WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:02.392 --> 00:00:04.162 James: Hello and welcome to impactful. 00:00:04.162 --> 00:00:06.442 The show where I speak to one of my friends about what has 00:00:06.442 --> 00:00:08.452 impacted them most in their life. 00:00:08.662 --> 00:00:10.762 This could be a book that changed their perspective, a 00:00:10.762 --> 00:00:11.962 tool that made their life better. 00:00:11.962 --> 00:00:13.942 Just a small thing that brings them joy. 00:00:14.302 --> 00:00:17.182 Hopefully you'll come away from this conversation feeling inspired 00:00:17.182 --> 00:00:18.712 or with new things to explore. 00:00:19.162 --> 00:00:22.012 In this episode, we have Arvid Carl, who is genuinely one of the new. 00:00:22.802 --> 00:00:26.552 I know you might know him from selling his company feedback, pander, or for writing 00:00:26.552 --> 00:00:30.122 for his blog and podcasts that beached strap founder art is super thoughtful and 00:00:30.122 --> 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00:01:03.022 --> 00:01:04.972 And it is actually a really good tool. 00:01:05.002 --> 00:01:08.062 Just going to say that, like, that's a, that's a good sponsor, 00:01:08.062 --> 00:01:08.902 your phone for the show. 00:01:08.902 --> 00:01:10.282 I really, really liked what they're doing. 00:01:11.302 --> 00:01:12.772 James: Well, that's a double sponsor. 00:01:12.812 --> 00:01:13.732 I appreciate your 00:01:13.972 --> 00:01:17.212 Arvid: Well, you know, Twitter user, you got to use these things and. 00:01:19.162 --> 00:01:22.552 James: so avid, let's talk about your first thing that's impacted you, which 00:01:22.552 --> 00:01:24.232 is learning that failing is fine. 00:01:25.867 --> 00:01:26.167 Arvid: Yeah. 00:01:26.197 --> 00:01:29.859 Like I've, I've done a lot of experimentation in my life and I'm glad 00:01:29.859 --> 00:01:33.369 I'm doing more of that because at some point early in my life, I was quite 00:01:33.369 --> 00:01:39.454 afraid of failing and just a couple of years ago the trial and error is 00:01:39.454 --> 00:01:44.364 needed to grow as a person And errors are a part of trial and error, right? 00:01:44.364 --> 00:01:48.874 It's not just trial and success And to understand that era's a part of 00:01:48.874 --> 00:01:51.244 this and therefore to learn and grow. 00:01:51.244 --> 00:01:52.104 You have to make 00:01:52.494 --> 00:01:53.124 James: have to make 00:01:53.169 --> 00:01:58.629 Arvid: makes it so much easier to reframe failure into a growth mindset. 00:01:59.139 --> 00:02:02.229 And I still have doubts and I still have second thoughts in my life, 00:02:02.469 --> 00:02:07.209 but I still do things and I do them anyway because of and experimentation. 00:02:07.209 --> 00:02:08.709 is just at the forefront of this. 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.229 And what really helps me with this is trying to get 00:02:12.214 --> 00:02:16.144 From my experiments And just turned them into notes and reflect on 00:02:16.144 --> 00:02:17.884 those notes and then write about it. 00:02:18.244 --> 00:02:21.694 And that's why I use notion and just like regular markdown files to write 00:02:21.694 --> 00:02:23.134 down anything that comes to my mind. 00:02:23.164 --> 00:02:26.464 I even have pen and paper always next to me, either on my desk 00:02:26.494 --> 00:02:28.444 or in the car or wherever I am, 00:02:29.274 --> 00:02:34.824 When something comes, some reflection happens, then I know that I'm growing. 00:02:35.154 --> 00:02:38.364 And even if it's a reflection On failure this doesn't work. 00:02:38.454 --> 00:02:39.384 I still write it down 00:02:39.384 --> 00:02:42.624 because there's value in failure and reframing. 00:02:42.624 --> 00:02:47.574 This makes anything that I do a potential success and then therefore 00:02:47.574 --> 00:02:49.974 I'm not disappointed if it doesn't work out because I'm always 00:02:49.999 --> 00:02:50.959 James: out because I'm always 00:02:51.129 --> 00:02:53.739 Arvid: and that's, why learning to that failing is fine. 00:02:53.739 --> 00:02:56.319 as One of the biggest things that really changed my life 00:02:56.619 --> 00:02:57.909 because I'm not afraid anymore. 00:02:58.329 --> 00:03:00.609 And I know that if I fail, yay, learn something. 00:03:01.984 --> 00:03:02.704 James: Hundred percent. 00:03:02.704 --> 00:03:06.754 And I learned that lesson from reading the obstacle is the way by Ryan holiday. 00:03:07.084 --> 00:03:11.374 After I read that, and there was a chapter on failure and the worst outcome 00:03:11.374 --> 00:03:14.644 of failure is that you learn something or that you can move forward from it. 00:03:14.824 --> 00:03:19.054 So reframing failure is a fantastic way to impact your life. 00:03:19.084 --> 00:03:23.224 Let's move on to the next one Arvid which is learning to be financially literate. 00:03:24.084 --> 00:03:26.784 Arvid: Yeah, I was raised in Germany. 00:03:26.844 --> 00:03:29.544 And for some reason, German, the German education system 00:03:29.544 --> 00:03:30.714 does not really teach you. 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.619 In terms of individual financial literacy, you get economics classes 00:03:35.619 --> 00:03:39.399 about like the bigger grander scale of things, but they don't really teach 00:03:39.399 --> 00:03:43.389 you what saving is or what investing is, or what compound interest is. 00:03:43.689 --> 00:03:45.309 I was never taught that by school. 00:03:45.309 --> 00:03:46.359 And also my parents 00:03:46.359 --> 00:03:49.419 didn't teach me because they also had no idea they were working class people. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.719 They were shying away from financial instruments because people had been 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.109 burned, like going to that local, tiny bank and giving them money. 00:03:56.109 --> 00:03:57.729 And that was invested into the wrong fund. 00:03:57.729 --> 00:03:58.569 And then it was lost. 00:03:58.809 --> 00:03:59.069 So. 00:03:59.534 --> 00:04:02.414 Nobody ever really talked to me about this and told me about this. 00:04:02.414 --> 00:04:05.804 and it wasn't until I was in my thirties, reading Tony 00:04:05.804 --> 00:04:07.874 Robbins money master the game. 00:04:08.174 --> 00:04:12.494 Like that book just made a difference in introducing me to the concept. 00:04:12.794 --> 00:04:14.894 I know that Tony is still selling stuff. 00:04:14.924 --> 00:04:15.794 through those books. 00:04:15.794 --> 00:04:20.834 So obviously it's not The most objective guide, but just 00:04:20.834 --> 00:04:22.154 being exposed to the concept. 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.799 In A form that is also empowering and supportive and that's 00:04:26.799 --> 00:04:28.089 most of Tony Robbins' work. 00:04:28.119 --> 00:04:30.429 And in many ways that's just 00:04:30.429 --> 00:04:31.299 flip that switch. 00:04:31.329 --> 00:04:34.209 And that turned me into somebody who researched financial 00:04:34.209 --> 00:04:37.959 independence, financial literacy, the, the fire movement. 00:04:37.989 --> 00:04:40.539 The idea that early retirement is an option that you don't have 00:04:40.539 --> 00:04:45.014 to work for six until you're 60 and then live all of that stuff. 00:04:45.074 --> 00:04:49.520 And how to get there was a strong, strong revelation. 00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:52.760 to me Because you make decisions differently. 00:04:52.970 --> 00:04:57.860 If you know, where this financial decision might lead you 20, 30 years 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:01.310 down the road, if you don't understand compound interest and making. 00:05:01.310 --> 00:05:03.500 money work for you instead of just working for money, 00:05:04.820 --> 00:05:08.630 James: It's absolutely something that needs to be added to curriculums or around 00:05:08.630 --> 00:05:13.972 the world to, to be able to learn that because I am really bad with money of it. 00:05:14.004 --> 00:05:17.196 I'm really bandwidth buying things and not living within my means. 00:05:17.196 --> 00:05:20.556 And it's taken me a lot of reading and educating myself 00:05:20.556 --> 00:05:21.696 to try and get better at it. 00:05:21.696 --> 00:05:24.712 And I just wish that that had been ingrained into me like 00:05:24.712 --> 00:05:25.772 a base level while I was. 00:05:25.844 --> 00:05:28.244 And let's go and get their bond, which I absolutely love. 00:05:28.244 --> 00:05:30.074 And this has impacted my life a lot. 00:05:30.254 --> 00:05:33.614 So tell me how learning, how to cook has changed your life of it. 00:05:34.469 --> 00:05:36.460 Arvid: Well, I always like to eat this. 00:05:36.520 --> 00:05:39.181 That's not a secret in my life and I've I've never been like 00:05:39.511 --> 00:05:41.311 a picky eater or anything. 00:05:41.311 --> 00:05:43.711 I, just enjoy lots of things. 00:05:44.011 --> 00:05:48.301 And I at some point I figured out that if I want to be able to eat 00:05:48.421 --> 00:05:51.601 as many different, interesting things as possible, well, I'll need. 00:05:51.601 --> 00:05:52.561 to be able to prepare them. 00:05:53.161 --> 00:05:54.721 And in some sense, 00:05:54.721 --> 00:05:58.891 now, in retrospect, after going through my whole entrepreneurial career, I 00:05:58.891 --> 00:06:03.571 understand that my desire to be able to cook and to learn how to cook is 00:06:03.571 --> 00:06:06.121 very much an expression of my desire. 00:06:06.121 --> 00:06:07.201 to be independent. 00:06:07.936 --> 00:06:12.015 Self-determined as like, there is a reason why there's so many people 00:06:12.015 --> 00:06:15.675 who sell and exit their businesses then buy a farm in the middle of. 00:06:15.675 --> 00:06:16.995 nowhere And 00:06:17.055 --> 00:06:18.165 do woodwork it. 00:06:18.315 --> 00:06:20.385 Like I've seen this three or four times. 00:06:20.595 --> 00:06:23.325 And just in the, in the, in the hacker entrepreneurial space, just 00:06:23.595 --> 00:06:25.545 a couple of big names out there too. 00:06:25.875 --> 00:06:27.465 People want to live a self-sustained 00:06:27.465 --> 00:06:28.605 and a self-controlled life. 00:06:28.845 --> 00:06:29.325 They want to. 00:06:30.390 --> 00:06:34.710 The wealth that they built themselves and key, and that sustains their life 00:06:34.710 --> 00:06:36.360 without any outside independence. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:41.850 And that is a, is a, is a big driver in, in most entrepreneurs 00:06:41.940 --> 00:06:43.650 that lives obviously, 00:06:43.890 --> 00:06:47.610 and learning how to cook is a non-entrepreneurial facet of that. 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:49.560 To me, I learned through YouTube 00:06:49.590 --> 00:06:52.400 really YouTube taught me everything and a couple of cookbooks here. 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:57.260 and a lot of experimentation, which kind of harks back to what I first 00:06:57.260 --> 00:07:01.340 said with the being happy to fail cooking, you can fail quite easily. 00:07:01.340 --> 00:07:02.060 Try baking. 00:07:02.090 --> 00:07:03.140 That's just chemistry. 00:07:03.140 --> 00:07:04.730 Like you do some tiny bit wrong. 00:07:04.790 --> 00:07:08.270 everything's ruined, but at some point you'll get it more, right? 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:10.790 Not perfectly fine, but you, you get it right there. 00:07:11.090 --> 00:07:14.720 And then over time you develop through this experimentation and a 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.120 really solid skill in preparing this. 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:19.310 meal, same goes for almost any other activity. 00:07:19.310 --> 00:07:20.660 And for me, that has made. 00:07:21.410 --> 00:07:26.180 For example, I've made like dozens, hundreds of different kinds of risotto. 00:07:26.450 --> 00:07:27.860 And now nobody else 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:30.680 in the family makes risotto because they know I just do it best. 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:32.180 And that is a skill. 00:07:32.330 --> 00:07:36.350 Like I obviously like being the person in the family to do a thing, just project 00:07:36.350 --> 00:07:41.210 that into the marketplace out there, be the person that is the best person. 00:07:41.210 --> 00:07:41.990 at that thing. 00:07:42.170 --> 00:07:43.670 And then your work is valuable. 00:07:43.820 --> 00:07:45.680 So it's a kind of life lesson. 00:07:45.740 --> 00:07:49.780 really to be So self determined and independent, that you're good at. 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:51.850 More than anybody else. 00:07:53.310 --> 00:07:56.310 James: what's your favorite cookbook out of ones here? 00:07:56.310 --> 00:07:57.030 We're looking at 00:07:57.130 --> 00:07:57.880 Arvid: funny enough. 00:07:57.940 --> 00:08:00.070 I inherited one from the nineties. 00:08:00.150 --> 00:08:00.450 James: from the 00:08:01.320 --> 00:08:04.170 Arvid: Twenties or something from my grandmother, a German cookbook. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.930 and I, what I love about this. 00:08:06.990 --> 00:08:10.590 it is that it completely skipped all modern technology because 00:08:10.590 --> 00:08:14.630 There wasn't that technology that was no like food processors, that 00:08:14.630 --> 00:08:15.810 there was no microwave there. 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:19.921 was no like, you know, like battery operated potato masher, anything 00:08:19.921 --> 00:08:21.381 you had to physically apply. 00:08:22.126 --> 00:08:24.616 For food to change its shape or form. 00:08:25.156 --> 00:08:25.456 And. 00:08:25.486 --> 00:08:28.816 the reading, those recipes just really gives you the insight into how. 00:08:29.611 --> 00:08:33.361 Happened to turn into the meals we have now and what the point was. 00:08:33.541 --> 00:08:37.561 So I, I don't really even know the cookbooks name because it just says 00:08:37.591 --> 00:08:41.341 cookbook, you know, in Germany, in the twenties, they didn't have that 00:08:41.341 --> 00:08:44.101 many books but I really, really enjoy. 00:08:44.131 --> 00:08:45.121 reading super old books. 00:08:45.756 --> 00:08:49.536 To understand the origin of the meals and to the intentionality 00:08:49.716 --> 00:08:50.706 of those meals as well. 00:08:50.736 --> 00:08:51.516 It's super exciting. 00:08:51.666 --> 00:08:52.686 There is one out there. 00:08:52.956 --> 00:08:56.846 and I think it's the unofficial Harry Potter cookbook I really liked that 00:08:56.856 --> 00:08:59.976 cause I'm a big Harry Potter fan and there's all the recipes from all 00:08:59.976 --> 00:09:00.936 the things they have in the movie. 00:09:01.416 --> 00:09:01.656 but. 00:09:01.656 --> 00:09:04.416 actual recipes, like mostly British recipes, obviously. 00:09:04.806 --> 00:09:07.776 And we've been cooking a couple of those and it's, it's quite enjoyable. 00:09:07.776 --> 00:09:08.976 you can do a little Harry Potter. 00:09:09.006 --> 00:09:13.024 themed evening or anything, and you make like trickle tarts and some, some Yeah. 00:09:13.054 --> 00:09:15.304 Black pudding or whatever it's, it's really enjoyable. 00:09:15.304 --> 00:09:16.294 So if you are. 00:09:16.594 --> 00:09:18.664 I'm a Harry Potter fan, I recommend that. 00:09:18.814 --> 00:09:22.174 But most, any, any book will do as long as you act, as long as you do it. 00:09:23.564 --> 00:09:26.114 James: And the, the final thing that impacts you, I think, 00:09:26.114 --> 00:09:27.914 is a great one to end on. 00:09:27.914 --> 00:09:31.994 And you, you touched upon this in the previous previous thing, but talk to me 00:09:31.994 --> 00:09:33.974 about why freedom is so important to you. 00:09:34.062 --> 00:09:35.922 Arvid: Everybody defines freedom differently, right? 00:09:35.922 --> 00:09:39.762 To me, it means being able to do what I want to do whenever I want to do it. 00:09:40.092 --> 00:09:43.195 And that's something I learned when I was younger, I thought freedom means just 00:09:43.195 --> 00:09:44.575 having lots of money and playing games. 00:09:45.630 --> 00:09:48.150 I over the last couple of days have actually tried to play some games. 00:09:48.150 --> 00:09:50.970 Cause I'm, I was just In a, in a state where I had a lot of 00:09:50.970 --> 00:09:52.470 time and I wanted to play games. 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:54.600 I just figured I didn't enjoy it anymore. 00:09:54.810 --> 00:09:55.890 They used to be a time 00:09:55.890 --> 00:09:59.280 where playing video games was the, the height of all activities. 00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:01.350 Not that case for me anymore. 00:10:01.710 --> 00:10:02.430 For me right now, 00:10:02.430 --> 00:10:05.970 it's being able to do my work, which is writing, which is communicating 00:10:05.970 --> 00:10:08.040 with founders whenever I want to do. 00:10:08.620 --> 00:10:11.200 And not doing my work when I don't want to do it, 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:12.010 that is my. 00:10:12.010 --> 00:10:13.090 understanding of freedom. 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.500 And to me, it's just really removing All distractions and all interruptions 00:10:17.500 --> 00:10:21.160 from what my focus is having an empty calendar, having a schedule 00:10:21.160 --> 00:10:24.010 that only I get to fill nobody else. 00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:27.050 There's a book out there called life profitability by RDP. 00:10:28.210 --> 00:10:31.000 He wrote an amazing book on balancing. 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.700 That's like having a profitable life, but also living a life. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.860 And this ties back into financial literacy because it's about What can I do today? 00:10:39.010 --> 00:10:40.300 that will sustain my life. 00:10:40.300 --> 00:10:46.220 So I don't have to work until my sixties To be able to enjoy Which at that point 00:10:46.580 --> 00:10:49.010 is mostly over or at least dominated by. 00:10:49.010 --> 00:10:51.650 other things like physical health problems and stuff like that. 00:10:51.650 --> 00:10:53.900 So to me that is what freedom really is 00:10:53.900 --> 00:10:56.240 It's to enjoy my life right now, right here. 00:10:56.330 --> 00:10:59.750 do the things that matter to me and have, control over my schedule. 00:11:00.140 --> 00:11:02.450 and that kind of yeah, it does tie in all these other things, 00:11:02.450 --> 00:11:05.870 because it's about determination and, you know, financial choices. 00:11:06.230 --> 00:11:07.670 and in the end, yeah. 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:08.870 Doing the experiments. 00:11:10.105 --> 00:11:10.645 James: Well way. 00:11:10.675 --> 00:11:13.915 Thank you so much for the four things that have impacted your life. 00:11:13.925 --> 00:11:17.305 I appreciate you coming onto the podcast into the recap you had 00:11:17.305 --> 00:11:18.925 that learning that failing is fine. 00:11:19.165 --> 00:11:22.465 Financial literacy, learning how to Kirk, and then finally 00:11:22.465 --> 00:11:25.345 understanding what your freedom is, and then defining that freedom. 00:11:25.375 --> 00:11:26.215 Thank you for coming on. 00:11:26.755 --> 00:11:27.595 Arvid: Absolute pleasure. 00:11:27.595 --> 00:11:28.045 Thanks so much. 00:11:29.610 --> 00:11:32.010 James: Thank you for listening to this episode of impactful. 00:11:32.010 --> 00:11:34.740 What I hope you've coming away, feeling inspired and with new things 00:11:34.740 --> 00:11:38.040 to explore all the recommendations discussed in this episode will be 00:11:38.040 --> 00:11:39.780 listed and linked in the show notes.