We continue with our Dadly Best of the Week: the best podcasts, articles, book chapters, interviews, quotes, recipes, eating establishments, etc. that warrant attention. So, here goes this week’s I Am Dadly Best of the Week.
Best Podcast #1
MFCEO Podcast with Andy Frisella: 75HARD: A 75-Day Tactical Guide to Winning the War With Yourself
Andy Frisella is the founder and CEO of one of the world’s leading nutritional supplement companies, 1st Phorm International. Frisella has also founded and run five other businesses that collectively generate 200M+ in annual revenue: Supplement Superstores, Alpine Sports Products, Carbon Fire Nutrition, Paradise Distribution, and 44Seven Media. Frisella is also a keynote speaker, author of a best-selling series of children’s books that promote entrepreneurial values and the success mindset, and has been featured in Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur Magazine.
In this episode on creating a 75 day tactical schedule to win the war with yourself, Frisella asks, “What would it be worth to you if you could 100X traits in yourself like confidence, self-belief, discipline, & grittiness…& completely transform your life?” Frisella believes those are not traits you are born with, but skills you develop. In spending more than twenty years figuring out how to master mental toughness, Frisella has put everything he’s learned into a program called 75HARD. What’s it all about & how can it help you become who you are meant to be & get the life you want?
Best Podcast #2
The Tim Ferriss Show: Tea Time with Tim — How to Find Mentors, Decrease Anxiety Through Training, and Much More
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company‘s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune‘s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads.
In this special episode called “Tea Time with Tim,” Ferriss solicited phone numbers and then called a handful of people to field any questions they might have. Among other topics, Ferriss discusses:
- How to go about finding a mentor.
- The meaning of life.
- How to extinguish anxiety.
- Cocktails.
- Relationship advice.
- Training into confidence.
Best Article
This 70-Year Study of Over 70,000 Kids Reveals How to Raise Happy and Successful Children
Being a good father may not be as complicated as you’d think, according to the longest study of child development in history. British researchers have followed the lives of over 70,000 kids over 70 years to determine how to raise happy and successful children.
Amanda Tarlton writes, “The study found that the biggest factor in a child’s success was how warm and engaged the parents were. The more the parents were interested in the child and the more quality time they spent together, the more likely that child was to be happy and successful later on.
Things like, “talking and listening to a child, responding to them warmly, teaching them their letters and numbers, [and] taking them on trips and visits” are all beneficial. But the research shows that the best way to engage with your child is by reading to, or with, them. Unsurprisingly, children who read more before the age of 10 went on to perform better in school.”
Best Tweet
You can do everything right as a parent. Wake up on time. Make lunch. Pick out an outfit. Make breakfast. Let your kid watch an ep of Arrow that won't air until late March. Walk to school responsibly… and 15 feet from her classroom she stubs her toe and eats shit. Such is life.
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) February 22, 2019
