539: Jack Raines - Playing Infinite Games, Living Life Backwards, Building Your Platform, Traveling More, & Writing Young Money
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Jack Raines is a student at Columbia Business School and the writer of YoungMoney.co – Young Money is a finance blog that covers a wide variety of life topics like why we should travel more, timeless advice, the use of humor, the 6 types of wealth, and infinite games. Jack is one of my favorite writers on the internet…
- Infinite Games – "The focus on outcome over everything leads to us discounting 99% of our lives for the sake of a few, small, fleeting moments that might provide some sense of satisfaction before the cycle begins anew."
- It's not about getting to the top of the mountain, it's about the person you become along the way.
- Why We Should Travel More – Rolf Potts, Vagabonding. "The explorer has no goal other than exploration itself."
- The Opportunity Cost of Everything – The Journey IS the Destination. Life isn't a Pixar film. It's not a television series. Our life isn't some chain of events and decisions that leads to a climax. A final moment of victory. Life is the chain of events itself.
- "Someday isn't a day."
- The purpose of Jack's finance blog: "I write a finance blog that is really, like, idk? Maybe 40% finance? The rest is existential musings, satire, the occasional exclamation that Americans seriously need to travel more, and whatever random stuff comes through my brain."
- Jack's LinkedIn satirical posts: "I take nothing seriously, but I do take the serious things pretty seriously. Linkedin isn't one of the serious things."
- How Jack built a large following online: "I have published approximately 450,000 words of content in an 18-month period." Whatever it is that we want to do, in order to get good, we have to get going. We have to get the reps…
- The Case for Living Life Backwards – "You should write your obituary, and then try to figure out how to live up to it."
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| 0:00.0 | You have to be willing to be vulnerable, get laughed at. |
| 0:04.0 | People are scared to be real, especially on the internet because you put something out there that people don't like. |
| 0:09.0 | But if you aren't willing to be as real as possible about stuff, you can't attract those genuine connections. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to The Learning Leaders Show, presented by Yidd Sight Global. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you so much for being here, Tex Hawk. |
| 0:29.0 | 2666866 to become part of Mindful Monday. |
| 0:34.0 | You, along with tens of thousands of other learning leaders from all over the world, |
| 0:39.0 | will receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right. |
| 0:45.0 | You'll also receive the tales about my book, The Pursuit of Excellence. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll help you become a more effective leader, Tex Hawk. |
| 0:54.0 | 2666866 now onto tonight's featured leader. |
| 0:58.0 | Jack Reigns is a student at Columbia Business School and the writer of YoungMoney.co. |
| 1:05.0 | Young Money is a finance blog that covers a wide variety of life topics, |
| 1:10.0 | like why we should travel more, timeless advice, the use of humor, |
| 1:15.0 | the six types of wealth and infinite games. |
| 1:19.0 | Jack is simply one of my favorite writers on the internet. |
| 1:23.0 | During this conversation, we discuss the case for living your life backwards |
| 1:29.0 | and why you should write your obituary now and then try to figure out how to live up to it. |
| 1:36.0 | We also got the benefits of writing and publishing your work online |
| 1:41.0 | and how that works as a magnetic effect to build relationships. |
| 1:46.0 | And then we discussed what we learned from playing college football |
| 1:50.0 | and how that's helped us far beyond the playing field ladies and gentlemen I think you're going to love this one. |
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