The Golden One - Marcus Follin - My Christmas Plans For Optimal Health and Productivity
Aired: 2023-12-16
Duration: 08:19


=== Train Hard, Sleep Faster (05:01) ===

[00:01:03]  Greetings my esteemed audience.
[00:01:05]  I'm checking in from a beautiful winter forest.
[00:01:09]  Now perhaps you hear it in the background, some snow falling from the trees, and it's actually raining a bit, so a bit warmer.
[00:01:15]  Hopefully, the temperature cools down a bit over Christmas, so we can maintain this nice white landscape.
[00:01:22]  Either way, I thought to share my plans for this Yuletide for this Christmas.
[00:01:27]  And in sharing said Christmas plans, I'm also sharing a valuable teaching when it comes to health and productivity.
[00:01:34]  So I will use a training example to illustrate my point.
[00:01:37]  Back in the day when I was a young man, now I'm a venerable ancient, as I said.
[00:01:43]  I'm 3400 years old.
[00:01:46]  But in my younger years, I literally had to force myself to rest from the gym.
[00:01:51]  Because of course, I wanted to go to the gym, but I had to force myself because I knew that sometimes you need to slow down and rest, otherwise, you will train too much, maybe, and you will train suboptimally.
[00:02:04]  Because the body itself, not necessarily the muscles, but the skeleton and ligaments, they need a rest.
[00:02:10]  So you can take a deload week, and that simply means that for a week you reduce all weights in half, but you train as usual.
[00:02:17]  Or you can just take a rest week, not to train at all.
[00:02:21]  You need to do this sometimes to recover the body so you can train hard in the time to come.
[00:02:27]  Now, when we're talking about productivity, perhaps you are an entrepreneur or a student or whatever.
[00:02:32]  Whatever you do, if you're interested in productivity, you can view your own work in a similar manner.
[00:02:38]  That you take a break from being productive so you can be more productive later on.
[00:02:42]  So on a personal note, I know I have a lot of things to do, a lot of things to do, mainly with logistics in January.
[00:02:49]  So I'll have a lot of work to do.
[00:02:50]  So what do I do?
[00:02:52]  Yes, I slow down, I take it easy in December, I rest up and you know forcing myself to not be as productive now, so I will be hit by a rush of a yearn to be productive in January.
[00:03:03]  I've done this many times before and I know it works really well for me that I build up an energy, I recharge myself so much so that when the time comes, usually in the beginning of January, then I've done so much, so many non-productive things that I have charged up my motivation to be productive and then I just unleash it and be and yeah, I get a lot of things done.
[00:03:26]  So that is something you can keep in mind.
[00:03:28]  So if you ask my Christmas plans and I say that yeah I will try Age Vampires 4 because of course I grew up with H V V Empires 2, Age of Mythology and H Vampires 3 so I want to try the fourth game.
[00:03:39]  I want to play some Assassin's Creed and Skyrim.
[00:03:42]  I want to read The Siege of Terror, Dan Abnett's latest book.
[00:03:46]  All of these things.
[00:03:47]  Might ask at a first glance, how do these things?
[00:03:50]  How do me playing Skyrim?
[00:03:52]  How does that help in achieving my goals of imposing my will on the world and yeah again, achieving my long-term goals?
[00:04:00]  It doesn't help in the short term, but i'm not playing a short term game, i'm playing a long-term game, so I need to look out for myself in the long run.
[00:04:07]  In looking out for myself, i'm also looking out for my family, so you need to pace yourself in order to set a high pace later on.
[00:04:15]  So that is how best I can explain.
[00:04:17]  You know gaming as a husband and father who is quite productive.
[00:04:22]  Otherwise, how can he then sit down to game?
[00:04:25]  How is this possible?
[00:04:26]  Well, that is the explanation, that you use that time to build up a motivation in you to train harder.
[00:04:32]  No, not train harder, work harder.
[00:04:34]  So i'm i'm using the same example here training or working, it's the same thing.
[00:04:38]  So if you, if you haven't trained for a week and you're really into the gym or whatever it might be, it might be jiu-jitsu you might be bitten by the jiu-jitsu bug.
[00:04:48]  So you really feel like training jiu-jitsu all the time and you haven't trained for a while and then you have that journey to get back to it, and that will make you train with more enthusiasm.
[00:04:57]  Same thing in the gym.
[00:04:58]  And now and now, in this particular example, we have productivity when it comes to a business or whatever it might be.
[00:05:05]  So that is my plan, to force myself to not be productive.
[00:05:08]  So be with the family, be with the girls.
[00:05:10]  Read fiction books, so not my usual books i've read over the last two years.
[00:05:16]  So i'm taking a break from all of that, just relaxing a bit more.
[00:05:19]  And then come january, I believe at least I haven't decided yet, but I believe I will start jung maxing, so reading the works of Carl Jung.
[00:05:27]  Maybe I will start planning my own next book, who knows, we will see.
[00:05:31]  But the main point here is that taking it easy so I can work harder later on.
[00:05:36]  And yeah, try it yourself if you are in that position.
[00:05:39]  And also do try to.
[00:05:41]  If you are on on x a lot and you consume a lot of black pills, try to take a break from that too.
[00:05:48]  You know, if you want to participate in the metapolitical game for a long time, you need to pace yourself as well.
[00:05:54]  You can't constantly bombard your mind with the West is falling imagery.
[00:06:00]  So yeah, take a break from it as well, and then you can get back to it in during next year.

=== Saluting Supporters (02:14) ===

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[00:06:24]  I'm very proud to say, so I salute you.
[00:06:27]  Now a heads up, though.
[00:06:28]  In christmas time, during the, during the entire december and early january actually, the postal system is completely mugged by the sheer volume of orders.
[00:06:39]  So if your package it doesn't arrive in time for christmas, there isn't really much I can do.
[00:06:44]  On my part, I don't send the packages out myself, so I can't sign the books either, and you will get a tracking when, the when the order has been sent out.
[00:06:55]  So, but yeah, expect some delays, expect some postal chaos, Some logistical chaos.
[00:07:00]  I've been through this a few times before, so I know that December is quite chaotic indeed.
[00:07:05]  So, do keep that in mind.
[00:07:07]  And, of course, I am the customer support on both Utah Name Nutrition and League.
[00:07:12]  And now, of course, I am the customer support on Lake Gig Gloria and Utoname Nutrition.
[00:07:17]  I like to interact with the customers myself.
[00:07:21]  Give me a few days over Christmas.
[00:07:23]  I might be a bit slower to respond to some emails because I want to, as I said, take it a bit easier.
[00:07:28]  But yeah, I'll get back to all emails as soon as possible, anyway.
[00:07:33]  After Christmas, that is so good stuff, good stuff.
[00:07:36]  I hope you will also have a harmonious and peaceful Christmas.
[00:07:39]  I hope I will have it.
[00:07:41]  You never know, but I hope for it at least.
[00:07:43]  Now, in terms of productivity, I will make, of course, the monthly podcast episode.
[00:07:47]  It will be about the cult of Mitras, so that will be nice to make.
[00:07:51]  So, that will be my productivity for the end of the month.
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[00:08:00]  I go a bit more in depth in my discussions.
[00:08:04]  So, I pick a topic, elaborate on it, and then I, in the beginning of each episode, I talk a bit about training, biohacking, some updates, some politics, everything like that.
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[00:08:17]  Now, thank you for watching, and thank you for your support.