SERIES VI: YGKHSW (You Gotta Know How Stuff Works)

YGKHSW opens the door to a wealth of knowledge and insights that are essential for navigating life competently and gracefully — without the overwhelm, costly mistakes, disappointments, and resulting stress that most people needlessly suffer in their adult years.

In this series, Jonathan reinforces the essential message that our decisions determine the course of our life and focuses on the skillsets that make us aware, informed decision-makers.

He underscores the necessity of being a lifelong “super-learner” — able to continuously understand how things work, how they inter-relate, and having an “always-on,” finely-tuned “BS-detector” that both reduces dependencies and increases one’s span of control.

Building on the insights from the Conscious Choices Series, in this series, he then draws our attention to the mechanics of decision-making and what goes into it — the underlying beliefs and assumptions, the attendant critical thinking process, and our problem-solving capacity. We become conscious of the degree to which we make so many of our decisions unconsciously and habitually — and how to manage that.

Recalling from prior episodes that everything has a cost, that all of our decisions are, at some level, a decision to allocate finite resources among infinite options, we spend just the right amount of time and attention on the topic of optimization.

From there, we take a deep dive into the optimal management of our two most precious finite resources: heartbeats and money. In the remaining episodes of the YGKHSW Series, Jonathan acquaints us with how the human body works and how to care for it to maximize our healthspan. Then he pivots to how to finance a long, healthy, and, hopefully, extraordinary life by learning the ins and outs of creating, protecting, and managing financial resources.

With all of this ground covered, you have All You Need to Know to live Adeptably — consciously, competently, and compassionately and write the compelling story of your extraordinary life.