Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life.
Week At A Glance:
Weekly Wisdom: The Ultimate Sign of Growth
Wednesday: The Deathbed Regret List
Friday: The 85% Rule: A Secret of the World's Best
Wisdom Worth Sharing:
Nobody tells you this: Emotional control is the ultimate sign of growth. The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That's when you take control of your own life.
In 1888, Alfred Nobel was best known as the inventor of dynamite. He had been issued over 300 patents, and his business had built more than 50 explosives and armament factories all across Europe.
That year, while traveling in Cannes, France, Nobel's brother, Ludvig, suddenly died of a heart attack.
A French newspaper mistakenly reported the incident, claiming it was Alfred who had died. Some sources even suggest an obituary ran with the unflattering headline "The Merchant of Death is Dead."
Reading the false reports, Nobel was shocked at what the world thought of him. Determined to change his legacy, he rewrote his will and established The Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel got something almost nobody gets: a clear preview of his destined future while he still had time to change it.
On Wednesday, I shared a simple exercise to help you do the same. I call it the Deathbed Regret List. (I know it sounds morbid, but I promise, it's not.)
You probably won't get the chance to read your own obituary. But you can use this exercise to change your life...
Friday: The 85% Rule: A Secret of the World's Best
The fastest man alive ran at 85% effort.
In a 2020 episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, actor Hugh Jackman shared a story about legendary track athlete Carl Lewis...
Lewis was routinely last or second-last after 40 meters—but would always win by 10 yards at the end. While every other sprinter started to push, clenching their fists and tightening their jaws, Lewis did nothing. Same breathing. Same form. In the end, he just breezed past them.
The 85% Rule says you can achieve more by pushing less. Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals with this strategy.
On Friday, I explored why 100% intensity paradoxically leads to inferior results—and what balanced, relaxed effort looks like in practice.
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