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Jordan Belfort's Catching the Wolf of Wall Street is about all the crazy stories that never made it to the movie. Belfort & the gang have been doing some things that were so out of order that Scorsese decided to exclude them for being too crazy to be true.
.lifestyle
Try Veri Continous Glucose Monitor, Oura ring sleep tracker, Tanita scale, F45 functional training, and apply some Life Design!
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I must learn not to hurry with my writing. At times, I find myself anxious to finish, to hit publish, to accomplish [https://www.peterkos.org/challengeaccepted-preorders/]. I have to realize that I’m not doing it (only) to publish, but — first and foremost — to write [https://www.peterkos.
newsletter
100 ways to live to 100 and contrast that with Eating, drinking, and smoking like Winston Churchill.
.thoughts
Karoshi vs. Great Resignation; unpaid heating bills vs. $36B in a day. Zoom fatigue and suicide.
newsletter
Barefoot 21K, #ChallengeNOTaccepted; how Denmark fixed McDonald’s; Pedestrians being dumb for 10 minutes straight.
newsletter
#FivePoints newsletter was on a longer break, a hiatus, or a sabbatical if you like. I've been procrastinating on getting this next edition out for some time until enough subscribers started nagging me ... probably the right kick in the butt I needed to get back to it. Thank
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#ChallengeAccepted is a guide, a handbook for helping people navigate their ways from the first-time manager to a leader, written in a way to become that buddy we all need(ed) but were afraid to ask.
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At the start of the pandemic of 2020, I read Michael Finkel [https://amzn.to/3eZI8ls]’s book, The Stranger in the Woods [https://amzn.to/3hd2YQX], The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. It’s a narrative of Christopher Knight [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight]
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Come for the story, walk away with the meaning of life Viktor Frankl [https://amzn.to/3nWvyHC]'s Man's Search for Meaning [https://amzn.to/33oy3cl] is one of those cult books that keep getting quoted once a person starts looking for deeper answers to their existence.
The Elements of Lifestyle
Watch TED Talks; they just might save your life. This TED Talk [https://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare] and the subsequent book [https://amzn.to/3vnNKN5] most probably saved my life.
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Welcome to the 38th edition of #FivePoints newsletter! I'll skip the big intro and keep it vacation-light. Title photo [https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1uAxCMi8x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link]: Izola, Slovenia. Sometimes the closest beach is the nicest. I've never enjoyed Slovenian seaside