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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?

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(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:45) Juan's October 2025 Recap
(00:05:46) Kyrin's October 2025 Recap
(00:16:00) Support Overview
(00:17:05) Juan's November 2025 Goals
(00:23:43) Kyrin's November 2025 Goals
(00:36:10) V4V

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[00:00:08] Juan Granados:

It is indeed. Welcome back. Mere mortalites for another edition of the mere mortals monthly goals where we like to go back,   reflect back on the monthly goals that were for us. And, again, if anyone of the Mere Mortals Alliance wants to partake in these live sessions, we try to do them around 08:30 in the morning,   roughly at a monthly format. So you can always join in as well, and then we'll look at the monthly goals to come. Got Juan on this side of the mic. And a hungover Kyrin. A little bit of hungover Kyrin. How many drinks, standard drinks would you say were consumed yesterday by yourself?   I   mean, 10 plus easily. 10 plus easily. Woah. I felt a bit woozy, and I had three. Yeah. I had three, and I felt like, oh, there's a bit well, a bit much. One of the ones I gave you was 2.2. 2.2. Correct. I didn't finish the other one that you gave me. So it was like I had half of a 1.2,   not 2.4. And that, I was like, okay. I'm I'm feeling it already. Yeah. It it was fun, but yeah. Yeah. Because I talk about monthly goals,   I'm most people who might know me from when I was younger would say,   oh, Juan, he's the one who will, you know, in a fun way, spike your drink for make it fun and drink some more. I'm telling you what, I reckon it would be   Spiking. It would be rare. It would be very rare   that   moving forward into the future that I'll be drinking   more than   15 times a year. I reckon like 15 times in on like an individual day for sure. I'll still have when we have a box tonight or we have like a night out   or a drink with friends. But besides, I reckon it's literally 15 times in a year. So   reducing comparison to what it once was. But,   that's not really a goal. That was just it come as as as life. Any any case, let's let's look back at the October goals we are in November, November the second today.  

And I'm gonna get straight into it. On October, I had seven goals. I had   one particular one, which was the over   dominant,   one in terms of effort. I'll I'll I could have a look at the hours that actually took me to do this, but it was volume. Here we come, a 160 kilometers of running. And if you remember at all from the previous month, I had a 150 kilometers, I failed that. Mhmm. And I managed to do that just at the very tail end. I was on the second last day that I managed to do that. Started off strong.   Cygnus   was planning on putting me away from this, but I was like, Nah, I've got to get it no matter what. So I got there, got done.  

And now it's time to change up for the next month, but now one   easily took up the most time. It wasn't complex. It was just   it takes time to do it. So I'm happy I got done, recording the first in-depth body information,   podcasts.   Look, I put down as yes,   but kind of because we hit it in a different angle together as opposed to what I was thinking of doing on mine. So I was like, okay. I'll take that because I've been dragging you along for a little while. Sitting the six times body weight ratio at three rep max with main lifts.   Nah. Did I hit that? I, if I do the maths, I was off any kilograms off. So 5.8   something multiplier or something like that. So   I   looking,   do kind of a replant on how to hit the six times body weight and looking some of the numbers. I was like, it might take me   another three months of, like, preparation and whatnot to hit it again. So   not impossible for this year, but I need to kind of, like, reset to to go and and hit that. I did lose some body weight, though, over the last couple of weeks, obviously, from some sickness as well. So I'm down to eighty eight kilos. And you're at ninety I was at ninety ninety to ninety one, basically, like forever. I've been telling this podcast, like, I haven't been able to shift it well. Yeah. Yeah. Concuss yourself, get sick. Sure. Don't train. Don't eat very much. That's a show far way to do it. Let's go. So I was like, did not do that for the body. There's actually a couple out here that I've actually right. No. No. The other one around creating another high signal fun piece of content this month, I didn't do. I plan to do it. I had all the notes for it. I had all my raw content for it, and it was on   the Thursday. And I was like, I'm just not feeling it. Something about my brain's not feeling good. Yes. There was a good reason as to why I hadn't done it, and I didn't do it. Sorry. But I was prepared. I I'll be doing it the start of this November, so it it'll come along.  

Then do it. The fifth one was looking for the best ways to automate and make things efficient for the three interviews that are in the month. So I did try that as much as possible. It wasn't in the being three interviews, ended up being two interviews, but I did find ways to automate, especially the cutting of the   guests between me and putting the cameras. So a little bit better   operations there. And then the last two, which was in the Seoul, the first one here, I did do the second one I didn't, which was, the five minute pause and workdays to horizon sale and my mom wander. Done was nice and easy. I try to pair up with just walking at lunchtime and going for a walk down the bottom of the street that we live on and back. So that was nice and easy. And then sharpening the family philosophy.   Now I did talk about it with my wife, but didn't really like review and converse about it very much. So I was like, Nah,   need to need to do better with that one or do more with it. So for that one, I gave myself a no. So it's actually,   at seven. I only got four four done for that particular month of October. But the the one that did take up a lot of time was the running for sure. Yeah. And just getting sick doesn't help. Yeah. Definitely not. Multiple. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples. Last the previous month, I didn't achieve a 100 of the kilometers of running because of sickness. It once again threatened. But thankfully, it was like right towards the tail end of it. And I'd like banked up a hell of a lot. I think I was at 100 kilometers by about halfway point of the month. Yeah. So I was like,   I could run a negative a negative split that was worse in the beginning and I could make it so it's a good way to front load it. Nice. Nice.  



[00:05:46] Kyrin Down:

Well,   I had a great month. I did pretty much everything on here.  

[00:05:51] Juan Granados:

I'm just trying to think if there's anything really worth calling out. And one of the things I can go on with change and I don't have it, but I think I want to change moving forward for monthly goals is that   I I can envision that some people listening to us talking about the monthly goals, especially the month past. Good. Okay. Fine. But and I do this on my own personal note taking for, like, my month that's gone by. So I don't know if I could leverage that. But it'd be good for us to both pull out, like, yep. What's it like   one or two Learning. Effective philosophy, action learning, whatever. I feel like sometimes people like, yes, I was talking about, yeah, we did this call. We didn't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like sometimes it might be worth pulling out like Yeah. Like, because I'll give you I'll give you off the just off my off of my mind for for me, I think from a,   running perspective, one of the learnings for me was the 160 kilometers was   pretty much at the top edge of what I type of volume I think I could withstand   without it impacting more. Like that almost started to feel like, okay, that's my limit on the time investment I'm prepared to make, the   things I might take away from my training, all of those things. I went, that's that's hitting my my tippy top, which is nice to feel. It was like, I could see and I'll talk about it for the November goals, but I was gonna put 200 kilometers of running. Yeah. And actually when   like now that's actually that's going to be detrimental to a lot of other things. And it's not I'm not willing to go to that point versus hitting.  

Now I'm saying if like, if I'm gonna prepare for a marathon distance and whatnot, I think I could do it within a 150, 160 kilometers of running a month type of distance. That's useful knowledge because what you'll see it in my next goals that  

[00:07:27] Kyrin Down:

I just want to go through all of my old notes   when I did get really fit.   I'm going to say like twenty, twenty one, 22 with the running,   whichever year that was.   I wanted to see how much I was actually doing. And so having that data point of like, you know, 150 ks a month is what you thought you could kind of handle is   I'm probably very, very similar if that.   Yeah, I guess for me, some of the like main learnings was   sometimes even just setting a really easy one, I spend one afternoon doing some approaches. I did that I think on the very first day of the month. Was it then like, oh, okay, I've done this and now I don't have to do anymore? Or, well, yeah, it was but I still did way, way, way, way more. So it was just the act of like,   hey, just get started doing it and   then probably more find a way of   making it a habit or making it fun. So that's interesting.  



[00:08:22] Juan Granados:

I'm like, I'm thinking about this too as well myself. And it's like, would you would you, I think for you, do you would you say it would be better? Like, it it would be drive you more if you made it almost unattainable, like, really unrealistic, like, up to twenty days. And so then if you do fifteen days,   at least you did fifteen, or you didn't achieve your goal, but at least you did 15 versus saying one and then doing it and then being like, I've done it. Like, let's continue to do it. For what's a bigger driver for some things, that would be a good strategy,  

[00:08:53] Kyrin Down:

As we talked about in models in Mark Manson's book recently and a couple of weeks ago,   the   I want to get away from metrics and numbers when it comes to   finding a partner. And   that   I don't think would help. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So saying like 29, it's more like, hey, do it this month. Like, the thing that has to that habit of going for me is like, okay, you know, I've got a Thursday afternoon free.   Should I go out? I don't I don't actually like the aspect of going. And I've always been like this. I don't like the aspect of   going out and then   this is all I'm doing and then coming home. I'd rather be linked up with something even if it's really tenuous. So for example, shopping,   I'll go get Yeah, very it's almost like a reward like, hey, you get to go shopping at the end of doing this. And you know, shopping as a reward is a pretty lousy award.  

Reward. But it was something. Yeah.   Going to the ballet classes on Thursday evening, I found, oh, you know, I'll go to the city beforehand   and just wander around for a little bit,   chat   and sometimes not chat. And we'll talk about that more shortly.  

[00:10:06] Juan Granados:

But that is getting me out of the house and doing it. So that that that was good. So I thought I wanted to hear a recent conversation, Chris Williamson with Scott Galloway, and they were talking about now this is in Britain. God, I hate that guy. Scott Galloway. He's an interesting he the way that he portrays himself is weird. Some of the statements he made is weird, but some of it is quite sensible. But they were talking about some, information that was coming up. Just they were asking people, specifically it was British, but British ladies who,   like, would dress up, would look really nice, would do what they needed and walk around the city wanting to be approached, wanting someone to go and talk to them. Yeah. I think this particular conversation was about, like, young men and the problem that young men are experiencing   in even just not not even just in approaching. It's like, yes, I had a problem with approaching, but now it's like they're almost seen as a time full. Have you heard the concept of,   it's like in younger females saying that they're gonna get unalived?  

Yeah. So it's like, I'm going to go on a date because I'm going to get unalived. I'm going to get killed. Okay. So it's like, and what? Yeah. Unalived. If anyone's heard that, I hadn't heard it before, but it was like, why don't we just say killed?   Is maybe it's too straight. I don't want to use our weather and use our lives. Okay. Sure. In any case, it was this interesting, like, concept where they had talked to some females who, like, were out dressed up wanting to be approached and, like, basically just did not get it at all.   And also, I mean, we're set up in a world. I feel like in the last couple of years   that made it so that people who were doing that were seen as, like, terrible people almost. So was that is that during the night? What are they talking about? Like that? I don't mean that. I don't know. It didn't sound like it was nighttime. Really? Didn't sound like it was nighttime. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was odd. Anyways. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Stay out there, ladies. I'm coming for   you. Exactly. Watch out for the ball, man. Come for you.  

Keep your life.  

[00:11:51] Kyrin Down:

Which is the other one that probably is worth calling out was   the   one of asking friends and family for deeper feedback. And,   I got a really useful insight actually from   my brother's girlfriend. And   I wasn't expecting it to be honest. Okay. And what'd you get?  

[00:12:14] Juan Granados:

What's that? Can you share what it was? Yeah.  

[00:12:16] Kyrin Down:

So the once again,   forms what will happen in the next month ago. But essentially,   we're talking about   we'd actually like given her   my dating profile,   the the fun one, which actually didn't turn out to be fun. So it was just a rehash of an old one I used.   But for a reason, and   Prentice was joking around saying like, Hey, is it like, Matt, what would you message these girls and like really pressing her and   it's kind of a thing that he does. And it's kind of unfair because she   obviously, like, was like, oh, what do you mean? What would I message these girls? Like, I I don't know.   But   one thing she said was when,   they were first dating, and   they were, like, try to press   I think they'd met once, maybe twice. And but they'd been talking for like, two months, maybe two months or one month.  

And she said at one point, Ernest was getting sick of her kind of being flaky and not,   like, all   really showing effort and wanting to go to dates.   And so he was like, Hey, I just don't think this is gonna work out.   And she said like, when she realized she couldn't have him, that was when she wanted him. And, you know, that's that's a   fairly   not mundane.   Not obvious. It's a well known act. I know. I've known that I've heard of this scarcity. I understand how that works.   But it really put into context for me of like, oh, you know, the reason   the reason   that worked was not because, A, he was trying to do that. He was actually just setting some boundaries for himself.  

And,   I went, Oh, fuck. You know what? This is   a big problem that I have, which is kind of setting these boundaries and being firm in terms of   what behavior I will like tolerate and not tolerate. And I'm always just way too,   like, accepting I don't want I don't want to have conflicts. Yeah. Yeah. Such a things. And as much as I say this, it still   influences my behavior in ways which I don't   appreciate.   And one of this was date canceled on me last minute.   And it really fucking bothered me. And I didn't say anything about it. And it was bothering me throughout the whole week.   And I've in the past, it's just been like, I feel like, Oh, that's   just something I have to accept.  

I get too   caught up and too   attached to a certain outcome or something happens. And it just bothers me for a while.   I don't know for sure. But I'm pretty confident that if I'd messaged her and said like, Hey,   like, I didn't appreciate that, or   I'm not really sure I want to set another date or anything like that. It would have made me feel better   in that respect. And it would have also been a bit more confrontational than I normally am. So   would it have worked   on her? I don't know. It besides the point.   The the point would be Yeah, the point was more so closure from your end as opposed to like stopping from letting your mind being like, oh, but do this and that and that just being like, hey, yep, I expected we were doesn't seem like you're interested. Yeah, thank you very much. And Prentiss probably had maybe a similar reaction that you just did, which is like, oh, well, you don't want to be doing that for every fucking single emotion that you feel whilst texting. So   there is obviously   a limit to this. But that was one where it was obviously   annoying me,   making me feel shit.  

And   the   I should lean into investigating that more and trying to solve those rather than just letting that simmer for a week. Yeah. So, yeah, that's that's the the main ones for me. I pretty much did everything else. So good. Yeah. Alright. Well, let's have a look before we look into the future ones as well coming in November. Yep. Anything you wanna call out from any of the support or anything else? So I just see Cole in the chat. He's saying, let's get these goals. Let's get these goals. I don't believe anyone has talked about their or sent in any of their their goals for these months if Cole writes it.   Right now,   that'd be good. But,   yeah, you know what? The the support aspect,   actually can   show up in many different ways. I'm going to chat with Cole tomorrow   about a business opportunity.  

Okay. Mhmm.   Actually related to to VeeFriends.   Okay. So because there is some boxes that can be acquired and sold and having someone in America makes it much easier is actually a lot more handy than shipping them here and then trying to resell them. Yep. Correct. So yeah, yeah.   If you join in on the mere mortal brigade,  

[00:16:57] Juan Granados:

immortal lights, there's potential opportunities for you as well. Financial benefits that you may come out. There's no financial   advice. Alright. Well, let's look at November 2025 goals. So mine,   again, I I pared them down. Like, there's just been a trend for the last couple of years that,   you know, I remember getting comments in, like, 2021 or 2022. I'd had, like, thirty six Twenty nine annual goals and then, like, 16 monthly goals. And how the hell am I getting all the and look, again, it's because   back then, a lot of those things now become just my, like,   normal everyday life now that become habits. They're just things I do. Like, I could have put probably two years ago, a month ago that it's, like, wake up every morning   and go through my,   daily journal and preparation for the next day and do this, do that. This is, like, that's all now part of life, so it doesn't become a month ago. So I don't see it as a bad thing. I've got five month ago for November.  

I'm pairing it up with Movember.   So usually with Movember,   for those who might not be aware of Movember,   I believe is, like, five different ways that you can be supportive of Movember, which is in relation to growing a mustache. There's movement. There's,   like checking and being awareness for like testicular cancer, cancer in general, depression. So all that running things, and usually I do movement.   I'm I'm always in two minds where I like to put something to, like, actually raise the funds forward if I just do it as part of movement. Right? Just my little thing. But I do I'm gonna put a the fun video I wanted to do was in relation to, like, Movember slash the movement. So I'm aiming for 300 kilometers this month of movement. Now if you heard me just talk about before, and I said 160 kilometres running, that's like my top end. You might be hearing them, like, what? What are you doing about? What do you mean 300 kilometres? So I do have the ability with my watch to check my total movement for the day. So not not running, not just walking. It's just like all movements of the day.   And it's actually, it's not as difficult as it sounds because if I look back at the previous month, I was averaging 10 kilometres per day of movement. So they gave me 310 kilometres last month. I mean, I just have to repeat that same amount of movement for this month.  

It's so it'll be roughly about the same mileage, if you will, with the running of last month. But with the interesting side fact of that, I'm like, okay. If sickness comes up or something else happens, whatever, I can achieve that through walking or through some other types of movement. So it's a little bit   easier in that regard. It's not as much running.   So I will be running still quite a bit, hopefully, but it gives me a little bit of an easy way out, but still achieving like a big movement total. Oh, so what it's like if you do, like, 10 push ups, what does that equal? No. Zero. Nothing. This is just no. Yeah. Sorry. No. It's not I'm not yeah. Because sometimes in some of those things, it's like if you do push ups or if you do gym session, it counts to steps or something to that effect. There's just movement in terms of swimming, running, walking,   and then just everyday moving. Okay. It's just like, sorry. That's the that's the only thing for the body. I'm not there's nothing in the six times body weight ratio or anything else. Mhmm.  

Two in the mind, one being reviewing the opportunities versus skill sets and time. And this is in relation to,   the the annual goal, which now I was had a big conversation with my self and chatty patty the other day when I was walking around being like, okay. Annual goal was   new product, million dollars,   of revenue, basically, in the annual annual goals. We started pursuing something. Okay. Yeah. Pause it. So now I'm kinda I wanted to review, like, what are the opportunities versus the skill sets and time that I have?   Again, I went through, like, the longest,   Gary v did this video, like, a little while ago being, like, I did a thirty nine minute prompt   the other day to do something. And I actually   see the benefit now of doing, like, really long prompts. And by that, it's just purely audio, like, definitely not to, like, chatting. Yeah. Yeah. And but I've I've found myself going for a walk and then maybe for twenty minutes just kind of going, okay. Well, just talking it out, putting all these thoughts and whatnot, and then letting it kind of create a bit of a summary, create some detail, and then kind of go back and forth with it. So it's sort of like that. I need to just half an hour, an hour of just kinda like going back and forth and reviewing that. So that's kind of the aim for that particular one.  

The third one is testing the interview this month to clean up and automate even more information. So I've got another one this coming Wednesday   with a man called Orlando.   That will be quite interesting. I think he's very   different in comparison to a lot of the people that I've talked to in the past. Okay. So that tune in for that. That'll be that'll be fun.   And then two in the soul. So one is on my planned walks this month. It's been one of those kilometers with no input music or podcast, etcetera. But that's just yep. Taking the headphones off.   Again, kind of connects back to the reviewing opportunities,   But I have found and this goes back to my annual goals of the weekly stillness and monthly stillness.  

I don't I don't do this and you could say it for whatever reason, but I just don't enjoy   doing nothing.   So it's almost a fourfold of like, no, go and do nothing for a little bit. Not the whole time, but just for a little bit and and often like last time I did it on the way back home yesterday.   Oh, sorry. Yesterday, I didn't run I just walked like four ks's   on the tail end of the walk, I like took my headphones off and just did that and you find your brain just   just singing through things and I did some chatty bitting like prompting and so it's helpful. It's helpful in other ways. Is prompting counting as silence?   Well, it it was polluted by about ten minutes of, like,   silence in my thinking in my head. It was like ruminating my head, thinking of things, and I was like, oh, I'll prompt that. Sorry. Okay. You know? Yeah. I'll try to do it like a kilo meter. So it's this kind of like my one where it's you just set one and then you  

[00:22:28] Kyrin Down:

you're hoping that you'll do more sort of deal or it's  

[00:22:33] Juan Granados:

no. So on also like this is in every walk this month that I do. So usually I would walk on lunchtime or something like that on every walk.   On every walk, it'll be one kilometer of that. That's the thing. Yeah. Yeah. I gotcha.   And then the last one is just talking with my wife about our family philosophy and how we might take the right actions on it. So, again, how that applies to just a ton load of things. It's just how do we do it, how we review it, how we talk about it. I wanna do it this month. So short amount of five things, but   the moving one will still take up a lot of time. And then I think the more and more I think about it from   an monthly goals perspective,   at least for the now, and that's why I was kinda asking you the question of, can I say, do you see value still of, like, setting the fucking go 20, go go 30? A lot of these are I always know what what the things to do, and it's more   how do I put it? It it more feels like there's a lot more stillness in my goals than there is   action and, like,   drive and vigor and violent movement. It's more stillness that it feels like the key is right now. I know I'll be up for everything, but it definitely is right now. Okay. Yeah. For me, it's probably the opposite. I'm actually  

[00:23:40] Kyrin Down:

more like aiming up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   And so getting into it.   Like last month, I'm now doing kind of double for each category.   And so I'll just go through this quick as possible. So   kind of create a reminder to maintain eye contact and smile. So once again, it's to Yeah.   To, to not actually go   and set myself the   numbers of like every day   doing doing crazy eye contact like what I was doing in the   the camera right now.   It's more just like, hey, this is something to do. You don't have   to set numbers to   it. Going to   experiment, approaching with directness. So those ladies on the street watch out. He's coming. He's coming direct, Ben. Direct. He's coming unwrapped.  

Relationships,   go along with you to an AI meetup. So actually Oh, well, we figured out which one? No. I need to do that probably today or soonish.   And then,   organize to catch up with other go getters. Oh,  

[00:24:47] Juan Granados:

yeah, I saw that. What do you mean by that? So there's just some people I've met recently.  

[00:24:53] Kyrin Down:

It's essentially   very similar to the doing a barbecue with friends that I had last month, which I failed because I did it on the November 1 instead of in October.   I yesterday   and also why I'm hungover.   The no, these these are just people who it's like,   I've   met them before.   They   are motivated. I can like,   I know for a fact   four of them set goals for themselves.   And,   yeah, honestly,   I probably could change that a little bit to be like, catch up with them to learn more about how they set goals, not not necessarily the goals themselves   of what they're doing. So for example,   one guy's Tristan, he's doing more,   like he's really focused on university and work at the moment.  

The Eugenie, she had one about spirituality, a spirituality goal, which I thought was really interesting.   So yeah, it's kind of   I probably need to, like, frame it right where it's like, hey, I wanna catch up with you. And, like, for this reason. So Yeah. No. The reason I was saying is, like, so, like, just just very briefly, and unfortunately, our 9AM  

[00:26:03] Juan Granados:

conversation is probably getting a bit longer. But the Orlando who I'm having on Wednesday, he was like this guy where, like, super brief, worked at McDonald's, got dumped by his girlfriend, all pretty crap. He's okay at, like, salesy and calls and stuff like that. And he basically made a decision like, no, I'm gonna get really good at this.   Changes, like,   image and made himself look like real good. He came really good at talking, became an awesome sales guy, and now does, like, sales and travels around the world doing sales Okay. And does   awesome approaching, learn magic because he really like magic. So now he'd approaches and does magic with it as well. And he does. He's not he's not a famous guy, but he does a couple of videos and you can see him with the the person who's going out and be like, he's approaching and fails, wins and whatnot, and he's really chill about it.  

He   I don't know if he actually would enjoy talking to him, but that's why I was like, when you say, like, people like that, do you mean yeah. If I was like, oh, do you mean someone like that or people like that where it's like   people who would just fucking go getter. It's like they're just like, okay. I'm I'm gonna turn my shit around, and I'm gonna fucking do whatever crazy successful thing that they think it is. I don't know if you meant that or if you meant just people who are, like, goal setting. Yeah. More more more the goal setting. And like, I think  

[00:27:08] Kyrin Down:

that will tend to be those types of people. Sure. Okay. Yep. It's kind of a bit of both. I'll I'll watch your combo with them and and see.   Okay.   Moving on. Overhauling backup systems and wallets. So   I just have been experimenting with a lot of things recently. I've changed some, but I just need to change the backup. So make that a little bit more safer.   Research traditional art valuations and cycles.   I want to understand more about the   the investing side of the art   industry, because I'm actually really enjoying kind of like diving into it. Find finding some really,   I'm just,  

[00:27:47] Juan Granados:

there's something so subjective. It's I love the paradox. It's so subjective. Like, everything's art. Everyone could be a great artist. You know, I wonder I question is fucking art. I honestly wonder how much is just tied to tax offsetting. Like, I I seriously genuinely wonder how much is tied to tax off. It was very easy. Like, it is very easy to do tax offsetting with,   art in the world.   Like, I could  

[00:28:13] Kyrin Down:

do you know about it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think most people would kinda like get it if you like to rent a free free ports in Switzerland and shit. Yep. Although expensive art is in these, you know, warehouses, which never get seen and things like that.  

[00:28:27] Juan Granados:

Yep. Look, maybe that's maybe that's But that's not that's not money. I'm like, I wonder if you like if you look into it and be like, you know what? Doesn't seem like a cycle. It just seems like it's just it's all   it's all in relation to, like, tax offsetting or something in relation to that.   Might not be, but might not all be like, but for sure, there's some big amount that is like that. Yeah. I'm I'm thinking more of the historical type things of, you know, why,  

[00:28:51] Kyrin Down:

why was Leonardo da Vinci's works or Picasso? Why why, you know and especially more of the, like, modern ones or people that get found after the fact.   What is the   valuations   typically of, like,   rarer?   Why why do certain things get rare, for example, or or really well known?   Warhols prints?   How did the smaller editions go to like larger editions, things like that? So yeah, all things related to that. I'm just finding Yep. Very interesting.   I did a whole bunch of one arm handstands,   recordings recently. I just want to make that into a video.   And I said, review a historical plan of like my pull ups and running. So I just want to see how much volume I was doing when I   a injured myself   or both the pull ups getting tendinitis for the first time and for the running.  

I don't think I injured myself, but I just want to know how. Yeah. Well, I was gonna say What I was kind of peeking at.  

[00:29:48] Juan Granados:

Mine off the top of my head.   I think I was doing 400   ish pull ups per week.   And that was hitting the limit of, like, I was starting to get injured or starting to, like, braille my bloody tendons and stuff like that. And but that one definitely,   unlike the running, I think would be very   individual.   Like everyone's gonna have different. Yeah,  

[00:30:09] Kyrin Down:

a whole lot of things. I've learned to pull with my back a lot more rather than   with your arms. Yeah, my arm. So that's that's a good thing.   Improved fashion, daily appearance   presentation.   I've got to say, I'm actually already failing this right now because I'm wearing the clothes from yesterday. So like,  

[00:30:26] Juan Granados:

not a good start for this one, but hopefully I'll bring it back. I was actually, you know, I was going to say earlier. I'm gonna be like, oh, it's actually dress up. All right. But I didn't actually realize it was from yesterday. So I do have another shirt in the car for when I got neutralized.  

[00:30:39] Kyrin Down:

But, yes. And the improving fashion   portion of that is just doing a bit of an overhaul, especially my gym stuff. Sure. There's a whole bunch of it's just like ratty and old and fucking Some new stuff. Yep.   Be uncomfortably firm in my standards. That's what I was referring to before.  

[00:30:56] Juan Granados:

So just  

[00:30:58] Kyrin Down:

related to all things, I guess, not even just with women, but  

[00:31:02] Juan Granados:

just personal nature as well. Yep. Yep.  

[00:31:05] Kyrin Down:

Gonna do a tour of one of the potential apartments in Newstead. Cool.   Do that. I've actually had some thoughts around,   Newstead and Kangaroo Point again. So   I don't know if it's worth talking about here. Maybe I'll offer,   renew my passport and service car. It's kind of like   related to Asia, I guess somewhat. But I just need a service this car, man. I just really don't want to hate hate doing this in the ass.   Last one's here, which were related to like the   sexuality   stuff,   for this year.   So in models   there was a   he had a he I don't know if he called it   a thing, but he had like these masturbation guidelines, for example. Techniques.  

Which is honestly, it's it's very, very boring. It's,   you know, once a week   of a girl that you've met in real life,   and you're not, like, doing any of fucking edging or any weird shit or anything like that.   So I was like, alright. You know, I've done my one month. What was it? The orgasm   obstacle   avoidance?  

[00:32:15] Juan Granados:

Kinda onboard Tim Ferriss or someone else called it as well. They have some similar naming for it. Yeah. Yeah. But I was like, Yeah, no drinking.  

[00:32:22] Kyrin Down:

That was last month. Actually, that was probably one.   I really noticed that I was starting to get antsy. Yeah. Yeah. Like   and,   fuck it. I'll divulge it. Wet dreams. Had a couple. Oh,   yeah. So not not fun. Yeah. Then you have to fucking do wash your sheets.   So obviously, I like some cons. Those people who not only like completely   no fat.   How do you avoid wet dreams? I want to know that, first of all. And then second, the psychos who   have sex but,   but won't orgasm.   There's one guy I think is like Jesus Hotep or Hotep Jesus or something. You heard of him? No, he's on Joe Rogan a couple of times, and he's talks about it like he's crazy black guy, and he's just talking about, like, you  

[00:33:08] Juan Granados:

you retain the semen and you get the energy. Oh, maybe I've maybe I have a particular quote. Yeah. And,  

[00:33:14] Kyrin Down:

yeah, I, I don't know how that did like all it. I found it very uncomfortable like the antsiness. Yes. Very uncomfortable.   I didn't I didn't enjoy it. So maybe he enjoys   that. Gonna still try cut a little bit. So total of 85 ks calories. So it'll be about just less than 2,900   a day and,   yeah, 150 grams of protein daily,   of 44,500   total.   And then last one, thank you for your input. Create a decent personal Instagram, but no scrolling on it. Yep. Not going to post daily that. Yeah. When you when I I I must have written that earlier in the month and then just had left it in there because  

[00:33:58] Juan Granados:

yeah. What what was I even thinking? I don't even do that. I in a top level. I still wasn't doing that. I mean, that that honestly, you would have you would have felt pain. Yeah, I would hate it. What is this? I would have hated it. And then last one is pruning the mere models x feed. So yeah, I've actually  

[00:34:15] Kyrin Down:

got   three   different x accounts now, Twitter,   which I use for various purposes. And I've started I've got like a mere Morpheus one and that's just all AI related stuff. I've got   a personal one, which is more like the art side of things.   And then there's the mere mortals, which we've had forever. But that's kind of like a mix of everything. It's just been like. Yeah, whatever. Like husky people and there's fucking random macro stuff. And then there's just, you know, people we've had on the podcast or something. So,   I want to prune that into the right. Yeah. Yeah. Top of feed. Yeah. I'm not exact probably I'll keep that as like a   general macro finance slash   world news type one. Actually, interestingly enough,  

[00:35:01] Juan Granados:

and I saw Meta, specifically Instagram, is doing a better in The US at the moment so that you can specific   like, actually go into the algorithm that you're getting served and specifically choose, like, no. I don't want any more of these. I wanna see more of these algorithm.   That would be really cool. I would love to self select my algorithm,   for things like that that I want to actually care about and see that. I'm like, man, I'm I'm supportive of that. I'm even thinking of blocking certain words like   Israel, for example. I've blocked I don't come in. I barely use that much anymore. But, Instagram, I definitely   have blocked a ridiculous amount of things in my back end so that I only get, like, selective things. And even now, I still block, like, ridiculous amount of stuff. Do that. Like, like, you know, a particular post and just say rather than block the profile, you can say, I don't want to see stuff like this again. So no skinny bitches. Oh, yeah. None of this. But,   yeah, you can like you can try to like force the algorithm to do stuff. I mean, mine's like heavily been like heavy, heavy, heavy, the amount of stuff that I've been trying to be like put forward. And I'm like, no, like go to this. And if you actually, if I look at my,   search page, I guess more specifically, it's like, it's almost like now, like the same, same, but different, but it's the same type of shit that I would do want to see there, which is awesome. It's good. Cool. Alright. My leave with Amy and mortal ads. Again, if you wanna share with us your monthly goal, do so by the comments, do so on the discord. Do it in all the good places.  

Yep. We wanna take too much more time because we wanna get into the meanderings, the musings Musings. Musings, straight up to this as well. So once again, monthly goals, We'll talk to you in a month to see how we go with our monthly goals. And hopefully, you're very well wherever you are in the world. Me and more lights. Be well. One out. Car and out. Good.