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What can you learn about yourself in 21 days? More than you think, as a fun and attainable challenge a group of us participated in on a new app called “SPAR.”

SPAR is an accountability app that allows you to create group challenges. The challenge is whatever you want it to be, and people must check in every day or week, depending how you structure it. If you miss a check-in, you pay a financial penalty, which goes into a pot. At the end of the challenge, the pot is split among people who checked in every day.

Our challenge was for 21 days. Each day you must participate in physical activity and read 30 minutes.

What I learned / was reminded of.

Yes, you have the time.

I travel often for work, and would miss a lot of sessions due to time zone changes. Or so I thought. Due to the SPAR challenge, I couldn’t make any excuses.

During one trip, I got my reading done easily on the airplane, as I don’t use WiFi on flights. (Ryan Holiday, “Here’s a Quick Productivity Secret: Don’t Buy Wifi on Flights.”)

I got my steps in during a layover for 30 minutes, and then made sure I got more steps in once I landed.

Yes, you will find the time.

There was one day where I literally didn’t have the time. Or so I thought. I found the time.

You need arbitrary challenges to level up.

All goals are arbitrary. There’s nothing magical about running a 5K or making x-dollars or making it up to the top of a hill.

Success is the culmination of meeting arbitrary challenges.

Results are cumulative.

I burned an additional 5,000 calories during this challenge. That’s over a pound of fat, which would have be gained if I did nothing, or would have been lost if I cut kcals, or would have allowed me to have more gourmet food.

5,000 calories is a massive amount in 21 days.

I love reading and don’t read enough.

When I’m on a 5 hour flight without wifi, I read a full book. “Wow. Books are amazing! Why do I ever bother going online.”

Then the minute I hit the runway, it’s back online.

I’m 100% addicted to the Internet, and am going to have to find a healthy solution to this addition given my line of work requires me to be online for many hours a day.

Gorilla Mind Rush and Smooth were a big boost.

For more focus and energy, Gorilla Mind Rush and Smooth came in handy.

What others learned about themselves from the Spar Challenge.

• “This was my 1st challenge on SPAR and an incredible one. Sticking to it and being disciplined about it has brought me amazing rewards. I’m back on a reading habit I had lost for years!” – L.
• “With only a day to go I got my first miss… total lack of prioritizing the challenge in the AM when I had free time and being too exhausted by day’s end to complete it. Strike that – I wasn’t too exhausted (that’s an excuse), I just didn’t do it.” – A
• “Thank you, Mike. This challenge got me reading and working out way more than I usually do (and I’m consistent on both things). Steamed through five different books – amazing what just 30 mins uninterrupted and consistent reading can do.” – B
• “This has really made a difference. I’m going to miss it gang!” – C

You can download the SPAR app here.

 

If you want in on the next challenge, enter your email and I’ll get in touch.

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Jeffrey Epstein died via suicide earlier today, and no one on the right or left believes it. See, The Washington Post, “Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide is unfathomable.”

MSNBC host and former Congressman Joe Scarborough wrote, “A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably…Russian.”

Joy Reid implied that William Barr may have been responsible.

Others from conservative commentator Matt Walsh to ultra-far left wing activist Elie Honig are wondering how in the world a man who was on suicide watch after a previous suicide attempt was able to successful commit suicide.

• Watch: Cernovich discusses Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide

Do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide on his own?

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 10, 2019

I worked at SDNY for 8-plus years. Collectively the Office had thousands of defendants housed at MCC during that time. I could be overlooking one but I can’t recall any suicides in MCC during that time. @PreetBharara @Mimirocah1 or others – did you know of any? Lots of questions.

— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) August 10, 2019

Multiple officials tell @NBCNews that Epstein had been on suicide watch but was taken off suicide watch prior to his apparent death by suicide this morning

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) August 10, 2019

MSNBC’s Joy Reid appears to suggest that Attorney General William Barr might be connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s death pic.twitter.com/FPR0WPJfIz

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 10, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein was under suicide watch. Either the MCC was highly incompetent or there's a hidden Jack Ruby in this narrative.

— Tatiana Siegel (@TatianaSiegel27) August 10, 2019

Nope. Uh-uh. Now not believing anything said by authorities about this story. https://t.co/y2XzDed2WY

— Steve Lookner (@lookner) August 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1160179300412416000

https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1160184410588758018

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In August 2019, Connor Betts opened fire on a crowded street in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Armed with a .223-caliber high-capacity rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, the Antifa supporter fired into the crowd killing 9 including his own sister and wounding 27 others.

The Dayton Ohio terrorist was a pro-ANTIFA far left wing activist who regularly followed far left wing media and activist accounts. One of the last Tweets Connor Betts engaged with was one from far left wing activist Jared Holt spreading disinformation about me. To know that a terrorist was reading about me hours before he went on his attack is chilling, and shows why the far left targets me. They are sending signals to their terrorist fan base.

Some would say that Connor Betts’ likes and retweets aren’t relevant.  We can dismiss that argument because all of the people cited above have said that content creators are responsible for their fans behaviors. For example, the Canada mosque shooting was blamed on Ben Shapiro because the attacker read Shapiro on Twitter. Read, The Washington Post, “Canadian Mosque Shooter Scoured Twitter Before the Attack.”

There have been also calls by Media Matters and others to deplatform conservatives under the theory that conservative “rhetoric” is radicalizing people.

Here are some far left wing media and activist accounts Dayton Ohio terrorist would read and retweet.

Connor Betts was a fan of Media Matters.

Connor Betts was a fan of NBC “reporter” Ben Collins.

Ben Collins went on to television to falsely claim that Betts wasn’t “either side” politically.

This is false, as even a cursory review of Betts’ social media reveals. Betts’ was far left wing, he hated Trump and conservatives, and he loved the left.

One of the last Tweets Betts’ like was one spreading disinformation by me.

Far left wing activist Jared Holt falsely claimed I had advance knowledge of the El Paso shooting, due to a Tweet I imprecisely worded. (Holt did not contact me for comment before attempting to tie me to a major act of terrorism.)

Connor Betts was a huge fan of Jared Holt’s, and Holt himself panicked once this connection was discovered.

Connor Betts would like and Retweet Jared Holt regularly. Once Holt’s connection to the shooter was discovered, Holt went into damage control mode, deleting old Tweets and also blocked Betts. (Blocking Betts would cause all Retweets by Betts to disappear from Betts’ timeline.)

Connor Betts also enjoyed Will Sommer of the Daily Beast.

Connor Betts was hardcore far left, and he was reading Twitter hours or maybe even minutes before the attack.

Betts also said that he would vote for Elizabeth Warren and was an AOC supporter as well as an avowed socialist.

Connor Betts agreed with an amplified a death threat against Jack Posobiec 4 hours before the attack.

Posobiec is regularly the target of smear pieces by Ben Collins and Jared Holt, who the Dayton Ohio terrorist read and enjoyed.

While journalism matters, one is left wondering if those who obsessively write articles about Posobiec and other conservatives are sending signals to their readers, a target list if you will.

Watch: The Dayton Ohio shooter left a paper trail. Why did the media ignore it?

An Army Ranger (tab and scroll) shares his experiences with Ibogaine and other entheogens like DMT, 5-Meo-DMT, and ayahuasca.

Listen on iTunes or Rokfin:

https://soundcloud.com/cernovich/how-veterans-are-using-ibogaine-and-dmt-to-treat-ptsd-and-tbi/

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Books mentioned:

• Violence of Action: Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

Read next:

What Ayahuasca was Like for Me

Join the 100 Ideas in 10 Days Spar Challenge here

I used to keep a practice of journaling 10 ideas a day. Read James Altucher’s article on journaling ideas here.

These ideas ranged from ways to solve big social problems to professional and personal ideas.

For our next spar challenge, which goes live in 36 hours, we’ll be writing down 10 ideas a day, each day, for 10 days.

If you don’t know what SPAR is, read this article and listen to this podcast:

 

 

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Spar is a new app that combines social media with productive habits. It works like this:

• A person forms a group based on a shared goal.
• Each person who joins the group MUST check-in daily.
• If you check in daily, it’s free.
• Every day you don’t check it, you pay a penalty of $3.

We will be launching our own challenges.

Our first one goes live this Monday. You can join it here.

This is an introductory challenge and not particularly hard.

Do something physical every day for 60 minutes, and read a book uninterrupted for 30.

Something physical could be a walk, could be stretching, frankly it could be a massage. Anything that elevates your heart rate above resting is “physically active.” Yard work even counts. No one is saying you have to train for the Olympics to join.

Read whatever book you want. I’m not the book police. But you must read uninterrupted for 30 minutes. Phones on airplane mode or in the other room, please. I suppose you could count reading while doing cardio if you want to be clever, but it must be a reading book not an audio book, unless you’re visually impaired.

FAQs.

The only legitimate question is, “What if I get sick and can’t work out,” and of course just check in saying you have a cold and don’t want to spread your germs all over. (Thank you for that, by the way. Don’t go to the gym sick.)

Otherwise no questions, as I’ve found that people who ask a bunch of questions are delaying taking action or are looking for a way out. “What if [insert situation special to me and me only arises]?”

Don’t be a vibe killer.

If you want to procrastinate or whatever, that’s fine, too. Just stay away from me.

If you want to have some fun and push yourself, then sign up here.