Hello family!

Today is the first Tuesday Treasure in 2021… so Happy New Year, my people! If you have any goals you want to share, hit that reply button.

In other news, the podcast has cracked the top 1.5% of all podcasts globally, so thank you for your support.

Now to this week’s treasure!

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1. Superhuman memory in sports

I stumbled upon this video of Steph Curry remembering different plays throughout his career. It’s fascinating.

​LeBron also did something similar after a playoff game in 2018. As did Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay.

Why does this occur?

As we intensely study something, we are better able to find patterns.

(Source: this thread)

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2. Your favorite music?

Staying on the topic of memory…

Check out this study (via Rolf Degen)…

“We found a reminiscence bump in adolescence (peaking around age 14) for both ratings of the autobiographical salience of songs featured in the charts during that period and the familiarity of these songs.”

In other words: you’re more likely to love (and remember) the music you listened to when you were 14 years old.

Pretty cool, eh?

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3. Credit card debt is falling off a cliff.

Although I know next to nothing about credit card debt… this has got to be a good thing, right?

(via Morgan Housel)

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4. Before Jay-Z was Jay-Z

I’m fascinated by origin stories.

This 91 seconds from Jay-Z is worth a watch for anyone trying to make it.

He talks about what it was like to be rejected. How everyone doubted him. And how he wouldn’t trade those moments for anything.

Just goes to show what hard work and belief in yourself can do.

[I got the same feeling from Conor McGregor: Notorious (1.5 hours on Netflix), which is probably my favorite documentary of all time.]

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5. The times are a-changin…

This image of New York City just 500 years ago blew my mind.

Can’t help but wonder what this picture will look like in another 500 years.

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6. This week on the podcast…

Wednesday – Mark Silverman (executive coach, podcaster, and author)

Friday – Gay Hendricks (bestselling author and therapist)

Monday – Johnny Noble (former attorney turned entrepreneur)

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As always, looking forward to hearing from you!

To your success,

Danny

Hello family!

Yesterday, we hit 10,000 downloads in a single month and 20,000 downloads overall for The Danny Miranda Podcast.

Thank you for your support. I’m excited to build on this momentum in 2021. If you’d like to help the show, you can leave a review here.

Let’s dive into the treasure.

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1. It’s never too late to start.

How many times have you asked yourself, “Am I too late to do this?”

It turns out… “thinking you’re late to the party” is not a new phenomenon.

I was surprised to find Walt Disney was dealing with the same struggle:

Now when I got to Hollywood I was discouraged with animation, I didn’t think I’d ever do another animated thing again. I said, ‘I think I’m getting in it too late.’ Felix the Cat was going then, other things, and I just said, It’s too late. I should have been in the business six years before.”

–Walt Disney

Additionally, it turns out billionaires Marc Andreessen and Patrick Collison (Stripe) had similar thoughts as well.

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2. A year without alcohol

Last night, I watched Tuesday Treasure subscriber Hunter Weiss talk about his journey without alcohol for the last year. It’s raw. It’s real. And I think you’ll enjoy it.

(I’m personally 300+ days without alcohol and deeply resonated with his message.)

Hunter has had an unbelievable year. In addition to staying sober, he:

• Had his work shared by the President​
• Had his work shared on Joe Rogan​
• Ran 50 miles in a single day​
• Went surfing with YouTube legend Casey Neistat​

If you’d like to learn more about the man, you can check out the podcast we did back in September. Grateful to call him a friend and excited to see what he’ll be doing in the year ahead.

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3. Starting the year with some challenges

I’ll be working on 3 challenges to start the year:

• 50 pullup challenge – 50 consecutive pull-ups by the end of the year. You can check out the Instagram page for more info. I’ll be documenting my journey on my website and maybe on YouTube too. This was Hunter’s idea and now there are 100+ crazy souls doing this.

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• Ship 30 for 30 – I will be writing an atomic essay (250 words or less) for a month starting on January 4th. These will be posted on my blog and Twitter. Created by the legendary Dickie Bush.

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• 60 minutes for 60 days meditation challenge – I wasn’t as strict with my 60-minute meditations in December and actually felt a huge, noticeable difference. Today, marks Day 2 of the challenge and I will be documenting my progress on the experiments page like last time.

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4. Sometimes we overcomplicate it.

This quote popped into my inbox. It’s worth a share:

Human mood and well-being are heavily influenced by simple things… Exercise, good sleep, light, being in nature. It’s cheap to experiment with these.

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5. Louis & Kyle Show Summit

For anyone interested in podcasting and/or growing an audience, my friends Louis & Kyle interviewed 31 podcasters about how to do it (each episode is 10-20 minutes).

The Summit features some of my favorite podcasters – like David Perell, Chris Williamson, and Bilal Zaidi – so I was excited when they asked me to be on as well.

I’ve gone through a bunch of episodes and highly recommend it.

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6. The Danny Miranda Podcast Schedule

This week you can look forward to interviews with…

Wednesday – Jordan Syatt (Gary Vaynerchuk’s personal trainer)

Friday – Danny Miranda (lol)

Monday – Rob Henderson (Yale PhD psychologist)

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As always, I look forward to hearing from you.

Shoot me back a message with your favorite piece a treasure or just to say hi.

To your success,

Danny

PS I’m on a mission to hit 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts before the end of the year. If you’d like to help me do that, I’d be forever grateful.

Hello family!

As we wrap up this crazy year, I’d love to check in with you.

Feel free to use these three questions as prompts to respond:

1. What’s new?

2. What can’t you stop thinking about?

3. What’s the most exciting thing you’ve been working on?

I send these emails so I can connect with smart people like you. So, after you finish reading this, I’d love it if you smashed the reply button. Let me know what’s going on in your world. 🙂

(If someone forwarded you this email, you can sign up here to receive next week’s edition.)

Now to the treasure!

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1. This week I published three new podcasts…

​#039 Gary Vaynerchuk

Needs no introduction. This episode was 11 years in the making. If you’re too busy to listen, you can check out the Podcast Notes here.

​#040 Tim Stoddart ​

This man is an inspiration. He overcame his own alcohol addiction 10 years ago, documented his journey to getting sober, and used the website Copyblogger to help him figure out how to create content online. Now, a decade later… he owns Copyblogger. Incredible.

​#041 Joe Ferraro​

Joe runs the most underrated podcast in the world (The One Percent Better Podcast). He’s a world-class communicator, question-asker, and all-around guy. We had a great conversation about coaching, teaching, and life.

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2. Useful hack of the week…

Type in docs.new or sheets.new into the URL bar.

All of a sudden, a new Googled Doc or Sheet will open.

Magical.

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3. The daily fight against abundance

We are fighting a war against abundance in the West.

Too much information, too much food, too much news.

Brilliantly smart guy Will Mannon wrote an essay about his daily battle that was extremely relatable.

​Check it out.

(Will and I had the pleasure of sitting down for a conversation last week. Look out for that on January 11. Side note: I have so many killer episodes in the queue waiting to be released next year.)

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4. Matthew McConaughey’s hero

​This speech is magical. The first time I saw it, years ago, I remember feeling like it pointed to the truth.

Today, I still feel the same way.

McConaughey talks about how he will always be 10 years away from his hero… and that’s a good thing.

(If you haven’t read Greenlights by McConaughey, it’s worth your time. You’ll probably come away from it thinking… what can’t this guy do?! McConaughey 2024.)

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5. The business of podcasting.

I felt late to the podcasting game.

It seems like everyone and their best friend already had one before I even started.

But this article on the business of podcasting showed me that may not be the case.Two important takeaways:​

1. It nailed the Joe Rogan/Spotify deal with startling accuracy in September 2019.
2. It talked about how podcasting is the world’s greatest business model because the host is irreplaceable. The world’s great “moat.”

Let me know your thoughts if you check it out.

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Speaking of podcasts, here’s the schedule for the next week:

Wednesday – Hellah Sidibe (has run every single day for the last 1,313 days and has the most incredible energy)

Friday – Sol Brah (anonymous Twitter account who loves lifting weights and gratitude)

Monday – Brandon Zhang (amazing creator who also is a student at Columbia University)

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Looking forward to hearing from you… as always.

To your success,

Danny

PS If you haven’t left a review on iTunes for the podcast, it would go a long way to boost the rankings of the show and help more people find it. You can do that here.

Hello family!

Yesterday, I interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk. A lifelong dream manifested.

We spoke about…

• How he called my mom in 2011
• When he realized he might be the most famous person in the world
• Why he bought domain names related to hip-hop and wine …and gave them away for free

The interview will come out tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6am EST. Looking forward to your feedback!

Now to the treasure.

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1. The Annual Review

This week, I stumbled across this incredible yearly review by high performance coach Steve Schlafman.

I was blown away.

Although it’s not free, you can name your price for it.

I’ll be talking to Steve later this week about it, as well as his coaching practice, and how to grow as a person. Looking forward to it!

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2. Brick by brick

This 2-minute video from Will Smith lays out my philosophy for everything I do.

Whatever challenge you’re currently facing… ask yourself: can I simply lay this brick down as perfectly as possible?

Sometimes the mountain is overwhelming.

So don’t look at it.

Just focus on the next action.

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3. Believe in yourself

Those who have been in the Tuesday Treasure family a while know that I’m a big fan of both Kanye West and Pat Walls.

(You can find my newly released podcast with Pat here.)

That’s why when Pat posted this Kanye West video, I couldn’t help share it here.

This quote is magical from the video above:

“My greatness doesn’t just come from the success of this record. It comes from just how I feel inside. I felt like I was the greatest in 8th grade, and I was far from having a record out. We were taught to believe in ourselves. To believe that we could do anything. You just wake up in the morning and you just feel good about life.”

-Kanye

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4. A podcast for writers/creators

David Perell is a master of writing.

Nathan Barry is building a massive company that helped send this email (more on that below).

The two had a great conversation. They spoke about how to write a long-form piece, practical tips for someone trying to grow an audience, and much more.

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5. The billion dollar blog.

Barry started his blog in 2011.

A decade later, he is building ConvertKit – a company that’s generating in $2.1 million in monthly recurring revenue.

He recently studied a bunch of different creators and asked…

How did these people turn their hobby into massive businesses? What did they do right? What did they do wrong?

It’s worth your time even if you’re not planning on building a billion dollar business.

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That’s all for today folks! Hope you found something useful for you here.

As always, reply back with your favorite piece of treasure… I respond to every email. 🙂

To your success,

Danny

Hello family!

To everyone new here, thank you for trusting me with your email.

If you enjoy this email, it would mean the world to me if you (a) responded, telling me more about you and/or (b) shared it with a smart friend.

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The Big Idea

Last week, I told you guys the podcast was in the top 2.5% in the world, according to ListenNotes.

This week, I tell you that Gary Vaynerchuk has agreed to come on it.

🤯🤯🤯

How did this happen?

Serendipity. Luck. A little bit of hard work.

Over the past couple of days, I have been in talks with Gary’s assistants (yes, assistants) and we’re looking forward to setting up an interview for later this month.

What are some lessons you can take away from this?

• The power of your network. I didn’t make this happen so much as other people did it supporting me.Ultimately my friend Logan gets credit for the assist.
• Set an internal goal. I started the podcast with the goal of releasing 100 episodes. If I could, the entire project would be a win. We’re currently 35% of the way there and good things are happening.
• Share your dream with 0 expectations. This all started because I tweeted my dream podcast guests. Crazy.

I wrote a more detailed breakdown of how it all went down on my website.

The Links

1. Each body part has a value.

This is a really cool tool.

If you live in the United States, you can see how much an arm, leg, or testicle is worth on average… and it even sorts by state.

Check it out.

(This comes via the brilliant Rob Henderson, who has been featured in this newsletter many times. We also had a great conversation which will be featured on the podcast in early 2021.)

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2. The Kurzweil curve.

I first stumbled across this graph (or one similar) in high school… and it highlights something I think about often:

Humans have an incredibly hard time grasping compounding.

I can’t imagine a world in which all human brains are equal to $1,000 …But that makes sense. I’m just a chimp.

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3. Building in public

​Recent podcast guest KP is a huge supporter of “building in public,” aka showing your work on the Internet.

It helps get people involved on the journey.

In the spirit of building in public, I released my content calendar for my podcast. You can now see when specific guests will appear so you can mark your own calendar (subject to change, of course).

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4. Aliens are real?

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any weirder…

Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist and we’re just not ready for it.

Personally?

I’m inclined to believe him.

Curious to know what you think. Reply to this email with your perspective. 🙂

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5. Fish oil and vitamin D

With regards to COVID…

Dr. Rhonda Patrick tweeted that a randomized controlled trial found omega-3 fatty acids lowered the risk of infection by 40% and decreased ICU and hospital stay by 2 days.

Also, Nat Eliason mentioned in his Monday Medley newsletter that taking Vitamin D reduced ICU from 50% to 2% (according to this study).

So please take your fish oil and Vitamin D. 🙂

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That’s all for this week folks.

Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter as much as I enjoyed compiling and sending to you.

Oh, and I reply to every email, so drop a message below to let me know what you thought!

To your success,

Danny

Hello family!

I woke up this morning to some great news:

The podcast has crossed 10,000 unique downloads. It was launched just over 2 months ago and has quickly become one of the top 2.5% podcasts in the entire world.

How crazy!

Thank you for your support.

Now let’s get into the treasure…

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1. The world is getting better.

If you pay attention to the news, you’d think the world was ending.

Every.

Single.

Day.

But the truth is that the world is getting better.

This amazing graph shows…

• Child mortality
• Life expectancy
• GDP
• Women’s education
• Basic water source
• Basic sanitation.

…all improved drastically worldwide in the past 120 years.

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2. The most incredible story I’ve read this week.

I read this short story on Twitter and was absolutely blown away.

Three main points:

1. Strangers are kind
2. Share your story
3. Be willing to ask for help

Don’t want to spoil it for you but it’s a quick read worth your time.

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3. We found a minimoon.

For only the second time ever, scientists found a minimooon.

In many ways, we’re living in the future.

We can fly from one continent to the next.

We can talk to people who aren’t physically present with a few clicks.

We can order stuff online that arrives at our doorsteps within 24 hours.

So crazy.

But I highlight this new discovery to remind us that… while we simultaneously know a lot, we also know so little.

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4. Upgrade your mental operating system

This week I read Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers and It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad.

Both incredible, quick books that will upgrade your mental operating system.

Biggest insight from Hell Yeah or No: Derek Sivers is one of the clearest thinkers of our generation. That’s it.

Biggest insight from It Takes What It Takes: Your mind dictates your reality.

I will publish notes from these books on my website later this week.

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5. Podcasts to listen to…

If you want to think about social media from the perspective of someone with 1,000,000 followers on Tik Tok… check out my conversation with Humphrey Yang.

If you want to hear about how a young kid with no skills, no connections, and no experience almost met Kanye West’s CFO… check out my conversation with Harry Dry.

If you want to learn how you can take a career-shattering injury and flip it on its head… check out my conversation with Nicolas Cole.

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As always, I send these emails out to hear from you. What was your favorite piece of treasure? What is going on in your life?!

To your success,

Danny