my best mental framework

it brought me millions

yesterday I shared on LinkedIn that the best CEOs are FIT ones. Well, today I’ll be sharing my #1 mental hack explaining how I can compound exponential success: my experimental mindset.

I probably have a mental chess containing 100+ mindtools, and this one’s responsible for at least 12% + of my success. It has an outsized impact.

The experimental mindset is simple on paper: I just take 200x more shots than most folks out there.

This doesn’t only mean discipline but it also means not giving an emotional fuck about getting negative responses. These don’t stop me in my tracks. I just compute “hate” or “negative feedback” as a piece of data, weighting on the success or lack thereof of the experiment.

I’m constantly taking bets and taking notes on the outcome of these. I’m no longer involving my brain in numbers much, but mostly my gut. And if I need pure data, I’m gonna upload my experiments to a GPT and ask it questions. Brain spare with it for a while.

The point is, I experiment fearlessly in my everyday life. Not only in business, but in anything from fitness to dog training. “Oh today, I’m going to bring 1 out of 4 dogs out by himself right after eating and see if he does his business outside. Evaluate the behavioral outcome in him and in the 3 other dogs. outcome: dog behaves better.”

The outcome of this experimental mindset is that I pretty much reach 80% of my moonshot goals quite fast. I do not care about ppl not liking my experiments: close ones telling me I shouldn’t do this, ppl responding negatively to some of my emails. For one clear reason: because I always reach my goals sooner or later. This feedback is just noise in between. Very black or white thinking.

I think probabilistically and involve very few emotions in my calculations, as the output will have the greatest positive emotional impact on everyone. I also share the results of my experiment with the world. And don’t mind carrying the charge to get to the other side.

“Your reputation, Charles”. A reputation is a human concept that’s been invented by the lower crabs in the buck to clamp down on eagles. Think Elon, he says a bunch of stupid things, but in the end, does he get shit done more than anyone else? Yes he does. The qwirks are part of the full scheme. Reputation is a construct and is very temporary are there will be an AI out there measuring every human’s net positive impact. Most folks hating on Elon would not surprisingly fall in the net negative category.

I’m willing to embrace myself, who I am and let go of the in between, human-created stress. If this means I’m going to achieve the results. It’s the same analogy as the voices fucking with me during my ultra events. I mostly ignore them and focus on the goal: enjoying my run and getting mental insights. The demons are just slowing me down. They’re also part of the adventure.

The experimental mindset is a very stoic, very IQ-oriented, and emotion-silencing approach. Mostly based on cold results rather than warm/burning hot emotions. I’ve tried the EQ stuff, the results did not yield. The return on energy investment was miserable and didn’t align with my “seeking the truth” algo.

Emotions are meant to be understood and used as fuel. They’re not meant to control decisions or be let loose and enable your actions. ← This will make sense for folks that were wired that way.

I am broken? In some scenarios, sure, especially trying to understand and empathize for emotions / irrationality. But I’m very much of a fine piece of technology when it comes to get stuff done. I’m doubling down on this and putting this at the service of humanity.