The 9:03 Newsletter

Dad to two boys. Husband. Endurance athlete. 15 years at Vanguard, now building The 9:03 Collective. Writing about health, wealth, and the things that make time count. Physical. Mental. Financial. Spiritual. O-H-I-O...

By Adam Bruderly

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Long Run Sunday

A German program tracked 14,000 of its most elite 12-year-old soccer players. 0.6% became pros.

We're terrible at spotting talent and it's costing us our best players before they ever develop.

For the World Cup and Soccer, I dug into what actually matters for developing talent.

Four Pillar Friday

We've built more self-storage than every Subway, Dollar General, and CVS combined to hold all the stuff we “need.”

Meanwhile 70% of kids are on a screen at dinner, and the parents are worse.

Also, working out is still really good for you.

Twenty

Most financial plans treat experiences as a cost. A line item or a deduction against the goal. This week I wrote about the other side of that: return on experience. The value of doing, seeing, and being with the people who matter never shows up on a statement, which is exactly why it gets left out.

47%

You can't write your own story if you're not actually in it.

Our minds are somewhere else about 47% of the time. Nearly half of life.

And the voice that actually knows what you want? It only ever speaks in the present. So if you're never really here, how are you supposed to hear it?

Your Own Handwriting

Nearly 1 in 5 kids aged 12 to 21 are now using AI chatbots for mental health advice. Up more than 40% in a single year.

Honestly, not that surprising when you step back and look at the shoving and stuffing of AI into everything. Apps, stores, schools…

The bigger number from the JAMA Pediatrics study was that 2/3 of the kids aren't telling anyone they're using it.