Transcript
There's something a lot of people don't seem to realize about life optimization. I see a lot of people, especially in the debunking space, talking about how the only things that matter are the main pillars of health, your exercise, a good diet, friends and family, getting outside, all that good stuff. And those are super important. If we were to look at the 80-20 rule, 80% of all your health and well-being are essentially just down to exercising, having good relationships, and eating a well-balanced diet with a lot of natural foods. is only 80% and sometimes people want to actually go the last 20% and make their lives even better. And I think that 20% can actually expand to be a lot more than that. Think about it. Let's say we take a research study where they tested some intervention, call it a supplement or diet or a small way to tweak your workout. And let's say the effect size on that was only a 5% increase. So going to a lot of effort to tweak how you lift your deadlift or eat some food. food can improve the outcome in that particular arena by anywhere from 2 to 5%. Now, that is not very clinically significant. If you do that for a lot of people, you're not going to see a large shift. It's very small. And most of the health world will tell you that's not worth spending your time on because there's so much of your time that should be spent on just optimizing those basic pillars. But let's say you have done a good job on those basic pillars. And what ways of improving your life just a little bit. Now let's say that every single day or even every single week, you add just one little tweak to your routine, either you shift how you do your workout, you shift something about your diet, you make one swap in what you're eating and what you're doing, small little incremental benefits. Just like with investing or finance, when you make a small shift that compounds, you put a little bit into your investment account every single day and are massive, we should view health in the same way. Compounding returns in health can be built up by very small tweaks that don't take added effort every day because that's not sustainable, but instead if they are swaps, if they are ways to shift your actual behavior and mindset that can produce a concrete benefit without any added effort beyond learning about it and making the shift in how you do things. And you can stack those. And every day or every week, Well, in a year, in two years, and three years, your returns are going to compound, and the various aspects of your life are going to just get a whole lot better, way more than just that little 20%. And that's essentially what I'm all about on this channel. I try to go through, spend dozens of hours researching the most little minutia, like how to maximize your bioavailability of carotenoids in the food that you consume, and then I try to apply it to my life in a way that doesn't actually take me any added effort. It just is a shift in how I do things. And I like to share that stuff with you. So let me know what you think.
Additional notes
This was totally unscripted, unedited, just me ranting about something I care about. But if this doesn't resonate with you, you probably won't enjoy following me. #lifehacks #optimization #health #science
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