Tom Bilyeu
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Then that ended only for the troops to bring home the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed another roughly 50 million people worldwide.
Then just 20 years after all of that death, another 85 million people were killed in World War II.
And that included hundreds of thousands of people being instantly vaporized by nuclear weapons.
By the end of all of that, the world was just tired and broken.
Anything for a break.
And so on the back of the US, coming out unscathed and with a manufacturing base that turned them into the world's strongest economy, the world entered an unprecedented period of stability and prosperity.
Global trade exploded.
The US helped people rebuild.
And for a few generations in the West, life got safer, richer, and more predictable than it had ever been before.
So predictable, in fact, that people began to believe that this was the new normal, that peace was permanent, that prosperity was automatic, that history itself had somehow ended.
But it hadn't.
It was just waiting for us to forget and for two great powers to once again collide.
It happened briefly in the 80s, but then the Soviet Union collapsed and we all went back to sleep.
But now there's once again another superpower and we find ourselves in Cold War 2.0.
Hang tight.
We'll be back in just a moment.
Let's talk about what happens when life gets busy.
Your schedule fills up, deadlines pile on, meetings run back to back, and the first thing that falls apart is taking care of yourself.
You skip meals because there's no time, you grab whatever's fastest, but running on inconsistent nutrition
means inconsistent energy when you need it most.