean that's the perpetuation of the species. So that is that is what determines your legacy That's why it's so important to not get it wrong And that's why we have the show is because most guys will spend a ton of time working on their career So that at the end of the day they can make money and then eventually Fathers and children and then they spend 15 minutes on the other side of the equation where they get hooked up with a girl from Frickin tinder and they're like, uh, she's pretty cute and then dot dot dot suddenly you're in a relationship It makes no sense. We don't focus on that other part That's so important so that we spend a lot of time here on the show Teaching guys how to screen in the right type of people for them as well as deserving what they're what they want Like we discussed earlier in the show.  I've been in the social business whether I own some of the biggest night clubs I've invested in some of the biggest model agencies in and uh And now I own some of the largest online dating sites at my investment group And I just did the key. I've done for the last seven years the keynote speech at the Online dating and matchmaking company.  I live with the Amish for two and a half years without electricity Yeah, I want to know about that anybody How did you live with Amish people where and when for My early 20 because I was saying I'm all about experimentation One of the things that makes humans happier is some level of experimentation And I consider mistakes different than experimentation. I actually that's a big thing in my 67 steps I'm like, look smart people are like Edison Tons of experiments, but then when they read the signs, they move on they move through the seven step scientific method, you know Ask a question Hypothesis test it observe it analyze it submit it to other smart people rinse and repeat and most people like you said with tinder It's like, okay. I met a girl Right. So your question was how do I find a girl your hypothesis is tinder You then test it, but people forget the final steps You've got to observe the girl and the relationship you have and after you observe you should analyze it means I call it, you know, blaze the Pascal one of the greatest thinkers of all time He said all advanced problems stem from his inability to sit in a room, you know Be alone and you go into a room and you think how's this relationship with his girl or whatever when I was at the Amish does this make sense for my life deep thought I caught chests like thinking And then you go from there into submit it to other smart people run it by The there's a 5000 year old proverb says make war with a multitude of counselors So it's like the president of the United States has his cabinet, right? Secretary of defense and transit and uh and energy and these are the top people They're not just random buddies. They're the best of the best So if these people on tinder or at my point when I was young and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do I ran it through that framework Probably didn't realize what I was doing But the Amish made sense at that time and I spent I wanted to see what life was like non materialistic. So, you know, I've lived I grew up with no money. I mean, I live in a mobile home when I was a teenager and um in you know, North Carolina for I was born in california, but I I bounced I tried different things and I tried the Amish is a tremendous experience One of the great experience I learned a lot about what makes humans happy. I learned a lot about Materialism not being attached. I mean people, you know, I've done the Ferrari Maserati Beverly Hills mansion Hollywood Hills thing And I'm not attached to it. There's upsides and downsides of both, but What I learned at the Amish Is that humans Are social and you need to be part of something bigger than yourself and this good book recently came out by Lieberman the harvard professor About about it's called social actually and we now know the hard wiring of your brain Is it's natural state. It will revert always to social thoughts So it'll revert and the Amish build their lives not as individuals, but as a group Trying to accomplish something and one of the things in the modern world you have evolutionary mismatch We're designed for example robin dunbar the anthropologist from I think oxford. He was famous for saying Humans are evolved to live in groups of 150 our brain D our dna and the wiring of our brain hasn't changed much Sure 50 000 bc. That's why that's why you should only have 150 facebook friends, right ty Well, you should you should probably make a separate facebook for your 150 you paid I actually use an excel spreadsheet that I put 150 My 150 most important people and I check it a couple times a month to make sure I'm not doing what's called the miss waiting bias like talking to the wrong people more than the right people You know, you got to double down on the good people And when it comes socially, I mean it's absolutely vital.  I I think well, I mean I have my theories I think it's the amygdala, you know that part of your brain That's heavy on fear most one fear experience at any point in your life What they now know is that it's you cannot remove the fear you get bit by a dog when you're five You you'll jump at 50. There's only one way that you can get rid of exposure therapy Yeah, well, I call it mpfc.  There's not a species on the planet Where women will mate indiscriminately with men. So if you have, you know, you have an asymmetrical thing Guys will mate with anything women have or Much less picky women have high levels speak for yourself. Yeah Well, you have selected. So then what does that what do you predict from that outcome? Well, you predict a world where men are constantly engaged in, you know A hunt Well, not just a hunt it is not that see that is true But it would only be true that it's a true hunt if you were the only person in the jungle That's true. What it's more is it is and there's you know, I won't use too many scientific words, but in plain English You're competing against other men Uh in that is why All these concepts whether they're before our work week or entrepreneurialism come into play you have to be able to compete Within your gender and you have to be good Well, that's exactly true and not only that but you've got to be good in other areas A lot of guys think oh, I'm just going to get really fit And dot dot dot get girls or I'm just going to be really smooth dot dot dot get girls No, you have to have everything else together because you're not just trying to capture her attention And one she's you know, high quality women are smart enough to filter through that crap too But two you're competing with other men who do have their stuff together in other areas You're consistently competing for that whether you realize it or not if you disagree with that It just means you're not in on the on the you didn't get the memo Hey guys, I want to take a quick break for a second here You've heard me talk a lot about taking you to the next level in life at work and in your relationships And you've probably also thought to yourself Yeah, I want to my game. I want to become a better man a better boyfriend or husband and a better person And my guess is that you've been thinking about this for a long time. Am I right? Well, I'm here to tell you this Stop thinking your chance is now. Do you really need more time more information and more plans for the future? Or do you want to become that guy today? Because the truth is this you can be the guy who sits around and thinks about becoming better And there's plenty of those guys out there or you can be the guy who decides that today is the day You're gonna do something amazing and I want that for you Why because you've already got what it takes the potential is there even if you don't know it yet Join me and thousands of other guys who've taken action in their lives at the art of charm Call or email us and we'll see if the art of charm can help you with your personal Relationship and business challenges. All right back to the show Well, one of the things, you know, so we own I own these sites and dating sites and we've got millions of customers Okay, so I've I've got more research than any university on the planet We've had about 185 million messages sent back and forth So I've seen it not only in my personal life anecdotally, but also hardcore numbers and We we developed an actual system I I get asked all the time people are like, you know, I did a party at this last thursday one I probably had 400 of the most beautiful girls in la and 100 guys and the guys are always like Tyre what's the what is it? So I one day about a couple years ago. I laid out what I think the What the secret to this thing of people call women or whatever and When it comes to that specifically what I define and the interesting thing by the way before I say it I gave this talk I gave keynote in las vegas in january and dr. David bus was there So he's the number one evolutionary side college.  So we've become really good friends We're actually Co-authoring a paper with him all his textbooks are in harvard and all this and he actually came to me And he said because I had two like ford model girls with me So we he heard my speech and my talk where I laid out what I think how I think this thing called Attraction works and he came to me at the end and he's like I agree with all of it except one point So he had one thing to add that was pretty cool And we become friends and he said look I want to do a paper on the most beautiful women in the world And they're harder to get access to so let's co-author So we're working on a paper of is the experience of the most beautiful women in the world I dated a girl that's listed. She's a guest model one of the ones you see on the guest store like so He's like our is their experience different and my hypothesis. It's tremendously different but You know because I once dated this girl years ago and I remember she said to me. She's a brazilian model here It was actually a nightmare to date her because literally every single day There would be cars driving home after her wherever she went I mean like pro baseball player. It wasn't like regular dudes They would go and I remember I was talking to her and she said something one day. She said, you know what time Uh, I heard some girl talking about how guys always try to have one night stands with them and she was from brazil so there's a little language barrier and she is like What do they mean by one night stands and I'm like, well, you know They're trying to like sleep with you and never talked to you again And she's like you just saw this blank stare because her experience is men even the biggest player in the world Was like I got a lot of risk. No, he was chivalrous He'd take her on a date and you know take her out and Not even try to hold her hand. Just like everything you could do to signal I want long term So at the end of the day every rule that you think there is if you go up the scale and go up the notch There's a whole different reality I just finished even Hawkins book theory of everything and the level of realities like Plato says, you know Most of us are in the cave. We're seeing shadows, but we think it's real And you got to step out of the cave into the light and so I laid out these two I think there's 12 ways That when every woman on the planet sees you she her brain is a complex algorithm I don't care if you think she's a ditzy dumb blonde The she hears the whispers of 10,000 generations in her brain of her mother grandmother great-great-grandmother and They're probably smart in terms of selection or you wouldn't be here on the planet score I think there's 12 Heuristical patterns that they look through and when it comes to like being in shape that is one of them So women are doing and different women of course weight weight each factor slightly different But what you really want to do is be strong I find that women will give you a pass on two or three of the 12 But that's about it. If you want the best women, you must At least master about nine of these and so, you know, we laid all this out. It's pretty fascinating if you follow If you follow this, I've taken dudes that are suck with women and gotten them You know, they're just like mine 40 year old virgins are like, holy crap Let's take a quick time out for a sec Some people think the art of charm live training programs are just about picking up girls And honestly, there's some of that one week with us and you'll be rocking out in that department I promise but as a guy I know how important it is to be awesome and well-rounded and not just awesome with girls You got to be awesome at work awesome at home and awesome with your friends and family guys We need to step it up everywhere And that's why we call our company the art of charm that special something that gets you results wherever you go And trust me the results are real Every day I get new emails and calls from the guys who've decided to take our live training programs And what I hear is simply amazing just weeks after graduating they lined up promotion They form a new wolf pack and they start a new business or find a partner They have a new life and it's not an accident Call or email us and we'll see what the art of charm live training programs can do for you Now back to the good stuff Give us some give us some of the the practical tips that guys can take with them Uh towards the end here because you've got a law of 33 percent stoke versus epicurean Of course, we already talked about reading a book a day Give us a dish on something that guys can pull the trigger on well, okay, so Whether let's just say successful general whether you want it with money or women or your body physically My dad was one of the top bodybuilders. So it was interesting to grow up with my dad He was mr. Junior usa mr. Canada and all this and I kind of put some of the stuff And I wasn't close with my dad, but I saw a few things and it's funny They line up with the 67 steps. I got a friend that I think is the best guy in the world with women I kind of put all his stuff into 67 steps.  So you need people on your level your peers They become your friends. Most of us do that Okay in a day you got 16 hours in a day We spend most of our time with people below us or on our level But this last one if you could spend 33 percent of your time with people That are 10 20 years ahead of you This is where you get the burn. This is like your lifting weights.  These are people you feel uncomfortable around These are people who are speaking a language that you don't even understand the words They're doing things where you feel like you're insecure.  Like, where are you man?  They said you have to Forgo pleasant present pleasure in order To get some greater future benefit and there was the epicureans the opposite school of thought which is yolo You only live once get what you want now be a consumer and i'm telling you what the world doesn't need is 50 000 More people running after louis beton kim kardashian parasol and lifestyle what we need is 300 spartans You give me 300 spartans I'll change the world will change the world and to get that if you read about the spartan where there was a time when the spartans They would randomly pick someone out of the group Time to a post and whip them and half the time the guy died whipped them to death for no reason But the ones who made it through Just imagine life is like war and you're in a trench Who do you want jumping in the trench with you a guy with the scars on his back who made it through the Whipping that most people died from or you want you know the pussy dude who who's figured out how to you know Do his pedicures and sit on the beach and salsa dance across argentina. You pick you pick What do you have against salsa dancing time? Actually, dude, I became I was it's funny because I people think about that tango and all that from this lifestyle engineering And when I was in my 20s, I became a professional salsa dancer, so I can't make fun of it too much I can make fun of myself, right?  You know, like I said, I got my buddy here I actually have two friends that I've been that are staying with me and one of them Uh, he works for me and and he's uh, I've kind of I put people through this white to black belt system I got this like inner circle academy thing and so he's been with me for a long time I built I originally built it to help my Employees friends, you know for employees. I wanted to train CEOs because I buy company I just bought two companies last month.  I'll train it straight.  And so his reality. It's like, how can I make $5,000 a month? And literally my buddy just rolled in last night the million dollar a day He's making a million bucks a day and it's like it's not an IQ thing It's a reality thing and it's this diss I'll tell you this and I just uh did on my podcast I got a big response from this martin southern and talks about because you're talking about practical tips So first practical tip is this 33% the next one is um Learned you must eliminate the learned helplessness and if you put a monkey in a cage And the zookeeper opens the gate and brings a paleo slop in at 8 in the morning noon and 6 o'clock What we know about that monkey is a the monkey is learning to be helpless Be because it's learning to be helpless. It does it's not happy if you study under brain scanner that monkey's brain Low levels of dopamine all those complex reactions that make you happy Now that's interesting. So why why is that happening? Why is the unhappiness is a result of helplessness Because the monkey's meant to be in the jungle man. It's meant to be the king of the jungle It's meant to try now being out in the jungle sometimes you die Earlier than if you're in the zoo, but you know what dying young in the jungle is better than dying old Right somebody now that's epicurian right? Yolo.  Guess what happens the fruits all around it It could hunt in the jungle, but it's learned and had his brain rewired so strongly that guess what?  Did they tell you just the end goal and say there's the library you figure out? No, no, no, they spoon fade you like you the zoo that you are the monkey in the cage the teacher comes and goes Okay, we're gonna learn about american history first. We all read chapter one together chapter two You were four speed education. So i'm gonna tell you this if you're listening to this the odds are and this Happen this is true for me and it's true for you. I'm not pointing fingers I'm right here having been through that same educational system You have been taught that to learn and to grow Somebody's gonna come to you and I'll tell you this There's never gonna be a day when I check my facebook and bill gates is gonna have dropped me a little email and said hey Ty read your blog you're such a fascinating guy I'm on my jet down here to hollywood to hang out with you that'll never happen That might have happened to me in first grade where knowledge was for spoon fed to me You want to learn from bill gates? You show up I've been mentored and been able to become friends with some of the top billionaires in the world You pursue it That's what that's not you go out in the jungle you hunt for yourself when it comes to you know Learn helplessness with women like you said most guys are like ah tinder's gonna be my thing I'm just gonna i'm just the monkey in the cage and if tinder brings me the girl Whatever it brings me i'm just gonna take no you're the king of the jungle and i'm bringing you out in the jungle That's the new realm of reality you need to be be in the real world my friend the real world is one Where their competition is stiff? But the good news is if you compete you will become happier you are the product of men who competed and won You can win you can win But if you won't aren't then you're just a cog in this machine and the car you never like the old saying goes When you're in a room and you don't know who the sucker is you're the sucker You never want to be the sucker you never want to be the cog So that second thing is literally Mentally making a shift snapping your fingers and going i'm in the jungle in the modern world I just got an i get hundreds of emails almost a day from people around the world I got one black couple weeks ago. This person said hey, I've started this Architecture company. I'm only making about 45 grand a year. I feel like I plateaued I'm reaching out to you when you help me. He's out in the jungle saying I need mentors help me Then he p.s. Is it at the end? Oh, by the way, I just turned 15 See that's the jungle the jungle is awesome now You got never before have people been able to accumulate wealth at the way they have Without being born into it now you can the sumly kid 15 years old 30 million bucks that uh Grubosh chart all a guy make a couple hundred million dollars before he's he's not old enough to sign the contracts I don't care if you're young or old ray crock was 52 when he started Uh, uh, colonel sanders was I think 65 or 66 I don't care where you are stop measuring your life Backwards by the age from when you are born. That's the old school way like steven hawkins says time Is measured in three ways thermodynamic cosmological and uh and psychological and all of them move forward So the way you should be measuring your life is not how many years since I came out of my mom belly You should be measuring yourself Forward how many years do I have left and since you don't know how many years you have left? You have to act as if today is the day and then you don't want to be too hasty Because the odds are you'll live for a while, but you got to do like the great Greatest of all basketball coaches in college john wood and ucla coach said be quick But not in a hurry or Joel salton used to tell me make haste slowly So if you're listening to this today's the day you stop the mentality of i'm gonna be forced it what you want You go out and get and i'll tell you this When I walk in a room with that mentality And another guy Is in a state of learned helplessness? Which one do you think the most beautiful girls and the women want to be around? I'll tell you what's attractive to women people call it alpha this it's not about alpha I know shy guys. Yeah, that's not a real thing. Anyway, it's just something made up by marketers to sell Supplements. Well, it's like cocky funny. You know that whole thing That's not true the man I mean honestly if you want to study who was the best with women Casanova still remembered three four hundred years later. He said you have to play the chameleon But I will tell you the underlying energy that's attractive to women is somebody who Is not in the cage It's it's a win-win for you you get out of the cage or help your wealth You're you're happier and socially people pick it up on it So that's the third that you know, that's the other thing I would say the last thing That you have to do and it's related to the law 32 percent. You got to have a mentor man You have to it's like Charlie longer says I don't believe Uh, I believe in mastering the discipline of learning from other people I don't believe that you can sit around and think it all up yourself Nobody's that smart.  I looked through my I had my account I was like pull how much I spent on amazon, you know, most of it some of its Supplies most of its books and stuff.  You need a kindle, bro Forget that.   He grew it to the biggest company in the world Maybe the greatest CEO of our time. He took all the companies that weren't that he couldn't be number one or number two in He closed them down took the money doubled down on what he can do So double down on your brain Double down on surrounding listened to more hours of podcasts art of charm buy more books Michael Jordan is a fascinating guy because he was the cockiest of almost all basketball players in history of all athletes Yet he was a dichotomy and the other side of him was he had such high levels of humility That every coach whoever coached him said there was no one who listened and was more teachable and I tell people you better learn Faster You better you don't want to be like steve job said I didn't want to be the richest man in the graveyard If you think you will learn by going internally and learn through mistakes You will run out of years in your life So sam walton became the richest man in america. I think by that time he was the richest man in the world He took a trip to south polo brazil He was down there the host family got a phone call and they said That that call said uh Come pick him up and bail him out of her jail. He's in jail. Of course. They rushed down there 60 year old billionaire in brazilian jail is a Not a good thing They show up. They say to the police. They say hey Uh, why'd you arrest this guy and they said well, we thought he was insane We found a man old man crawling around on the floor as a different department stores Isles in uh in to polo and so they turned to sam walton. They said what were you doing? and he said I was just trying I was measuring with a tape measure how wide the floors were Because I was trying to see if these brazilians knew something that I didn't know That humility to get on your hands and knees and crawl around on the floor Is the humility you will need to get the good life and most people even though they listen and fill up with knowledge They're not like michael geord. I'm unconcerned with the level of cockiness you have externally I'm a relatively cocky person external But internal the reason I read a book a day is because I go. I don't know the second you get out of that state Man, the world of it opens up to you learn from the best. They're right there. They're there in books They're there on youtube. They're there in audio. They are there all around you. They're even there in person find those people Learn more read a hell of a lot more. Don't ever listen to people that say the answers are all within They're a little bit of it, but most of it's outward. He didn't learn english Inwardly he didn't sit in a room and come out speaking fluent english It came externally and everything you want will come from that same attitude But it will start and the stumbling bot for most people is deep down. They go I still know you must come to a place where you're like michael geord and you're like he actually said if dean smith My unc coach or phil jackson said to me Hey That seems wrong. He said geord said even if I thought they were incorrect I still listened you got to get to that place because what is correct and true for you Will make you feel uncomfortable and it will feel incorrect So if you only go by your gut, you're not gonna get there So I hope that's been helpful for your group. Absolutely, man. Thank you so much All right. Hope you guys enjoyed that show deserving what you want and how to get there is a key concept and becoming that Modern renaissance man is a great step on the way there. I hope you guys enjoyed that It does seem to come down to working hours and productivity at the end of the day But of course you can always go straight to the top get some great advice Get some great mentorship and get an edge on everybody else get out of the cage guys Now check out this fashion tip with erin marino Due to popular demand. We got fashion tips from my man erin marino from i am alpha m.com He's gonna be dropping some knowledge on us to learn how to dress our best All right, I haven't seen this for a long time, especially in california But I know around other parts of the country slash world Baggy pants are still in or maybe they're back. I don't know look here. Here's the deal baggy pants make you Look shorter. They make you look heavier. They make you look less attractive than you are You know and and it's not that guys are seeking out a baggy pant It's just that they're putting it on it fits in the waist They're not paying attention to the leg dimension the the rise of the pant and they're like whatever fits in the waist It's not too long. I'm good Well, the reality is is that a lot of pants if they are cut standard, they're gonna be big.  We should be so lucky, right? You know, if it's just too tight then okay go up But you want to make sure that you're looking for a pant that is that is fitted and once again fitted does not mean tight It simply means you're cutting out the extra fabric Excellent. Yeah, because it doesn't have to be super like skinny jeans ridiculous But a lot of guys wear these different sizes up Especially if they lose weight which props by the way, but they'll do something where they're like Oh, you know, I'll just get a size up so that they're comfortable And then they do that thing where they cinch it tight with a belt and you can kind of see where it's like Really sucking in at the waistline and then baggy down below and it looks really awkward Now they just totally negated all the hard work that they put in to loosen that weight You know, it's you know, they might look great out of their clothes But when you're wearing clothes that are way too big oversized, it's just throwing everything off wear clothes that fit always For more from erin marino search for alpha m on youtube or go to iamalpha m.com Solid show as usual if I do say so myself show feedback and guest suggestions We rely on you guys to help keep our finger on the pulse So if you know someone who's a good fit for the show, let us know at jordan h at the art of charm dot com Boot camp details. 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