The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter

Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things.

• One idea.
• One action.
• One update.

All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here.

the idea.

If you want to be the greatest basketball player alive, what do you think you’d do? Probably play a shit ton of basketball right? But how much is a shit ton exactly? 8-hours a day for 7-days a week? 12-hours a day maybe? Hell, might as well just sleep with the basketball in your bed.

It may be a surprise to hear, but what if I told you some of the greatest players only play for 2-hours a day and not even every single day? Fact is, getting good at something isn’t merely about sheer quantity of work.

It’s about strategy.

Kobe Bryant has a famous daily training regimen called the 666 workout routine. For 6 hours a day, 6-days a week, 6-months a year, that’s how long Kobe would train. The day was broken up by 3 sessions, 2-hours of cardio, two hours of weightlifting and two hours of basketball.

When I first heard about this, to be honest, I was surprised. Dude spends 2/3rds of his time not even playing basketball... as a pro basketball player.

And that's when I realized the key insight. It doesn't matter how far you get, how good you are... you cannot forget the fundamentals. You have to continuously work on and practice the full-stack of skills... I see it as a pyramid.

Your pyramid doesn't have to look exactly like Kobe's. His is 3-levels but yours could be 5. The number isn't the point right? The point is to reverse engineer what your skill-tree looks like and ensure you distribute your experience points to everything along that tree... starting from the roots and up.

There's a lot more to say here and a few more insights I took away from Kobe's routine, but I'll save that for a video or a substack post in the future.

the action.

Take this insight and adapt it for your life. Whatever goal you have or skill you're working on... consider there may be some fundamental sub-skills you are neglecting.

If you're a singer, maybe that's voice control and range. Maybe it's basic music theory and composition. Or maybe even more fundamental... getting more confident and getting outside your shell.

Whatever it is, use this framework and build your variation of the 666 routine.

the update.

I saw a job post recently that caught my attention. Apparently, Disney is looking for a doctor. Can you imagine being a doctor for Disney, working in the most magical place in the world? I mean, what kind of diseases does a Mickey Mouse get? Rat fever is pretty nasty - it's a real thing, look it up.

In other news, I am knee deep building the Infinite Memory course. I am so excited to show you what I have in store there. It's 13 lessons and counting and I'm only scratching the surface. My goal is to turn this into a flagship course on how to memorize anything. It's going to be incredibly useful for anyone looking to digest a crap ton of information - medicine, law school, engineering, history, even math. Anyway, that's where most of my time and energy these days have been going into. Keep on the look-out!

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