There are some changes and big events floating about. (Most of which are remaining secret, because I’m 007 like that.) But here’s the as-far-as-I-can-spill update. By the way, I hope to see you on USTREAM soon.
1. Update to An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain
When I released An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain in January, half of its sequel book – Increasing Strength and Explosiveness Through Barbell Exercises, Leaps, and Bounds — sat latent on my desktop. Oddly, there was a sunny day here in Pittsburgh, which allowed me to shoot videos and complete the book.
I planned to sell it as a second book. But I’m a terrible businessman, seller, marketer — whatever you want to call it — and I just gave it away for free to those that bought the first book. And now, if you purchase the An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain here, you get both for the original price. So instead of the initial 90 page book, it’s 180 pages and two-books-in-one. Much more holistic.
The book’s home page got a makeover because of the updated comprehensiveness.An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain is truly more of an athletic enhancement program as it teaches movement in a way few people conceptualize. So while it does wonders for chronic knee pain, it also affects how your body synchronizes to accomplish athletic tasks. Check it out here.
If you already bought the book and haven’t received the updgrade e-mail, e-mail me: anthony.mychal@gmail.com.
Lastly, I created a newsletter list for chronic knee pain — specifically for those that bought An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain — so that I could drop tips as I came across them. Initially, the list was private. But I’m extending the invitation to everyone. Yeah, yeah, I know. You want to subscribe to another newsletter like you want a third nipple. But it is free. I already have content bookmarked that I can’t wait to send. (Like a supposed instant fix for tendonitis.)
2. USTREAM
Two weeks ago, I advertised holding Google+ chats with an experimental disclaimer. But the “experimental” overtone took heed. Corralling people and having multiple voices going on at once makes delegating questions difficult. So for practicality, I’m switching to USTREAM. (And kicking it up a notch.)
My vision for this places changes a lot. Ultimately, my goal is to become more available. A lot of coaches out there have their own gigs and jobs in gyms and schools, and their website is a side venture. But I want to flip that ratio, spending most of my time on the folks online. So I’m opening up a daily USTREAM feed, which is superior to Google+ in that its easy for me to moderate, and users have anonymity.
I understand that it’s impossible for commitments in today’s world, so I’m simply going to “be there.” To accommodate for viewers around the world, I’m broadcasting at different times. During the week, times will be announced earlier the day of on Twitter and Facebook and will go for an hour starting anywhere from 3PM-10PM Eastern Standard time. On the weekends, it will likely be 7AM. Grab a coffee and stop by. So hang around me on Twitter and Facebook and watch for broadcasting updates.
3. Sporadic Posting Schedules
One year ago, I committed to posting on this blog twice every week. One Monday. One Thursday. Last week, I broke this schedule and felt empty inside. But I’m moving in that direction for two reasons. First, I feel free. Second, the product ends up higher quality. As a writer, I obsess over details even though errors slip here and there. Snagging all of your own spelling errors is impossible unless you’re the creature that pops out of the stomach of the guy sitting at the diner in the movie Spaceballs.
Eventually, when this place gets a fancy new design (any web developers that want to exchange services, send me love) I’ll distinguish between “blogs” and “articles.” Yes, I’m a little anal retentive about design and unstructured things.
This lack of schedule doesn’t mean less posting. It just means better, yet unpredictable, posting.
4. Education of Millionaires
Here and there I mention my hatred for modern education. I’m apart of the Occupy Student Debt group and I wrote a review for them of Michael Ellsberg’s book, Education of Millionaires. Check it out here.
5. Su6pec Spoof
To finish things off, enjoy this video. The guy I’m always talking about — Jon Call / Jujimufu — is a fantastic video editor. And yeah, that’s him in the video with Antoine Valliant.
Anthony, been loving your stuff. I want to get into tricking. My question is, where do most people learn these tricks? I was trying off of cement into a sand pit at the park but it aint happening man. I suppose it comes down to the willingness to wipe out? To learn steps? I appreciate the help!
Thanks Matt. I, as well as most, find a nice bed of grass and go. Of course you have to be willing to fall. A lot. Alternatively, you can search for an indoor martial arts place or gymnastics gyms and see if they have “open gyms” which are basically time slots where you pay and use their equipment. Most good gyms will price an hour for around $5. So for $5 you can train for an hour under a little safer circumstances.
Happy to hear you’re a part of Occupy Student Debt. I have a whole lot of friends who are in some pretty deep holes there because they didn’t think it through. My fiancee is about to start college again and I’m buying her the book “Debt Free U” by Zac Bissonnette. It pretty much states what I always thought was the case–that expensive private schools aren’t worth the insane amount of cash/debt you blow to attend.
I’ll have to look for you on UStream. I want to start offering Skype consultations as a part of an online training program and would like to offer some online chats like this to help people and raise itnerest.
Yeah, it’s a good way to operate, Daniel. I am going to start doing the same.
I hope you don’t mind me throwing my two cents here, but I’ve heard quite a few tales from people who hire. A lot of the time, when they look through job applicants, when it’s one job applicant from private school “A” in California and private school “B” Texas, they won’t care about recognition. They’ll just go for the better applicant.
It’s a totally different story if the applicant were to be from Harvard or Yale. Prestige in those schools is not overrated at all and the networks are both priceless and insanely powerful. So yeah, prestige in that sense only really matters if there is significant networking and/or recognition. As anyone on top in their industry will attest, it’s who you know that gets your foot in the door, not necessarily what you know (although it helps). Otherwise, they aren’t necessary. Someone from a public school can definitely be hired over someone from a private school.
Private high schools vs. public high schools are a whole different issue. The public education system, beating dead horse here, is absolutely abysmal right now. I attend a private high school and I can tell you, it’s pushed me leagues beyond what I would have achieved in public school.
It’s sad that who you know can top what you know in importance in job prospects, but it’s not surprising at all.
Yeah. No doubt there is some prestige from those institutions but there’s actually a stat saying that those that were qualified to go to top Ivy league schools were successful in life regardless of whether or not they went. So the smart ones find a way to prosper.
I don’t have any experience with private schooling though. My piece was written more about what schools teach, and how it have nearly no value to real “life” for a lot of people. For some, yes. Most, no.
I actually have a funny story about success regardless of college. I went to see my guidance counselor one day and I came in with my worries. She told me, “Look to the room across to Ms. So-and-so. She went to Harvard. I went to ABC College and XYZ College. We both have the same job.”
That was one of the funniest and truest things she said to me ever. The lady across the hallway was a guidance counselor too. So yes, college doesn’t determine success. Thankfully it’s not as black and white as Ivy League and Not Ivy League.
There’s a fantastic post I read in a forum that I hope you don’t mind I link to. It relates to the real “life” applicability you mention. This gentleman has established a brand and is going places. Read Mark’s post to the thread: http://postmasculine.com/forum/showthread.php?1587-Mark-what-did-you-learn-read-do-to-become-an-entrepreneur
He says that he never sat down to study for the sake of it. I hope you don’t mind that I posted a link again to this site but it’s just that his words are so in tune with what you promote on this site. So yeah, degrees don’t necessarily prepare for the real world as people think they do. They’re really just nice for recognition.
Don’t mind at all. Appreciate your insights, always. It’s very similar to training, entrepreneurism. You see something you want, try some things, likely fail a bit, adapt, and repeat. Everything works, but nothing works forever kind of deal.
But about the degrees, yeah, you’ll find that’s often the case. Prestige is attached, but it’s ultimately what you make of it. And Prestige has a hefty price tag.