 Can't just have gym of the body. You got to have gym of the mind play a senior master level 2450 chess Alex This is the true test of IQ. Can you survive a 2450 blitz? We're almost here at the photoshoot doing something bodybuilding with Shaquille O'Neal Shaq the big Aristotle This plane is fast Citation 10 boy fastest non-military jet. It seemed like we just took off from Puerto Rico People are like, oh you can get a bigger jet. That's a Gulfstream. I'm like fuck bigger. I want faster So I don't have to be in this damn thing all the time Yeah, correct just move is right there It's there the problem is it's a slow death Speaking of a chest if you look at the Stanford Benet IQ test Which is kind of the standard built by a guy named Alfred Benet a hundred years ago You have really two aspects to it, but you can add a third to traditional IQ There's also emotional EQ, which is a separate subset artistic physical EQ IQ, but you have what's called Spatial IQ those are people who can become a chess master Generally have extremely high spatial IQ you have verbal IQ and then you can throw in mathematical IQ, which is Alex has very high mathematical IQ Spatial though to be able to rotate things is a whole nother Universe if you look at like men's which is a high IQ society They talk a lot about this in their man in there they have a magazine they put out It's a tricky one It's kind of like in business people go How high should you dream? Well, everybody's constrained by some things you're born with We're going right now to do a shoot with Shaquille O'Neal He's seven foot two have those genetics not everybody even if you eat your protein You ain't gonna be seven to height is highly heritable. It's like Correlations like point eight or point or plus from your family So in business you also have max constraints people like Jeff Bezos this guy was built for business He has a combination of you know Spatial mathematical verbal and other skills that allows him to become a Centabillionaire and not everybody has that and that's okay Just like LeBron James or Ronaldo on the physical IQ scale are off the charts of people have vocal singing So you always you can't listen to what people say you can be anything you want to be yeah You could be a chess player, but you can't just be a grandmaster. Yeah, you could be a singer in the shower But not everybody so it's a very narcissistic thing in the modern world that you can just be anything you put your mind to bullshit I don't care who says it. There's no truth to that. There's no science So that the key to life is like finding your lane. Where is that place where you have maximum skill? Potentiality and then you focus all your energy on that and so that's why the Oracle of Delphi The longest running piece of self-help advice on the walls of the Greek temple says know thyself So you have to know yourself Not everybody's gonna prove a basketball player a singer But you can find something you can max out My grandfather I always knew I could not be as good at him a chess He had massive spatial IQ he can remember the rotation of three boards three chess masters playing against him That's something you're born with you can't develop that real I mean no people argue and say you can develop it But if you put equal time into it against somebody who has natural capacity and puts equals Intensity you'll lose so it's better you got a good business persons like a general You've got a retreat from the battlefronts where you could lose because you don't know yet theoretically you could win But you only have one life So if you lose on the battlefield it's game over if you go after the wrong fucking career And you lose you only have one prime of your life prime money-making years So it's a matter of a battlefield general going hey I can win on that hill Retreat and regroup and reinforce the hill you can win on everybody can one on a hill Somebody can have a bigger hill than others But everybody can win somewhere But not everywhere and that's the narcissism to think you can win everywhere No, don't be a no being an IQ narcissist or an aptitude So I'm the biggest in the fucking game and they're like I don't doubt you anymore Just wait with this e-com thing will be the kings of the universe Completely doubt you until all sudden you're the biggest in the world and they go No, but I'm saying there's no transition. Yeah, I Remember when I started doing my social media I think it was 2012 And I got these big forum guys in San Diego Like just randomly started posting like all this hate these are guys never met me. I wasn't big I wasn't doing like lambos and girls. It was just like I think subconsciously if you study Status hierarchy psychology, which is what most psychology is what's happening is people subconsciously realize you're on their level and so what's the first thing you do the first thing people do is Disparaging so basically there's five levels of status hierarchy In general people don't make fun of handicapped people for example Because handicapped people people don't perceive them as a threat. Does that make sense? So like if you're making them in ours a year and there's a brand new entrepreneur You usually don't disparage them right because you don't consider them just level one level to most entrepreneurs on level three So the second you hit level two where you're up and coming but not yet as big as them They use various tactics This is all subconscious my pigs do the same thing so do my chickens. So do my horses. It's a very animal Species in a violent kind of thing Then when you hit there it becomes a very weird game of kind of being an ally sometimes But sometimes talking behind your back when you're not there when you go one level of them Then people try to pull you back and they use different tactics. So that's where you use Somebody who's stronger than you head on so you use a lot of behind-the-scenes tactics now when you go to levels above People stop thinking they can ever become you and become your friends So like Elon Musk is two to three notches and a lot of people don't say They might say they don't like Bill Gates or something, but people don't say he's a bad businessman Right because he could pull out a trunk bar So in status hierarchy what happens is people are talking crap to you till you're two notches ahead. So When you're one they don't knock you when you're two three four, they're talking shit Then suddenly you become five they realize they'll never catch up and then they like you and that's that's what I was saying Dude my pigs and chickens I stopped I've gone to another level of psychology I used to be interested in psychology now. I'm just a biologist, which is the next level So homo sapiens are just a slightly different Version of my pigs and chickens and horses the older I get the more experience I get The level of uniqueness of humans has gone down to almost zero I used to be like but humans are extra smart and I'm like not anymore. I Used to think that I also met Robert Trivers who's like the number one living biologist He's considered the father of modern biology and I started talking to him That dude doesn't give a shit about homo sapiens It's hard to talk to him about humans because he just brings it back to like the species levels the family There's no kind of like okay homo sapiens. He doesn't find homo sapiens interesting really Got to Atlanta businesses like chess You have to move make quick moves. It's like bullet chess You know, you have to see yourself as the general of your business of your life You have to be tactical move from hill to hill Incorporating strategy know where you're strong retreat from where you're weak Regroup forces and reposition them. You probably have employees That are underutilized and that could be reposition You probably have business products that you should retire Retreat from them, you know The big chest thing really though business more than just chess because chess is pretty much all skill It's a combination business is a combination of chess Meets Batman meets poker So chess is pure skill That's the skill element of business backgammon is Learning to play probabilities, but with no human interaction. There's not really and poker is probabilities plus the Psychological aspect because you can see your opponent and you could bluff and so on in backgammon You can't bluff, but you still learn probabilities in chess. There's no real bluffing. So it's a combination of those That's why I recommend people the gym for the brain in addition to the body Should be you play I got chess app on my phone poker and I have backgammon So playing all three and of that that kind of prepares the mind for the three aspects of business, you know