Summary
A recent discussion emphasizes the importance of clear thinking in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence and algorithms. The speaker, a successful entrepreneur with a background in behavioral neuroscience, aims to equip listeners with tools to reclaim their cognitive abilities and enhance their decision-making skills. He argues that understanding the biological basis of cognition is crucial and outlines a structured course that covers various cognitive principles and actionable techniques.
The course begins with foundational concepts such as attention, working memory, and executive function, explaining how these elements interact to shape our thinking. The speaker highlights the detrimental effects of modern distractions, particularly from technology, and stresses the need for individuals to optimize their environments—both physical and digital—to improve cognitive performance. Practical strategies include managing air quality, reducing clutter, and employing effective time management techniques to minimize distractions.
Additionally, the speaker discusses the significance of biological factors like sleep, nutrition, and exercise in enhancing cognitive function. He advocates for simple lifestyle changes, such as maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, optimizing dietary habits, and incorporating physical activity, which can lead to substantial improvements in mental clarity and overall productivity. By implementing these strategies, individuals can better navigate the complexities of modern life and enhance their ability to think clearly and act decisively.
Show Notes
🔥 Join Maker School and get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about💎 Get the Thinking Clearly doc 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.Uploaded 02-09-26In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!Summary ⤵️This is the Clear Thinking Course, a magnum opus I put together over the course of the last few days where I dumped everything that I know about thinking clearly and making effective decisions into one placeThis course represents around a decade of my life of learning various thinking techniques on both the hardware side, e.g. biological optimizations, and software side, e.g. thinking techniques and rationality principlesYou will learn about things like expected value methodology, Bayes' theorem, the planning fallacy, local and global maxima and minima, the power law, the chain law, exploration versus exploitation, and more!I hope you enjoy.Chapters0:00 Intro2:49 What this course covers5:02 How to take this course6:05 The biological basis of cognition11:19 Why your brain is stingy with energy14:13 Working memory and the four-chunk limit16:32 Chunking and meaning23:21 The rats and enriched environments32:08 What willpower really is36:01 Asymmetric bets45:30 Nobody is designing this for you46:16 Choice architecture48:37 Defaults and organ donation54:07 Finding the defaults in your life56:48 Friction, the golden rule1:03:40 Optimizing your hardware1:05:32 Sleep, nutrition and exercise1:07:39 Check for a sleep disorder first1:15:14 Cutting caffeine1:20:16 Bloodwork and deficiencies1:22:52 Cutting alcohol1:26:07 Protein, fiber and creatine1:28:34 Rais Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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🔥 Join Maker School and get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about💎 Get all assets/resources for free here: https://www.skool.com/maker-zero➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth consultancy. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.Uploaded 07-07-26In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!--Other platforms I'm on ⤵️📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_saraev🕊️ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev✍🏻 Blog: https://nicksaraev.comMy free multi-hour courses ⤵️→ Claude Code (4hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQBzR1NIqI→ Agentic Workflows (6hr full course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyRjL7NG18→ N8N (6hr full course, 1M+ views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZ2SNXWK-c--SummaryNow that Fable five is back on clawed plans until july twelfth, here's how to use it to design the best websites. Hint, you don't actually need a bunch of complicated frameworks. Just paste your prompt in, give it some tools, and have at it!--Chapters ⤵️0:00 The Experiment: Fable Designs 25 Websites Alone0:42 Free Sites + Prompts at /guide1:12 The Key: Get Out of the Model's Way1:42 The Exact Prompt, Read Verbatim3:12 How It Ran: Sub-Agents, ~1 Minute Per Site3:48 The Wildest Results (Particle Swarms, Shaders, a Video Game)5:04 Verifying Outputs: Chrome DevTools MCP or the Desktop App5:53 Giving It Tools: Pinterest for Inspiration6:12 Giving It Tools: Higgsfield for Video, Fonts + Game Assets6:45 Why I Don't Impose My Taste (Plus Goals)7:10 Full Tour of the Websites10:03 Wrap-Up: Infinite Free Templates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
JOIN MY AUTOMATION COMMUNITY and GET YOUR FIRST CUSTOMER, GUARANTEED 👑https://www.skool.com/makerschool/about?ref=e525fc95e7c346999dcec8e0e870e55dUploaded 05-08-24Watch me build my $300K/mo business live with daily videos + strategy ⤵️https://www.youtube.com/@nicksaraevdailyGET THE GAMMA HERE FOR FREE ⤵️https://no-brainer-offers-for-au-ws3uwxa.gamma.site/SUMMARY ⤵️Here's how I create "no-brainer" offers for my automation—and other—agencies.WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿How I Hit $25K/Mo Selling Automation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLwMy $21K/Mo Make.com Proposal System: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irkGenerate Content Automatically With AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQMY TOOLS, SOFTWARE DEALS and GEAR (some of these links give me kickbacks—thank you!)🚀 INSTANTLY: https://instantly.ai/?via=nick-saraev🧠 SMARTLEAD.AI: https://smartlead.ai/?via=nick-saraev📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://anymailfinder.com/?via=nick🚀 APOLLO.IO: https://get.apollo.io/bisgh2z5mxc1👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://phantombuster.com/?deal=noah60📄 PANDADOC: https://pandadoc.partnerlinks.io/ar44yghojibe📝 TYPEFORM: https://typeform.cello.so/rM8vRjChpbp✅ CLICKUP: https://clickup.pxf.io/4PQo61📅 MONDAY.COM: https://try.monday.com/1ty9wtpsara2📓 NOTION: https://affiliate.notion.so/3viwitl53eg7🤖 APIFY: https://www.apify.com/?fpr=98rff🛠️ MAKE: https://www.make.com/en/register?pc=nicksaraev🚀 GOHIGHLEVEL: https://www.gohighlevel.com/30-day-trial?fp_ref=nicksaraev📈 RIZE: https://rize.io/?via=LEFTCLICKAI (use promo code NICK)🌐 WEBFLOW: https://try.webflow.com/e31xtgbyscm8🃏 CARRD: https://try.carrd.co/myjz1yxp💬 REPLY: https://get.reply.io/yszpkkqzkb8f📨 MISSIVE: https://missiveapp.com/?ref_id=E3BEE459EB71📄 PDF.CO: https://pdf.ai/?via=nick🔥 FIREFLIES.AI: https://fireflies.ai/?fpr=nick33🔍 DATAFORSEO: https://dataforseo.com/?aff=178012🖼️ BANNERBEAR: https://www.bannerbear.com/?via=nick🗣️ VAPI.AI: https://vapi.ai/?aff=nicksaraev🤖 BOTPRESS: https://try.botpress.com/ygwdv3dcwetq🤝 CLOSE: https://refer.close.com/r3ec5kps99cs💬 MANYCHAT: https://manychat.partnerlinks.io/sxbxj12s1hcz🛠️ SOFTR: https://softrplatformsgmbh.partnerlinks.io/gf1xliozt7tm🌐 SITEGROUND: https://www.siteground.com/index.htm?afcode=ac0191f0a28399bc5ae396903640aea1⏱️ TOGGL: https://toggl.com/?via=nick📝 JOTFORM: https://link.jotform.com/nicksaraev-Dsl1CkHo1C📊 FATHOM: https://usefathom.com/ref/YOHMXL🛒 AMAZON: https://kit.co/nicksaraev/longform-automation-content-youtube-kit📇 DROPCONTACT: https://www.dropcontact.com/?kfl_ln=leftclick📸 GEAR KIT: https://link.nicksaraev.com/kit🟩 UPWORK https://link.nicksaraev.com/upwork🛑 TODOIST: https://get.todoist.io/62mhvgid6gh3🧑💼 CONVERTKIT: https://partners.convertkit.com/lhq98iqntgjhFOLLOW ME✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.comWHY ME?If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like! Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-) Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.Timestamps:00:00 🚀 Introduction and Overview02:18 💡 No-Brainer Offers and High Leverage04:09 🔧 Components of High-Quality Automation Offers06:15 ⚡ Speed and Efficiency in Offer Fulfillment10:13 💰 Cost-Effectiveness and Pricing Strategy13:02 🛡️ Minimizing Client Risk17:56 💼 Risk Mitigation Strategies20:47 🔄 Ups Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
🔥 Join Maker School and get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about💎 FreeBuff link here: https://freebuff.com➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.Uploaded 15-09-26In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!Summary ⤵️Here's a simple way to use AI agents 100% free with no subscription and no credit card required. That's right, you don't even need to add your credit card!Chapters0:00 Introduction to free ad-funded agent0:33 Available free models and daily limits1:42 Downloading and signing up, no credit card2:37 Understanding daily credits and pricing3:31 Making a simple one-page website4:54 Making a stick figure walking game6:05 Missions, agents, phone mirroring and ads7:03 Checking our one-page site and walking game8:38 Why free agents are important Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
➡️ Higgsfield: https://higgsfield.ai/s/ACwcay ➡️ Kimi: https://www.kimi.com🔥 Join Maker School and get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about💎 Get all course resources 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/aboutUploaded 21-07-26➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others.In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube.It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life.I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now.As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency.From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today.Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of.It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it!Summary ⤵️The end-to-end, definitive course on Claude Code for beginners! I'll take you through a full four-hour masterclass where I start by teaching you how to set up and install Claude Code in a tutorial, how to configure your IDE or integrated development environment (we'll use Antigravity), how to utilize your CLAUDE.md file as your project brain, how to build your first project in Antigravity using Claude Code in under 15 minutes, advanced Claude Code functionality including hooks, slash commands, and more. I also teach you how to spin up multiple Claude Code instances and have them work on your behalf; how to parallelize work using sub-agents; how to use Git work trees to accomplish many hours of work in just a few minutes; how to conserve tokens and use context management to crush your coding and software projects; how to deploy things to the cloud using Modal and related services, and in general... how to be awesome at Claude Code! Hope you enjoy the tutorial.Chapters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
GET THE FREE BLUEPRINTS 🙏https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/wmmnmUploaded 27-08-24Watch me build my $300K/mo business live with daily videos + strategy ⤵️https://www.youtube.com/@nicksaraevdailyJOIN MY AUTOMATION COMMUNITY and GET YOUR FIRST CUSTOMER, GUARANTEED 👑https://www.skool.com/makerschool/about?ref=e525fc95e7c346999dcec8e0e870e55dSUMMARY ⤵️Here's how I double my inbound conversion rate using a very simple Make.com system. I use AI to take a simple form entry, customize an email reply, and then send two emails immediately.MY SOFTWARE, TOOLS, and DEALS (some of these give me kickbacks—thank you!)🚀 INSTANTLY: https://link.nicksaraev.com/instantly-short📧 ANYMAIL FINDER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/amf-short👻 PHANTOMBUSTER: https://link.nicksaraev.com/pb-short✅ CLICKUP: https://link.nicksaraev.com/clickup-short📈 RIZE: https://link.nicksaraev.com/rize-short (use promo code NICK for addn 25% off)WHAT TO WATCH NEXT 🍿HOW I HIT $25K/MO SELLING AUTOMATION: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7qAiuWDwLwMY $21K/MO MAKE.COM PROPOSAL SYSTEM: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UVLeX600irkGENERATE CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY WITH AI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2Y_DVW1TSQFOLLOW ME✍🏻 My content writing agency: https://1secondcopy.com🦾 My automation agency: https://leftclick.ai🕊️ My Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nicksaraev🤙 My blog (followed by the founder of HubSpot!): https://nicksaraev.comWHY ME?If this is your first watch—hi, I’m Nick! TLDR: I spent five years building automated businesses with Make.com (most notably 1SecondCopy, a content company that hit 7 figures). Today a lot of people talk about automation, but I’ve noticed that very few have practical, real world success making money with it. So this channel is me chiming in and showing you what *real* systems that make *real* revenue look like! Hopefully I can help you improve your business, and in doing so, the rest of your life :-) Please like, subscribe, and leave me a comment if you have a specific request! Thanks.Chapters:00:00:00 High ROI Email System 00:21:58 Customizing the Experience 00:26:21 Simplifying the Process Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices