Raphael Schagerl 

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I run experiments on living a better life, creating more value for others, becoming more successful and making more money.
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I’m a trained economist and have been dismissive of those exact questions when my 9-year-old asked them.

Here is how I dismissed those questions in one sentence:

‘Because we, as a society, choose to.’

PS: Of course, I encouraged my son to ask all of his follow up ‘whys’ until he was satisfied (or rather dissatisfied) with the answers.

I also think talking to kids about this stuff forces adults to reckon with what they’ve settled for in society. When kids start asking questions like, but why can’t everyone have enough to eat? Why can’t we just eliminate homelessness? The adult urge is often to be dismissive, like those are naive questions, because we don’t want to deal…

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Just unfollowed 99% of the people I’ve been following.

I'm allowing myself to rediscover the platform and will only add back, slowly, those whose unique insights I truly can't go without.

Wish me luck!

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If you don’t love the moniker ‘apostles of grit and grind’, I don’t know what to tell you.

Without loss of genderality, I like to call them ‘grow-bros’.

PS: You almost gave me a spit take with that one, Scott!

Love this. Achieving success with ease is entirely possible if you are clear enough about where you really want to go and where you’re really starting from (and what you’re really starting with). Once you’ve established that vector, there’s only two or three things that have to go right enough to gain traction and start collapsing time t…