About

I'm a physician and educator. In my day job, I use x-rays to discover what ails you. The rest of my time goes to a much bigger question: what makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise?

Here's why that question haunts me. I grew up the youngest of six in suburban Utah. When my father's investments went bad, I learned what an empty pantry looks like. At fifteen, I drove with my dad to an ATM and lent him my life savings, all $600 of it. I was proud to help, but confused about what it meant. He died when I was seventeen; my mother, when I was twenty-four. Orphaned before I'd figured much of anything out, I went looking for mentors wherever they could be found: in books, in research, in careful observation of lives that worked. I became a student of the principles behind health, wealth, and wisdom, tested them on my own life, and watched the compounding begin. Eventually I started sharing what I'd learned, first in articles and local lectures, and now in courses I teach every summer.

I write here occasionally about what I've learned. No schedule, no spam, just ideas worth your time when I have them.

If you subscribed years ago at The First Habit, welcome back. Same writer, still healthy, slightly wealthier, and hopefully wiser.

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