Happy Wednesday, Wise Owl Nation!

First of all, thank you to everyone that reached out about the flu.

I defeated it by Thursday/Friday of last week and only had a few post-flu symptoms throughout the weekend.

Fun fact - literally no one around me was sick before, during, or after my little flu-pisode. I have no idea who, what, or where I got the influenza virus from, but I am proud to say I was the only person affected.

This week I discuss:

• A perspective on using fate to become better
• My EverlyWell Food Sensitivity scores and how I was basically completely wrong about my food assumptions
• Some thoughts on creating a sense of financial scarcity by saving/investing more

Let's get into it.

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🧠 Wisdom Tip(s) of The Week: Amor Fati - to love fate

Do you ever think back on your life and wish you'd done things differently?

I certainly do, even though I know intellectually it is a flawed thought process.

You see, who you are right now, the person wise enough to look back and realize what mistakes were made, would not be as wise if the original mistakes had not been made.

Who you are now is a combination of all of your past experiences, failures included.

This includes things that "happen to you" as a course of chance. We can't control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond, as well as what we learn from the experience.

Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that roughly translates to mean "to love fate." It is a stoic mindset that you can adopt to make the best out of anything that happens.

Examples:

• A bad breakup happens -> now you know a lot more about what you do not want in a relationship.
• You find out eating eggs causes extreme inflammation to your body -> you can make better nutrition decisions and feel better as a result
• A snowpocalypse happens and destroys your power & water -> you learn how unprepared you are and can take steps to fix that

Life is a sequence of cause and effect. We can't always control the causes, but we can control some of the effects.

💪🏻 Health Thought of The Week: I don't know anything.

I finally took my EverlyWell Food Sensitivity Test. I started working for EverlyWell back at the end of May, and they sent me a Food Sensitivity Test as part of my welcome package.

Three months later and I finally take the damn test, and I realized I don't know anything about anything.

In fact, my assumptions about what foods I am reactive to were not only guesses, oftentimes they were completely backward.

I expected to see a lot of fruit in the reactive or high reactivity category. Nope. I am unreactive to almost all fruits tested.

The ONE food I show high reactivity to?

Egg Whites.

Guess what my favorite ingredient is for basically any dish.

Eggs.

Ohhh, but wait, Egg Whites and Egg Yolk are tested separately.

How did I test for the Egg Yolk?

Come on!

I have over three dozen eggs in my fridge right now.

Anyway, the point of this section is "Until you get tested, you don't know anything."

I am going to start consuming fewer foods I am reactive to and try to avoid foods I am reactive to.

Some fun things I learned:

• I show no reactivity to any seafood other than a small reaction to Tuna
• My lowest score across all foods was Pork. Apparently, Pork and I are best friends.
• Of the Nuts, Seeds, and Legumes I am least reactive to Peanuts (wooo)
• The only ingredient in Pizza I am reactive to is Wheat/Gluten (tested separately) but these days they have gluten-free pizza. So that is a score!

If you're interested in taking your own test, you can find it at Everlywell's website. You can also get these kinds of tests directly through your doctor. They just might not be displayed as prettily.

🤑 Wealth Thought of The Week: Save so much you feel low on $$

This is more of a true "wealth thought" rather than wealth advice.

Over the last few months, I have increased the amount of money that I automatically send to savings and that I automatically send to investments.

My goal with this is to see for myself how much I can save/invest each month without feeling too low on money in my checking account.

The way that I personally operate my day to day finances goes like this:

• Use rewards credit cards to earn crypto, cashback, points, etc
• Pay off these credit cards 100% each month to never incur interest
• Automatically send money each week to savings/investments

What I am starting to see as I increase the amount I save/invest, is that I get nervous when I go to pay off my credit cards and don't have a lot more money in my checking account than the balance I own on the credit cards.

In theory, as long as I have $100 when I owe $100 then I am okay since I know the rest of the money was put into savings.

What I am finding is that it makes me uncomfortable to the extent that I find myself spending less.

This is a trick/hack on my own mind that I accidentally discovered.

By creating a fake sense of scarcity, I can create the motivation and drive to cut my spending in areas I've been getting lazy with.

Honestly, I kind of love this concept, because it helps fight the human tendency to spend more as we earn more.

Invest more as you earn more, and keep spending the same.

That is how you break out of the mold and start to really build wealth.

Ethereum Stats:

Total ETH burned - 60,337 ETH (or $181 million)

ETH burned in the last week - 33,034 ETH !!!! 😱

Avg ETH burn per minute - 3.22 ETH/min

My favorite website for watching the ETH 🔥 is ultrasound.money.

Quote/Meme of the week:

I promise not to focus on the fact that I am giving up eggs.

Instead, I will focus on how much better I will feel when I eat foods my body can use without having an inflammatory response.

Have a great week!

This concludes our issue this week, I hope it gave you some perspective or injected a little motivation into your life!

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More Resources

I will be adding to this section over time as we find resources that will help you all.

• Check out the Wise Owl Store
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• Free products to help you level up

Crypto Resources

The Bankless Podcast: This is a link to the bankless podcast on Spotify. Start from the very beginning and learn why I am so positive about the power of Crypto and Ethereum in particular. You can find the podcast easily on the internet, but I am linking to episode 1 on Spotify for your convenience.

Buy your first ETH or BTC:

• On Coinbase - this is the easiest starting place for the newest beginners
• On Gemini - Another great option founded by the Winklevoss brothers. They are based out of New York.
• On Kraken - Kraken has a bit of a harder user interface, but they already have ETH staking enabled with the push of a single button.

Earn interest on your crypto

• BlockFi - Currently, you can earn 4% interest on BTC, 4% interest on ETH, and a whopping 7.5% on stable coins like USDC. Use the referral code b09f24fd to support the newsletter.

Other tools:

• Argent Wallet - This is the best mobile wallet for Ethereum, Defi, and all things on the Ethereum network, including staking. They even have plans to implement Layer 2 to remove network fees.
• Ethhub - this is a weekly newsletter that lists out all the interesting news, articles, and tweets that have happened in Crypto that week. It's free and awesome.
• Ethdashboard - A simple dashboard to look at various metrics in the ethereum space. I mainly use this as a quick tool to check ETH gas fees.
• Cointracker - this is one of the better tools for tracking all of your various crypto across all of the various wallets, exchanges, etc. You can also use them to do your crypto taxes each year.
• Metamask - this is a crypto wallet that you can access from your browser and allows you to easily interact with blockchain apps online.