A recent book named: How to Live an Extraordinary Life by Anthony Pompliano offers many important lessons he’s learned!

From the book jacket:
“Anthony Pompliano writes 65 letters to his children with inspiring lessons on how to succeed in business, have great relationships, do well with money, and live a healthier and happier life.

What does it take to make the most of what really matters (and to know what that is before it passes you by)? To overcome obstacles that set most people back (and to see them coming beforehand)? To flourish not just financially – but also in your family, free time, and the world of business?

What does it take to live an extraordinary life?

The answers will surprise you.

Anthony Pompliano has lived in a war zone, met and interviewed the world’s wealthiest people, built and sold companies, invested in more than 200 businesses, formed friendships around the globe, started a loving family, and found happiness. Along the way, he has kept a personal list of the lessons he has learned.

Now, in How to Live an Extraordinary Life, he writes 65 letters to his children laying out each lesson and how he learned it, and explaining how it can be applied by anyone in their life today.

The result is a compelling collection of practical and inspiring life strategies that anyone can use to build an extraordinary life.

You will find unique advice about using your childhood as a chisel, understanding that luck is not real, living your life as a documentary, developing unshakable resilience, becoming a happier person, and much, much more.

Most importantly, Anthony shows that an extraordinary life is within reach for anyone who wants it. You can start right now.”

My process using AI…
BOOK → }GA → ChatGPT 4o

In his recent book — a summary by }GET ABSTRACT of How to Live an Extraordinary Life which is then summarized by ChatGPT 4o — into takeaways for my lecture on living an ordinary, but generative life… I attempt to illustrate with examples for each of the takeaways why his book while great in places… provides “flawed advice.”*
For EXAMPLE ONLY!
[Please consider the source!]

Summary by ChatGPT 4o:

Take-Aways

• Living an extraordinary life begins with paying attention to small details.
• Build good habits to help you complete essential tasks every day.
• Don’t settle for being better than the worst. Instead, strive to be the best.
• Communicate immediately when things have gone wrong.
• Ensure your environment supports your goals.
• Attract the opportunities you want; don’t chase them.
• Genuinely care about the people in your life and the things you do.
• Acquiring as much knowledge as you can helps you make the best decisions.
• Travel to expand your perspective and gain experience.

Please note: BEFORE I slice & dice these takeaways for illustration of how the LeadU Way is different because of “fundamental paradigmatic assumptions analysis”….
Take-Aways:

• Living an extraordinary life begins with paying attention to small details.
If it’s not natural… then energy and information are required to cope and adapt with unnatural CCR: Culture, Conditions & Requirements.

Reasons why we do cope and adapt are in fact natural?

• Build good habits to help you complete essential tasks every day.
Covey tried this and was found wanting due to the “composite nature of these kinds of habits!

• Don’t settle for being better than the worst. Instead, strive to be the best.
My travels and experience led to a different conclusion than greatness or exceptionalism… I’ve told the story many times about a natural predisposition to non-ambition!

• Communicate immediately when things have gone wrong.
This a great idea…! I agree but then again, it’s not natural for “flight-natures”…

• Ensure your environment supports your goals.
Again agree 100% but…

• Attract the opportunities you want; don’t chase them.
Very true, but “how you know when that happens requires deep knowledge of our “selves”… ideation anyone?

• Genuinely care about the people in your life and the things you do.
What makes a great con or narrative is that it’s partly true… and this one is true if you’re natural empathetic, compassionate or caring, otherwise it’s back to that (free) will again and discipline…, OMGosh

• Acquiring as much knowledge as you can helps you make the best decisions.
Remembering this attribute is related to curiosity… which is clearly a bias and not a virtue?

• Travel to expand your perspective and gain experience.
If you’re wired like that… some may prefer never to leave the home area. In 2000, only about 25% of people ventured farther than 100 miles from their homes… and only 26% of congress held passports!

There is a lot more to say as we add other paradigmatic, meta-systematic, systematic, formal, and concrete assumptions about the LeadU Way.
*Sourced from: On the Professional Edge…
w/Mike Jay.

TPOV Now summarized with BDKS:

• Behaviors
• Design
• Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
• System (Meta)

Essentially there are four basic assumptions which exist to guide the formation of Dynamic Inquiry and these came from Chris Argyris writing in his 2000 book called Flawed Advice and the Management Trap.

Argyris indicated that Actionable rather than Flawed Advice has these characteristics:

• Specified Behavior: that which is required to produce the intended consequences or goals
• Transparent Causality: know exactly what causes us to get certain effects
• Testable Causality: must be possible in normal situations
• Actionable knowledge: specify the values or governing variables that underlie and govern the advice or design of the advice

* Four criteria are required to give actionable advice quoted directly from Argyris: (FLAWED ADVICE and the MANAGEMENT TRAP, 2000)

1. specifies the detailed, concrete behaviors required to achieve the intended consequences;
2. it must be crafted in the form of designs that contain causal statements;
3. people must have, or be able to be taught, the concepts and the skills required to implement those causal statements;
4. and the context [system] in which it is to be implemented does not prevents its implementation.

View | Transcript of separate video recording of more indepth discussion of why the 9 “Take-Aways” mentioned in Call #5 don’t match with the LeadU Way.
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