My $50,000 Dog

I got a dog from the pound about 4 years ago as a puppy. Her name is Lola.

Recently I hired someone to play with Lola for a 1/2 an hour per day for $10.

Now $10, doesn't sound like much until you run the numbers.

$10 * 5 days per week = $50 per week

50 weeks per year * $50 = $2,500

I need to earn $5,000 per year minus 50% taxes to have the $2,500 to spend.

10 year of this = 10 * $5,000 = $50,000.

She's worth every penny.

How to Solve the Problem of too Many Books to Read

I have a problem.

I have too many books to read.

Right now I've got 12 books out of the library and at least 500 books on my shelves and another 500 pdf books on my computer.

The answer is pretty simple. I can only read one book at a time, so I should read the book that's most useful to help me reach my goals.  So the question is:

What are my goals?

Once I know what my goals are I need to know what's my most important goal.

Another problem is that after I read a book what do I do with the information. I need to add tasks to my to-do list and other items that help me reach my goals.

The current book I'm reading is Cialdini's Pre-suasion.

I've also just finished listening to Leil Lowndes' book How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships (H2T2A).

Another thing is that the books I have are an insight into what my goals are. Each book's title persuaded me to put down my hard earned money for the promise that the title and sub-title.

I've identified 3 goals that I have and believe everyone else has:

1. $ecurity
2. Longevity
3. Fun

So the Pre-suasion book relates to $ecurity and Fun and the H2T2A has $,F. 

The hardest thing about picking which book to read is assess how well it will bring me closer to my goals. 

Now, library books have an increased value as they have a deadline to read. So it pays to prioritize these. But at the same time I can take library books out that aren't aligned with my goals.

Books to Goals

1. Pre-suasion - Cialdini
2. The Small Big: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence - Cialdini
3. TED talks:the official TED guide to public speaking 
4. Invisible Influence - Jonah Burger
5. Smarter, Faster Better: Secrets of productivity in life and in business
6. Stand Out: How to find your breakthrough idea and build a following around it
7. The Idea Hunter
8. Dilbert and the way of the Weasel
9. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
10. Why diets make us fat
11. The age fix:Plastic surgeon reveals how to really look 10 years younger

So these books tell me my goals are:

1. Become a master persuader - $, F (3)
2. Improve Public speaking - $ (1)
3. Be more productive - $, F (1)
4. Idea success - $, F (2)
5. Fun 
6. Health - dieting
7. Looks - $, F (1)

Goals to Books

I'll continue to talk about my Goals in a future blog post.

Scott Adams (Dilbert) challenges Sam Harris to Debate because of Me?

My two favorite people on the internet are Scott Adams the Dilbert creator and Sam Harris. Did I just get Scott Adams to challenge Sam Harris to a debate?

Here is a tweet I set to them on ....

Could be greatest #debate of all time
.@ScottAdamsSays vs .@SamHarrisOrg
Please RT to get this to happen #Hillary vs. #Trump

— Alec Berg (@alecberg) September 23, 2016

Then today, 9/24/2016 while watching Scott Adams Periscope broadcast I asked him to debate +Sam Harris and Scott challenged Sam.

I thought I was getting fired but got a promotion instead.

Today I accepted a new position at my job. I start it on Oct. 17th.

It all started during my semi-annual review a few months ago. My boss asked me if I'd be interested in a position in another group at my company.  Now this scared me because it felt like he was asking me to leave.

One thing about the job is that it's very similar to my current job except instead of the technology department it's part of the risk department.

One weakness of my companies interview process was that they didn't ask me any technical questions.  Part of the reason was due to the interviewer knowing me from previous encounters at work.

Another strange thing is that I didn't meet the boss in person, but I was interviewed by my new boss and his boss, both over the phone.

Early in the interview process I was asked how much money was I looking for so I blirted out a roundish number that was $15,000 more than my current salary.

One of the key reasons I got the job is due to my Excel/VBA skills.  The risk department needs help in automation of report creation for various parts of my company.

One thing that came out of the new job was that I got a promotion because the salary I was asking for was too high for my current level.

I've been reluctant to tell people that I'm getting a promotion, especially one of my co-workers. He will go ballistic when he finds out that I'm at a higher level than him.

There were a lot of things I liked about my old job that I will miss. The clinching point was the promotion. I don't know how I could turn one down and stay where I am.

One wrinkle for me is getting access to my current machine when I move to my new department. I've been at this job for 9 years and over that time I have an enormous amount of useful tech that I would hate to have to develop again.

Now one of things I believed helped me was Scott Adams' the creator of Dilbert and his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In this book he talks about persuasion techniques that appeared to work.

My last day at work

On my way home from work I had an urge for pizza.

So I stopped at Mario's and got an eggplant and Sicilian slice. 

Now this was against my diet. But this morning I lost more weight than I expected and I'm down to 166.6. 

I think I took some Metformin but I'm not sure.

Yesterday was my last day at my job at my old department and I start my new job at my new department on Monday. It wasn't that sad to leave as most of the people weren't in the office because it was Friday. I moved my computer on the subway from Wall St. to Midtown and set it up myself.  I'm a little nervous because I left my new office at 6 PM and many people were still there, especially senior managers.  Also, my co-worker Olive seemed to imply we would be very busy next week. She was also wearing jeans and talking in Russian to someone. This is already a minor annoyance for co-workers to speak a foreign language in front of me. Makes me feel excluded.

The space at my desk is much smaller than I had for the last few years. 

One thing I'm a little worried about is losing access to my data and software as the company deletes and recreates accounts when you change your dept. 

While setting up my computer I started sweating due to the high temperature in the office. Luckily I also brought my fan which worked well to cool me down.  My neighbor to my right had her garbage can blocking my desk and has some of her stuff encroaching my desk. She's moving so I'm okay with it for now.

One thing I know is to set up a proper confirmation bias my first days at work.  There are many sayings that point this out "You only get one chance to make a first impression." I wrote about this in How to pass the drivers test were I discuss my "Jersey Driver" experience.

On the way in I made my first long Periscope video of my walk from Penn Station to Wall Street.

I decided to not go to  a Squeeze concert on Sunday night just so I could be fresh on the first day of the job.

I'm moving from the tech department to the users area

My dog just got me angry for the number of times she's wanted to go in and out of the house.

So for today some things for me to accomplish are:

1. Read and return overdue library books
1. Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
2. Invisible Influence - Jonah Berger
3. TED talks: the official TED guide to public speaking - Chris Anderson
2. Clean up my desk, family room and bedroom
3. Lower my blood sugar
4. Prep for Monday, first day of my new job
5. Clean up the yard

I bought a pair of new shoes from Macy's for $28 original list price was $125. These shoes are killing my feet. I can barely wear them. 

I attended a phone meeting where I introduced myself and I feel I didn't do that good of a job. One of my key principles is Preparation  I should always be ready to introduce myself.

Since I'm new I should Practice what to do and say when being introduced.

I've stopped doing a number of things at my old job that I especially don't want to do at the new job just because of the confirmation bias it sets:

• Making/Cleaning up after making Bullet Proof Coffee
• Wearing sneakers to the office
• Wearing headphones to block out a noisy office.
• Leaving too early

One thing I noticed in contrast to my first day 9 years ago was that I understood most of what people were talking about. I remember sitting in a meeting and thinking WTF are they talking about. I have to be careful because there's a limit to when a new person can ask a stupid question.  Also there's a fine line between a good question and a bad question.

In my first meeting I think I said too much shit. It didn't come out right and may have sounded critical.

One thing is a new person sees shit that no one else can see.  When you're new to a situation the bad process is very easy to spot. But after years of participating in the bad process you can become blind to it.

Something I need to do is introduce myself to senior managers who sit right near me.

So I'm on an adventure. I've stepped outside my comfort zone, and will have some excitement back at work which after 9 years became too habitual.  I'm going to try to reserve judgement as long as I can and try not to make the same mistakes I've made before.  Shyness doesn't get you ahead. 

Daily 5 Minute Journal - September 10, 2016

911

Day before Sep. 11th.  15 years ago wow.  I knew 2 people who where killed in the World Trade Center. They were both at a meeting at the restaurant Windows of The World.

My wife and I were lucky that she didn't work there at the time but 5 years prior worked on the floor in the north tower where one of the planes hit.

Job Interview

I have another interview on Monday with a Managing Director at my company. Fortunately it's a phone interview which is easier for many reasons. This weekend I'd like to prepare for the interview.

New Diet

I came up with a new diet which I call the stair or maybe step diet. The basics of the diet are:

1. Weigh yourself each day
2. Try to lose one pound in the weight from start that is dropping the decimal place
1. If I weight 168.4 then if I weigh 167.8 I've reached my goal
3. When you reach your goal feel free to eat foods you normally wouldn't eat to lose weight
4. Once I get above the weight loss try to get to the next weight 1 pound less
1. if I weigh 166.8, 166.6, 166.4, 166.2 or less I've reached the goal and can eat what I want
5. Repeat until you reach your goal weight.

Some examples

start weight 170.2 goal to weigh 169.8 or less

Eat moderately and try to get to 169.8 or less

If you reach 169.8 or less eat what you want

Your next weigh in might be 170.4 and your new goal is 168.8 or less.

Eat moderately and do what you have to get to the 168.8 or less level.

Keep repeating this process until you reach your goal weight.

Daily 5 Minute Journal - September 10, 2016

911

Day before Sep. 11th.  15 years ago wow.  I knew 2 people who where killed in the World Trade Center. They were both at a meeting at the restaurant Windows of The World.

My wife and I were lucky that she didn't work there at the time but 5 years prior worked on the floor in the north tower where one of the planes hit.

Job Interview

I have another interview on Monday with a Managing Director at my company. Fortunately it's a phone interview which is easier for many reasons. This weekend I'd like to prepare for the interview.

New Diet

I came up with a new diet which I call the stair or maybe step diet. The basics of the diet are:

1. Weigh yourself each day
2. Try to lose one pound in the weight from start that is dropping the decimal place
1. If I weight 168.4 then if I weigh 167.8 I've reached my goal
3. When you reach your goal feel free to eat foods you normally wouldn't eat to lose weight
4. Once I get above the weight loss try to get to the next weight 1 pound less
1. if I weigh 166.8, 166.6, 166.4, 166.2 or less I've reached the goal and can eat what I want
5. Repeat until you reach your goal weight.

Some examples

start weight 170.2 goal to weigh 169.8 or less

Eat moderately and try to get to 169.8 or less

If you reach 169.8 or less eat what you want

Your next weigh in might be 170.4 and your new goal is 168.8 or less.

Eat moderately and do what you have to get to the 168.8 or less level.

Keep repeating this process until you reach your goal weight.

Knee Pain

When I was younger around 18 years old, I had my knee hyper extended while playing hockey.

I'm starting to feel knee pain and am not sure if it's from this event or just aging.

I'm finding that the internet is good at a lot of stuff but lacks help with pains do to aging.

I'm sitting and feel no pain in my knees. I do have worse pains.

I found an article The 8 key ways to relieve knee pain that really work.

1. See your doctor
2. Lose weight
3. Improve Muscles
1. Short arc quad
2. Wall slides
3. Bridge
4. Be gentler when you exercise
5. Take an anti-inflamatory or spices
1. quercentin (apples)
2. onions
3. green tea
4. tumeric
5. cumin
6. ginger
7. capsicum
6. Heals no higher than 2 inches
7. Supplements
1. glucosamine
2. chondroitin
3. Zyflamend
8. Food Journal- Foods that can cause flareups
1. eggplant
2. tomatoes
3. citrus
4. potatoes
5. peppers

Daily 5 Minute Journal - Sept. 4, 2016

Today, my weight was 169.6 and blood sugar 111, body fat 21.3%.

My Writing Improvement

I'm reading my blog post from yesterday and noticing that it's not that good.

It starts with:

Last night I walked to Carvel with my wife and dog and as we crossed the street I picked up my phone, turned it to a bright screen and shook it in case a driver making a turn in front of us didn't see us.  I did this because I was almost hit by a car making a left turn while walking my dog.

 What if someone doesn't know what Carvel is? I could add ",the ice cream store,"

Does it matter that my wife and dog were with me?

What alternative words could I have used instead of "wife and dog?"

• family

The first sentence is poorly written. Is the following better?

Last night I almost had a NDE or Near Death Experience.

It wasn't the usual kind where you die, rise up and see the light. It was the kind where I could have died.

I was walking to the ice cream shop to help relieve a depressing day for me.  I already had some pizza for the same reason and figured a little ice cream could help.

The main reason for the depression was a lonely feeling.  I worked from home and it's been a week since my two boys left for college. 

....

So I could have made the story more interesting.

Idea of Idea Muscle

This morning while laying in bed, I came back to a thought about my Idea Muscle. +james altucher talks about how if we don't use our "idea muscle" it shrinks like regular muscles. 

The idea is to come up with 10 ideas per day on any subject. I was thinking how I could use this for any problem I'm currently having. So for example I'm looking for a way to not have to work and could come up with 10 ideas to make money. And then come up with 10 ideas on how to implement them.

Software Tools

I was also thinking about what tools could get me to where I want to go. Of course I don't have a clear picture of where that is so I'll probably continue to flounder.

One tool could be useful is to generate a blog from my Cur Task spreadsheet. This is basically my to-do list and knowledge collection tool in Excel.

Yesterday

I spent all morning on twitter. I replied to a tweet from +Mark Cuban and got mentioned more than I ever have in the past.

.@mcuban a video of him failing 2 multiply is the @realDonaldTrump? I'd bet > 99% of people not able to answer this question on live radio

— Alec Berg (@alecberg) September 3, 2016

This caused a lot of mentioned on twitter

Osteoperosis

From reading the book Antifragile by Nisam Taleb, I'm wondering if doing headstands could help. He has a picture of a woman carrying a basket on her head and stating she has good bones and posture. This reminded me of the song from Romper Room "See me walk so straight and tall, I won't let my basket fall."

Food Diary

I saw a doctor the other day for my future colonoscopy examine. He recommended I keep a food diary. 

Other Stuff

Some of the other tasks I completed yesterday were:

• Trim bushes
• Mowed front and back lawns
• Walked the Dog
• Read Antifragile
• Dinner at Chipotle
• Read a random book
• Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People
• While reading the book I looked at some reviews and accidently found that one of the reviews was mine from 2012
• Downloaded a number of audiobooks
• Think and Grow Rich
• The 5 Essential People Skills by Dale Cargenie
• Antifragile

Daily 5 Minute Journal - Sept. 3, 2016 - Near Death Experience

Near Death Experience

Last night I walked to Carvel with my wife and dog and as we crossed the street I picked up my phone, turned it to a bright screen and shook it in case a driver making a turn in front of us didn't see us.  I did this because I was almost hit by a car making a left turn while walking my dog.

As the woman in the car passed us, she said "It's good you picked up your phone, it really helped."

This has been making me think about a design flaw in cars where in the driver's seat there are two blind spots in front caused by a wider left and right frame that holds side air bags.

I've almost been hit by a few cars and I'm thinking it's mostly because of this blind spot. I wonder how many people have been killed because of this. I can think of 3 - 4 times off the top of my head where I was making a turn and didn't see a pedestrian or another driver that happened to be in this front blind spot. At night, this appears to be even more troublesome.

Empty Nest

Had ice cream and pizza last night, because I am a little depressed from my kids going to college. Also I worked from home alone most of the day. Felt I needed a pick me up.

Reach Some Goals Labor Day Weekend

I have 3 days for the labor day weekend. Sat, Sun Mon and I would like to accomplish something. I feel like I've been very distracted lately and haven't been making progress towards my goals whatever they are.

I thought that I should create a "Don't do list" and randomly select one thing per day to not do. Some things I could put on the list are:

1. No coffee
2. No BPC (Bulletproof Coffee)
3. No computer usage
4. No cell phone usage
5. No questbars
6. No carbs
7. No shoes
8. No twitter
9. No TV
10. No Scott Adams
11. No buying 

Another thing I could do is work on small tasks for a day. That is don't work on anything that will take more than 5 minutes.

Some things on my list for this weekend are:

1. Go to the beach. I haven't gone once this summer
2. Clean up my messy desk
3. Mow the lawn
4. Buy at Vitamin Shoppe
1. Coconut oil
2. Shampoo
5. Buy a weed wacker
6. Clean up my messy dresser
7. Get a doggy DNA test
8. Order real BPC ingredients
9. Get a haircut

Reminds me of the hardest question 

     What should I do now?

What are the top 5 habits I'd like to break or create?

What are the subtasks needed to reach one of the 3 goals ($LF)?

What's my top tasks to reach the 3 goals?

Another thing I'd like to accomplish is improve system for creating or delete habits or programs I have in. I haven't been good about exercising or using my laser comb.

Weight Loss

I weighed 169.4 this morning which is at least 5 pounds higher than I would like. I've been having problems losing weight. I'm not sure what caused it. But I'm certainly not following the Excel Diet I created.  This all seemed to happen after I read a book by (-mem: Gary Taubes - Good Calories Bad Calories.

Mindfulness/Meditating

I've been meditating at work with Evan and am really liking it. He leads the session. He sets a timer and we follow him. We do about 10  minutes all together of:

1. stretching
2. relaxing from head to toes
3. Counting breaths from 1 - 10 and restarting
4. Smiling while doing it

Miscellaneous

I've also been thinking "What is the proof that the holy books aren't the word of God?" Could this be used to reduce terrorism?

Last night I watched some episodes of Cesar 911. This guy is amazing on how he can take these crazy dogs (caused by the owners) and turn them normal. It's freaken amazing. 

Current Books I'm Reading/Listening to

I've been reading Antifragile by Nisam Taleb and am still liking it.  It's a book about a concept called anti-fragile which is the opposite of fragile which there is no word. Most people when asked will say unbreakable I'm up to chapter 3, unfortunately the pages aren't numbered in the PDF. Its a book that is hard to understand and could have a version that's hyperlinks or gives more info when hovering.

I've been listening to @Scott Adams' (creator of Dilbert) book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big which I got from Audible.com for $2.95 and would highly recommend. I signed out of my Amazon account and the price was $17.95 today.  He says "turn experiences into stories." I'm going to create a spreadsheet that has:

• Date time
• short name
• Experience
• Story

I've been also listening to Scott's periscope feed.

He used the term "awkward silence" in his book. This is a strange concept if you think about it. Why should silence be awkward?

Some of the other terms he's been using that I like are:

• Linguistic Kill Shot
• Bringing a flamethrower to a stick fight
• AB Test
• Visual
• confirmation bias
• talent stack
• People are irrational all the time
• Godzilla
• Confirmation bias trap
• He's got the optics
• charisma = power + empathy
• primes
• moist robot
• master persuader

Oh the Pain

One thing I'd like to resolve is my pain that I've been getting in my foot for over 2 years. Recently I've been getting pain while doing a curling motion and also knee pain.

Islamophobia or Islamaphobia which is it?

If you google the term phobia you get:
    
    an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

and the definition of Islamophobia is ....

    dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.

Is it rational to be fearful of Islam or Muslims?

There are many good Muslims around the world. The few I've dealt with have been kind, friendly and extremely nice.

But with my own eyes I've seen the destruction that this ideology can cause. I worked across the street from the World Trade center in 1993 when the first attempt to kill innocent people took place but failed.

In 2001 I lost 2 colleagues that were in the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attack. What was their crime? If an extremist group gets nukes, a dirty bomb, chemical or biological weapons, how soon would they attack as many people as they can?

My wife worked in the north tower of the World Trade Center on the 73rd floor. She is alive today because of luck that the company she worked for went out of business as many of the people who where still there were killed.

This is something to fear and isn't irrational.There also doesn't appear to be a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) from prevent these people from doing something like this.

Are we fearful of countries like North Korea? Yes. Of lions? Yes. Of poisonous snakes? Yes. These are all rational fears. If you were Jewish in the Middle Ages is a fear of Catholicism a rational fear? Yes. But now it isn't. Islam is the only religion that I think is rational to fear.

Since it is rational to fear Islam then the word Islamophobia doesn't make sense as it is a rational fear. Is it rational to be fearful that drawing a cartoon of Mohamed can get you killed? Yes.

Why fear Islam?

It is only a matter of time before there is another big attack in the US and this one will set off WW III. 

How many Islamic terrorist groups are there?

There are many. Here are a few:

1. Daesh aka Islamic State
2. Al Qaida
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Boho Harem
5. Taliban
6. Al Quds (Iranians)
7. Hesbollah
8. Hamas

How many deaths are caused by Islamic extremism?
How many wars are from
Is criticizing Islam hate speech or Islamophobia?
Is it irrational to fear Muslims or their religion?
Are all Muslims terrorists?
Don't all of the Abrahamic religions teach hatred?

Is Islam a virus?

Why aren't the following terms popular?

• Redneckophobia
• Judiasmophobia
• Catholocismophobia
• Terrorismophobia
• Lionophobia

BLSH - Buy Low Sell High

This is common wisdom to "buy low and sell high" when buying stocks. The author Doug Hall says this is a simple rule that's extremely hard to implement.

I use this expression and acronym not to perform the action but indirectly to remind me that simple ideas can be extremely hard to implement.

What rules do you know that fits this principle?

• Don't eat junk food
• Exercise at least 3 days per week
• Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day
• Don't watch TV
• Don't wait until the last minute

Daily 5 Minute Journal - Sept. 2, 2016

Working from home today as I have a Drs. appointment, for colonoscopy prep. I had to fill out a number of forms and must have written the date 10x which was annoying.

Went out for drinks with co-worker Anud. Nice kid. We had 2 drinks at Maxwell's in Tribecca, NYC. The place was too noisy with music. I could barely hear him.

I've been listening to Scott Adams' (creator of Dilbert) book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.I got it from Amazon.com for $2.95. I already bought the book and loved it.

Also watched his interview with Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report.

At work I've been interviewing internally and did well but haven't received an offer as I may be asking for too much money for my title.

For some reason I don't feel like I've made progress towards my goals and there are only 3 that everyone has:

1. Longevity
2. $ecurity
3. Fun

I've been focused too much on fun and have spent a lot of time listening to Scott Adams, twitter, persuasion, buying books and adding things to my to-do list. 

It seems like I should focus on getting the little things done like cleaning up my desk.

One thing I don't like about the medical profession is there is no mention of price while being treated. Only afterwards does the subject come up.

I've come up with a new idea to work on which is a writing tool. Scott Adams has a good blog post on writing, with an example of how the word "already" wasn't needed. So I'm writing software that can look for words that can be removed like "already".

My memory really sucks as I couldn't remember the word "inflammation" or the name of one of my doctors.

Another problem I'm having is having too many books and I keep buying new ones and not finishing old ones. Even when I read a book I don't actually follow its advice. I use the acronym B2A to describe a process called Book to Action. How do you take the information in a useful book like Scott Adams' book and actually do what it says.  This is BLSH (Buy Low Sell High).

Daily 5 Minute Journal - Sept. 2, 2016

Working from home today as I have a Drs. appointment, for colonoscopy prep. I had to fill out a number of forms and must have written the date 10x which was annoying.

Went out for drinks with co-worker Anud. Nice kid. We had 2 drinks at Maxwell's in Tribecca, NYC. The place was too noisy with music. I could barely hear him.

I've been listening to Scott Adams' (creator of Dilbert) book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.I got it from Amazon.com for $2.95. I already bought the book and loved it.

Also watched his interview with Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report.

At work I've been interviewing internally and did well but haven't received an offer as I may be asking for too much money for my title.

For some reason I don't feel like I've made progress towards my goals and there are only 3 that everyone has:

1. Longevity
2. $ecurity
3. Fun

I've been focused too much on fun and have spent a lot of time listening to Scott Adams, twitter, persuasion, buying books and adding things to my to-do list. 

It seems like I should focus on getting the little things done like cleaning up my desk.

One thing I don't like about the medical profession is there is no mention of price while being treated. Only afterwards does the subject come up.

I've come up with a new idea to work on which is a writing tool. Scott Adams has a good blog post on writing, with an example of how the word "already" wasn't needed. So I'm writing software that can look for words that can be removed like "already".

My memory really sucks as I couldn't remember the word "inflammation" or the name of one of my doctors.

Another problem I'm having is having too many books and I keep buying new ones and not finishing old ones. Even when I read a book I don't actually follow its advice. I use the acronym B2A to describe a process called Book to Action. How do you take the information in a useful book like Scott Adams' book and actually do what it says.  This is BLSH (Buy Low Sell High).