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Welcome to 1-2-3 Inner Game, your weekly hit of actionable strategies to achieve a high-performing, healthy, and thriving life.


Today's Highlights

  • One Meal a Day
  • 1-2-3 Inner-Game
  • Growth, Profit, Freedom: You Can't Have All Three (Until You Do)
  • Brain Candy
  • What's Fueling My Curiosity

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Hi Reader,

I’ve been messing around with OMAD — one meal a day.

My slot is 6 p.m. Dinner.

That’s it.

The first day? Honestly, brutal. By 2 p.m. I was staring at the clock like a kid waiting for summer break.

But here’s the twist, once I made it to 6 p.m., ate my one meal, and then woke up the next day, something shifted. The hunger was there, but it wasn’t this giant monster anymore. And the upside was undeniable: more focus, cleaner energy, and this weird mental clarity, like I’d just run a software update on my brain. ⚡

Here’s what I’ve noticed:

  • Mental clarity → sharper thinking, way fewer distractions.
  • Energy → no post-lunch crash, just steady output.

And the science-y reason people point to:

  • Autophagy → fasting gives your body time to repair and clean house at the cellular level. Basically spring cleaning for your insides.

The playbook is simple: pick a time (mine’s 6 p.m.), eat all your calories in that one meal, and that’s it. The rest of the day, it’s water, black coffee, tea, or other zero-calorie drinks.

Now, quick disclaimer: this is me sharing my personal experiment. It’s not medical advice, it’s not for everyone, and honestly, it probably sounds crazy to most people.

Don’t take this as “healthy advice”. Talk to your doctor before trying anything extreme. I’m just telling you what I’ve been playing with and what’s been working for me.


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Here's Some Inner Game Wisdom to Chew on This Week

1 punchy question to rattle your brain

Are you chasing scale — or depth?
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2 quick Q&As from me

  1. What’s the most common trap high performers fall into?
    Believing every hour must be optimized. Some hours should just be lived.
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  2. What’s the hardest part of leadership?
    Letting people struggle long enough to grow — without rescuing them too soon.
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3 truths

  1. Urgency Creates Blind Spots
    You can’t see long-term when you’re sprinting short-term.
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  2. Fear Disguises Itself as Logic
    Most “rational” reasons to wait are just polished excuses.
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  3. Growth Isn’t Linear
    It’s usually disguised as chaos before it becomes clarity.
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Growth, Profit, Freedom: You Can't Have All Three (Until You Do) feat. Ray Chou

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Available now on Apple Podcasts and everywhere you get your podcasts


Brain Candy
Tweets That Made Me Think, Laugh, or Go ‘Huh, Interesting!

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Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively. The latter takes work.
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The path to happiness is widening, not tightening, your sources of joy.


What's Fueling My Curiosity

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Chasing 100: The Incredible Story Of History’s Fastest Ever 100km Ultramarathon | adidas

Five athletes. A world-leading adidas innovation team. One shared ambition: to run the first ever sub-six-hour 100km in history.

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📖 BOOK RECOMMENDATION

SAME AS EVER: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life (From the author of The Psychology Of Money - Morgan Housel)

In Same As Ever, bestselling author Morgan Housel shares 24 short stories about the ways that life, behaviour, and business will always be the same. Armed with this knowledge of the unchanging, you will have a powerful new ability to think about risk, opportunity, and how to navigate the uncertainty of the future.


👓 INTERESTING READ (9 min)

How to start... anything: expert tips for trying something new

From therapy to running and conversing with strangers, experts break down what the basics are of starting anything new.


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