So I might be the happiest human being on the planet. How and why? Some honest thoughts:
First, I think this is like an insanely huge one, the criticality of this new big thought: trying to get 12 hours of sleep a night. At first I think a lot of people thought I was kind of crazy to suggest but in fact,  it appears that another extremely unorthodox and successful person, pavel who found a telegram, I just watched the full four hour interview with Les Fridman, which was like probably maybe the most number one interesting interview I’ve experienced of all time.
A very interesting thing about Pavel is that for the last 20 years I think he just turned 41, he has not owned a phone, like myself, he has not taken any drugs painkillers pills sleeping aids, has also totally abstain from alcohol and coffee and caffeine, and heat allocate around 11 to 12 hours of sleep a night. What’s interesting is that obviously you will not always sleep 11 to 12 hours, but, to simply allocate your life around it, and plan for it is a good idea.
So a new life hack that I’ve been doing is trying to set nighttime at 6:30 PM, get Seneca to bed, and typically all fall asleep at around 8 o’clock or 8:30 PM. The best days are when I wake up again the next day like today at 8 AM, and after 12 hours of solid sleep, straight, it’s like kind of amazing and phenomenal. I probably wake up three or four times in the night to use the bathroom, but I’m able to fall back asleep. Today, waking up to the beautiful LA morning sunlight, was like the most glorious magnificent way to start the day of all time.
So if you just do the math and start to work your way backwards, I’m kind of insanely grateful for Seneca because honestly… Before you have kids there is no real good reason to go to sleep early. And as a consequence, we normalize strange sleep behaviors as normal thinking that even midnight this early. Noah does not that is insanely late. A new thing that I’ve been doing is I never make any evening obligations past 5:30 PM, as once again… I tried to aim for Seneca’s bedtime to be around 6:30 PM, and obviously we don’t always fall asleep at 6:30 PM but still setting that margin or that target is much more centering.
A lot of people cannot fall asleep at night, which is understandable. My practical and pragmatic that is because most people just simply do not or cannot get enough physical activity outside in the grand outdoor outdoors enough in a single day. As a consequence you’re not physiologically tired enough talk to you fall asleep like a sack of rocks.
So my simple suggestion is extremely simple, try to structure your life in which you can maximize physical output and activity in a single day.
First idea, purchase a 60 pound weight vest from Titan.fitness. I’m like literally wearing it all the time, all day every day, whenever I’m walking around the block, walking around town, we’re going on hikes. It’s like Goku in the gravity chamber, after wearing it enough, you even forget that you’re wearing it. And as a consequence, your whole body will strengthen in a good way.
Second idea, this is actually extremely easy, it may be more difficult for women if you’re going through menstrual cycles, but for men it’s like super 100% easy. Intermittent fasting no breakfast no lunch only dinner, and when you break your fast for dinner time, try to eat 4 to 6 pounds of meat, like 2 to 3 kg of red meat, Lamb, lamb ribs, beef ribs, I don’t really like pork or chicken. Beef liver, I think Whole Foods actually has frozen beef liver 100% grass fed in the freezer now, eggs, yolk included. Often when I do not have enough beef or ground beef, I prefer 80%, I will load up on eggs like 12 to 14, yoke included. And the truth is the more dietary cholesterol you consume the better, as dietary cholesterol which is highly abundant in organ meets like beef liver, is essentially a natural steroid.
No no no consuming cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease, we are now starting to finally figure out that actually what causes heart disease heart attack attacks, stroke is actually over consumption of starchy vegetables sugars, even another interesting thought is that the fake sugar in Coke zero still causes insulin spikes similar to consuming real sugar, which will increase your adipose tissue (body fat), and also lead to bodily metabolic dysfunction which once again causes heart attacks.
Long story short, the Coca-Cola industry as well as the sugar industry which has enormous lobbying power, much more than the beef or egg industry, try to hide the blame that in fact sugar is causing people to become really really fat and sick and die of heart attacks, and try to cast the blame on red meat and eggs and dietary cholesterol.
To people who say that eating meat is bad for the environment, my simple suggestion is if that is the case just consume organ meats which is typically just thrown away. Just consume Beef heart, beef liver, beef intestines, etc.
weightlifting
World and planetary record alert: fun fact, at 71 kg, 180 cm tall (I’m 5 foot 11 inches tall), from my ghetto backyard second parking lot gym in LA I rack pulled 678kg, (1,495 LBS), which is this kind of ultra super insanely turbo mega ground shifting event, a total paradigm shift in which I literally lifted 9.5x my bodyweight.  And the hilarious thing is I do it while fasted, and I don’t even consume protein powder or creatine, just black coffee and tapwater.
The secret is achieving the ultimate leverage of using a weightlifting dip belt, and having some sort of strong nylon or a chain, wrapping it around the center of the bar, so you get additional hip leverage, and then just getting some simple dead lifting straps from Amazon, and the big secret is for the barbell, to elevate it at around hip or waste level so the distance the bar needs to move is only about one or 2 cm.
The very very simple ethos or thought I have:
lower the range of motion, increase the weight.
For example, it is better to move 1000 kg or 2000 pounds for half an inch, rather than Moving a 1 pound dumbbell 1000 times.
 or, it is better to rack pull 700kg for half an inch rather than two dead lift 300 kg from the floor.
why?
 I think a highly underrated thing for men, especially as men is acts of physical courage. Especially when I first atlas lifted 1000 pounds at my local gym,  of course the number one concern I have like breaking my spine or my back or something in my body. Or breaking the equipment etc.
But I think the number one virtue of a man is to simply attempt something that you are not 100% certain whether you will succeed or fail, but still, giving it your thousand percent effort, and going for it.