## Summary ## Notes ## Highlights - If you can find something on YouTube, then you won't become better than 99% of people - Do what everyone else does not do - Morning routines do not matter, constant contrarian proofs - Mark Manson woke up 11am, had redbull and reeses in the morning, built a six figure buisness doing it - Warren buffet McDonalds ### Guide - Have a contrarian idea - Be correct about that idea - Disagree with everyone, then be right - Execute relentlessly - Does not determine success - Execution is overrated, focus on leverage through ideas ### Why to not be the top 1% - No one likes contrarians, opposite of your ideal social approval - ex) People in the corporate world are surprised - Need to make sure your idea is also meaningful - To be correctly contrarian, you have to be incorrectly contrarian a lot - It doesn't make you happy - Success just amplifies how you already feel - Should only pursue a correct contrarian idea if you cannot imagine otherwise - not for some shallow goal ### Content style - Challenging idea - Explain stages - First part how - Second part why you might not want to