Hey , guys , and welcome back to another episode of Change Wired Podcast . Change Wired Podcast podcast . For leaders , change agents , people who are not satisfied with status quo but instead want to grow , improve , challenge themselves and live a more meaningful life , more fulfilling life , creating more positive impact in the world . Changing ourselves and helping others to change , leading positive change , creating more positive impact , improving , unlocking more of your and other people's potential . That's what we are about here , and we don't talk in some shortcuts or some rules that are not based on any good research in science . No , instead , we actually look into science and when we talk about best practices , we also break them down why they worked , why they didn't work and how can we , based on first principles , apply it better to our life , to our work , to our health , to our mindset . So the change we produce is consistent and reliable . And today's episode , guys , is so fundamental to what this whole podcast and my pursuit of tools for change
is all about . Today we are talking about thinking in first principles , one of the most favorite Elon Musk's principles . That's how he was able to build something that other people and industries thought was impossible .
Speaker 1I've been in nutrition coaching . Yeah , today we're also going to talk about why your last diet failed you and how , moving forward , you can do better . I'm going to dispel to you why nutrition coaching , lifestyle coaching , works so well , why so many of my clients being on different diet nutrition fitness protocols failed to maintain the results and then , after our work together , they were able to maintain it for months and years ahead . The last diet , guys you tried , it didn't fail you . Well , it did , but it failed because you were thinking in diets by analogy , by some rules and shortcuts that you don't really understand . Maybe you read a book , maybe you heard from a friend , maybe you watched a bunch of YouTube videos , but you didn't really understand how it worked , when it worked and when it stopped working , why it happened as well . Thinking by analogy versus thinking from first principles . Thinking in diets versus thinking like a nutritionist . Thinking in rules , formulas , short-term outcomes versus thinking in fundamental principles of how things work . So I'm going to give you an example .
Thinking in diets sounds like and you might have had . You might have had these thoughts and you had before . I definitely had before I learned that there is actually such thing as nutrition science and you actually have different laws that guide that make your biology work . So thinking in diets might sound like I'll cut carbs , I'll drop the weight and I'll feel amazing and done and life is going to be just going better and better from now on . Thinking like a nutritionist sounds like carbs feed your brain , regulate hormones , support your energy and besides that , they have a lot of nutrients , vitamins , minerals that are essential for your health and your well-being . Like if you cut all of them out with this new diet you're such a fan of because it helped you to drop , I don't know , a couple of pounds of water in the first couple of days . Are you sure that your new approach satisfy all of your biological , physiological , all of your human needs ? So , so you could not just drop a few pounds in the first couple of weeks , but actually can sustain your quality of life , your mood , your energy , your performance in all the different areas .
Speaker 1So that's the difference between thinking in diets and thinking like a nutritionist . This is the difference between thinking by analogy , by examples , by shortcuts , and thinking again by foundational rules and principles . Drinking some water here . I can make any diet work , guys . These days , because I got education , I learned certain again laws and rules , principles of our biology , and when I look at any diet or the approach a person tries , I look at it through this lens of does it actually satisfy all the nutritional , all the health needs that our biology must have in order to thrive long-term ? That's number one . Number two does this person's lifestyle , life stage , needs
skill set ? Do they match the diet they're trying to do or there needs to be an adjustment ? And so when I work with clients , I teach them okay , this diet might also work , but you need to make sure that you are getting X , y , z nutrients and you need to make sure that you spread your meals that way , or that you eat that amount of calories or proteins or fats . And because I know that you're busy , you probably might think about , I don't know , meal delivery or combining your foods in this way , because otherwise you'll just get overwhelmed and drop the whole thing altogether . That's why coaching works , especially coaching long-term , because your coach , your guide , gets to understand what your skill set is , what your strengths , what your weaknesses , what your lifestyle , what's your long-term bigger picture of your life , is where you're coming from to this , your past experiences , your personality , and how it all plays out into again this new approach that you're trying . So your coach will help you to personalize , to customize this approach so you don't just get to reach your goals , but you also get to keep it in a way that is easy , that's sustainable and , most importantly , in a way that you actually understand .
Speaker 1Coaching done well is education . A lot of my clients , yes , start getting some results in the first weeks and months , but the majority of results actually just accumulate closer to few months of our work together , because that's where really clients start getting why certain things work for them and don't , and how to adjust on the fly , no matter how much life shifts and it always will shift how to adjust to still get progress towards their goals in a way that works for them , that doesn't overwhelm them or their life or doesn't compromise quality of their life in other areas . That's why coaching works , because you also get to know why things work and why they don't . And then let's talk about business and life and relationships .
Speaker 1There is so much content on the internet right now that again , that's relationships , that business , depending on what you're trying to achieve and what your goals are . And there is all this advice . But the thing is the internet doesn't know your past , it doesn't know you , it doesn't know bigger picture of your life . That coach on Instagram that you follow , they've never met you . It doesn't know your past . It doesn't know you . It doesn't know bigger picture of your life . That
coach on Instagram that you follow they've never met you and doesn't know your values , your needs again , your skills , your strengths like what's your whole picture of your whole life . Even ChatGPT doesn't know the full picture for you to get the result that you want . That's why longer prompts for ChatGPT work so much better , because the more content you give , the more personalized and customized . The reply is going to be . But still , chatgpt is not in your head , it's not getting to know you and it doesn't have personal life experience with . Well , it does have all this data that it's fat , but it didn't have life experience and it doesn't know exactly what it means to implement that advice in a person's life , unless , again , chatgpt was a live person , which is not true . But anyhow , that's why longer prompts for ChatGPT works so much better , because you give so much context .
Speaker 1And so the takeaway of today's podcast , the mindset shift I'd like you to have , guys , is stop thinking in diets , stop thinking in hacks , in rules and shortcuts , principles that you don't really get . Because when life changes and you can't apply those rules precisely even if you were able to before and they worked , like dropping all the carbs or doing this exact business plan that might have worked for a short period of time , but then other things happened in your life , in your business , and you changed your life , changed , your long-term priorities , changed . You know the environment is shifting so freaking fast these days and if you don't understand the foundational principles , the first principles , first principle thinking , look it up , learn about it Again . Elon Musk's first rule , probably for doing anything . That's again why he broke , so to speak , so many impossible laws when he built his businesses car business , space business , energy business . So , thinking from first principles , right .
Speaker 1Stop thinking in those rules and shortcuts that you don't really understand and dedicate some time to understand foundational principles that guide those plans that you got somewhere , either from ChatGPT , on the internet and then start asking questions like but what is a long-term picture here ? And then , if you work with ChatGPT , give it this long-term picture . I'm trying to do X in that many years , right ? What's long-term perspective ? What are my skills , what are my strengths , what are my values ? What are the foundational principles
in this business plan or health plan or nutrition plan , and then you combine all of it together full context of your life , your personality , your strengths , values , weaknesses , your shortcomings or just things that you don't possess or the skills that you haven't developed yet .
Speaker 1Take all of this into consideration before trying to follow some playbook , and the best playbook is the playbook that is built with you or by you , based on first principles and taking into consideration the whole picture of your life and you and your goals and your vision for your life , career and relationships . So , micro-practice , build your own life nutrition plan . Pick one area , whatever it is you're working on work , career , business relationships , food , nutrition , fitness and list all the essentials for you to function well in this area . First , like , if it's your health , what are all the things that need to be met by the approach that you're going to choose , or design , what all of the things that need to be present in order for it not just work for a couple of weeks , but for months and years ? And then ask is the current strategy I'm considering meeting all of those needs that I have for short and long term ? And then adjust the approach based on the foundational truth and principles , like laws of physics . They have to be that precise and , again , chad GPT can help you with that .
Speaker 1Adjust your approach based on the whole picture of your life or your business , your relationship , your fitness and the goals , the specific short and long-term objectives that you have . Again , understanding all of the foundational principles and building blocks and thinking in first principles , not in some shortcuts , not in some rules and playbooks that you don't really get or that just simply don't apply , and moving forward . That's what you got to do . Becoming a more in-depth thinker , a someone who doesn't just again look at the surface but gets under the hood and before making a decision , before jumping to conclusion , before committing to some plan of action , become a person who asks yourself on a regular basis like how does it actually work and does it really apply to my situation , my skillset , my short-term goals ? And if it doesn't , based on my full understanding of the first principles , how can I adjust to make it work short , short and long-term . Again , most of the things you learn in life they make no sense unless applied to the context of your life , of your goals , of where you're coming from and where you're going .
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