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📩 In Today’s Email

• Deep Dive: The Growth Mindset and Reinvention – Why breaking out of old identities is the key to thriving as a nomad.

• Read: Mindset by Carol Dweck – The classic book on growth vs. fixed mindset and how it shapes success.

• Gear: CapCut – The surprisingly powerful editing tool that’s making content creation easier.

Reinvention—whether in career, creativity, or personal life—is often framed as an external shift. Move to a new city, start a new business, change your style.

But the most profound reinvention happens internally first.

It begins with mindset….

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🤿 The Deep Dive

My Personal Battle with Learning (and Nearly Giving Up)

You would think as a film producer I’d know how to edit, right?

Nope.

I always had editors before.

I’d hand ‘em the footage, they’d disappear into a dark, cavernous room, and many years later, when everyone was old and gray, they’d emerge with a beautiful finished project.

Okay, I’m exaggerating, but that just shows how far away editing was from my brain.

I defined myself as ANYTHING but an editor.

Now, in my new life as a nomad, I don’t have that luxury. I figured, the more skills I can acquire, the more freedom I have.

And it has been one of the most frustrating experiences ever.

I sit down, open CapCut, and within minutes—sometimes even seconds—my brain is spinning.

I give up.

I lay back on a Lazy Boy, staring at the ceiling, convincing myself I should quit this impossible task. Finding ways to get angry at the world.

And just when I’m about to walk away for good, I have a small breakthrough. A tiny piece of the puzzle clicks. One function makes sense. Then again. And again.

But here’s the thing: I only ever remember one thing at a time. If that. Every session feels like starting over. It’s frustrating every single time. But this is how learning works.

It’s slow. It’s uncomfortable. And it’s humbling.

Anyone who says, “I love learning,” is full of it. What people love is knowing. Learning sucks. Unfortunately, it is required to get to knowing.

Just like squatting and bench pressing sucks. But if you do it, everything else in life is enhanced. So a few hours a week of exercise and a few hours a week of learning, and all the hours outside of this are shinier.

Really, what was holding me back wasn’t the software—it was my belief that I am not this. 

And that is an issue of identity.

So I was excited to take on this challenge—to set aside my old identity as a film producer and take on the identity of a film editor.

And guess what? I’ve now released a handful of videos and each one gets better and better.

In a month or two, it’ll be second nature, and I’ll have yet another tool to promote our lovely newsletter and get A Texas Nomad philosophy out there.

Nomad Life as a Growth Mindset Playground

Living abroad is a trial by fire for mindset. It forces you into a world where you don’t know the rules, the language, or the social cues.

The fixed-mindset traveler will cling to their comfort zone—only hanging with other travelers, never pushing through the discomfort of full immersion.

The growth-mindset traveler sees each challenge as a chance to expand.

• Fixed mindset: "I can't learn a new language. I just don't have the brain for it."

• Growth mindset: "Every mistake I make in Spanish gets me one step closer to fluency."

• Fixed mindset: "I don't have the skills to work for myself."

• Growth mindset: "I don’t have the skills yet, but I can build them."

• Fixed mindset: "I could never do what they do."

• Growth mindset: "What can I learn from them to get there?"

Unlike traditional careers, where skills remain stable for decades, digital nomads must constantly adapt to new work, cultures, and environments. 

The difference between those who thrive and those who burn out? Mindset.

• Nomads with a fixed mindset see uncertainty as a threat. They resist change, struggle with inconsistency, and feel lost when things don’t go as planned.

• Nomads with a growth mindset see uncertainty as a challenge. They pivot, experiment, and embrace the chaos of freelancing, entrepreneurship, or remote work.

The best nomads aren’t just skilled at work; they’re skilled at learning new skills. They know that today’s economy rewards constant reinvention.

Lessons from Nomads Who Reinvented Themselves

1. Anthony Bourdain: The Late Bloomer Nomad

Bourdain didn’t achieve mainstream success until his 40s, when Kitchen Confidential exploded.

He went from a broke chef to a world-renowned storyteller. He didn’t let past failures define him—he kept evolving, traveling, and immersing himself in new cultures, learning from the world like a true nomad.

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Multi-Reinventor Nomad

Arnold, like a nomadic barbarian, traveled to a new land to conquer bodybuilding, then an acting, then even politics! Most people master one area. He adapted across three industries, showing that identity is fluid if you’re willing to put in the work.

3. J.K. Rowling: From Welfare to Billionaire Nomad

Rowling’s nomad job was teaching English as a foreign language in Portugal. She of course is famous now for working in pubs and coffeeshops. What’s she building in there?

Before Harry Potter, she was rejected by 12 publishers. A fixed mindset would have made her quit. A growth mindset made her persist. She reinvented herself by inventing a world we all have spent countless hours in.

🤓 The Read

What really makes Mindset so interesting to me is how it explains why love so often turns into a battlefield—and how the fixed mindset person loses the ability to ever love again.

You have to be willing to get struck down over and over in the name of love, be wounded, and still get up and go right back into battle.

Dweck argues that people operate with either a fixed or growth mindset. The fixed mindset person believes relationships should be effortless.

If they hit turbulence, they see it as proof they chose wrong. Instead of problem-solving, they withdraw, blame, or—if rejection is involved—obsess over revenge.

Meanwhile, the growth mindset person understands that love takes work. They don’t crumble when things get tough; they adapt, communicate, and keep building.

This explains why some people sabotage relationships. Take Cynthia, a woman Dweck describes who couldn’t let her partners outshine her.

If they had a skill she didn’t, she had to master it too. Instead of appreciating differences, she turned love into competition and killed attraction in the process.

It’s a classic fixed mindset trap: seeing relationships as zero-sum, where one person’s success makes the other person lesser.

We see this all the time—partners who feel threatened instead of inspired, people who can’t handle differences in ambition, or those who expect love to be easy and resent having to work at it.

The book’s broader takeaway?

How you view challenges shapes every part of your life.

Dweck stresses that if you want kids to develop a growth mindset, you should praise their effort, not their talent.

Telling a child, “You’re so smart!” teaches them to seek validation and fear failure.

Saying, “You worked really hard on that!” conditions them to see improvement as the result of effort, not innate ability.

The same applies to love—if you expect relationships to be smooth sailing, you’ll jump ship at the first storm.

But if you see challenges as part of the journey, you’ll work through them.

Anyways, those are the main takeaways that I found very important, albeit obvious, that you should know.

Otherwise, I found a lot of this book self-contradictory, so I don’t recommend it. However, if you would like to see me dunk on it, head over to my Substack article.

🎒 The Gear

I never thought I’d be editing videos. I avoided it for years because it seemed like a whole world of timelines, keyframes, and frustration I didn’t have time for.

But here I am, making videos for ATN and my other brands, and CapCut is what I’m using to figure it out.

Right now, my goal is simple: learn one new thing every day.

Not master editing, not build some crazy workflow—just pick up one small thing, trust the process, and keep going.

CapCut makes that manageable. I’ll cut a clip, mess with captions, maybe test a transition.

Some days, I barely scratch the surface. Other days, I’ll realize, “Oh, that’s how you time text to the beat,” or “Okay, this keyframe thing isn’t as scary as I thought.”

Yesterday, I learned how to auto-generate subtitles. Boy, that sure sped things up.

You can edit on a phone so I’ve put full videos together while riding the metro—just tapping through, making tweaks, sending it straight to TikTok or YouTube.

Just learning one thing, adding it to the pile, and moving forward. Highly recommend, even for fun, personal usage. Make a quick video with some music, send it to your mom.

You know, Capcut makes me a better son. How’s that for an endorsement?

🛤 Outtro

Reinvention isn’t just about where you go—it’s about how you show up. Every place you land is an opportunity to rewrite your story. Keep moving forward, and make it count.

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See you next week. Stay bold. 🔥