Mike O'Connor

My early entrepreneurship efforts: a crash course in failure... My first: •Product: Flop •Tweets: sucked •Podcast: unusable •Newsletter: Bombed •Training: 0 attendees •Email sequence: 0 sales Last 10 days: •6-figure inbound lead •3 huge guests: booked Keep going!

What's the secret weapon behind every 7-figure creator? Positioning. Here are 12 positioning secrets mega-creators leverage to own their category (Only read if you want to become a category of one)

@_KevinConnelly Great form. I should mix in more KB’s… have not tried a double inn forever.

Using the Double KB swing this Saturday morning + some single arm. Taxes the grip on a different way. 🦍🚀🫡

If I had a dollar for every DM: “Hey Mike, I made a free DM tool,…” I’d have enough to buy their automation company. “Can I steal 2 seconds of your time?” Buddy, you already did. 🤣

@_KevinConnelly There was a crypto coin/market built on this concept 5 years back… super fun.

Idea for X: Subsection where you can make predictions that cannot be deleted, and will later be verified. Signal is boosted based on how often your predictions come true.

@TheSebasHidalgo Great mindset. Such a privilege…

@ChrisWillx Legend. Appreciate you and all you bring to the world.

3 million subscribers 🚀 It took 5 years, 600 episodes and 1000 videos to hit 1 million. It took 9 months and 120 episodes to hit 2 million. It’s taken 7 months and 80 episodes to hit 3. For context: we gained more subscribers in the last month than the entire first 3.5 years of the show. Absolutely wild. It might look sophisticated now, but this project has been bootstrapped so hard it’s insane. For 5 years, 500 episodes and 1000 videos the “team” consisted of me and a Video Guy in a Facebook Messenger Chat. I wrote every title, every thumbnail, every description. Handled every guest booking. Invoiced every advertiser. Did every social media post. Fuck I even DM’d my entire 1000-person phonebook individually asking them to subscribe to the show when we first launched. I’m proud of whatever this has become. I’m proud of earning our stripes by ripping this thing off the launchpad and out into orbit one inch at a time. Modern Wisdom was something I started as a side project on my couch in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I was trying to create a syllabus for understanding myself and the world around me because I was lost. I didn’t know why I behaved the way I did. I didn’t understand why my thinking got hijacked and I couldn’t connect with other people fully. And I figured that if I launched my own show I’d have an excuse to ask questions of people who might have some answers for me. That’s still why I do it. To better understand the human condition, my nature, the world, culture and incentives. To be ready to overcome the hardest days of my life and make more out of the joyful ones. Life is hard and this podcast will help. I’m not stopping. I’m gonna continue to follow my instincts and talk to people I’m interested in regardless of notoriety or popularity. Good ideas are interesting and open conversations are like spirulina for the soul in a media landscape filled with fast food for your amygdala. Thank you so much to everyone who’s supported me and the show, I really appreciate you all. The shares, the likes, the kind messages and comments. You’re all jacked, smart, curious, hot, unreasonably reasonable legends and I love you. Thank you, Chris x

@glennwrites1 I have been using a tea tree and rosemary combo for months… It’s done nothing. 🤣🤣

Is there a shampoo that can prevent hair loss or am I cooked?

@ChrisWillx Love the new Richard Reeves ep!! Question for you when you hit 3M: If you had to pull together a dream lineup for “The Institute of Bro Science”’s inaugral Conference, who are your top 5-8 picks?

Alright alright alright

Sales Calls used to terrify me... I read 1/2 a book on NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) ... And started associating calls with peak experiences... (In my case - two recent epic trips). I just got off the one of the best calls of my life... Not a coincidence.

this model of jobs and status via @matt_levine brilliant

@teddy_cahill I’m psyched!! Crazy thing: these two might be the 4th/5th beat players on the squad next year. Word is

@cbwritescopy Next level niche-ing…

My “pre-qualify conservative women in public” hat finally came in

@careersherpa I haven’t had too - because I’ve found just about everything I’ve been curious about. That said: it totally does take more reading - so knowing when to use it is something I haven’t fully mastered yet.

@oconnormk Interesting! Do you ever contribute answers or post questions?

I don’t like Reddit. It’s too much for my little brain. And it annoys me that when I google questions, Reddit always shows up on the first page. Anyone else feel this way?

@SalcedoBryant You both look awesome. Much love my man!

It’s been a great first week of kindergarten! Adjusting well :) Have the best Friday tribe!

@MitchellKeller_ This is some true Jedi shit...

I wish i'd known this sooner. Images in your follow ups can be as OP as an abyssal whip in the runescape wilderness. It's one of the manual & more nuanced follow up sequences we employ by sending custom memes. It's hard to fake that humor x authenticity = extra replies

@dillonwithlife Well said, Jeff. I laugh when I see they’re rated at #3 - they have an 8+ man roster who will have professional careers (including NBA-ers). They’re legit deeper than last year…

UConn is being criminally underrated for the 24/25 season. Imagine Duke at its height under Coach K, coming off BACK-TO-BACK national titles. Sure, they lose some significant pieces, but hey - that’s the price of winning championships. But they do return: - Their on-floor leader. - Two other key rotation pieces set to start at PG and C. - 4 of 5 from a Top-5 recruiting class the previous year. And they add: - Two high-impact transfers - A top-10 recruiting class including one of the most pro-ready freshman in the country. That team would (and should) be a lock for preseason No. 1. Go ahead and underestimate @dhurley15 once again…

@MitchellKeller_ Brother!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏. Proud of you homie!!

Doing even better now - 100k deal value. Now that is some pipeline.

@noahkagan Congrats, dude!!! I’d say lean in, enjoy it, trust your instincts, and ignore anyone who tries to fill your head with downside or negativity… Being a parent is awesome… Enjoy!

I’m about to be a father!!! 🤯 What’s your BEST piece of parenting advice?

@ThomasMeleek Commit my man! You look great in blue!!

UConn what yall think?? 🐺🐺