The Decision Register, Newsletter Woes and An Audience of One

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Episode 477: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talk about how to make better decisions using Shaan’s Decision Register (download here: https://shorturl.at/jzIXY ), they discuss why most newsletters are destined to fail in the long-term and the importance of creating content for an audience of one — yourself. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton • Ideation Bootcamp • Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd • Shaan's Personal Assistant System • Power Writing Course • Daily Newsletter • Small Boy Newsletter ----- Show Notes: (00:00) Intro (2:05) The Decision Register (10:55) Small Boy Newsletter Update (13:45) Why Most Newsletters Aren’t Valuable (1:15:00) The Power of Creating Content You Love ------ Links: • Shaan’s Decision Register: https://shorturl.at/jzIXY • Joe Rogan on Breaking Points: https://spoti.fi/3pZFmpN • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	And I highly, highly recommend this because again, judgment and decision making is the most
0:06.3	important thing you can have.
0:08.9	People are terrible at actually honing that.
0:11.9	They always say, oh yeah, I learned a lesson.
0:14.1	Really what?
0:15.1	What was it?
0:16.1	Did you write down what you were thinking then and what you've learned since now?
0:19.1	So we put very little effort into this.
0:31.2	So I have this list of questions that I sell, I have this document that I have, but I call
0:36.8	it the decision register, where I basically write down every major decision that I make.
0:41.8	And so for example, the very first one that I have in this list is from when I was 18
0:46.0	years old.
0:47.0	So I'm a senior in college, I'm pretty mad, I take the MCAS, but I decide not to go
0:54.3	to med school.
0:55.3	The most obvious, obviously good decision you've ever made.
0:58.0	So then I have the, here's the call, the worst doctor, I'm like, we could fix this the
1:04.1	obvious way, but let's try something.
1:05.8	Stick out your tongue.
1:06.8	We'll use that for your ACL.
1:10.5	All right.
1:11.5	And then I have an ex column that says, did it seem big in the moment because one learning
1:14.8	was a lot of the biggest decisions.
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