Category: Mind

If you’re serious about learning copywriting but don’t know who Ken McCarthy is, then this post is for you.

If you do know who Ken McCarthy is, then you’ll be happy to keep reading.

About 30 years ago, when the internet was only nearly a thing, Ken saw the commercial potential of a connected network of computers.

He saw it before Steve Jobs saw it.

He saw it before Bill Gates saw it.

And if it weren’t for Ken, Jeff Bezos wouldn’t be a name you know.

In 1994, for example, he organized the first-ever conference where business opportunities on the web were even discussed.

I don’t know how old you were in 1994, or if you were even in 1994, but there were no smartphones and no consumer broadband. There were probably less than a million people using the internet, compared to more than 2 billion today.

Ken saw the future.

He saw:

Online video. Email marketing. Banner advertising. Pay-per-click. SEO.

And in Ken’s own words:

“Not to take anything away from anyone because the Internet world is chock full of great minds and great people, but just about everything that is considered “hot” in Internet marketing today is derivative of something that I or one of my close colleagues first introduced at one of my seminars years ago.”

All because he saw the future.

When you predict the future, you get paid for being right.

So Ken’s reputation is second-to-none.

And looking to the future is something that I’ve been trying to do in my writing, my relationships and my outlook in general.

And, in my own humble way, I’ve written something that I’d like to share with you:

My new book, Sleep Like a Lion.

I wrote this book because learning how to sleep properly has changed my life.

It is my belief that the future belongs to those who understand the power of REAL sleep.

Not just “getting “enough”.

I’m talking about systematically optimizing sleep, which accounts for one-third of your entire life.

It’s the lowest hanging fruit humanity has available when it comes to enhancing your intelligence, hormones, immunity, athletic performance and powers of persuasion.

So here’s an excerpt:

“Humans are beginning to explore and spend money on enhancing their health, intelligence and productivity. Unlike the past, when snake oil salesmen peddled health-boosting elixirs, we have entered an age where these benefits are real, noticeable and destined to accelerate. The ‘nootropics’ community on reddit has close to 170,000 subscribers, while a quick Google Trends search for biohacking should tell you everything you need to know about the upward trajectory of these desires. Some of us are going to choose a path towards a future in which we have more money, better relationships, excellent health and enviable power. The rest are going to risk being left behind.”

James Altucher has a rule he calls ‘The Daily 1%’.

“Most people stick to their routines,” he writes. “They lose track of the idea of 1% improvement. They forget the magic formula: 1% a day improvement, compounded, equals 3800% a year.”

So, given the benefits of high-quality shut-eye, what if you could just decide to have a good night’s sleep?

And what if you could compound all those benefits, and the ways they diffuse into your waking moments, day after day, week after week, year after year?

How different would your life look? How much more of your potential would you live to understand?

If you want to find out, here’s the link:

https://gumroad.com/l/nkiWp

P.S.P French

Russel Crowe has starred in some good movies that aren’t Gladiator.

In A Beautiful Mind, for example, he plays Princeton graduate student John Nash who gets the idea that will eventually win him the Nobel prize while trying to hook up with girls in a bar.

A beautiful blonde walks in…

She’s with four other girls.

Nash is with three of his friends.

And he does something none of them expect.

He warns them against trying to compete for the blonde because if they all go for her, all the others would know they were second choice.

And no-one would get to boogie.

But, Nash argues, “If none of us go for the blonde, we don’t get in each other’s way, and we don’t insult the other girls. It’s the only way we win. It’s the only way we all get laid.”

It’s quite a famous scene. You probably remember it anyway.

But I don’t bring it up because I want to talk about Russel Crowe movies that aren’t Gladiator.

I bring it up because it’s about a BIG IDEA that changes the way people think.

So I’ve been thinking about Twitter a bit recently.

And of the generally agreed-upon strategies for growth is to get bigger accounts to retweet you.

But there’s a problem here.

Bigger accounts have lots of smaller accounts already trying this strategy on them.

It’s hard to get them to notice you because you’re competing with everyone else, especially if you’re an account without many followers.

Big accounts are the blonde in the bar.

I believe a much better strategy, at least if you have less than 1,000 followers like I do right now, is to get the attention of accounts who have between 1,000 and 10,000 followers.

Much less competition.

Much more fun, too.

So that’s my play.

P.S.P. French