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Tom Bilyeu

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Then that ended only for the troops to bring home the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed another roughly 50 million people worldwide.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Then just 20 years after all of that death, another 85 million people were killed in World War II.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

And that included hundreds of thousands of people being instantly vaporized by nuclear weapons.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

By the end of all of that, the world was just tired and broken.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Anything for a break.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

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.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Global trade exploded.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

The US helped people rebuild.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

And for a few generations in the West, life got safer, richer, and more predictable than it had ever been before.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

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.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

But it hadn't.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

It was just waiting for us to forget and for two great powers to once again collide.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

It happened briefly in the 80s, but then the Soviet Union collapsed and we all went back to sleep.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

But now there's once again another superpower and we find ourselves in Cold War 2.0.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Hang tight.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

We'll be back in just a moment.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Let's talk about what happens when life gets busy.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

Your schedule fills up, deadlines pile on, meetings run back to back, and the first thing that falls apart is taking care of yourself.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

You skip meals because there's no time, you grab whatever's fastest, but running on inconsistent nutrition

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Cold War 2.0: How Venezuela Became a Pawn in a US-China Power Struggle

means inconsistent energy when you need it most.