How to harness the magic of probability

The mathematical “cheat code” for winning in life.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [STACKS]( [SUPPLEMENTS]( [COACHING]( [BOOKS]( Hey there, I’m thinking of a number between one and ten. If you guess it, you’ll win ten times your annual income. If you’re wrong, however, you’ll take on the same amount in debt at a 25% APR. Do you like those odds? Probably not. And most people would agree—you’d have to be gonzo to take that risk. Yet that’s exactly how many of them approach their health. They don’t want to be bothered with abstractions like statistics and probabilities because they want to believe they’re an outlier and get to have their cake and eat it too—every day. They have no good evidence indicating this, of course, but that's their truth. And who are you to deny their cosmic right to activate their Big Growth Energy and own their power!? Maybe they’re right, though. Maybe they’re not like “most people.” Maybe they’re genetically blessed or just plain lucky, and can dodge the bullets of disease and dysfunction like Neo from The Matrix. Maybe they'll get to live a long life of hedonism and vice. And maybe you’ll guess my number. Hell, maybe you can conquer the Himalayas on roller skates while you’re at it. You never know until you try! Point being: Most of these people are whistling past the graveyard and don't realize it until it's too late. Don’t be one of them. Understand that, as French scholar and polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace said, “the most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.” What did Laplace mean by this? The law of large numbers lends insight. It’s a theorem that states that the average value of a variable over a large number of trials should be close to the expected value. In other words, in the long run, random events tend to average out at the expected results. For instance, if we flipped a coin ten times, we wouldn’t be surprised to see seven heads. If we flipped it ten thousand times, however, it’d be nearly impossible to get seven thousand heads—the results would likely be close to five thousand (the expected result given the 50 percent probability of heads and tails). This is a lesson I’ve taken to heart. I don’t put much stock in the immediate success or failure of the many “bets” I make to improve my health, fitness, family, finances, businesses, and other endeavors. Instead, I focus on consistently making as many favorable wagers as I can, and thanks to the law of large numbers, my wins have consistently exceeded my losses. I’ve made plenty of mistakes, too, and they often didn’t feel like progress. Here’s what I knew, though: They were simply part of processes that, over time, were expected to produce desirable results. And so I didn’t count my lucky stars when this happened. It was just the natural course of things. So, in closing, I want to leave with with two questions to meditate on: Where are you overfocusing on short-term results and overlooking long-term expectations? What can you start doing right away to change this? Hit reply and let me know. If you want to hear more of my musings on mastering the inner game of getting fit, check out my book The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation: ⇒ [( In the book, I share wisdom and insights from hundreds of scientific studies and scores of legendary artists, authors, entrepreneurs, philosophers, generals, and conquerors, as well as my own biggest “a ha” moments that have helped me overcome the things that were most holding me back. Go for it! Mike P.S. 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