Rules to Live, 30's.
1. Start a habit of lifting weights 3x times a week. This improves your confidence, posture, and discipline while keeping you functional as you get older.
2. Eat like a high performer: Whole foods, protein at every meal, water over soda. Foods equal performance.
3. Track what is important every day. Whether it’s your weight, your finances, or what you measure, it is what you manage.
4. Chase skills over money. AI, copywriting, coding, sales, etc. Skill acquisition multiplies your time and builds leverage.
5. Build in public. Post every day. Share ideas. Document what you’re learning. Build your brand as you are building yourself.
6. Learn time and energy management. With so many options out there in the world, you must learn how to prioritize what’s important and give time to it.
7. Pick a lane early. It doesn’t have to be the perfect path, but commit to getting world-class at one thing.
8. Unless you’re going into trades, avoid going into debt for college. Instead, put that time into getting work experience or becoming proficient at AI.
9. Read books like your life depends on it. Books are like mentors, and they are the only documents that contain 50–100+ years of wisdom in a few hundred pages.
10. Get your body lean now, not for abs, but for freedom. When you’re lean, everything else becomes easier by default.
11. Fall in love with failure. Success is a matter of iteration. The more that you can iterate and find ways that don’t fail, the more you’re going to be able to see what works.
12. Fall in love with the boring. While most chase the next shiny thing, master the fundamentals.
13. Make it a habit of carrying zero credit card debt.
14. Start saving money now. Make a habit of paying yourself first.
15. Increase earning potential by controlling your spending.
16. With whatever little savings that you have, learn how to invest, but don’t trade.
17. Stop giving a fuck about what random people think. They’re not even thinking about you in the first place.
18. Put more energy into finding solutions than into worrying or ruminating about your problems.
19. Learn about mimetic desire. Most people don’t chase goals; they copy them. Discover what you truly desire, and then examine your motivations for wanting these things. It’s usually mimetic desire.
20. Learn sunk cost fallacy. Throwing more time at a bad investment won’t turn it into a good one.
21. Learn about second-order consequences. Every decision has a cost you don’t see until later. Train yourself to see it.
22. Want a great life? Ask yourself what would guarantee a miserable one. Then avoid it like hell. Invert the goal to find the solution.
23. Document your goals. Write out your 10-year vision, then work backwards:
3 Year → Yearly → Quarterly → Monthly → Daily.
24. Date to marry or stay single. The wrong relationship can hold you back and wreck your life, while the right partner can amplify.
25. Stop partying like you’re trying to forget your life. Get your dopamine rush from achievement, momentum, and effort.
26. Move to a city with ambition. Your environment is either a launch pad or an anchor. Get around people who are inspired to do big things, and you will too.
27. Audit your health habits. How you treat your body in your 20s and 30s will show up in your 40s (and beyond).
28. Audit your circle. Keep your good friends who share values, while being intentional with surrounding yourself with others who force you to level up.
29. Spend time with older people. Ask questions. Steal their wisdom. They’ll show you what really matters.
30. Avoid victimhood mentality like the plague. The more you argue for your limitations, the more you get to keep them.
31. Stop chasing outcomes and chase identity and behavior. Outcomes are short-term, while these drive long-term success.
32. Every goal you set needs a system to attain it. Never set a goal without a system.
33. Learn how to adapt to any circumstance. We are moving towards an era where only the adaptable will survive.
