The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk - 539: Jack Raines - Playing Infinite Games, Living Life Backwards, Building Your Platform, Traveling More, & Writing Young Money

Duration: 1h 10m
Broadcast on: 06 Aug 2023
Audio Format: other

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Jack Raines is a student at Columbia Business School and the writer of YoungMoney.co – Young Money is a finance blog that covers a wide variety of life topics like why we should travel more, timeless advice, the use of humor, the 6 types of wealth, and infinite games. Jack is one of my favorite writers on the internet…

Infinite Games – "The focus on outcome over everything leads to us discounting 99% of our lives for the sake of a few, small, fleeting moments that might provide some sense of satisfaction before the cycle begins anew."
- It's not about getting to the top of the mountain, it's about the person you become along the way.
Why We Should Travel More – Rolf Potts, Vagabonding. "The explorer has no goal other than exploration itself."
The Opportunity Cost of Everything – The Journey IS the Destination. Life isn't a Pixar film. It's not a television series. Our life isn't some chain of events and decisions that leads to a climax. A final moment of victory. Life is the chain of events itself.
- "Someday isn't a day."
The purpose of Jack's finance blog: "I write a finance blog that is really, like, idk? Maybe 40% finance? The rest is existential musings, satire, the occasional exclamation that Americans seriously need to travel more, and whatever random stuff comes through my brain."
Jack's LinkedIn satirical posts: "I take nothing seriously, but I do take the serious things pretty seriously. Linkedin isn't one of the serious things."
How Jack built a large following online: "I have published approximately 450,000 words of content in an 18-month period." Whatever it is that we want to do, in order to get good, we have to get going. We have to get the reps…
The Case for Living Life Backwards – "You should write your obituary, and then try to figure out how to live up to it."

You have to be willing to be vulnerable, get laughed at. People are scared to be real, especially on the internet, because you put something out there that people don't like. But if you aren't willing to be as real as possible about stuff, we can't attract those genuine connections. Welcome to The Learning Leaders Show presented by Insight Global. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text Hawk 266866 to become part of Mindful Monday. You, along with tens of thousands of other Learning Leaders from all over the world, will receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right. You'll also receive details about how my book, The Pursuit of Excellence, will help you become a more effective Leader Text Hawk 266866. Now on to tonight's feature, Leader, Jack Reigns is a student at Columbia Business School and the writer of YoungMoney.co. Young Money is a finance blog that covers a wide variety of life topics, like why we should travel more, timeless advice, the use of humor, the six types of wealth and infinite games. Jack is simply one of my favorite writers on the internet. During this conversation, we discuss the case for living your life backwards and why you should write your obituary now and then try to figure out how to live up to it. We also got the benefits of writing and publishing your work online and how that works as a magnetic effect to build relationships. And then we discussed what we learned from playing college football and how that's helped us far beyond the playing field. Ladies and gentlemen, I think you're going to love this one. It's the great Jack Reigns. Jack Reigns, it's great to have you here on The Learning Leaders Show. Welcome, man. Thanks, Ryan. I appreciate you inviting me. I was reading about an influential person in your life, a guy named Dr. Jim Jackson. And I believe it was a few years ago that your mom introduced you to him. And I specifically love learning about stories of impactful people and impactful people's lives like you are. What was it about him that he helped you with and how it maybe changed your perspective on your career and your life? Yeah, it was about January or February of 2021. And for context, I've been working for about a year now. I graduated December 2019. COVID obviously hits two months later. So I was in the office like a normal corporate finance job at UPS in Atlanta. I was in the office for four days. We go remote and then it's basically like a groundhog day of wake up, go on a Zoom call up to his spreadsheet. Didn't really know anybody I worked with. It was a pretty terrible way to start your work. And it was fine for a while. And it was like everybody's working remote.

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