In my 20’s, I did not live in one place more than 1 year. I lived on couches for a year and did not rent my first apartment until I was 30.
Yes, I did live in my Aunt’s basement for a year and my Mom’s house for a year post-college. Thanks Mom and Rhonda!
You could say I liked changing things up and experiencing new things all the time.
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As I recently turned 34 (that’s ancient in internet age), it dawned on me that I’ve lived in the same place for the past 5 years.
Heck, I’m writing this from the same table.
Novelty sparks some magical thing in our brain but it eventually fades. We go back to our baseline. They even have a term for it called the hedonistic treadmill!
One night I looked at all the Fortune 500 companies and it really dawned on me that NO major creation happens in a short period of time. To truly accomplish major things, it takes a long time and consistency is the answer to make that a reality.
“Consistency…Don’t get bored with it.” [click to tweet]
Book:
Mike Tyson – Undisputed Truth – We’ve all watched a vid or read a bit about Mike Tyson but hearing the behind the scenes was insane. What does it take to be the best in the world and what happens when you get there? That’s his story.
Movies:
Meru – Cool documentary about climbers tackling a mountain that’s never been done before.
Bad ass clothing:
I wear Myles Apparel shorts almost every single day. The guys over there hooked us up with some free shorts. Leave a comment with where you want to go in the world and we’ll pick a few people to get some amazing shorts!
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Noah “tacos” Kagan
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207 responses to “Consistency in Business”
I would love to go back to Europe!
Patagonia! 🙂
Iceland sounds good
Cambodia for mission work with Caring for Cambodia (Austin Based). I’d take my kids to offer them some perspective.
Great article…….again! I’m in for the long game.
Place I want to go: Japan ??
Thailand needs to be next. Let’s go together. ?
I wish I had some consistency in my life.
Isn’t Mike Tyson a convicted rapist? Not sure I’d recommend him as a role model!
Antartica, strangely is calling me. I think it’s because so few have traveled there and the peace and quiet would be on a whole new level.
Somewhere close to nature and out of city life. Like may be mauritius or maldives.
Never sticked with consistency yet. Now, also no need to.
I want someone else to buy me a plant ticket to their favorite spot.
I heard you on the Tony Robins podcast and now I have “found” you. I am working in a 10-year old tech start up as their first marketing person. Wow. Love me some marketing. You are interesting and I am reading you.
My wife and I would like to take our little one to Iceland and Japan.
Australia mate. I’ve never been there, and it sounds awesome.
Being consistently inconsistent can get boring as well too. 🙂
So let’s switch it up!
Anywhere in wine country, Argentina!
Manila! Has anyone received free shorts yet? Haha.
My son got some Balcones from a friend. I got to try it and that shit is goooood! I could consistently drink the stuff. Good thing for my liver I don’t live anywhere near Texas. Life is change which makes consistence unnatural, adaptation and the ability to adapt is survival and spice. “Improvise, adapt, overcome.” – Marine Corp slogan
I want to go to Auckland..!!!! I have heard that it is heaven on earth…!! God knows which heaven we would be going into post death… haha…
Cycling the Black Forest in Germany…soon, this May/June. : ) I move often too because I am curious like you.
I’d like to visit my sister in Australia.. all the way from Toronto, Canada. She has a first baby due in 2 weeks.
I have got your same problem Noah, let’s build a Fortune 500 company together so ! (Tried to not long time ago)
I’m headed to London and Paris next week! Next up high on my list are Thailand, India, Italy, and Greece.
I just moved from rainy Portland to the sunny beach in California, and some fresh shorts would do my wardrobe some good!
Oops misunderstood the question. Place not goal. Sorry. Niigata, Japan, my friends winery in Spain, and Dharmsala India
I definitely want to leave, if not the world, a good number of lives, better through my work of balancing the spiritual and the secular in a useful and practical way. Those born Jewish are blessed if their lives were influenced by men like the ones portrayed in the books My Grandfathers Blessings by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen and Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom. The loving and yet practical consistency of such men grew their wisdom and ability to share it. For a lot of us without such a strong tradition I hope to take the woo woo out of the wonder to enrich their life experience.
Thanks, Noah! And thanks, Myles Apparel! I look forward to the showing off my new shorts!
My next big destination is Tokyo, so much looking forward to it!
Tbilisi – Georgia!
Rio in Brazil!
Hey Noah! thanks for the extra dose of motivation, you don’t know how much i’ve needed it this week (i’ve even opened a thread about motivation hacks on lean-startup fb group). Having an stable HQ for a longer (than usual) time period it can be very convenient for long term goals, but the spirit has to be open for quick getaways and not-too-much planned adventures… at least that’s what i’ve learned..
For my next quick-crazy adventure, i would visit THE DRIEST DESERT ON EARTH (San Pedro de Atacama, Chile)… so i would love to have the chance to try out these shorts! (of course, will sent the photos!)
I am planning to go to Barcelona, Spain with my parents and sister. We will be going on many adventures!! What would be the best pair of shorts to get when going on excursions?!
i want to go to Normandy Beach and follow the path that the 101st Airborne took a la “Band of Brothers”……
Hoi!
To the Titan of Tacos:
Loving life well takes time; and after flying through my bachelors in a brief 14 years its off to Dominica for med school 🙂
Let me know if i’ll have some shorts to wear in my carribean clinic!
I’d like to visit and take a picture at sunrise and sunset in each and every one of our glorious 50 states.
I want to simply be inspired, then be able to act on it. That’s all I want in my life! I was most recently inspired to go to Lugano, Switzerland.
So so many places, but if I had to pick the next one, probably China to experience the culture and Silicon Valley to see what it’s like
I really want to visit South Africa.
I want to go to places that help people realise that there is more to the world than the confines of the reality in which they live.
So:
Patagonia
The Antarctic
Greenland
Alaska
The Rockies
Atacama Desert
Sao Salvador
Ecuador
Belize
Solomon Islands
Easter Islands
Galapagos Islands
…
Great to connect again Noah! Definitely Sweden for me.
Consistency is boring and monotonous. I am planning to visit some cool place and eastern Europe this year.
I want to travel the ENTIRE world and live out of a backpack. Experience new things and meet great people. I want to become self made and leave a legacy for me, my family and future family. I’d rather DIE than settle for anything less.
Thanks Noah
Would love to go to Japan – the whole culture and food intrigues me
Was JUST talking about these shorts to a friend today; very random.
Im currently vagabonding in New Zealand for 4 weeks (would love them now!) and would use them for my trip to Israel!
Cheers!
I want to visit the Grand Canyon someday.
Cuba or North Korea for the thrill and the story
Bali!
I want to own a successful business that will give flexibility to my schedule.
I’ve always wanted to go on RV’ing, camping, and surfing trip in Baja.
I want to go to Southern California explore the coast and walk around a bunch
I would love to explore Greece! But after watching Meru, I’d also like to tackle the Fitz Traverse!
Its not so much that I want to go somewhere in particular its that I want to live and work in a foreign country for a period of time… I had the chance to intern in London as a student and found the experience to be profound. Working in a foreign country teaches you soooo much about that place, the culture, history, norms, etc… So for me, a life goal is to work in a foreign country for some period of time, preferably before the whole family thing happens.
Great read as always. I’d love to go to Japan. I’ll probably go next year or something (cause screw waiting around) but that’s something that’s on my list that isn’t booked yet.
My oldest daughter was born Beihai China, in Guangxi prefecture. She’s almost 12 and I’m trying to put together a trip for next summer. It’s brutal weather, it averages about 2 feet of rain a month and between 95-100F in temp. But it’s something I want her to experience before full teen-attitude mode kicks in 🙂
Fuckin’ 82! wuz a good year. Since these shorts seem to be for dudes and would look ridiculous on me, a little old lady, I’m gonna go with Finland as my destination so that my boyfriend could wear the shorts while rockin’ out at all the metal shows. Could you get beat up at a metal show for wearing a custom drawstring? Ok well maybe he could just wear them for all the exploring we would do.
Liverpool, UK…probably the best food and people in the world!
Australia
I would like to go pretty much everywhere in the world that is not currently in a war zone! With sons number 2 and 3 (twins) about to go off to college, it is getting close to where I may just be able to do it!
I want to go to Hawaii or an island! I’m graduating college in less than a year!
Machu Picchu!
Mount Aconcagua, Argentina. The highest point in the Americas, and hopefully the 2nd of 7 summits for me.
A really peaceful moment for me was when I let go of “when this happens I’ll be happy.” I thought, what if I never make more money than I do now? What if nothing changes? Can I continue living this way? And I thought….yeah. I can keep spending time with friends, roaming in the forest, or spending $5 to go salsa dancing.
If you’re in it for the long haul, why not make the haul something you like?
Also, I know exactly where I want to go… Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany! So darn cool. They have a full replica of one of their airports… It’s my dream destination. 🙂
Please geek out over it here: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
I constantly aim to defeat the hedonistic treadmill––we’re more blessed than we may think.
As for where I’d love to travel, the East Coast would be wonderful!
I’ve been dying to spend a month alone in Costa Rica – Pura Vida, Baby.
My plan to get there is coming along quite nicely and it’s looking like I’ll be spending October splashing in the waves.
Hey Noah,
I’ve got two for you!
Trip 1. Start in Zambia to swim above Victoria Falls and kayak an unreal section of whitewater on the Zambezi River, then head to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Trip 2. Tokyo 2020 to check out the Olympics Games before spending a month getting lost in Japan
Cheers!
My girlfriends and I were talking about this today, so it’s interesting that you sent this email… I think the way to get off the hedonic treadmill is to adjust who you are internally. The way to mastery is to find the minute difference in the 1000th repetition of something, and to love it for its potential. I have no interest in your shorts 🙂 but I’d like to go to my teacher’s aya center in Peru.
Kenya would be a killer place to be exposed to some culture. Always wanted to see the great city of Rome as well
Austin,Tx
and Siena, Italy
I want to be the John McPhee of Hawai’i and when I move there with my lovely wife and two wonderful dogs in the next year, I will be. Naturally, the shorts could come in handy. Keep thriving, NK.
To the top!
HOUSTON, Texas
Pretty much dying to go to Machu Picchu before they close it!
The beach, doesn’t matter where as long as I’m playing with my kids and splashing in the water, building sand castles and eating ice cream
Got me thinking! Want to go to Costa Rica with the wife!
I have always wanted to go to Asia and I am going this December. I would like to go to Machu Picchu in Peru.
The hedonic treadmill is something I need to be reminded of each day – being grateful with the basic essentials is one of the keys to staying content.
I’ll be traveling Europe for this first time in May – I practice parkour, and I’m stoked to see some of the famous parkour practice spots that I see in the videos of great traceurs.
Hi Tyler! We’ve got a pair of shorts that are perfect for parkour–we’d love to send you a pair! Send us an email to contact@mylesapparel.com and let us know what size/color you like and where to send them. You can check them out here: http://www.mylesapparel.com. Thanks!
China and Thailand this year for sure!
Iceland / Cuba
Uggh… One place? Ireland to play some of the famous golf courses and then hang out at the local pubs the rest of the time 🙂
I want to go to Antartica
Costa Rica!
Yo Noah, hook up a pair of them shorts mane. I got little arms, but big thighs. I need to work with what I got and look good showing out.
Cuba! Such an incredible time in history to visit. The doors are cracked open, now it’s time to step through. (Also the ultimate growth channel.) Also, I hear you can get killer pedicures there 😉
I’m glad to hear that someone want to go to Chiang Mai, Thailand. 🙂
I want to go Nepal.
I want to go to space, but I’ll settle for a zero gravity flight for now. Looks like fun
INDIA! I’ve never been and have always wanted to go.
Palau. Because I don’t know how to dive and you can’t go to Palau without learning. (yes, I can rock men’s shorts)
to the beach. any beach
My favorite trips always involve a major culture shock. It lets you get to know a culture and find out how resourceful you are. Next, I want to go to Japan and drop myself smack dab in the middle of Tokyo with only $10 in my pocket and my passport.
New Zealand. South Island. Fox Glacier. Helicopter to summit. Step out onto the ice mountain. Air up there is no colder than an open refrigerator. Cue the Myles Apparel shorts.
Wartburg, Tennessee to help (or run lol) the Barklay Marathons. Most difficult ultramarathon in the world.
Hi Noah! I’d like to go visit the “Iceman” Wim Hof. I’d wear a pair of Myles shorts when we climb a mountain in sub-freezing temperatures. This guy first got famous when he climbed Mount Everest to 22,000 feet in just shorts and shoes. You can check his story out at wimhofmethod (dot) com if you haven’t already seen it.
Cool partnership idea for Myles? Me thinks so.
Iceman + Myles + Mountain = Winner Winner Taco Dinner
Greetings from Madagascar!
I want to visit Patagonia, South America. Hopefully visiting with some cool new shorts 😉
Thanks Tacos
Thanks Noah for giving away some nice looking swag! Their site looks great => simple, clean, and good looking shorts. Oh, and Meru was definitely awesome! I’d look some of those shorts for my trip to India and perhaps even around Asia for a few months or longer, a reward for hopefully leaving my job in June or July and do the solopreneur thing full time!! Thanks Noah 🙂
I want to do these red bull air races. Currently working on a private pilot cert, and the aerobatics gets expensive. Need a lateral approach to get to those air races, and some side hustle to finance all this.