“Your inner voice pretty much determines your destiny.”

That’s a quote from Dr. Jim Loehr, one of the world’s foremost experts on mental toughness and performance psychology.

He’s worked with some of the best athletes in the world to help strengthen their mental game so they

Some advice for your future self:

“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”

— Mickey Mantle

'Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned.'

“Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.”

— Will and Ariel Durant

How to get the results you desire:

1. Create space to reason in your thoughts, feelings, and actions

2. Deliberately use that space to think clearly

Chris Davis shares an interesting insight from Charlie Munger on why it's important to intentionally remove certain customers from your business:

If you can make the desired path the path of least resistance, you'll set yourself up for massive success.

What's your desired path? Is that the path you're currently on? If not, why?

Brad Jacobs' classical music training taught him an invaluable business lesson: how to improvise.

Here's why that's important—and why refusing to improvise is 'a bad way of thinking.'

Talent and potential mean nothing if you can’t consistently do things when you don’t feel like doing them.

'Avoiding responsibility is a recipe for misery, and the opposite of what it takes to cultivate good judgment.'

“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”

— Neil Strauss

An idea to think about tonight.

David Segal (David Segal) got into the tea business because of Warren Buffett. 'Tea is a Buffett business,' he told himself.

Throughout the years, he's studied more and more of Buffett's philosophy on life and business and is struck most by two things:

While we naturally understand that writing is a good way to share ideas with others, we under-appreciate how much good writing helps us think about an idea ourselves.

Writing is not only a means of communication; it enables us to practice reasoning.

'Good judgment is expensive, but poor judgment will cost you a fortune.'

If you want to get rich quickly, the biggest factor is luck.

If you want to get rich eventually, the biggest factor is consistency.

David Segal's recipe for beating depression: stick to your habits and do the hard things even when you don't feel like doing them.

“There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”

— Franz Kafka

'Most errors in judgment happen when we don't know we're supposed to be exercising judgment.'

It's not often we discuss the beverage of choice before filming a podcast episode, but when David Segal is the guest, we couldn't help it.

Here's a mini masterclass on maté tea.