Those who live by the crystal ball will die eating shattered glass.

In other words, stop trying to predict the future.

Build a flexible plan.

Build one that can be responsive to feedback.

You have to build plans that can bend before they break.

That is the name of the game.

Ladies and gentlemen, that was Alex Osper, writer of The Rundown by the Running Effect back today on the podcast to break down the last four editions of the rundown. If you don't know, that's our state-of-the-art newsletter that we drop every Thursday. I've left a link in the show notes. If you haven't heard of it or you want to check it out or you've heard me speak about it multiple times, and this is the day you're actually going to take action click on it and subscribe

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Ladies and gentlemen, we are back breaking down the best insights from the rundown by the running

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you can always unsubscribe. I promise you that will not be the case. Anyways, all that being said,

Alex, how you doing? Back from Tokyo is the jet lag worn off? Yeah, it's been more than a week now. It was harder coming this way back to the United States from Japan than it was to get used to the time

zone out there. So probably has something to do with circadian rhythm and biology. But, yeah, flying across the Pacific was a little more gentle on my sleep schedule than coming back. It was a bit more abrupt. But, yeah, I had a long journey back from Kyoto to Tokyo, Tokyo to Salt Lake City. And then I had to drive my car from Salt Lake City back to Eugene, Oregon, because that's where I kept my car over the summer for Altitude Camp. So for the first time in about four months, I'm not living out of a suitcase, which is nice, to say the least. I love it. There's this great line. I'm not a big fan of his music, but there's this rapper Logic. And he's got this excellent line in a song of his, I think the song he's named her on it. And he says, I never knew that living out of it, or I never knew that living, what is it? I never knew that living in a dream meant living out of a suitcase, something like that. Basically, like living the dream meant living out of a suitcase. And sometimes I relate to that because I'm like, yeah, a lot of the opportunities that I felt like were dreams growing up do require living out of a suitcase, constantly going from thing to thing. It's true. It's true. So it's, um, it was, it was a pretty awesome summer. And I'm, I'm very privileged to get to get to do the things that i that i can

but but certainly nice to be back in the routine and um yeah i mean related to this podcast i feel

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