The 110 Days Challenge.
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The 110 Days Challenge.

What is this presumptuous challenge about?

Fairly simple: writing high quality content every day for the next one-hundred and ten days. With this, I aim to transform myself, to give me the tools for a grandiose future. For starters I will be reading a lot, writing a lot and, perhaps more importantly, forcing myself to become who I want to be.

Disclaimer: This challenge is obviously focused on me and this newsletter, but I encourage you to do something like this for you. Hopefully even more demanding. So let me invite you to take this personally and take action on your own and if you are prepared to take your life in your hands and shape it the way you want, please let me know, let’s struggle together and push our bodies and mind far beyond what we thought possible.

This are the main goals of this challenge, in order of importance:

Discipline myself.

Learn about myself, a human, and everything related to money.

Help others transform their lives.

Make a living.

Discipline myself.

This is almost self explanatory, it’s difficult to do something every single day. It takes lots of brains to never run out of ideas, it takes practice to write something excellent, especially when you don’t feel like it. It’s not satisfactory to read a scientific article or an intricate book on economics when you could so well be watching television or losing your life to the endless scroll of social media. It’s almost nonsensical.

But we are here for a bigger reason aren’t we? We want so much more than just a life full of superficial enjoyment. We want to experience life at its peak, not to be told but live it ourselves. For the most part, this requires us to get out and conquer what we want. No one will hand it to us, we need to take it and take it by force, and then again the only force we have is the one with which we rule ourselves. This is the purpose, to gain full power over ourselves, to rein like a tyrant over the impulses that drive us away from our goals. To understand ourselves under self imposed pressure and win every battle we fight against the worst enemy of humanity: mediocracy.

Learn about myself, a human, and everything related to money.

I believe economics gives us huge insight, not only on the way humans interact with each other, their desires and fears and what they will do to fulfill one and get away from the other. But it is not enough. In the same way, knowing business is incomplete if you don’t understand the system as a whole. That’s why rather than focusing exclusively on finance or business or crypto (which we will discuss, of course), we focus on a more complete comprehension of reality. This takes us to knowing humans, in general, and yourself with particular interest. We need to know our struggles and strengths, how to push you to the next level but not endanger your mental or physical health. This is a game of equilibrium, and we need to learn to master it.

Help others transform their lives.

Someone told me about this idea, that I am not sure if it’s a refrain or just popular wisdom but for me it makes sense: help enough people achieve their dreams and they will help you achieve yours. Now this may sound overly superficial, but I think it describes a fundamental part of us as humans. Why do you pay a Netflix subscription or Amazon Prime every single month without even questioning it? Well, that is because, even unconsciously, it helps you achieve your version of success. I know for a fact that paying Spotify Premium every month does that to me, and we make the owners of those enterprises filthy rich. Is that bad? I don’t think so, at the end of the day they are providing a service that we believe to be indispensable. Well, I am here to do the same for you, help you be closer to your goal, even if it’s just one step at a time. Here for you buddy.

Make a living.

On the exact same idea, I believe that people that provide value to your life should be given value, and the way humans have discovered to be the least unfair is to give and receive monetary payments. So, of course this is also one of my goals, and I could tell you that my whole interest is to make the world better but you’re smart enough to know that is not the whole truth and you also are fair enough to understand that work needs an incentive, and deserves a reward. I hope that something you read in here helps you make a living, and that is my aim, to make us money, not easy nor fast but, by providing the intellectual tools, enable you to make it rain.

How will the newsletter be divided during the challenge?

There will be three main spaces:

On Money , dedicated to learning about, well, money. Our focus will be to understand the rules of it, how it works, how to make it, and exploring some related topics like advertising, business management, etc. This section will be mainly based on important articles, papers and short format publications that can provide meaningful and direct knowledge. My job here will be selecting them, summarizing them and providing insight to make it easier to acquire that wisdom.

, dedicated to learning about, well, money. Our focus will be to understand the rules of it, how it works, how to make it, and exploring some related topics like advertising, business management, etc. This section will be mainly based on important articles, papers and short format publications that can provide meaningful and direct knowledge. My job here will be selecting them, summarizing them and providing insight to make it easier to acquire that wisdom. On Humans , again, self explanatory. Here we will focus on understanding what moves us, what motivates us to act the way we act, to explore our own nature and how we can adjust it to make it work for us. This section will be mainly based on books and long format publications that have gone through previous scrutiny so we don’t waste our precious time on irrelevant material. My job here is to select and organize the readings in a way that they are progresive both on complexity and topics, reviewing them and summarizing what are usually long books into the very essence of it.

, again, self explanatory. Here we will focus on understanding what moves us, what motivates us to act the way we act, to explore our own nature and how we can adjust it to make it work for us. This section will be mainly based on books and long format publications that have gone through previous scrutiny so we don’t waste our precious time on irrelevant material. My job here is to select and organize the readings in a way that they are progresive both on complexity and topics, reviewing them and summarizing what are usually long books into the very essence of it. So Far, which will serve as a condensation of the knowledge acquired on the week, and a bit of a conversation with you about life and what’s next.

There will also be a brief period of time where a section will exist that I believe is necessary to really get what we are trying to do here, and that is succeeding on Substack.