Weekly Limitless Pill Blog

“In any kind of high pressure situation 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve.” - Sam Kass
How do you handle being in high pressure situations? Some people flounder under stress and others remain calm even though both are trying to solve the issue at hand. Sam Kass explains what success looks like in high pressure situations. “In any kind of high pressure situation… 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve. The rest you figure out, but once you lose your calm, everything else starts falling apart fast”. Read more...
“Practice Going First” - Gabby Reece
Gabby Reece tells us she always says “I’ll go first. If I'm checking out at the store I’ll say hello first. If I’m coming across someone making eye-contact I’ll smile first. Not all times, but most times — it comes in your favor.” Do you go first or do you wait for someone else to go first? Read more...
"Losers have goals. Winners have systems.” - Scott Adams
Scott Adams says to choose projects and habits that give you transferable skills or relationships that you can use in the future. If we break this down to determine the difference between goals and systems, we can ask ourselves, “What short-term goal can I achieve?” or “What persistent skills or relationships can I develop?” The second question leads to a system which allows us to fail in reaching some of our short term goals, but in the long-term, it adds value.  Read more...
"What you track determines your lens — chose carefully” - Seth Godin
why are we, “keeping track of how many times we’ve been rejected…[or] of how many times it didn’t work… [or] all the times someone has broken our heart or double crossed us or let us down”? What good does that do for us? Is it making us better? Most likely, it isn’t. It’s just causing you to focus on things that are generally negative.  Read more...
"Don’t be a dog— think ‘what if’” - Matt Mullenweg
When asked about advice he’d give to someone, Matt Mullenweg thinks back to the early days of WordPress. Matt says they always used to think, “okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, or even ten years from now?”. He contrasted this to the metaphor of a dog chasing a car. What would the dog do if he actually catches the car? He doesn’t have a plan, all he can think of is getting to the car. Mullenweg says he finds this... Read more...
"The ice bath is the greatest of all. It’s just magic.” - Rick Rubin
When discussing what he does to take care of his body, he describes exercise and meditation, but “the ice bath is the greatest of all. It’s just magic”.  Read more...
“If [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs” - Derek Sivers
Really look at your current lifestyle and see what you are doing consistently and how it is affecting you. For example, if you are watching a ton of TikToks everyday, realize that and then change your behavior to match what your goal is, by actually trying the recipes or the life hacks.  Read more...
“It Could Always be Worse” - Joe De Sena
If we think about our daily lives and our stresses, we might realize just how superficial they really are. We might worry about what other people think of us, what we wear or if we responded to a work email correctly. We aren’t worried about where we are going to eat next or if we’ll have shelter. Joe’s whole purpose for his races is to get us in that mindset. Away from all the stresses of everyday life and just survive. It gives you a new sense of what is... Read more...
“Play! Play More!” - Jason Nemer
When asked what he’d put on a billboard, Jason easily responded with, “Play! Play more”. He said he feels people are “too serious” and “it really doesn’t take much…to drop back into the wisdom of childlike playfulness”. The two things he’d prescribe to improve health and happiness are movement and play because they are intertwined and you can’t have one without the other. Read more...
"Discipline Equals Freedom" - Jocko Willink
Jocko says that if he had to put something on a billboard it would be “discipline equals freedom”. This seems a little contradictory at first, but he essentially means that you can use positive constraints to increase perceived free-will and results. While you might think having nothing to do all day is the dream, it can actually be daunting because you continually have every option available to you. You’ll have to think about “what to do next” all day which can lead to decision fatigue. Read more...
"Give the Mind an Overnight Task" - Reid Hoffman
Almost every single day before sleeping Reid Hoffman jots down problems in a notebook that he wants his mind to work on overnight. He says that “most of our thinking is subconscious” and he wants to use the relaxation and rejuvenation period during sleep to possibly bubble up thoughts and solutions to the problem he wrote out. Read more...
"Pick the Right Audience to Suck In Front of." - Tracy DiNunzio
Tracy gives advice for those pitching to investors. She says, “make your first 10 meetings with investors you don’t really want funding from, because you’re probably going to suck in the beginning”. This concept is originally about pitching to investors, but can be applied to anything. If you have a big dance recital coming up, start showing your friends and family, then a larger group of people and eventually you’ll be ready for the big stage! Read more...
"Review Your Three Wins of the Day." - Peter Diamandis
One thing Peter emphasizes because of the difference it’s made in his life is his practice of  “[reviewing his] three wins of the day” everynight before bed. For many people, if something bad happens, we tend to obsess over it or let it take over our whole day resulting in a bad day instead of looking at it as one bad event. If we make a focused effort to look at the good things in our day before sleeping though, we’ll separate the bad events and not let it consume... Read more...
"Don’t Accept the Norms of Your Time." - Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss commented that he’d like to write a book about the way his billionaire friend’s mind worked. He was interested in how a billionaire’s mind differed from someone who wasn’t a billionaire and his friend commented, “The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time”. When you don’t accept the norms, or things just the way they are is when you can innovate. This can be “with technology, with books, [or] with anything”.  Read more...
"Chill Out. Calm Down." - Justin Boreta
Justin Boreta gives advice for his 20 year old self, he says, “Chill out. Calm down”. As a 20-something myself, I think this is so important to remember. I catch myself getting completely overwhelmed and stressed out about something that in a week works itself out. Justin sums up how things don’t always have to be fully planned out a certain way, “it doesn’t matter as much as you think it does”. Once you really take the time to think about it, I’m sure you can find quite a few... Read more...
"Do Less Than You Can and Take One Breath A Day" - Chade-Meng Tan
Have you ever wanted to make your bed every morning or workout everyday and found you were able to do it for a few days, maybe a week, but not more than that? Why is that? Most likely, it’s because we try to do too much too fast. If our goal is to do a 1 hour workout everyday, but currently we workout for 30 minutes 3 days a week, we should start by trying to do just 10-15 minutes everyday. That way it’s less burdensome than the 30 minutes, but... Read more...
"Don't Overestimate the People on Pedestals" - Marc Andreessen
“Get inside the heads of the people who made things in the past and what they were actually like, and then realize that they're not that different from you”. You could be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. Marc emphasizes how at the time they invented their life-changing thing, “they were kind of just like you…so there’s nothing stopping any of the rest of us from doing the same thing”. Read more...
"Happiness is a Choice That You Make and a Skill That You Develop" - Naval Ravikant
Naval says, “you choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles”. Easy-peasy, right? At first going to the gym everyday is a chore, it’s really really hard, but you wake up and make yourself go no matter what. Eventually it becomes a habit and you might actually enjoy it. It is something you have to do every single day, and eventually you will get better at it. Everyday you have to decide you are going to be happy and then make it happen.... Read more...
"Games are Unnecessary Obstacles that We Volunteer to Tackle" - Jane McGonigal
We’ve all played games where we lose a challenge and have to start over. A simple example is the Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. When you hit a mushroom and Mario falls off the screen, you instantly hear sad tones and the level restarts. When that happens, you don’t just give up and do something else, do you? Read more...
"Be Your Unapologetically Weird Self" - Chris Sacca
"I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days”. Chris discusses how being weird is why we love our friends, it bonds us to our colleagues and sets us apart. Read more...
"I Think You Can Will Things Into Happening by Just Committing to Them." - Sophia Amoruso
We often hold back because of the doubt in our mind, the "what if I tell people and it doesn't work". Sophia didn't allow these doubts to stop her though. She said, "I like to make promises that I'm not sure I can keep and then figure out how to keep them". In the end she promised a website she hadn't started creating and then made it happen.  Read more...
"Is That a Dream or a Goal?" - Paul Levesque (Triple H)
Many people think goals and dreams are synonyms, however Paul realized, "a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably never happen...[while] a goal is something you set a plan for, work toward, and achieve".  Read more...
"The Quality of Your Life is the Quality of Your Questions." - Tony Robbins
Tony insists that the quality questions create a quality life. Many people - and I'm certainly guilty of this at times - spend their lives focused on the negativity (ex: "How could he say that to me?!") and therefore the wrong priorities. Read more...
"Don't Try and Find Time. Schedule Time." - Noah Kagan
Noah schedules nothing but "learning" from 10am to 12pm every Tuesday because he thinks learning is imperative to his success. He says that scheduling time will help you actually do the things you've been wanting to do. If it's important enough, you don't find time, you schedule it. Once it's penciled in, it's real. Read more...