Active Recall With Walter & Francis

activerecall.co and walteramedia.com Podcasts mentioned * Noah Kagan Presents * Noah Kagan NPR episode * Noah Kagan 5AM challenge * Noah Kagan's scheduling thing for leisure * Fizzle.co podcast * They talked about burnout * Targeting audience etc. * How to start a podcast * Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History * Bill Simmons + Malcolm Gladwell * Pat Flynn with 5-minute journal founders UJ Ramdas and Alex Ikonn * 3-month vacation * Psychotactics * Copywriting * MF CEO * Theme: bodybuilding and patience Books mentioned * The War of Art * The Brain Audit * Malcolm Gladwell's books Links * 5-minute journal * Rick Rubin quote * "Break it down to the narrow" — Wally, but probably someone else This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

0:00:00 • Welcome! Wally talks slow motion 0:06:42 • Ces stumbles through explaining what keto is 0:19:04 • Wally recommends something manly 0:26:52 • When did you realize wrestling was fake? Is that... Jason's music?! 0:30:44 • Jason dials in before the biggest weekend of his life 0:39:15 • Which wrestler does Jason feel like? We're re-thinking the book-a-week format because we can't read fast enough. Instead, we each recommend a couple of podcasts. Ces recaps the Iron Man Match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

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This week's book: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday. We tried following a lot of the advice in the book and it continues to be helpful. (On the other hand, we didn't follow some of his other advice: Please, Please, For The Love Of God: Do Not Start a Podcast) Quick chapter links — [00:00] Wally goes to Disneyland, Ces doesn't renew [04:40] Listener questions! How do you keep things balanced? [10:50] Book intro: The Obstacle is the Way (TOITW) [21:53] TOITW: Will and Vegeta [28:50] TOITW: Terrell Owens's 3 Ds [38:54] Wally offers Ces a donut [47:56] Quote vs. Quote: Wally claps BACK   Notes — 00:00 — Wally goes to Disneyland, Ces doesn't renew: We start this off with the usual weekly updates. Wally talks about his trip to Disneyland. Ces gives an update on fitness and nutrition. 04:40 — Listener questions! How do you keep things balanced? Wally grabbed a question from an offline conversation during the week and we run it as a listener question. We set up an email address for actual listener questions.

Links  The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson SPI 255: Deep Work with Cal Newport - The Smart Passive Income Blog How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven William H. McRaven commencement speech Floss one tooth This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Walter & Francis Barking up the Wrong Tree (book on Amazon • blog) Filtered people are the ones who did very well in school. These are your valedictorians. The only issue? They're successful, but they aren't wildly successful. We went over Eric Barker's Barking Up The Wrong Tree. It'd be good to apply some of the advice from the book. Here's something relevant: "Good enough is good enough."  It's a great book. We'll do another episode down the line to do it justice. This is the first time trying out podcast chapters. I didn't even know podcast chapters were a thing until a couple weeks ago when I listened to John Gruber's episode with Ben Thompson. The podcast has multiple chapters and so does the book, but we only discussed the first chapter. It's about defining success and two types of personalities and the environments they succeed in. (The book also helps redefine what success is. By the end of it, maybe those wildly successful people actually aren't actually all that happy. Meaning maybe a filtered

Full book notes on Grit: https://franciscortez.com/book-notes-grit https://www.walteramedia.com/ https://www.instagram.com/walter_a_media/ This week we talk about Grit, by Angela Duckworth.    I'm in California and Wally is in San Diego. We decided to record on a Wednesday morning to accomodate schedules. Not sure that matters since we haven't really picked a day to consistently publish.  Our podcast is on iTunes now. I think it actually has been for the entire week. I thought there was an approval process or something. Now that it's on there it feels sort of official. I have that iMessage drawing of Frankenwalt the Frankenstein monster. It feels a little too casual. Tim Ferriss talks about how the average podcast only lasts like 3 or 6 episodes. I bet a lot of them thought "It's the audio that matters" or that silliness is a part of it. By week 12 I want to make sure the listing and landing page looks way better. Actually I need a landing page at all.  I was scrambling to buy the Zoom H1 because I wan

Here are some topics we go over in this week's episode.  Check out the full notes Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: I finished reading Flow a couple weeks ago and thought it'd be good to pick up Csikszentmihalyi's other book. Speaking of… Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (also) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Great book. It's from 1990 and things have probably gotten worse as far as distractions go. Deliberate practice: If you rolled your eyes hearing the phrase deliberate practice again, you're exactly the audience we're looking for. At least if you're anything like me. I can't get enough of this echo chamber! 5 Whys and 5 Hows: Judging by the results when I searched for 5 Hows, it's not exactly an original idea. That's fine. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com