# Kevin Dahlstrom - Today I Turn 55 (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1723745741737529344/kZjNmfb4.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/56697867) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Kevin Dahlstrom]] **Full Title**:: Today I Turn 55 **Category**:: #tweets #readwise/tweets **Category Icon**:: 🐦 **URL**:: [x.com](https://x.com/camp4/status/1992958445885198805/?rw_tt_thread=True) **Host**:: [[x.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-12-07]] **Created**:: [[2025-12-13]] ## Highlights - It’s a million tiny choices, compounded over decades. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3fvb6rwq5tz38w69nshdy)) ^964291294 - Walk 15+ miles a week, even if you do other exercise. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3g3rg19ahy49rea8s9sc8)) ^964291297 About 5,000 steps per day. - Develop a writing practice. It’s the single best way to sharpen your mind. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3gv9c66jnty49yrr70ahp)) ^964291432 - Don’t put anything on your skin that you couldn’t safely eat. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3jdxsrj5j6f4q7rz5gty7)) ^964292303 - If you have a positive thought about someone, don’t keep it to yourself—share it immediately. Encouragement defies the laws of physics: When you give energy, you also receive it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3jkbqy6f66t6pnpkq2h7m)) ^964292304 - Do a 3-minute deep (“ass to grass”) squat every morning. Deep squats are often called the anti-aging exercise. It’s been said that, “It’s not that you can’t do deep squats because you’re old, it’s that you’re old because you can’t do deep squats.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3jtxf0r4kh9d7f0zxnhqr)) ^964292309 - Find a hobby and pursue mastery. You can’t have a happy life without a passionate pursuit that isn’t your vocation. Your work—even if you enjoy it—isn’t enough. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3kazr8eme43b0zkee4kfy)) ^964292321 - Everything you want is on the other side of fear and hard work. As Jerzy Gregorik said, “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3kywxb4ejq1pnxdy5fhte)) ^964292334 - Remember, there’s nothing you can buy in a mall that you’ll remember in ten years. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3mess0snef4hwhepbfscw)) ^964292350 - As Wayne Gretzky famously said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Most people don’t take enough shots. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3mrr58gy94km6f0zxgwyz)) ^964292704 - Talk is cheap—emulate those who have DONE it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3n1nxj2jad3cq1v2a2f1z)) ^964292710 - Whatever you want to do or achieve in life, start NOW. Don’t fall victim to “someday thinking” because someday never comes. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kbv3na42cwckwmsqhepyghxb)) ^964292716