Ep. 412 - Walking Outside Without TikTok w/ Pat Mayo
The Taekcast
Davis Mattek
4.9 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Mayo, an anonymous young 25-year-old man comes up to you and says, you can tell me to do three things every day for the next five years to set myself up for success. |
| 0:14.7 | And a similar amount of success to you, if you'd like to go there. |
| 0:18.6 | Pat, I don't know if you define yourself as successful. I would three things would you tell a 25 year old man to set himself up for success |
| 0:26.7 | oh boy it's a deep question i didn't tell you what we were going to talk about before before we |
| 0:32.7 | started uh but this was this was like uh you know one of those twitter prompts of accounts that are really just trying to, I think, steal your personal information. |
| 0:41.2 | But this was going around, I don't know, six weeks, eight months ago or eight weeks ago. |
| 0:46.9 | And I thought the answers were kind of interesting. |
| 0:49.4 | And I've been thinking about it. |
| 0:50.8 | But I'm curious. |
| 0:51.6 | And I bet our answers would be very different, which again, I think is |
| 0:54.5 | pretty interesting. Is it to set up the 25 year old to be what I do or just in general? |
| 1:01.8 | No, just in general to live a profitable, healthy, successful, like you wake up in the morning, |
| 1:09.7 | you like yourself, you like your life, |
| 1:11.7 | you like your day. Working out would be on that list because I started working out |
| 1:18.9 | pretty extensively around 24, 25, and it just made my quality of life so much better |
| 1:24.3 | energy-wise, that I had energy to do things. I felt strong all the time. |
| 1:28.6 | I felt motivated. And in the years before that, now, maybe it was due to some other things that |
| 1:33.8 | I was doing at the time, too. But I had no energy whatsoever. Like, I would wake up and just feel |
| 1:38.8 | like, I'd get home from work and be, uh, just sit on the couch. Kind of like what I'm doing now at night time, but I'm also 40, almost 41 years old at this point now. I'm just generally going to be tired. I think I do have good vigor for someone my age. Now that I'm old, Davis, I can use the word vigor when describing myself. But it's true. But it's twofold, right? So the other thing I would throw on that list is start |
| 2:01.8 | investing, even if it's like with a little amount of money, not so much that that money is going to |
| 2:06.0 | compound to make you financially secure by the time that you're 45. It's not. But I didn't start |
| 2:11.8 | doing that until I was probably 31, 32, 33, somewhere around that range. And you have a lot of catching up and learning |
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