How To Take Your Game To The Next Level

Last weekend, I saw a movie called “Lone Survivor.” One sentence review…it was surprisingly great. Anyway, I’m going to steal a quote from the film and use it way out of context…

“Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.”

Some of you just furrowed your brows. It’s a special breed of people who nod their heads after reading that quote. So where am I going with this? Well, I will now sum up the difference between “regular mile nerds” and “next-level nerds” in 2 traits. These are the only real qualities that separate “small time” from “big time.”

1. Lack of moderation – That quote above is not something you’re born with. It’s a learned behavior that “next-level nerds” have. They hit deals hard. Very hard. Uncomfortably hard, at least for most regular nerds. Whether too lazy or too scared to take chances, regular nerds want to wait for feedback from others. They aren’t comfortable testing the waters on their own. They’re tentative. Look guys, when someone has 10 million miles in an Award Wallet account, it’s not by luck. They’re manufacturing giant amounts of spending…churning credit cards…churning brokerage deals…buying/reselling in big amounts from portal deals…and on and on. Recently, my friend Rick and I were remembering the Months Of Miles promo from 2011. We hit it hard, but not just because of our lack of moderation…
2. Reading the small print – Regular nerds skim everything and aren’t very detail-oriented. They are looking to follow, rather than research. “Next-level nerds” find possible loopholes and then scour the fine print. They become detectives, looking for any possible flaw to their theory. When the Months Of Miles deal hit, Rick and I started drooling. We had already gone through the details. We were looking for limitations, but it turned out the promo was unlimited. A magical thing. That’s why we hit it hard. Because, beyond courage, we had read the small print.