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It's time for our monthly check in where we review our goals from last month and see what's coming up for the next.
Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?
Timeline:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:09) Juan's December 2024 Recap
(00:22:23) Kyrin's December 2024 Recap
(00:27:11) Support Overview
(00:29:59) Juan's January 2025 Goals
(00:30:51) Kyrin's January 2025 Goals
(00:37:10) Fitness
(00:43:54) V4V: Time/Talent/Treasure
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Juan Granados:
Welcome back, Mere Mortalites. It is the 5th January 2025. This is monthly goals. You got the mere mortals here. You got Juan on one side. Kyrin here on the other side. And what we'd like to do as a monthly goals, we have now been doing this for many year. You can go back to the annual goals. If you wanna see a higher level view of how we break down our goals, but we like to talk about it from a monthly perspective. Again, this is retrospective back on the previous month, which for us is December 2024. Then looking ahead into January of 2025.
We've got a couple of days into it now, but you'll get to see I guess the sentiment and the thoughts around how we actually break some of these things down, where we're aiming to. I did a little review already around my 20 24 and I kind of call that here, which I'll call out again. We don't do goal tracking as a calendar year as most people do. We do it off a basically random day at least mine for a birthday. Yours is actually just completely sort of random day before you began doing it. That's just the reality of how that works. But as usual, probably begin with the December 2024 goals, how that rock and rolled, then we get into 2025 and any support and stuff like that that we're going to call out. Absolutely.
So 2024 goals for me, December. Crushed it. There was, ticked off all the boxes. There was 7 there. I thought it was going to be the case anyways. There wasn't anything that was particularly difficult. I even called out in the conversation last month as well that I didn't think any of these were going to be a no. It was just a doing it existing basically would have made these happen. And they were all across just accumulating 1 minute of pull up hangs at the beginning of each gym session. Easy. No alcohol 1 hour before bed. Easy and done. Making full use of the treadmill and sailing target with the kilometers. Awesome. Made the most of it. The breaking down what I want to do for 2025 using the magic mind product to create more content. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Completed the itinerary and beginning prepping on the honeymoon flights. Yep. And in fact, booked them on New Year's Day. New Year's Day is we actually booked the actual flights which I was like, woohoo. And then it was just a month of just relationships or but I guess it's just making room for the most. So New Year's Day you were late. New Year's Day. Sorry, sorry. Sorry. New Year's Eve. Sorry. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. And then the, the yeah, man. Just making time for all of the Christmassy get togethers and stuff like that, which was just being there and not getting annoyed with myself. I guess the note was don't be annoyed when I'm, maybe not doing the kilometers I'm expecting to do or training or whatever. God, I hate being with the people I love. Yeah. Well, as as per usual for me, it's it's often the case I'm like, goddamn it. You know, I wanna I wanna go work out on Christmas morning. We'll just say on Christmas morning, it was very much like a I still wanna go work out. I've got this scheduled.
And just being like, yeah. But if I do that, I'm missing a lot of I would miss a lot of other really beautiful things and my normal brain nowadays is like well yeah but if I get up at 2 in the morning, you can still get the workout in and still get all the rest of it but I didn't do that. So prioritize the relationships versus a few other things in December. It was really, really enjoyed that. So that was the the monthly goal for 2024 December 2024. Nice. Yep. Yeah. I had a pretty decent win as well. I, you know,
[00:03:18] Kyrin Down:
I intentionally usually set them a little bit lighter for December because it's New Year period. There's, you know, all as we're saying, all these festivities and stuff and I try and incorporate that into it. So at the crypto events, the beach day Christmas festivities went to all of those, did all of that process of withdrawing something shameful to say. I sold I sold some. So this was related to crypto. Yep. I was like, I actually want to test going back to fear and never really properly done that. And so what I did was set up a couple of different exchanges where it is just the pricing of things, how much things were different between different exchanges, etcetera, etcetera.
And so to my shame, I sold some husky for the first time ever. Yes, yes, I sold a 1,000,000,000 and a half. Got nearly 1,000,000,000 netted me 7.50 Australian and I tried doing it through 3 different exchanges. And I pulled out basically like 249, 248, 251 from all of them. So essentially, they're all the same. There's no there's no real difference between exchanges. The ATO is not listening here.
[00:04:27] Juan Granados:
But taxation wise, how are you trying to track that? I've got it. Okay. Yeah. Is it fairly straightforward?
[00:04:32] Kyrin Down:
Are you doing it manually? Or you? Okay. Yeah. I'm not a trader. So it's Yeah, it's not it's not hard. And it's like, that it doesn't matter which exchange I take it out of. It's all just one big event. So yeah. Yep. Okay. So good. Follow expand the one arm handstand preparation protocol. Lock that in very nicely. They're doing doing well. Just trying to think all of these I pretty much have done. The only one I didn't really do was reread, day bang, the old journal and utilize cute dog bee. So I didn't really go out and do any approaches or anything other than going to SOS for a couple of times. So that one has actually carried over and I'm starting to do that now a bit.
But everything else I kind of ticked off, smashed out all of this AI content that I was wanting to to listen, read, well, not read, to listen to and
[00:05:31] Juan Granados:
to consume.
[00:05:32] Kyrin Down:
Feel like I've got Yeah, we're talking about this recently, but I'm I'm less interested in the technical details. Peter recommended was it 3 blue one brown is that that guy's channel? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep. So I've I'm about halfway through those videos. It's just a bit too much to me. I'll probably finish them off. But it's all about transformer models and the sorry, not even transformer models. How the the actual process of any Texas real simple thing of you'll have numbers of hand drawn numbers in a 26, I think 26 by 26 or 28 by 28 grid of varying intensity of of white to black and you just have random numbers. It'll be like an 8 in a scribble.
And it's like, we can all see this as an 8, but how does the machine know this? And so then it goes through all the process of how it goes about finding that out, determining weights and different, I don't even know all the words. I can try to think them in my head right now. And they're just not coming up. I could semi explain it if I had to. Yep. And it's semi interesting, I'd say but also just not that relevant. I don't know how I'll ever use this. It's kind of like how you can kind of make matrices interesting when you're in Massey, but and, and in
[00:06:56] Juan Granados:
university, but like, it's Yeah, ultimately, I see the 2 I see the 2 pathways like, we're when you knew when you know the fundament because I was trying to compare it to engineering and knowing the fundamentals is really powerful and sometimes really, really good but you'll have to have an interest in it so this goes back to like with computers and IT I've never had a fundamental care factor for like hardware and soldering and stuff like that. I've never I've never cared for that. So there's always going to be a limitation to some of my learning in just taking general, because when it gets into Oh, well, the transistors and this is here and how this connects, don't care for that. Like, however, that is managed and done. And I would think it also applies to some of that, those conversations. I don't know. I'm like, some of those setups, I'm like, I'm more on the end of, okay, give me the thing and I'll create something from the thing not how you how it comes about to occur.
Well, yeah, I'd
[00:07:54] Kyrin Down:
like the stories of how the people were doing this. Back in the days of MIT when they first had these big supercomputers. This is kind of like the, I guess like the hacker when hacker meant you are you're changing the physical like base software and even knew how to change the hardware to get exactly what you wanted. And so this is when they had the big supercomputers punch cards. You know, they go they're hanging out in these fucking like dungeons of MIT is there's a story so I don't I don't know if it's actually done that down there or what that told me about using those computers that you have to put the punch cards and stuff like that. Yeah, that that stuff. Those stories are cool. Would I ever be that person doing that? And you know, these are the also the type of people who are in the model railway club in the university and that'd be using like light switches and fucking doing shits with trains.
[00:08:49] Juan Granados:
I just think that that would be more than me more like, we're not that sort of people.
[00:08:52] Kyrin Down:
The only other one I didn't particularly do was finish up remaining Portuguese. So I did finish the Michelobiasis book and did the book review of that. And I'm now doing the comparison reading of The Alchemist and World Camista side by side. And that'll finish off pretty quickly, because that's pretty small book. So I had a very interesting,
[00:09:14] Juan Granados:
just talking about language. What are 2 things actually. I'm not even gonna name names, but someone who reads a lot. And you're one one of those individuals who reads I have read 30 to 50 books this year they read the alchemist as one of the books that they read that particular year. You mean 300 books a year or 30 to 50? No, it's 30 to 50 books a year. That's what I do. Yeah, yeah. So like so am I one of those people? Or most of those people like that sorry for most what do they what do they call them? The book? Well, there's bookstagram. There's Like, yeah, that sort of thing. But let's imagine. And 30 to 50 for most people is like, woah, that's huge. That's huge. Yeah. I actually read that recently where it's like, this guy's so productive. He read one book a week or one novel a week. Yeah. 52 books. That's Facebook. Now this individual give away many things, but they read books which are at least I would see is more eroticism slash fiction type books and they really enjoy that. It. They read The Alchemist.
What do you think the rating of The Alchemist was?
[00:10:07] Kyrin Down:
Well, I mean if they're into the novel and fantasy fantasy as well. Yep.
[00:10:13] Juan Granados:
They should enjoy it. Yeah. 0 out of 10 worst book ever written. They said that they didn't even finish it. It was horrific. Horrible. No learnings. It seemed like a kid's book. I have a keenly disagree with that. House like what the hell do you understand the book of what it is? But it's interesting how other people like absorb a book or just like what that's so weird but yeah, again books of their own. But the language thing I spoke was speaking to someone just this weekend around Duolingo because both me and my partner have stopped doing Duolingo. Now I stopped at 900 and something day streak and she stopped at 860 something day streak, but they were so impressed. I'm like, oh my god. That's like so much. It's like, because their language teacher's telling them that our Duolingo doesn't teach you at all. No real good. You need to keep coming back to me and doing other things. And I also was saying, well, I have a friend you who did do a lot of Duolingo for a lot of, I guess, base learning, I guess I would say, and then transitioned into other forms of it.
But I went, you know, Duolingo does give you a lot of thing. I think how would you describe that what Duolingo gives you more? Like just just the words? Yep. Sounds
[00:11:20] Kyrin Down:
the very basics. You're not going to understand anything about grammar with Duolingo. But you can you can understand the the flavor is what I would call it. Okay. The flavor is just it's just enough to to give you a taste. And then but yeah, if you're if you're up to a 1400 day streak on dual and go and that's all you use, I don't think your your language skills are going to be that great. Well, as I was saying to them was
[00:11:51] Juan Granados:
what it like I'm at a point that I now could read an Italian book and a French book, a very basic book, but there's no hell no way in hell that I'd be able to communicate in a verbal, normal dialect, normal natural speaking speed. No way. Like, sure, I can pick up French and Italian spoken to me really slowly but at any speed I'm like, no, it's gonna go. And of course, I've stopped that now maybe 2 weeks ago and already I've started to find myself forgetting
[00:12:20] Kyrin Down:
some of the like some of the more complex words like yes, I would be able to pick up. Yes, it's reality. I didn't talk about this much. But whenever I drive in the car for any distance longer than 15 minutes, I'll check on a podcast. And the one I am using at the moment is see if I can find this thing. It's Portuguese with Eli.
[00:12:40] Juan Granados:
And he's he's pretty good. Yeah, I've been recommend him. I've bought actually I put a recommendation if you want to learn a different language. And sorry. You wanna continue your language learning a different language that you're choosing, but you don't wanna listen to some other random podcasts, you can just listen to your favorite podcasts and just use some of the AI tools now to just listen to it in different languages, like, just transpose it into whatever it is. Or opposite, maybe you have a really interesting article that you want to read, but you wanna listen to it in German or whatever. Same AI translated into some German podcast and just listen to it that way. So I think cool, cool tools and tech available to outside doing that if you want to put yourself in the position to absorb things in different languages.
[00:13:25] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure that's a great recommendation.
[00:13:29] Juan Granados:
It's my I think I'm putting it forward. I think it's a it's a good recommendation is going to be 100% correct. I doubt I doubt I think it's going to introduce some some deficiencies in the language for sure. Sure. Anything for
[00:13:42] Kyrin Down:
call out. Yeah, so I did my quarterly sum up of of everything I have yet to put it on the website because one is the only one who control that now. Because I cannot I wasn't sure why that's still coming through to my account.
[00:13:59] Juan Granados:
Don't know. Anyway,
[00:14:01] Kyrin Down:
maybe we can do it up for this. And so I mean, we'll talk about the big boost, big baller boost in the following up episode, which really helped jump the numbers for the month. True. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty steady. It's, it's for the like the last year and a bit. It's been on average about like $2.50 a month, which comes through from our supporters. So thank you very much, everyone. Probably 10 to 15% of that is from streaming. Once again, most of that is coming through from, from Cole and from Peter. But other people jump in as well and do those those little minor bursts as well, which is well appreciated. And streaming as well as well. Some of it might be them, but I guess the more wider variety of individuals as well. No, not so much. The streaming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's kind of narrowed down a bit, especially when I compare it to when I was doing a lot more, you know, interviews and engaging a lot more with podcasting 2.0.
I'll get back into that again one day. But for the moment, it's, it's on the back burner with other goals that I've got going in my life. We'll talk about that shortly. But yeah. Yeah. All that is super, super helpful contributing to the cameras, the lighting, the production, particularly the audio hosting, and the editing tools that we use. Those are our biggest expenses nowadays. We make use of the lights and cameras. We haven't actually had anything break, which has been pretty good for knock on wood. There was any wood around here. So yeah. Yeah. Very much appreciated for everyone sending in support and also in like, you know, the PayPal's that, Ratislav did. Ratislav. And, you know, Nathaniel is, is contributed in the past as well. Very much appreciated for all of those things. So thank you very much to our supporters.
No ads here on the MIMO models. Correct. You get you get some shout out and love for for those sports. Yeah. Absolutely. Give me your dials 1 for this this, January
[00:16:04] Juan Granados:
that we're Well, we're in 2025. So January. And actually interestingly enough, so again, my annual goals are 1st August onwards rather than calendar. And but this time around I did do more increased planning into 2025 than I probably have done in the past. Okay. So it was like a let's just say like a halfway point reinspection making sure that I'm looking and doing the right thing. So this ended up coming up. There's a lot more effort into these monthly goals than probably has been in a while. So again, I'm keeping it 7. It just I could probably expand from 7 of the amount of goals that I'm aiming for. It's just landing at a nice like optimal amount of items to tackle between body mind and soul so let's get into 3 in the body one basically calling it out I'm putting it all the previous sleep protocols into extreme action hitting it every day so just to reflect back on that, what does that mean? This is including no phone usage in bed, no alcohol an hour before bed, no eating one hour before bed, maximizing reading before bed as well, just to kind of Yep. Get me tired, but just good stuff helped out. So aiming this might be laughable Some people aiming for 6.5 grade hours on average. Now,
[00:17:18] Kyrin Down:
this was something I was thinking about on the way here. Yep. Because you mentioned, I think it was just yesterday that you haven't had more than 7 hours sleep for like, 3 or 4 months. Something like that. Yep. I feel that if you had to if I had to ask you what what's the reason for that? Why haven't you gotten more than 7 hours sleep? What what's the main reason?
[00:17:42] Juan Granados:
Main reason I wouldn't say it's on the tail end of sleeping. I would be it would I would say it would be on the on the wake up path. And so it would be because I want to get my training in. Okay, that's probably so it's not Vienna. She's not the problem. Well, because I was gonna say it would be consistently it would be consistently Vienna, but I'm getting up even earlier than her. Yeah. See, I was gonna say,
[00:18:04] Kyrin Down:
people would think, oh, Juan's not getting enough sleep. Oh, Enough sleep. Yes. He's not getting enough sleep. He's not getting enough. It's Vienna's fault. New baby. She's like, turbulent distractions all the time. But but it's not the case. Yeah, I don't because I remember you not getting enough sleep for like the last 7 10 years.
[00:18:26] Juan Granados:
So yeah, I would say is is right now it isn't it isn't at all because of it's more me choosing to actually sleep less to do more things in my awake time. Let's just say that that was basically it. Yep. Okay. So trying to and getting back up to an average of 6 and a half is what I'm looking to do, which I can't I can if I'm putting myself in the right way and remembering, I mean, go look at lots of stuff among Matthew Walker and whatever else, but it's not so much the yes, it's yes, it's a quantity. Yes, it's the quality. Yes, it's the timing, but it's also in the not just time in bed, but time asleep. My sleep efficiency is really high. I've got a really high sleep efficiency. What does that mean? Last time I I'm lay down sleep, let's say 9 o'clock, I'm I'm like asleep by 9:0:5. Like it's minutes, I'm asleep. And I will wake up quite a bit. Now again, depending on like if my daughter gets up and that wakes me up it wakes me up but between the time when I'm asleep to when I get up and my alarm goes off and I wake or I wake myself up I'm generally awake only 15 minutes 20 minutes through that time so I'm sleeping quite efficiently through that time. So I might be in bed for 6 hours and 40 minutes. I've slept 6 hours and 20 minutes, which sometimes a lot of people, if you look at your sleep scores, with sleep details you might be in bed for 7 and a half hours but you've slept for 6 and a half hours which is the bit that you actually care about.
I've, man, I've looked this up for such a long time I still I I've listened to heaps of stuff about it I still don't know if you can quantify specifically. Well, yeah, but how much deep sleep and REM sleep does that actually mean that you need to have because you can get into the conversations of well, yeah, but can you, you know, sleep 2 hours? Yeah. That that it's called the men style where you sleep basically like 2 hours or 1 hour in cycles of every 4 hours and whatnot. But then it's like, are you getting enough deep sleep? Are you getting enough REM sleep? It's been spent 20 minutes every 4 hours, I believe. Yeah. Where there's a problem with that word because I think it's deep deep sleep. The REM sleep has a general cadence of, I mean, like, 45 minutes and then you go to do the other one and then you go back and whenever you wake yourself up, you remove yourself and you go back down into those layers of sleep. So you need some consistent sleeping to achieve that. But the conversation of how much deep sleep, how much REM sleep, it does depend on what you're actually doing. Okay.
You're straining yourself from a muscular perspective that you need to earn out of sleep, if you need REM sleep to actually, solidify your learning and stuff like that depends on how much you're utilizing those, neurons against firing on what you need to learn. Well, I basically like I went really deep to then be like I I basically I'm telling you this. I went really deep to kind of go, it doesn't actually matter. Yeah. Or I I just need to I just need to like sleep and try and get as much as possible and it doesn't really matter. This is this is actually, I I feel like in 7 years time I'll talk about this in some some goals. I'll just go all you'll learn is that you'll know nothing and you'll be like I need to just learn everything I can about it or whatever else. You'll become a master of it and when you become a master of it is when you'll realize a lot of it actually doesn't really matter. You just fucking have to do the thing anyways.
[00:21:42] Kyrin Down:
I started listening to Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose with their like end of year catch up. And just the main thing that I got from that is, yeah, Tim is really neurotic.
[00:21:56] Juan Granados:
Did you did you listen to the thing, the $50,000 treatment that he did? And then he find out that have you gone up to that? So basically, just long story short, he Tim Harris has a This is not the thing on his shoulder? No. This is like he has a quite a bit anxiety. And so he did this treatment. The treatment was, cranial stimulation. Okay. Electricity. He divulged in that particular podcast that it cost about $50,000 to do for a session like it was 5 sessions and I don't know if it was multiple weeks or just 1 week and he was like this is the best thing I've ever treated my anxiety but then he continued to do it but he scaled it back down to 2 days 3 days per week and it wasn't as good so it reduced the anxiety and then he ended up thoroughly meditating twice per day, 10 minutes. And he was like, oh, this achieves exactly the same that I was getting from the $50,000 thing. And it's like, again, that was sort of like in what I'm saying. I was like, man, that's yeah. You'll do all these amazing things or whatever. And then you say, oh, yeah, you can again, you can just meditate and you might have just achieved that same level of Zen or
[00:22:59] Kyrin Down:
removal of anxiety, I guess. Yeah. I quite like the dude. And I see a lot of similarities just between myself and him. It's kind of similar with my dad. And then I've I don't know, that's just something there'll be times where I'm like, okay, there's a lot of differences as well. Like, there's no way that I'm going to a lot of, you know, when he's talking about like the most optimal training routine and all this sort of shit. It's
[00:23:23] Juan Granados:
like, they do. I reckon he he is I think the reason we like Tim Ferriss or listening to Tim Ferriss or the way he talks, I think it's because he's a blend of both of us. Like genuinely he's like he's a lot of parts of who you are including boldness and he's got a lot of neurotic fitness things that I have. In fact, he said he was competing. He's competing this year on a few things like a few sporting things. One of them being skiing another one being something else. And I was like, I'm not gonna look it up, but he's aging. Like he's approaching 50, I'm pretty sure.
And I go like, I can imagine me being like that. I couldn't imagine you being like that, but then he comes up with other things. So I'm like, oh, fuck. That's like what Karyn would do. Yeah, yeah. It's cool. I mean, he's an interesting character but
[00:24:06] Kyrin Down:
That he is. Alright, kick out with you. Second one which
[00:24:11] Juan Granados:
I'll divulge to people right now. I had a 2025 running challenge. Now this is not 2025 for the year. It was I wanted to do 20 25 calories in one singular run. That sounds crazy, but if you're an actual runner, that's really easy. Like it's actually a pretty traditional thing to do and I've got a couple of people who are following Strava who just on the side of the year were like I'm gonna run 25 kilometers to kind of kick off the year they did more calories than 20 25 calories I'm not a runner so I was like oh I'm gonna try this I had a friend who did it, I did it failed at doing it in one go. So I'm gonna say I failed at doing it. But I did 2,025 calories over the day. So I've got enough clips. I'm gonna do a video about it. Because it's it's an interesting thing. Because I mean, I burn 2,025
[00:24:56] Kyrin Down:
calories in a day with without having to do anything. Active calories
[00:25:00] Juan Granados:
not basal metabolic rate calories. Okay. Yep. So,
[00:25:03] Kyrin Down:
oh, basil away. What does that mean? Does that mean walking? Did walking count into that? Correct. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Active calories.
[00:25:11] Juan Granados:
Do you know how many active calories you generally burn per day? Me? I have no idea. You wouldn't even crack a 1,000. Easily you wouldn't crack a 1,000. Like active calories, you wouldn't like it. If you work out a full gym workout, awesome walking around afterwards, like walking around to the day, you probably hit about 800 calories. That's like that calories. That would be pretty general. 800 a 1000 calories. 2000 you'd have to be doing like something and I guess that's why I want to delve deeper into that because there were some mental differences which I found really useful in thinking calories and not kilometers and I've thought and I've done that there's a few places I've done that past in my life where I was like this was good it was a good differentiator to think about as opposed to tracking it to the calories.
I've had similar things with wattage if you're on a rower or a skier or the bike, if you focus on at least for me, if you focus on wattage or average wattage, I found that because you don't know focus on the kilometers all the time, It's nice. It's like a different goal that makes it easier because you're transfixed on something different, I guess. So I'll talk about that in much more depth as part of that. Okay. Cool. 3rd, 2 kilo drop in body weight. Oh! My starting point, start of the month, 90 kilos. So I'm aiming. So I've updated my annual goals. I'm going to call it out here. There's 3 extra annual goals that have been added, which sometimes I do this, sometimes I don't. I call them beyond the be immortal. There's 3 beyond the be immortal goals that I've added. One of them is hitting 82 kilos by the time I finished my annual goals.
[00:26:44] Kyrin Down:
Now, so
[00:26:45] Juan Granados:
I'm 90 kilos as we stand today. Well, a couple of days ago, I don't know exactly what I'm now. But aiming to get down to 88. Should have actually run 88 kilos by the end of the month and then by the end of the month. End of the month, 88 kilos. 88. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, not drop 8 kilos. What was the 8, 82 kilos by the end of my annual goals. So by 1st August. Yep. Okay. 2 in the mind space here for the January goals. One create and apply a monthly plan for the b m mortals content creation. So this has been done. I haven't talked about it, at all. I haven't even talked about it with Karen. I'll just show you this in terms of actually I've created a calendar for myself.
One thing I was finding was honestly I was saying like I want to do this, I've got to do this too, I've got to do, I want to do that but in true one fashion and I talked about it this in my like review of 2024, I get a 100 ideas or content and business or whatever and all of them I just won't do either because I just don't plan for them and whatnot. I went, no, I need to get back on a bit more disciplined path to planning on the content and stuff I want to do. So I'm going to be be putting together basically a monthly calendar view for myself of when do I want to do the edits and like do the recording and edit some of these things that I'm making. When do I want to release them? On the clips and stuff like that I'm not documenting on there because I just kind of do ad hoc, but I'll put in this so, you know, I'm aiming 2 book reviews. When am I gonna do them? When am I gonna release them? I'm doing the I've already released the 2024 one. When am I, when am I, when am I going to release that? Same thing with a 2025 Calorie one. Same with the fitness software I'm going to start releasing as well. So just putting it together in a much more monthly cadence view, which I can also again, pay back on planning.
In the past like a year and more, I was going, yeah, I've got 2 book reviews, I'll get 2 book reviews done this month and then just absolutely nothing into account, oh, I've got to wind down the camera, oh, I'm starting this job, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing that and then at the end of the month, maybe it'll come back and go, I just didn't get it done. I should prioritize them. I guess this is my way of like, no, I'm going to put some priority here. I've got to note it down. And it already started working because not yesterday, the day before, I put down, hey, I'm releasing this particular thing and it made me kick my ass into gear late into the night because I went, I'm bored, I'm tired, like, I don't want to do this. I mean, you know, I've got it on my laptop, I'm gonna do this and, you know, an hour, it didn't take that long. Put it together, put it together, released it. I was like, good. Okay. That's exactly what I need it for. So, like, give me some discipline of doing it versus just kind of saying, I'm gonna do this. It's worked in the past a lot. Again, we're away from it, came a little bit more ad hoc. I think 2025 I've realized, okay, it's going to be a lot more quality thinking behind some of the things and all of them are you couldn't you couldn't see that thing that I just showed you but all of them have I've already broken down all the summary of them the detail what I want to speak about all the dot point blah blah blah blah Flausible stuff. So it helps if you wanna get back on track with some of those things.
[00:29:42] Kyrin Down:
I don't
[00:29:45] Juan Granados:
miss scheduling, planning, editing, all that sort of Yeah. I I I started to swing towards like, yep, I wanna do that more. There's more of that I wanna do. Get into it while you got the motivation. Yeah. Okay. 5th 1, I wanna create 2 more GPT agents, from an AI perspective. So this is back on the AI. I've created a few, of December. There's 2 more that I wanna create this particular month coming up. One's personal usage, one's professional business usage, been finding them to be really good. I'm not use creating them for monetization perspectives. I'm not selling them nor making them public. I'm using them largely for internal businesses or personally for myself. 1PT. So you can do that? People can do that? What? They can create an agent and then sell it? Correct? Yep. Yeah. Well, you can open AI or is it more like you advertise a service online and a website you create a front end? People come and use your thing, but you're actually just using ladder? Yeah. So you can you can make a GPT agent that can only be accessed by a link, let's just say, as opposed to just openly being able to find it. Okay. Yep.
So, yeah. You could, I keep this idea folks, if you wanted to, if you're really good at a particular niche, go and make a gpt agent over a week, make it really, really good feed it in all the information that you want, digital marketing, SEO, whatever. Market it to the hilt, sell the actual link to the usage of it. I guess other people could send share that so then the visa purpose, but let's basically. This
[00:31:06] Kyrin Down:
is the exact starting point of where some people are going to make a decision will get themselves wrecked in a couple of years time, which is that they'll do this. They'll they'll make a bunch of money and then
[00:31:19] Juan Granados:
GPT is going to pull the rug on them and they're going to be fucked for their business. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, similarly, I guess you could like the concept of if you've got everything on meta, if you've got everything on YouTube and then for whatever reason you get pulled there, it's like, you have the looser
[00:31:33] Kyrin Down:
the runs being pulled underneath you. Check out the check out the Morpheus system if you're at that point and you're like
[00:31:38] Juan Granados:
this is a concern. Now I did look onto the Morpheus system and a couple of reviews I found that said it was horseshit. They said this is the what I'm kidding. Okay. I haven't looked into it at all. I was like, yeah. Actually, I don't know. I think Karim will talk about that more which will be an interesting one. But yeah, be wary of being fully, in one way always. Yeah, it's changing. It's always good to have a backup in place. Correct. Great. Now in saying that actually I will expand. I've now started purchasing more different AI cloist AI's as well. Just to have under my belt in terms of different users Claude, XAI, fully paid versions. Just to be like, cool, I'll have all of them available.
If open AI ones goes down, if whatever goes down. It's been nice. It's been nice to see the usage now. I've been using all the different ones. I mean, like, okay, there's there's slight differences to all the paid versions, which is nice. Last 2 here on Seoul for January. 1, we call the flights, wedding and honeymoon. So this is basically just all of the internal flights across the globe. We're basically gonna go no, we're basically gonna be going to I'll disclose it by which way to close times. France, Italy, Italy twice, France, South of France, Croatia, Montenegro, obviously, Athens and the Greek Islands.
[00:33:03] Kyrin Down:
That's it. Joe and I, Joe and I haven't a plan have a plan. It's dependent on other things. But sorry, jazz, but your your honeymoon might get moved around.
[00:33:13] Juan Granados:
So I'm saying, well, we're actually leaving early. I'll just say we're actually leaving way earlier than we're actually leaving way earlier than the time around when we're going to be getting married. Wait, so you're doing a pre honeymoon? Create set. So we'll be leaving quite a few weeks beforehand. Okay. I'll be I'll be already over there as well. Over there as well. Yeah. And the last one, number 7 here is this is more broad but it pairs up with the anti fragile annual goal, which is like putting the hard yards on quite a few activities. So I already talked about a few of them 20, 25 challenge. There's increased counting, there's more planning. This is a discipline of a few things that you know, don't get touched in a few things like the my running time blocks and a few other things. It's just, yeah, putting more effort becoming not desensitized, but okay comfortable with adapting flexibility of a few things and not seeing it as a negative but just I'm doing it there's a lot of stuff happening in this January like really good, awesome, just be flexible at some of them. I'll aim to do something and it might not get there and like oh well that's fine as long as I'm aiming towards example this podcast, like, my plan today was 10 kilometers run.
Didn't get it into it. Just didn't wouldn't have enough time. So I did 6 kilometers. I was like, and I was on the treadmill and I think I got to 3 kilometers. When I saw you mess up and I was like, I can just finish it now. I just said it now. I could just kept going man I can just walk in and That's true, that's true. But there's a there's a couple of things that we do on a Sunday mornings before you get here as well that we like to do so I'll just like I want to get that done.
[00:34:46] Kyrin Down:
What what day is your wedding? What's what's the actual date of it?
[00:34:51] Juan Granados:
Like number? Yeah. I won't disclose one here. Okay. All right. Can you point it out on it on here? Oh, I can. Yes, yes, yes. So you can tell me. But yes, sorry that's all of the goals for me for January 25 amongst like a whole host of other things that'll be coming up as well.
[00:35:07] Kyrin Down:
It's it's not on a day where we normally record. So unfortunately, there won't be a live mere mortals episode at that time. I'll be fine. Alright. Sweet. Let's open to my ones. So the first one is same, reread and implement day bang old book, old journal, more gym openers and utilize cute dog b. So this is pretty much just like I have started reading it and it has been really fun rereading this all day just be like, and it's such a blast to the past and there's the the advice is rock solid like there's a reason why this book helped me out so much in the past.
In terms of it wasn't just a strategy. So it was kind of the mindset that he that he's really advocating for. And it's, it's really about getting out of your own head and not not thinking too much, I think is probably the best way of putting it. And it's also but is it's varied as well. There's some things where it's like, look, this is how I'd approach it in terms of catastrophizing things and using negative emotions to motivate you to do something. And then also the opposite, like here's some positive ways you can do the same thing, which I find I like I like which books do that. They can't show both sides of the equation. Exactly. Yeah. So I do plan on just using that to kind of like spice up daily interactions, make them a little bit more fun. I think. Yeah.
Prepare the house for an Aussie day barbecue and organize other q one events. I've got a whole bunch of things on my to do list here, which is organize this organize golf, organize pancakes, organize LSD, organize B day swim, organize go see Joey, a whole bunch of things. I want do do experiment. Try. So there. Yeah, that's that's, just getting some, like, rough dates on those. Like, it doesn't have to be locked in. I'm going to do a podcast, a solely sowed. I meant to write solo sowed to you, but solely sowed, which is when you go away to Joey's in what date is that? Is that 2 weeks time? 2 weeks time. Okay. So the
[00:37:23] Juan Granados:
19th
[00:37:24] Kyrin Down:
19th. Correct. So that's when I'll be doing a solo so I'll just be doing that for my own home, obviously. And that one is going to be all about the additional stuff I couldn't fit in the book review of Devil Take the Home Mist. And so it's going to be a lot around financial speculation. And then I'm going to tie that into what I think is going to happen with crypto. Yes. Coming here. So it's going to be like an extension of the next episode that we well, the one that we're recording right after this, which will be predictions for 2025. This will be like predictions for 2025
[00:37:59] Juan Granados:
for specific
[00:38:00] Kyrin Down:
crypto. So that I'm actually really looking forward to that. It's gonna be fun. Okay. Record and analyze a good one arm handstand day at the park. So I've been doing really good work, but I haven't been recording because it's in gym. It's better to do it with your shirt off. So you can kind of see your back muscles what they're actually doing. So I'm going to intentionally not go to the gym one day, find a good day to go to the park record. And then I have not done an annual checkup for a little bit. So just check my iron levels blood levels.
Last time I went I was anemic. How often do you get your teeth checked teeth? It was once a year. Now it's probably like once every 2 years to be honest. We go every 6 months. Yeah.
[00:38:44] Juan Granados:
And I've been brushing my teeth very well the last year, man. Oh, really? Honestly, sometimes it's daily, like once a day. Yeah. Sometimes just forgetting, I would just turn up. I'm just not doing it. How does that When did you go get I went to go get my teeth checked. Yeah. Half a day ago. They literally said they're unbelievably perfect and clean. Yeah. Well, it's probably just because you don't you don't really drink sodas do you? How much sugar? Like always 0 in terms of lollies and that sort of thing. So maybe maybe there's some to that. So I guess my only recommendation for me and mortal heart there is you have to only brush. Yeah.
[00:39:14] Kyrin Down:
Don't brush teeth. Don't worry about it. I brush my teeth twice a day, so I'm probably doing way worse than you. Alright. Some of the other things I want to do actually chat with Hoskie. I do that and attempt a blueprint of big brain bingo plan. What big brain bingo plan. So brain bingo plan. As it's been this has been the idea of floating in my head for ages, which is like, it'd be really fun to have like a bingo night using the host the NFTs. And so basically, like, imagine you connect your wallet, you got a spread thing show up and it's like you can then pay play bingo because these things are fucking crazy. They've got so many different attributes and stuff to it. You could do this with any NFT, but it worked really well with the husky ones. It's just been floating in my head forever. And I was like, I should try and do some of this. I want to and it's linked to another goal, which is out of order, but I'll say it, explore the GitHub slash git book and create a Morpheus podcast. So I want to dive into the GitHub.
I've always tiptoed around these things, because whenever I've gone on there, it's just been a mess. I haven't been able to decipher it. Like, I think I've done one pull request once, and I don't even know how I did it. It's just just mayhem. So it's one of those ones where it's like, I know if I just spent some time on the website, learning it, how you could even create one yourself, then it would make sense. But
[00:40:44] Juan Granados:
create like create a pull request or create create an actual like, repository. Okay. For for my husky big bang, big brain bingo. Okay, that's cool. I was thinking I was like, would you okay, so I don't expect anything to come from this. Would you maxim like maximize the usage of AI to do that? Well, I would
[00:41:03] Kyrin Down:
Yeah, potentially, especially if it's creating the so I can't code. So what I would you just use AI? No. So what I would essentially be doing is just asking the horse key community, like, do you guys want to help me out with this? Because there are people who have already done very similar things. Right? Well, it connects, sorting mechanisms. They've created websites, me and someone like Dimelix perhaps would probably be more on the actually running it. If we were going to, you know, I know how to do a live stream. Dimplex knows how to do one as well. So we could, you know, alternate, we could do it together. I don't know. Plenty of different things that could be done. It's it's a thing which is like, in my head is kind of fun. If it's a really loose organization, I don't have to, you know, I don't want to do work. I don't want to be managing a team or anything.
It's one of those ones where it's like, I can see how this could potentially work with not too much effort from any individual person, But it would probably require someone to be like, you know, pushing pushing it forward, which I
[00:42:07] Juan Granados:
can do as long as it's fun. If it's not fun. I'm not doing that. Yeah. So anyway,
[00:42:12] Kyrin Down:
we'll see about that. Finish up the remaining Portuguese and do a translation episode. So that's going to be all about differences of translations, not just of Portuguese between 2 books that I have in front of me. So I can read them back and forth, which is already I'm already seeing some things like cut out sentences unnecessary changes. Yeah. That's wow. So in the original, of the original alchemist, Santiago, if you just read the first 8 paragraphs, he's racist. Like, he fucking hates. Oh, like in the Portuguese version? Yeah. Yeah. He's he's not a look. He's not a racist, but he makes a disparaging 2 or 3 disparaging comments about the Moors, and gypsies, which have just been cut out from the English version.
So, you know, they go,
[00:43:02] Juan Granados:
got to keep the original. Got to keep the original content in there. I'll talk about whether that's useful or not.
[00:43:07] Kyrin Down:
Last one, initiate some DNMs and deep and meaningfuls. I've been slightly putting off. So a couple of like conversations which, yeah, I just want to have around some topics which are once again, they're like, it's not that they're not. Yeah, I guess they're not fun. It's just ones which would be like, okay, I should probably chat with this person about this. I haven't done this for, yeah, just, just waiting for a better opportunity. Whereas now it's like, okay, I should, I should actually do that. So those are all of my monthly goals. Last little section we do here is the fitness.
My fitness been fantastic, been doing really good, making smart decisions. I even took this week off to rest up my shoulders and still managed to do some exercise, which normally it's like I'm either 100% on or 100% off. Whereas this week I was like, I need to rest, you know, shoulders, upper neck and wrists, But I still have done a leg workout. I'm going to do one today. I went for a run yesterday and still been doing almost daily stretching. So been very good. Very, very good. Awesome. Yeah. Hidden hidden pbs.
[00:44:20] Juan Granados:
Things are going on. It's on its way. It's on its way. Good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so much for this wise, I guess the clearest example that I found of I wouldn't say that I train in a general purpose training way that GP like a GPT way. I train more specifically to stronger living. Don't mix acronyms. Well, yeah, well, general purpose training would have come before. But the actual, I don't train like that. Definitely not, nor would I call myself, what would people say? I guess recently it'd be like hybrid training. I just more so strength training and have enjoyed doing some other movements. But I found in doing 2 fits up classes in the last 2 weeks as well that it just not it was easy like it was easier to do in the in a sense of I've now I've done enough modalities of training that I couldn't just jump into something like that and be totally fine in that sort of training environment which again is it's more like a crossfitty type event or movement, I guess slightly different.
But I'm doing myself and I'm enjoying the kilometers in terms of volume have been going up week to week at the moment. Awesome, I haven't found myself as challenged by it as of late as well as it was maybe a year ago and I've got to go do it. There's been a little bit of a hint of like, oh, like running today. In fact, I was annoyed that I thought there was a day past week where I thought it was a running day, but it wasn't a running day and I was a bit like, oh, kind of looking forward to it. You ran anyway. No. It was like it was a back day that I wanted to do. So yeah. No, sorry. I wanted the day before I was really excited to do the run and I realized it was the day afterwards, but I still have my normal training session that I planned for that particular day. I was like, oh, that's fine as well. So but it started to change, which was quite nice. So yeah. I think fitness in general for me, it's there is a pretty gigantic goal offset towards annual or for annual goals. What's the 1st August?
But I'll only start talking about it right now with the weight loss because it's kind of attached to that. But I've yet to begin doing anything about it. It will soon begin, but I'll just see it. So I'll keep that under the covers. Okay. Yep. All right. I had a quick look for the YouTube as well to see if there's any comments. Lucas. Lucas and Pat. There wasn't any queries or comments. So I think Pat in the chat. Pat in the chat. Oh, we'll leave it there. Immortalize. I'll speak in the monthly goals again. Share with us if there are monthly goals. Your end. Obviously, we're coming into 2025.
[00:46:48] Kyrin Down:
It's the more New year's resolutions, perhaps. What have you got going on this year? I know I know a guy at the gym who's, trying to do the front splits. Wishing him all the best. Okay. That's a it's a tough journey, especially if there's no purpose for it. He's just like, I just want to do the front splits. That's hard. And he's a cyclist, which is, you know, that's I'm not sure that those 2 really combined well. Yeah, cats. That's good luck. Clyburn is not not another attachment of the reasoning behind it. I mean, the only motivation that keeps me going is it makes my handstands better. Because I'm well and truly at the point where you wouldn't be it's not it's not fun, man. It's really not fun.
[00:47:29] Juan Granados:
Again, we talk about it in the middle there. If you wanna support us, lots of good podcasting apps out there that allow you to do that. Found this is probably gonna be the best bet as well. So utilizing that sent through some sets via streaming or sending it through a boost gram. Very much appreciated. But we live there now for the January 2025 girls, monthly girls, new mortalized to be well. 1 out. Good.
Welcome back, Mere Mortalites. It is the 5th January 2025. This is monthly goals. You got the mere mortals here. You got Juan on one side. Kyrin here on the other side. And what we'd like to do as a monthly goals, we have now been doing this for many year. You can go back to the annual goals. If you wanna see a higher level view of how we break down our goals, but we like to talk about it from a monthly perspective. Again, this is retrospective back on the previous month, which for us is December 2024. Then looking ahead into January of 2025.
We've got a couple of days into it now, but you'll get to see I guess the sentiment and the thoughts around how we actually break some of these things down, where we're aiming to. I did a little review already around my 20 24 and I kind of call that here, which I'll call out again. We don't do goal tracking as a calendar year as most people do. We do it off a basically random day at least mine for a birthday. Yours is actually just completely sort of random day before you began doing it. That's just the reality of how that works. But as usual, probably begin with the December 2024 goals, how that rock and rolled, then we get into 2025 and any support and stuff like that that we're going to call out. Absolutely.
So 2024 goals for me, December. Crushed it. There was, ticked off all the boxes. There was 7 there. I thought it was going to be the case anyways. There wasn't anything that was particularly difficult. I even called out in the conversation last month as well that I didn't think any of these were going to be a no. It was just a doing it existing basically would have made these happen. And they were all across just accumulating 1 minute of pull up hangs at the beginning of each gym session. Easy. No alcohol 1 hour before bed. Easy and done. Making full use of the treadmill and sailing target with the kilometers. Awesome. Made the most of it. The breaking down what I want to do for 2025 using the magic mind product to create more content. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Completed the itinerary and beginning prepping on the honeymoon flights. Yep. And in fact, booked them on New Year's Day. New Year's Day is we actually booked the actual flights which I was like, woohoo. And then it was just a month of just relationships or but I guess it's just making room for the most. So New Year's Day you were late. New Year's Day. Sorry, sorry. Sorry. New Year's Eve. Sorry. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve. And then the, the yeah, man. Just making time for all of the Christmassy get togethers and stuff like that, which was just being there and not getting annoyed with myself. I guess the note was don't be annoyed when I'm, maybe not doing the kilometers I'm expecting to do or training or whatever. God, I hate being with the people I love. Yeah. Well, as as per usual for me, it's it's often the case I'm like, goddamn it. You know, I wanna I wanna go work out on Christmas morning. We'll just say on Christmas morning, it was very much like a I still wanna go work out. I've got this scheduled.
And just being like, yeah. But if I do that, I'm missing a lot of I would miss a lot of other really beautiful things and my normal brain nowadays is like well yeah but if I get up at 2 in the morning, you can still get the workout in and still get all the rest of it but I didn't do that. So prioritize the relationships versus a few other things in December. It was really, really enjoyed that. So that was the the monthly goal for 2024 December 2024. Nice. Yep. Yeah. I had a pretty decent win as well. I, you know,
[00:03:18] Kyrin Down:
I intentionally usually set them a little bit lighter for December because it's New Year period. There's, you know, all as we're saying, all these festivities and stuff and I try and incorporate that into it. So at the crypto events, the beach day Christmas festivities went to all of those, did all of that process of withdrawing something shameful to say. I sold I sold some. So this was related to crypto. Yep. I was like, I actually want to test going back to fear and never really properly done that. And so what I did was set up a couple of different exchanges where it is just the pricing of things, how much things were different between different exchanges, etcetera, etcetera.
And so to my shame, I sold some husky for the first time ever. Yes, yes, I sold a 1,000,000,000 and a half. Got nearly 1,000,000,000 netted me 7.50 Australian and I tried doing it through 3 different exchanges. And I pulled out basically like 249, 248, 251 from all of them. So essentially, they're all the same. There's no there's no real difference between exchanges. The ATO is not listening here.
[00:04:27] Juan Granados:
But taxation wise, how are you trying to track that? I've got it. Okay. Yeah. Is it fairly straightforward?
[00:04:32] Kyrin Down:
Are you doing it manually? Or you? Okay. Yeah. I'm not a trader. So it's Yeah, it's not it's not hard. And it's like, that it doesn't matter which exchange I take it out of. It's all just one big event. So yeah. Yep. Okay. So good. Follow expand the one arm handstand preparation protocol. Lock that in very nicely. They're doing doing well. Just trying to think all of these I pretty much have done. The only one I didn't really do was reread, day bang, the old journal and utilize cute dog bee. So I didn't really go out and do any approaches or anything other than going to SOS for a couple of times. So that one has actually carried over and I'm starting to do that now a bit.
But everything else I kind of ticked off, smashed out all of this AI content that I was wanting to to listen, read, well, not read, to listen to and
[00:05:31] Juan Granados:
to consume.
[00:05:32] Kyrin Down:
Feel like I've got Yeah, we're talking about this recently, but I'm I'm less interested in the technical details. Peter recommended was it 3 blue one brown is that that guy's channel? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep. So I've I'm about halfway through those videos. It's just a bit too much to me. I'll probably finish them off. But it's all about transformer models and the sorry, not even transformer models. How the the actual process of any Texas real simple thing of you'll have numbers of hand drawn numbers in a 26, I think 26 by 26 or 28 by 28 grid of varying intensity of of white to black and you just have random numbers. It'll be like an 8 in a scribble.
And it's like, we can all see this as an 8, but how does the machine know this? And so then it goes through all the process of how it goes about finding that out, determining weights and different, I don't even know all the words. I can try to think them in my head right now. And they're just not coming up. I could semi explain it if I had to. Yep. And it's semi interesting, I'd say but also just not that relevant. I don't know how I'll ever use this. It's kind of like how you can kind of make matrices interesting when you're in Massey, but and, and in
[00:06:56] Juan Granados:
university, but like, it's Yeah, ultimately, I see the 2 I see the 2 pathways like, we're when you knew when you know the fundament because I was trying to compare it to engineering and knowing the fundamentals is really powerful and sometimes really, really good but you'll have to have an interest in it so this goes back to like with computers and IT I've never had a fundamental care factor for like hardware and soldering and stuff like that. I've never I've never cared for that. So there's always going to be a limitation to some of my learning in just taking general, because when it gets into Oh, well, the transistors and this is here and how this connects, don't care for that. Like, however, that is managed and done. And I would think it also applies to some of that, those conversations. I don't know. I'm like, some of those setups, I'm like, I'm more on the end of, okay, give me the thing and I'll create something from the thing not how you how it comes about to occur.
Well, yeah, I'd
[00:07:54] Kyrin Down:
like the stories of how the people were doing this. Back in the days of MIT when they first had these big supercomputers. This is kind of like the, I guess like the hacker when hacker meant you are you're changing the physical like base software and even knew how to change the hardware to get exactly what you wanted. And so this is when they had the big supercomputers punch cards. You know, they go they're hanging out in these fucking like dungeons of MIT is there's a story so I don't I don't know if it's actually done that down there or what that told me about using those computers that you have to put the punch cards and stuff like that. Yeah, that that stuff. Those stories are cool. Would I ever be that person doing that? And you know, these are the also the type of people who are in the model railway club in the university and that'd be using like light switches and fucking doing shits with trains.
[00:08:49] Juan Granados:
I just think that that would be more than me more like, we're not that sort of people.
[00:08:52] Kyrin Down:
The only other one I didn't particularly do was finish up remaining Portuguese. So I did finish the Michelobiasis book and did the book review of that. And I'm now doing the comparison reading of The Alchemist and World Camista side by side. And that'll finish off pretty quickly, because that's pretty small book. So I had a very interesting,
[00:09:14] Juan Granados:
just talking about language. What are 2 things actually. I'm not even gonna name names, but someone who reads a lot. And you're one one of those individuals who reads I have read 30 to 50 books this year they read the alchemist as one of the books that they read that particular year. You mean 300 books a year or 30 to 50? No, it's 30 to 50 books a year. That's what I do. Yeah, yeah. So like so am I one of those people? Or most of those people like that sorry for most what do they what do they call them? The book? Well, there's bookstagram. There's Like, yeah, that sort of thing. But let's imagine. And 30 to 50 for most people is like, woah, that's huge. That's huge. Yeah. I actually read that recently where it's like, this guy's so productive. He read one book a week or one novel a week. Yeah. 52 books. That's Facebook. Now this individual give away many things, but they read books which are at least I would see is more eroticism slash fiction type books and they really enjoy that. It. They read The Alchemist.
What do you think the rating of The Alchemist was?
[00:10:07] Kyrin Down:
Well, I mean if they're into the novel and fantasy fantasy as well. Yep.
[00:10:13] Juan Granados:
They should enjoy it. Yeah. 0 out of 10 worst book ever written. They said that they didn't even finish it. It was horrific. Horrible. No learnings. It seemed like a kid's book. I have a keenly disagree with that. House like what the hell do you understand the book of what it is? But it's interesting how other people like absorb a book or just like what that's so weird but yeah, again books of their own. But the language thing I spoke was speaking to someone just this weekend around Duolingo because both me and my partner have stopped doing Duolingo. Now I stopped at 900 and something day streak and she stopped at 860 something day streak, but they were so impressed. I'm like, oh my god. That's like so much. It's like, because their language teacher's telling them that our Duolingo doesn't teach you at all. No real good. You need to keep coming back to me and doing other things. And I also was saying, well, I have a friend you who did do a lot of Duolingo for a lot of, I guess, base learning, I guess I would say, and then transitioned into other forms of it.
But I went, you know, Duolingo does give you a lot of thing. I think how would you describe that what Duolingo gives you more? Like just just the words? Yep. Sounds
[00:11:20] Kyrin Down:
the very basics. You're not going to understand anything about grammar with Duolingo. But you can you can understand the the flavor is what I would call it. Okay. The flavor is just it's just enough to to give you a taste. And then but yeah, if you're if you're up to a 1400 day streak on dual and go and that's all you use, I don't think your your language skills are going to be that great. Well, as I was saying to them was
[00:11:51] Juan Granados:
what it like I'm at a point that I now could read an Italian book and a French book, a very basic book, but there's no hell no way in hell that I'd be able to communicate in a verbal, normal dialect, normal natural speaking speed. No way. Like, sure, I can pick up French and Italian spoken to me really slowly but at any speed I'm like, no, it's gonna go. And of course, I've stopped that now maybe 2 weeks ago and already I've started to find myself forgetting
[00:12:20] Kyrin Down:
some of the like some of the more complex words like yes, I would be able to pick up. Yes, it's reality. I didn't talk about this much. But whenever I drive in the car for any distance longer than 15 minutes, I'll check on a podcast. And the one I am using at the moment is see if I can find this thing. It's Portuguese with Eli.
[00:12:40] Juan Granados:
And he's he's pretty good. Yeah, I've been recommend him. I've bought actually I put a recommendation if you want to learn a different language. And sorry. You wanna continue your language learning a different language that you're choosing, but you don't wanna listen to some other random podcasts, you can just listen to your favorite podcasts and just use some of the AI tools now to just listen to it in different languages, like, just transpose it into whatever it is. Or opposite, maybe you have a really interesting article that you want to read, but you wanna listen to it in German or whatever. Same AI translated into some German podcast and just listen to it that way. So I think cool, cool tools and tech available to outside doing that if you want to put yourself in the position to absorb things in different languages.
[00:13:25] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure that's a great recommendation.
[00:13:29] Juan Granados:
It's my I think I'm putting it forward. I think it's a it's a good recommendation is going to be 100% correct. I doubt I doubt I think it's going to introduce some some deficiencies in the language for sure. Sure. Anything for
[00:13:42] Kyrin Down:
call out. Yeah, so I did my quarterly sum up of of everything I have yet to put it on the website because one is the only one who control that now. Because I cannot I wasn't sure why that's still coming through to my account.
[00:13:59] Juan Granados:
Don't know. Anyway,
[00:14:01] Kyrin Down:
maybe we can do it up for this. And so I mean, we'll talk about the big boost, big baller boost in the following up episode, which really helped jump the numbers for the month. True. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty steady. It's, it's for the like the last year and a bit. It's been on average about like $2.50 a month, which comes through from our supporters. So thank you very much, everyone. Probably 10 to 15% of that is from streaming. Once again, most of that is coming through from, from Cole and from Peter. But other people jump in as well and do those those little minor bursts as well, which is well appreciated. And streaming as well as well. Some of it might be them, but I guess the more wider variety of individuals as well. No, not so much. The streaming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's kind of narrowed down a bit, especially when I compare it to when I was doing a lot more, you know, interviews and engaging a lot more with podcasting 2.0.
I'll get back into that again one day. But for the moment, it's, it's on the back burner with other goals that I've got going in my life. We'll talk about that shortly. But yeah. Yeah. All that is super, super helpful contributing to the cameras, the lighting, the production, particularly the audio hosting, and the editing tools that we use. Those are our biggest expenses nowadays. We make use of the lights and cameras. We haven't actually had anything break, which has been pretty good for knock on wood. There was any wood around here. So yeah. Yeah. Very much appreciated for everyone sending in support and also in like, you know, the PayPal's that, Ratislav did. Ratislav. And, you know, Nathaniel is, is contributed in the past as well. Very much appreciated for all of those things. So thank you very much to our supporters.
No ads here on the MIMO models. Correct. You get you get some shout out and love for for those sports. Yeah. Absolutely. Give me your dials 1 for this this, January
[00:16:04] Juan Granados:
that we're Well, we're in 2025. So January. And actually interestingly enough, so again, my annual goals are 1st August onwards rather than calendar. And but this time around I did do more increased planning into 2025 than I probably have done in the past. Okay. So it was like a let's just say like a halfway point reinspection making sure that I'm looking and doing the right thing. So this ended up coming up. There's a lot more effort into these monthly goals than probably has been in a while. So again, I'm keeping it 7. It just I could probably expand from 7 of the amount of goals that I'm aiming for. It's just landing at a nice like optimal amount of items to tackle between body mind and soul so let's get into 3 in the body one basically calling it out I'm putting it all the previous sleep protocols into extreme action hitting it every day so just to reflect back on that, what does that mean? This is including no phone usage in bed, no alcohol an hour before bed, no eating one hour before bed, maximizing reading before bed as well, just to kind of Yep. Get me tired, but just good stuff helped out. So aiming this might be laughable Some people aiming for 6.5 grade hours on average. Now,
[00:17:18] Kyrin Down:
this was something I was thinking about on the way here. Yep. Because you mentioned, I think it was just yesterday that you haven't had more than 7 hours sleep for like, 3 or 4 months. Something like that. Yep. I feel that if you had to if I had to ask you what what's the reason for that? Why haven't you gotten more than 7 hours sleep? What what's the main reason?
[00:17:42] Juan Granados:
Main reason I wouldn't say it's on the tail end of sleeping. I would be it would I would say it would be on the on the wake up path. And so it would be because I want to get my training in. Okay, that's probably so it's not Vienna. She's not the problem. Well, because I was gonna say it would be consistently it would be consistently Vienna, but I'm getting up even earlier than her. Yeah. See, I was gonna say,
[00:18:04] Kyrin Down:
people would think, oh, Juan's not getting enough sleep. Oh, Enough sleep. Yes. He's not getting enough sleep. He's not getting enough. It's Vienna's fault. New baby. She's like, turbulent distractions all the time. But but it's not the case. Yeah, I don't because I remember you not getting enough sleep for like the last 7 10 years.
[00:18:26] Juan Granados:
So yeah, I would say is is right now it isn't it isn't at all because of it's more me choosing to actually sleep less to do more things in my awake time. Let's just say that that was basically it. Yep. Okay. So trying to and getting back up to an average of 6 and a half is what I'm looking to do, which I can't I can if I'm putting myself in the right way and remembering, I mean, go look at lots of stuff among Matthew Walker and whatever else, but it's not so much the yes, it's yes, it's a quantity. Yes, it's the quality. Yes, it's the timing, but it's also in the not just time in bed, but time asleep. My sleep efficiency is really high. I've got a really high sleep efficiency. What does that mean? Last time I I'm lay down sleep, let's say 9 o'clock, I'm I'm like asleep by 9:0:5. Like it's minutes, I'm asleep. And I will wake up quite a bit. Now again, depending on like if my daughter gets up and that wakes me up it wakes me up but between the time when I'm asleep to when I get up and my alarm goes off and I wake or I wake myself up I'm generally awake only 15 minutes 20 minutes through that time so I'm sleeping quite efficiently through that time. So I might be in bed for 6 hours and 40 minutes. I've slept 6 hours and 20 minutes, which sometimes a lot of people, if you look at your sleep scores, with sleep details you might be in bed for 7 and a half hours but you've slept for 6 and a half hours which is the bit that you actually care about.
I've, man, I've looked this up for such a long time I still I I've listened to heaps of stuff about it I still don't know if you can quantify specifically. Well, yeah, but how much deep sleep and REM sleep does that actually mean that you need to have because you can get into the conversations of well, yeah, but can you, you know, sleep 2 hours? Yeah. That that it's called the men style where you sleep basically like 2 hours or 1 hour in cycles of every 4 hours and whatnot. But then it's like, are you getting enough deep sleep? Are you getting enough REM sleep? It's been spent 20 minutes every 4 hours, I believe. Yeah. Where there's a problem with that word because I think it's deep deep sleep. The REM sleep has a general cadence of, I mean, like, 45 minutes and then you go to do the other one and then you go back and whenever you wake yourself up, you remove yourself and you go back down into those layers of sleep. So you need some consistent sleeping to achieve that. But the conversation of how much deep sleep, how much REM sleep, it does depend on what you're actually doing. Okay.
You're straining yourself from a muscular perspective that you need to earn out of sleep, if you need REM sleep to actually, solidify your learning and stuff like that depends on how much you're utilizing those, neurons against firing on what you need to learn. Well, I basically like I went really deep to then be like I I basically I'm telling you this. I went really deep to kind of go, it doesn't actually matter. Yeah. Or I I just need to I just need to like sleep and try and get as much as possible and it doesn't really matter. This is this is actually, I I feel like in 7 years time I'll talk about this in some some goals. I'll just go all you'll learn is that you'll know nothing and you'll be like I need to just learn everything I can about it or whatever else. You'll become a master of it and when you become a master of it is when you'll realize a lot of it actually doesn't really matter. You just fucking have to do the thing anyways.
[00:21:42] Kyrin Down:
I started listening to Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose with their like end of year catch up. And just the main thing that I got from that is, yeah, Tim is really neurotic.
[00:21:56] Juan Granados:
Did you did you listen to the thing, the $50,000 treatment that he did? And then he find out that have you gone up to that? So basically, just long story short, he Tim Harris has a This is not the thing on his shoulder? No. This is like he has a quite a bit anxiety. And so he did this treatment. The treatment was, cranial stimulation. Okay. Electricity. He divulged in that particular podcast that it cost about $50,000 to do for a session like it was 5 sessions and I don't know if it was multiple weeks or just 1 week and he was like this is the best thing I've ever treated my anxiety but then he continued to do it but he scaled it back down to 2 days 3 days per week and it wasn't as good so it reduced the anxiety and then he ended up thoroughly meditating twice per day, 10 minutes. And he was like, oh, this achieves exactly the same that I was getting from the $50,000 thing. And it's like, again, that was sort of like in what I'm saying. I was like, man, that's yeah. You'll do all these amazing things or whatever. And then you say, oh, yeah, you can again, you can just meditate and you might have just achieved that same level of Zen or
[00:22:59] Kyrin Down:
removal of anxiety, I guess. Yeah. I quite like the dude. And I see a lot of similarities just between myself and him. It's kind of similar with my dad. And then I've I don't know, that's just something there'll be times where I'm like, okay, there's a lot of differences as well. Like, there's no way that I'm going to a lot of, you know, when he's talking about like the most optimal training routine and all this sort of shit. It's
[00:23:23] Juan Granados:
like, they do. I reckon he he is I think the reason we like Tim Ferriss or listening to Tim Ferriss or the way he talks, I think it's because he's a blend of both of us. Like genuinely he's like he's a lot of parts of who you are including boldness and he's got a lot of neurotic fitness things that I have. In fact, he said he was competing. He's competing this year on a few things like a few sporting things. One of them being skiing another one being something else. And I was like, I'm not gonna look it up, but he's aging. Like he's approaching 50, I'm pretty sure.
And I go like, I can imagine me being like that. I couldn't imagine you being like that, but then he comes up with other things. So I'm like, oh, fuck. That's like what Karyn would do. Yeah, yeah. It's cool. I mean, he's an interesting character but
[00:24:06] Kyrin Down:
That he is. Alright, kick out with you. Second one which
[00:24:11] Juan Granados:
I'll divulge to people right now. I had a 2025 running challenge. Now this is not 2025 for the year. It was I wanted to do 20 25 calories in one singular run. That sounds crazy, but if you're an actual runner, that's really easy. Like it's actually a pretty traditional thing to do and I've got a couple of people who are following Strava who just on the side of the year were like I'm gonna run 25 kilometers to kind of kick off the year they did more calories than 20 25 calories I'm not a runner so I was like oh I'm gonna try this I had a friend who did it, I did it failed at doing it in one go. So I'm gonna say I failed at doing it. But I did 2,025 calories over the day. So I've got enough clips. I'm gonna do a video about it. Because it's it's an interesting thing. Because I mean, I burn 2,025
[00:24:56] Kyrin Down:
calories in a day with without having to do anything. Active calories
[00:25:00] Juan Granados:
not basal metabolic rate calories. Okay. Yep. So,
[00:25:03] Kyrin Down:
oh, basil away. What does that mean? Does that mean walking? Did walking count into that? Correct. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Active calories.
[00:25:11] Juan Granados:
Do you know how many active calories you generally burn per day? Me? I have no idea. You wouldn't even crack a 1,000. Easily you wouldn't crack a 1,000. Like active calories, you wouldn't like it. If you work out a full gym workout, awesome walking around afterwards, like walking around to the day, you probably hit about 800 calories. That's like that calories. That would be pretty general. 800 a 1000 calories. 2000 you'd have to be doing like something and I guess that's why I want to delve deeper into that because there were some mental differences which I found really useful in thinking calories and not kilometers and I've thought and I've done that there's a few places I've done that past in my life where I was like this was good it was a good differentiator to think about as opposed to tracking it to the calories.
I've had similar things with wattage if you're on a rower or a skier or the bike, if you focus on at least for me, if you focus on wattage or average wattage, I found that because you don't know focus on the kilometers all the time, It's nice. It's like a different goal that makes it easier because you're transfixed on something different, I guess. So I'll talk about that in much more depth as part of that. Okay. Cool. 3rd, 2 kilo drop in body weight. Oh! My starting point, start of the month, 90 kilos. So I'm aiming. So I've updated my annual goals. I'm going to call it out here. There's 3 extra annual goals that have been added, which sometimes I do this, sometimes I don't. I call them beyond the be immortal. There's 3 beyond the be immortal goals that I've added. One of them is hitting 82 kilos by the time I finished my annual goals.
[00:26:44] Kyrin Down:
Now, so
[00:26:45] Juan Granados:
I'm 90 kilos as we stand today. Well, a couple of days ago, I don't know exactly what I'm now. But aiming to get down to 88. Should have actually run 88 kilos by the end of the month and then by the end of the month. End of the month, 88 kilos. 88. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, not drop 8 kilos. What was the 8, 82 kilos by the end of my annual goals. So by 1st August. Yep. Okay. 2 in the mind space here for the January goals. One create and apply a monthly plan for the b m mortals content creation. So this has been done. I haven't talked about it, at all. I haven't even talked about it with Karen. I'll just show you this in terms of actually I've created a calendar for myself.
One thing I was finding was honestly I was saying like I want to do this, I've got to do this too, I've got to do, I want to do that but in true one fashion and I talked about it this in my like review of 2024, I get a 100 ideas or content and business or whatever and all of them I just won't do either because I just don't plan for them and whatnot. I went, no, I need to get back on a bit more disciplined path to planning on the content and stuff I want to do. So I'm going to be be putting together basically a monthly calendar view for myself of when do I want to do the edits and like do the recording and edit some of these things that I'm making. When do I want to release them? On the clips and stuff like that I'm not documenting on there because I just kind of do ad hoc, but I'll put in this so, you know, I'm aiming 2 book reviews. When am I gonna do them? When am I gonna release them? I'm doing the I've already released the 2024 one. When am I, when am I, when am I going to release that? Same thing with a 2025 Calorie one. Same with the fitness software I'm going to start releasing as well. So just putting it together in a much more monthly cadence view, which I can also again, pay back on planning.
In the past like a year and more, I was going, yeah, I've got 2 book reviews, I'll get 2 book reviews done this month and then just absolutely nothing into account, oh, I've got to wind down the camera, oh, I'm starting this job, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing that and then at the end of the month, maybe it'll come back and go, I just didn't get it done. I should prioritize them. I guess this is my way of like, no, I'm going to put some priority here. I've got to note it down. And it already started working because not yesterday, the day before, I put down, hey, I'm releasing this particular thing and it made me kick my ass into gear late into the night because I went, I'm bored, I'm tired, like, I don't want to do this. I mean, you know, I've got it on my laptop, I'm gonna do this and, you know, an hour, it didn't take that long. Put it together, put it together, released it. I was like, good. Okay. That's exactly what I need it for. So, like, give me some discipline of doing it versus just kind of saying, I'm gonna do this. It's worked in the past a lot. Again, we're away from it, came a little bit more ad hoc. I think 2025 I've realized, okay, it's going to be a lot more quality thinking behind some of the things and all of them are you couldn't you couldn't see that thing that I just showed you but all of them have I've already broken down all the summary of them the detail what I want to speak about all the dot point blah blah blah blah Flausible stuff. So it helps if you wanna get back on track with some of those things.
[00:29:42] Kyrin Down:
I don't
[00:29:45] Juan Granados:
miss scheduling, planning, editing, all that sort of Yeah. I I I started to swing towards like, yep, I wanna do that more. There's more of that I wanna do. Get into it while you got the motivation. Yeah. Okay. 5th 1, I wanna create 2 more GPT agents, from an AI perspective. So this is back on the AI. I've created a few, of December. There's 2 more that I wanna create this particular month coming up. One's personal usage, one's professional business usage, been finding them to be really good. I'm not use creating them for monetization perspectives. I'm not selling them nor making them public. I'm using them largely for internal businesses or personally for myself. 1PT. So you can do that? People can do that? What? They can create an agent and then sell it? Correct? Yep. Yeah. Well, you can open AI or is it more like you advertise a service online and a website you create a front end? People come and use your thing, but you're actually just using ladder? Yeah. So you can you can make a GPT agent that can only be accessed by a link, let's just say, as opposed to just openly being able to find it. Okay. Yep.
So, yeah. You could, I keep this idea folks, if you wanted to, if you're really good at a particular niche, go and make a gpt agent over a week, make it really, really good feed it in all the information that you want, digital marketing, SEO, whatever. Market it to the hilt, sell the actual link to the usage of it. I guess other people could send share that so then the visa purpose, but let's basically. This
[00:31:06] Kyrin Down:
is the exact starting point of where some people are going to make a decision will get themselves wrecked in a couple of years time, which is that they'll do this. They'll they'll make a bunch of money and then
[00:31:19] Juan Granados:
GPT is going to pull the rug on them and they're going to be fucked for their business. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, similarly, I guess you could like the concept of if you've got everything on meta, if you've got everything on YouTube and then for whatever reason you get pulled there, it's like, you have the looser
[00:31:33] Kyrin Down:
the runs being pulled underneath you. Check out the check out the Morpheus system if you're at that point and you're like
[00:31:38] Juan Granados:
this is a concern. Now I did look onto the Morpheus system and a couple of reviews I found that said it was horseshit. They said this is the what I'm kidding. Okay. I haven't looked into it at all. I was like, yeah. Actually, I don't know. I think Karim will talk about that more which will be an interesting one. But yeah, be wary of being fully, in one way always. Yeah, it's changing. It's always good to have a backup in place. Correct. Great. Now in saying that actually I will expand. I've now started purchasing more different AI cloist AI's as well. Just to have under my belt in terms of different users Claude, XAI, fully paid versions. Just to be like, cool, I'll have all of them available.
If open AI ones goes down, if whatever goes down. It's been nice. It's been nice to see the usage now. I've been using all the different ones. I mean, like, okay, there's there's slight differences to all the paid versions, which is nice. Last 2 here on Seoul for January. 1, we call the flights, wedding and honeymoon. So this is basically just all of the internal flights across the globe. We're basically gonna go no, we're basically gonna be going to I'll disclose it by which way to close times. France, Italy, Italy twice, France, South of France, Croatia, Montenegro, obviously, Athens and the Greek Islands.
[00:33:03] Kyrin Down:
That's it. Joe and I, Joe and I haven't a plan have a plan. It's dependent on other things. But sorry, jazz, but your your honeymoon might get moved around.
[00:33:13] Juan Granados:
So I'm saying, well, we're actually leaving early. I'll just say we're actually leaving way earlier than we're actually leaving way earlier than the time around when we're going to be getting married. Wait, so you're doing a pre honeymoon? Create set. So we'll be leaving quite a few weeks beforehand. Okay. I'll be I'll be already over there as well. Over there as well. Yeah. And the last one, number 7 here is this is more broad but it pairs up with the anti fragile annual goal, which is like putting the hard yards on quite a few activities. So I already talked about a few of them 20, 25 challenge. There's increased counting, there's more planning. This is a discipline of a few things that you know, don't get touched in a few things like the my running time blocks and a few other things. It's just, yeah, putting more effort becoming not desensitized, but okay comfortable with adapting flexibility of a few things and not seeing it as a negative but just I'm doing it there's a lot of stuff happening in this January like really good, awesome, just be flexible at some of them. I'll aim to do something and it might not get there and like oh well that's fine as long as I'm aiming towards example this podcast, like, my plan today was 10 kilometers run.
Didn't get it into it. Just didn't wouldn't have enough time. So I did 6 kilometers. I was like, and I was on the treadmill and I think I got to 3 kilometers. When I saw you mess up and I was like, I can just finish it now. I just said it now. I could just kept going man I can just walk in and That's true, that's true. But there's a there's a couple of things that we do on a Sunday mornings before you get here as well that we like to do so I'll just like I want to get that done.
[00:34:46] Kyrin Down:
What what day is your wedding? What's what's the actual date of it?
[00:34:51] Juan Granados:
Like number? Yeah. I won't disclose one here. Okay. All right. Can you point it out on it on here? Oh, I can. Yes, yes, yes. So you can tell me. But yes, sorry that's all of the goals for me for January 25 amongst like a whole host of other things that'll be coming up as well.
[00:35:07] Kyrin Down:
It's it's not on a day where we normally record. So unfortunately, there won't be a live mere mortals episode at that time. I'll be fine. Alright. Sweet. Let's open to my ones. So the first one is same, reread and implement day bang old book, old journal, more gym openers and utilize cute dog b. So this is pretty much just like I have started reading it and it has been really fun rereading this all day just be like, and it's such a blast to the past and there's the the advice is rock solid like there's a reason why this book helped me out so much in the past.
In terms of it wasn't just a strategy. So it was kind of the mindset that he that he's really advocating for. And it's, it's really about getting out of your own head and not not thinking too much, I think is probably the best way of putting it. And it's also but is it's varied as well. There's some things where it's like, look, this is how I'd approach it in terms of catastrophizing things and using negative emotions to motivate you to do something. And then also the opposite, like here's some positive ways you can do the same thing, which I find I like I like which books do that. They can't show both sides of the equation. Exactly. Yeah. So I do plan on just using that to kind of like spice up daily interactions, make them a little bit more fun. I think. Yeah.
Prepare the house for an Aussie day barbecue and organize other q one events. I've got a whole bunch of things on my to do list here, which is organize this organize golf, organize pancakes, organize LSD, organize B day swim, organize go see Joey, a whole bunch of things. I want do do experiment. Try. So there. Yeah, that's that's, just getting some, like, rough dates on those. Like, it doesn't have to be locked in. I'm going to do a podcast, a solely sowed. I meant to write solo sowed to you, but solely sowed, which is when you go away to Joey's in what date is that? Is that 2 weeks time? 2 weeks time. Okay. So the
[00:37:23] Juan Granados:
19th
[00:37:24] Kyrin Down:
19th. Correct. So that's when I'll be doing a solo so I'll just be doing that for my own home, obviously. And that one is going to be all about the additional stuff I couldn't fit in the book review of Devil Take the Home Mist. And so it's going to be a lot around financial speculation. And then I'm going to tie that into what I think is going to happen with crypto. Yes. Coming here. So it's going to be like an extension of the next episode that we well, the one that we're recording right after this, which will be predictions for 2025. This will be like predictions for 2025
[00:37:59] Juan Granados:
for specific
[00:38:00] Kyrin Down:
crypto. So that I'm actually really looking forward to that. It's gonna be fun. Okay. Record and analyze a good one arm handstand day at the park. So I've been doing really good work, but I haven't been recording because it's in gym. It's better to do it with your shirt off. So you can kind of see your back muscles what they're actually doing. So I'm going to intentionally not go to the gym one day, find a good day to go to the park record. And then I have not done an annual checkup for a little bit. So just check my iron levels blood levels.
Last time I went I was anemic. How often do you get your teeth checked teeth? It was once a year. Now it's probably like once every 2 years to be honest. We go every 6 months. Yeah.
[00:38:44] Juan Granados:
And I've been brushing my teeth very well the last year, man. Oh, really? Honestly, sometimes it's daily, like once a day. Yeah. Sometimes just forgetting, I would just turn up. I'm just not doing it. How does that When did you go get I went to go get my teeth checked. Yeah. Half a day ago. They literally said they're unbelievably perfect and clean. Yeah. Well, it's probably just because you don't you don't really drink sodas do you? How much sugar? Like always 0 in terms of lollies and that sort of thing. So maybe maybe there's some to that. So I guess my only recommendation for me and mortal heart there is you have to only brush. Yeah.
[00:39:14] Kyrin Down:
Don't brush teeth. Don't worry about it. I brush my teeth twice a day, so I'm probably doing way worse than you. Alright. Some of the other things I want to do actually chat with Hoskie. I do that and attempt a blueprint of big brain bingo plan. What big brain bingo plan. So brain bingo plan. As it's been this has been the idea of floating in my head for ages, which is like, it'd be really fun to have like a bingo night using the host the NFTs. And so basically, like, imagine you connect your wallet, you got a spread thing show up and it's like you can then pay play bingo because these things are fucking crazy. They've got so many different attributes and stuff to it. You could do this with any NFT, but it worked really well with the husky ones. It's just been floating in my head forever. And I was like, I should try and do some of this. I want to and it's linked to another goal, which is out of order, but I'll say it, explore the GitHub slash git book and create a Morpheus podcast. So I want to dive into the GitHub.
I've always tiptoed around these things, because whenever I've gone on there, it's just been a mess. I haven't been able to decipher it. Like, I think I've done one pull request once, and I don't even know how I did it. It's just just mayhem. So it's one of those ones where it's like, I know if I just spent some time on the website, learning it, how you could even create one yourself, then it would make sense. But
[00:40:44] Juan Granados:
create like create a pull request or create create an actual like, repository. Okay. For for my husky big bang, big brain bingo. Okay, that's cool. I was thinking I was like, would you okay, so I don't expect anything to come from this. Would you maxim like maximize the usage of AI to do that? Well, I would
[00:41:03] Kyrin Down:
Yeah, potentially, especially if it's creating the so I can't code. So what I would you just use AI? No. So what I would essentially be doing is just asking the horse key community, like, do you guys want to help me out with this? Because there are people who have already done very similar things. Right? Well, it connects, sorting mechanisms. They've created websites, me and someone like Dimelix perhaps would probably be more on the actually running it. If we were going to, you know, I know how to do a live stream. Dimplex knows how to do one as well. So we could, you know, alternate, we could do it together. I don't know. Plenty of different things that could be done. It's it's a thing which is like, in my head is kind of fun. If it's a really loose organization, I don't have to, you know, I don't want to do work. I don't want to be managing a team or anything.
It's one of those ones where it's like, I can see how this could potentially work with not too much effort from any individual person, But it would probably require someone to be like, you know, pushing pushing it forward, which I
[00:42:07] Juan Granados:
can do as long as it's fun. If it's not fun. I'm not doing that. Yeah. So anyway,
[00:42:12] Kyrin Down:
we'll see about that. Finish up the remaining Portuguese and do a translation episode. So that's going to be all about differences of translations, not just of Portuguese between 2 books that I have in front of me. So I can read them back and forth, which is already I'm already seeing some things like cut out sentences unnecessary changes. Yeah. That's wow. So in the original, of the original alchemist, Santiago, if you just read the first 8 paragraphs, he's racist. Like, he fucking hates. Oh, like in the Portuguese version? Yeah. Yeah. He's he's not a look. He's not a racist, but he makes a disparaging 2 or 3 disparaging comments about the Moors, and gypsies, which have just been cut out from the English version.
So, you know, they go,
[00:43:02] Juan Granados:
got to keep the original. Got to keep the original content in there. I'll talk about whether that's useful or not.
[00:43:07] Kyrin Down:
Last one, initiate some DNMs and deep and meaningfuls. I've been slightly putting off. So a couple of like conversations which, yeah, I just want to have around some topics which are once again, they're like, it's not that they're not. Yeah, I guess they're not fun. It's just ones which would be like, okay, I should probably chat with this person about this. I haven't done this for, yeah, just, just waiting for a better opportunity. Whereas now it's like, okay, I should, I should actually do that. So those are all of my monthly goals. Last little section we do here is the fitness.
My fitness been fantastic, been doing really good, making smart decisions. I even took this week off to rest up my shoulders and still managed to do some exercise, which normally it's like I'm either 100% on or 100% off. Whereas this week I was like, I need to rest, you know, shoulders, upper neck and wrists, But I still have done a leg workout. I'm going to do one today. I went for a run yesterday and still been doing almost daily stretching. So been very good. Very, very good. Awesome. Yeah. Hidden hidden pbs.
[00:44:20] Juan Granados:
Things are going on. It's on its way. It's on its way. Good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so much for this wise, I guess the clearest example that I found of I wouldn't say that I train in a general purpose training way that GP like a GPT way. I train more specifically to stronger living. Don't mix acronyms. Well, yeah, well, general purpose training would have come before. But the actual, I don't train like that. Definitely not, nor would I call myself, what would people say? I guess recently it'd be like hybrid training. I just more so strength training and have enjoyed doing some other movements. But I found in doing 2 fits up classes in the last 2 weeks as well that it just not it was easy like it was easier to do in the in a sense of I've now I've done enough modalities of training that I couldn't just jump into something like that and be totally fine in that sort of training environment which again is it's more like a crossfitty type event or movement, I guess slightly different.
But I'm doing myself and I'm enjoying the kilometers in terms of volume have been going up week to week at the moment. Awesome, I haven't found myself as challenged by it as of late as well as it was maybe a year ago and I've got to go do it. There's been a little bit of a hint of like, oh, like running today. In fact, I was annoyed that I thought there was a day past week where I thought it was a running day, but it wasn't a running day and I was a bit like, oh, kind of looking forward to it. You ran anyway. No. It was like it was a back day that I wanted to do. So yeah. No, sorry. I wanted the day before I was really excited to do the run and I realized it was the day afterwards, but I still have my normal training session that I planned for that particular day. I was like, oh, that's fine as well. So but it started to change, which was quite nice. So yeah. I think fitness in general for me, it's there is a pretty gigantic goal offset towards annual or for annual goals. What's the 1st August?
But I'll only start talking about it right now with the weight loss because it's kind of attached to that. But I've yet to begin doing anything about it. It will soon begin, but I'll just see it. So I'll keep that under the covers. Okay. Yep. All right. I had a quick look for the YouTube as well to see if there's any comments. Lucas. Lucas and Pat. There wasn't any queries or comments. So I think Pat in the chat. Pat in the chat. Oh, we'll leave it there. Immortalize. I'll speak in the monthly goals again. Share with us if there are monthly goals. Your end. Obviously, we're coming into 2025.
[00:46:48] Kyrin Down:
It's the more New year's resolutions, perhaps. What have you got going on this year? I know I know a guy at the gym who's, trying to do the front splits. Wishing him all the best. Okay. That's a it's a tough journey, especially if there's no purpose for it. He's just like, I just want to do the front splits. That's hard. And he's a cyclist, which is, you know, that's I'm not sure that those 2 really combined well. Yeah, cats. That's good luck. Clyburn is not not another attachment of the reasoning behind it. I mean, the only motivation that keeps me going is it makes my handstands better. Because I'm well and truly at the point where you wouldn't be it's not it's not fun, man. It's really not fun.
[00:47:29] Juan Granados:
Again, we talk about it in the middle there. If you wanna support us, lots of good podcasting apps out there that allow you to do that. Found this is probably gonna be the best bet as well. So utilizing that sent through some sets via streaming or sending it through a boost gram. Very much appreciated. But we live there now for the January 2025 girls, monthly girls, new mortalized to be well. 1 out. Good.
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