Summary of "how to reinvent yourself in 90 days to become rich as f*ck"
Summary of Key Wellness, Self-Care, and Productivity Strategies from How to Reinvent Yourself in 90 Days to Become Rich as Fck*
Core Philosophy: Identity Over Actions
- Lasting change comes from shifting your identity rather than just changing habits or routines.
- Your external reality (money, friends, body) reflects your internal identity.
- To reinvent yourself, start by defining who you truly want to become, independent of external validation like money or status.
- Build a belief system that supports this identity, which then shapes your thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Building and Embedding Empowering Beliefs
- Use the formula: “I’m the type of person who…” to create empowering belief statements.
- Examples:
- “I’m the type of person who makes financially responsible decisions.”
- “I’m the type of person who is always in good shape.”
- “I’m the type of person who always does what he says.”
- Embed beliefs into your subconscious by:
- Repetition (affirmations or mentally repeating beliefs).
- Emotion (attach strong feelings to the belief to make it stick).
- Action (act consistently in alignment with your beliefs).
Managing Dopamine for Motivation and Productivity
- Differentiate between:
- Artificial (cheap) dopamine: instant gratification from social media, junk food, porn, gambling, etc., causing large dopamine spikes and crashes.
- Real dopamine: delayed gratification from exercise, sunlight, deep work, reading, which create sustained dopamine levels and better motivation.
- Aim to reduce dopamine delta (large spikes and troughs) by minimizing artificial dopamine sources.
- Successful people choose to be “addicted” to empowering habits, not destructive addictions.
- Use the habit loop: Cue → Habit → Reward to build productive routines (e.g., caffeine as a cue for deep work, sunlight as a reward).
Emotional Mastery
- Emotions are signals, neither good nor bad.
- Practice conscious awareness of emotions:
- Ask: “Does this emotion serve me?”
- If yes, use it productively (e.g., channel anger into focused work).
- If no, feel it fully and then let it go.
- Detach from emotions related to results, especially during the “pit of despair” phase where effort is high but results lag.
- Use positive self-talk after completing difficult tasks to reinforce identity and build mental resilience.
Understanding and Embracing Risk
- Distinguish between:
- Active risk: entrepreneurial risk, taking action that might fail.
- Passive risk: risk of doing nothing, staying mediocre, which is far greater.
- Embrace discomfort and risk as necessary for growth.
- Fear is often just discomfort, not real danger.
- Growth happens outside the comfort zone; push yourself daily into discomfort physically and mentally.
Daily Routine and Productivity Framework
- Prioritize sleep first—mental and physical exhaustion improves sleep quality.
- Block off large chunks of time for deep work—focused, intellectually challenging tasks that directly move your goals forward.
- Follow deep work with exercise and health routines.
- Avoid micro-managing every hour; instead, focus on subtracting distractions and prioritizing the most impactful activities.
- Create a personalized, enjoyable work environment to make deep work easier and sustainable (e.g., blackout curtains, specific music, favorite keyboard/mouse).
Health and Physical Wellness
- Go to the gym at least 5 times per week, training close to failure with progressive overload.
- Nutrition: eat 80% whole foods, keep diet simple and consistent, aim for ~1g protein per pound of body weight.
- Sleep: maintain consistent sleep schedule; sometimes sacrifice sleep for “soul” (passion projects), but mostly prioritize recovery.
- Incorporate intentional daily physical discomfort (cold showers, ice baths, intense exercise) to train mental toughness and grow the anterior cingulate cortex (brain area related to endurance and focus).
- Avoid over-optimization and biohacking hype; focus on fundamentals and resilience.
Handling Failure
- Reframe failure as experience points (XP) or stepping stones to success.
- Don’t suppress emotions related to failure; feel them and ask if they serve you.
- Adopt a mindset of welcoming challenges and failures as opportunities to grow stronger.
- Use failure as motivation to keep pushing forward.
Goal Setting Philosophy
- Avoid obsessing over outcome goals (e.g., “I want to make $10,000/month”).
- Focus on process-oriented beliefs and inputs instead.
- Use the Mailbox Strategy: set goals, then “mail” them—don’t obsessively check or stress about them; trust the process.
- Determine the volume of input (actions like client outreaches) needed to make failure unreasonable.
- Prioritize consistent execution of high-impact tasks over perfect goal tracking.
Mental Clarity and Focus: Stoic Sparring Exercise
- Create a T-chart listing:
- Outside your control (let go of these worries).
- Inside your control (focus your energy here).
- Regularly dump mental clutter to reduce anxiety and improve focus.
- Helps prioritize tasks and reduce wasted mental energy.
XP Farming: Accelerated Growth
- Compress years of experience, failures, and learning into 90 intense days.
- Push yourself to experience more failures and rejections quickly to gain rapid growth.
- Use Parkinson’s Law: limit time for tasks to force creativity and efficiency.
- Maintain quality while increasing output and effort.
Summary of Key Tips
- Focus on identity and belief system first, then align thoughts, emotions, and actions.
- Build empowering habits with cues, rituals, and rewards.
- Manage dopamine by minimizing instant gratification and maximizing sustained motivation activities.
- Embrace discomfort and risk; fear is mostly discomfort, not danger.
- Prioritize sleep, deep work, and physical health.
- Use stoic principles to focus on what you can control.
- Reframe failure as growth and maintain emotional awareness.
- Set process-oriented goals and trust the journey.
- Create a simple but sustainable daily schedule emphasizing sleep, deep work, health, and other tasks.
- Build an environment that makes work enjoyable and sustainable.
Presenter / Source
- Mark (YouTube Creator, presenter of the video)
This summary captures the main strategies and methodologies Mark shares for reinventing yourself and becoming successful within 90 days, emphasizing mindset, habits, emotional control, productivity, and health.
Category
Wellness and Self-Improvement
