#723 - Modern Wisdom Christmas Special - Reflecting On The Wildest Year
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Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. IT is a modern wisdom Christmas special. Twenty twenty three has been wild and and back on mild couch in newcastle with john y and music and George ma C2Catch up on the ir fav orite les sons fro m the pas t twe lve one s, plus their best new hacks and plans for twenty twenty four. Expect to learn why you need to do ways to improve your sleep when sharing a bed. The new productivity system that everyone now uses, except for me, what you can learn about using a face tracker without actually buying one, which up uf uses over four hundred times a day.

Why all five of my top songs this year were from the same artist and much more as you'll hear IT is, uh oddly nosti C2Be bac k whe re thi s pod cast ver y fir st sta rted, the first ever episode that I worked with, video guidon, was in April of twenty eighteen in that same room, similar looking couch, but slightly different. And yeah, it's really nice to be home. I hope that you are suitably enjoying the Christmas wine down.

And if you do want to go and see us in all of our festive glory wearing pretty crap Christmas jumpers to be onest, you can go watch you on youtube. But if not, I really hope that you have a fantastic festive period. This is a great time of the year to just let go a little bit of the need to be productive, allow yourself to wind down.

And if you do need a review process for the new year, you can go to Chris will x stop comment slash review. It's completely free to the process that I followed every year, the last four or five years. I think ana picked up up at Chris wal x stock commerce lash review and that's kind of IT.

But now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome john Y. U. F. And George.

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to a modern wisdom Christmas special. For those of you who are probably in the nineteen nine point five percent that have joined within the last two thousand eight years, you won't recognize this location. This is my living room in newcastle.

This is where we did the first ever in person episodes with john new new thing. And we've got George mac with this as well over from dubai, especially just for this, not for a Christmas, or to see his parents just for this, just for this episode. Who to thunk IT and we're all in for those that can't see we're all festively adorned in Christmas jumpers and use if is refusing even though he's heart refusing to take IT off because .

IT may have to happen half way. Thanks for the reminder, the microphone, the part of test you may.

because you complain that IT feels like a hair shirt, so you need something to protect your underneath stoic, tortured device. Really trying to build up my world power. It's resilient. Restraining this Christmas time is resilience training. Anyway, we're going to go through some of our best lessons and life hax from the last twelve months.

For those of you that haven't heard a life hax epsom before, we go around in a little loop and to go through some of the most best way to make a toasted sandwich with some new APP that would become obsessed by some new productivity system, or a book or something that we've been watching. And as is tradition, john y. IT is hot potato for you to go first is the total .

sandwich one one? Because that was mine, do you? Member.

that one was a ravel toasty sandwich maker.

IT was a sleeve that put bread into a toaster to toast. I think it's average, to be honest, about.

I remember more than we ve done hundreds and hundreds of life acts of the last one. You remember this one that I remember anyway, first.

what you got. So minds, it's a supplement and it's one that I think you feel very strongly about doing. What other two guys think clear away, specifically the rusby e lemonade labor, okay, mixed with either lemon or orange element salt. Not to interest. I would genuinely have that over anything else.

Not a sophisticated plan IT.

It's great. So great post training this morning, first thing in the morning, yeah thirty grams of protein .

and some sometimes teased PS two scoops, sometimes six scooped brief .

liver press red lemons. And once that fifty, fifty five grams of and even though yeah enough, that's good. Yeah and why why that I just I don't know.

Like I I mean, i'll get into this latter. In the epsom we talk about lessons, but i've been big on this year all about set things to background, make something fun, aligning like what you should do with that. nice.

I think I was thinking about the fear, the day that homos clip that I had with him, or is explained, my love a pickle ball, because it's one thousand calories in ninety minutes. And all you hoping is chasing a ball, like trying to get to that where the guy that sits on the cross trainer for ninety minutes, thinking to himself so disciplined with David gogin playing, is the outcome for both of us. This has been precisely the same, except he's had to develop so much more and use so much more.

Will pout if you take like I don't know, two thousand and nine me i'd be still trying to get protein and hydration and lemon water and salt sort stuff first as soon another wake up but it's like equites, where is that like a delicious way to wake up.

So the principle behind that, that I think is that there's no moral virtue in White, nutty everything. So romney said he talks about that they're just automating your saving if you just have a direct debit that good or a standing order, whatever the international phrases for that, for savings to just go out as soon as you get paid, you're then not having to think every each other I really need to save whatever you just never see IT.

It's just but they do that with is a pension contributions. They realized that they could get people to increase the contribution to the pension easier when they asked them to do IT at the time that they're got to a pay rise because as yet, they're never realized the gains from that new paycheck. And as part of that, people didn't feel anchoring by as largely h he is new money, but it's a little bit less new money than you were thinking you are getting as opposed to old money now minus some.

So is the key that, that you've got to forget about IT you gotta because if you save if you're saving with mask, you aren't aware of IT, that's the win is I don't .

know well as if you think i've got ta pay rise, you just squander IT before even comes in. And usually people overcorrect, it's like i've done thirty minutes of cardio. I'm gonna have a couple of donuts. You've just more than corrected for the color.

So automation, right? Yeah doing whatever the hard thing is .

the summer in that though that you said then have the thing that you like with a pick ball, for example. And um it's like a joke of vich verses on diocles y we have heard that thing. So Andrea racy became world number one, went all the way until hundred twenty, was doing crazy drugs. I hated tennis, little childhood trauma, but was constant grinding away and then they ask jock of IT like, but you is I just like hit the ball and you can find where you, like, hit the ball.

Veris having to go under aggressive de, so aron Alexander, who is my american equivalent of uf, is literally.

i'd love to know what that meaning to.

I'd love to meet you if .

you very, very into body work. Very gay me like, if I grabe is a lot unbelievably gay me like, know that really? yes.

Does the body work? We were doing high side planks. You know what? You've got you up on that and then you've got you rather end up as what was pretty.

Yeah, I M like this. And he looked over at me and he could save greeting my teeth in middle this workout. And he just said, what would this be like if IT was easier? What would this be like? This is a fucking awesome principle.

You are like, I don't need to grip as hard to this thing. This time is when you should do that, you trying to max out your dead left. yeah. But for the most part, what would this thing i'm trying to achieve be like if IT easier. If you don't like your morning walk, pick a Better route. If you don't like the drink that you have to have first thing in the morning, find another brand or find a different flavor until you find the one that you actually enjoy. If you don't like getting your .

steps in by a dog yeah well, I don't think many people like a Normal way. Protein, just to link IT back to my point, buying a loads, people drink away. Protein with the where's clear away. Delicious gender, man, genuinely delicious, right? eype.

So life, huck, to begin with, i'm excited about this because i've been working with a team of accountants and Operational analysts to develop the optimal categorization system for life hacks. And what they've landed on is basically digital and physical life hacks. So i'm going to begin with a physical one, which I got from my partner, which is, if you have.

I love how you have to take the glass of stop fucking down. A business is serious.

If you eat a lot of barriers like me, get yourself a pyrex top wear with a sea lib lid and they last days longer, like they are no longer, you know, you would really be like a termed plum blueberry. That's not kind of a bit deflated a crop. You just maintains that for five, six days because most of .

the packaging for barrie has got little perforations in the top of the seal, right? Is that not there for a reason so soon?

I mean, I don't know what the reason is. I think because like there's a difference between .

this revolution, zed, the very story forever, someone, someone from key or a listening going, how didn't we think about this?

So this maybe a difference between the way things are stored in a supermarket for display versus at home. So eggs and things stored differently, but barriers give them a try to get frozen.

Boys.

I do, but not quite land as well. Today.

though, I ve got the snap.

Yeah, agreed. I mean, finding the right blueberries is a it's a dic, a difficulty Allene. I've found that you can go super small and that tanning and take your face off, you make you go out and then if you go too big, there's never big and turned and to giddy is what I optimize for.

It's the triangle. Is that so you get to pick two of three. So this taste to and size, and you can only beyond one of the purchases of the china. It's a real shame.

This is the sort thing you wake up and think .

about the i've got a model for .

my second thing, all right, my one. So this is an old one, the og listeners of which is literally like points of a percent that will have heard this one before. So all of this is essentially new to everyone, but it's one that I really reinforced again this year and has just continue to pay dividends.

I would probably say top five, five acts of all time. Well, text your friends when you thinking about them just IT continues to pay huge fucking dividends. Why is everyone everything is?

Is there a limit? So let's say you think about someone five or six times in a day because it's self exciting process isn't once you think of someone, you're more likely to think them again if you keep texting. Gonna be I, Chris.

This is the us. Who had five years old, organized all of his toy trucks. S in a perfect semi circle by size and then color coming out, just to be sure, are we is IT every time that I think about evidently not like use use a filter of, let's not be a crazy person.

So if there there's any programmer or developers .

listening to this, you've actually clarified a caveat quite importantly. But no, just when you're thinking about someone, just send them a message like whatever is we'll do IT all like remember that thing or even just a link to whatever is that we did previously that we surface summer because you think about your friends way more than you in contact with them.

And they never get to benefit from IT by sending them a text saying, hey man, just thinking about you, hope everything's good or a memory about what IT is you're doing or whatever is surface in your mind, IT makes them feel great because it's just nice to be reminded of that. IT makes you feel good because you've unselfishly just bestows some you love on to ever IT is and IT keeps friendships taking over. If, if your friends knew how often you thought of them, friendships would decay much more slowly than they actually do.

And by doing this, you actually reduce that gap between the two things. I mean, this is something you ve done as well, right? This, yeah, trying to do Better.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You are chonita bad with your phone, which is actually being very good with your phone. Yes.

yeah. That that is the tough baLance with the one you've given there of, I try not to be on my phone too much and then I end up in that south of texting back and forth.

But the reason that you try not to be on your phone is not because of texting.

Of texting is actually of if you had to like draw graph, all our activities testing from .

up on the top. It's the same as why you actually got me back in to taking photos of events. I'd mistakenly thought that taking a photo was range because the only reason to take a photo so you could post IT on instagram, so I associated taking photos of things that you enjoyed with being a cringe instagram poster. But it's actually, I can take a photo and opposed to anywhere, and it's my memory for me. So I had to like.

chop that bit off. Very important distinction. Yeah, I have a recurring ing reminder at different catania es for friends to checking on them given a call.

It's atra. So it's like, yeah, G, O, tax from in certain cities IT pings up. It's like I am in london. Get in touch with ali. Get in touch with forever.

So I immediate pitching yourself by actioned this life. I'm attacks from A U sets, V, A, A U. Sets in the something like that.

very soon, at a very strict.

Kate is always at nine P. M. At night.

I think I still need to reply to a message from you from my june. No.

I eyewash .

with the worry that soon as you measure someone, if the replies rait away, now you, that could be twenty minutes back and forth.

Not like your friends no.

I do but that but but I think .

that you have been up at bottom of task is yes.

like similarities of of my art, tex criss and you you're going to you'll reply and then that's IT. We've got our exchange.

but some people this .

post great pilot, I just you know.

i've got a final .

question for you on this. John y is very easy going on this. If someone knows that you have a an internal system for every time someone, every time you think of someone, you have to text them every time.

But does that ruin the magic? I should. That seems spontaneous because I have a reminder for all my friend's birthday and so on.

And some people, well, that's not the same. You know, you not just doing that out of your own cut. Where are john is like, I know I think that's great because you have the four sight.

So I think of having reminders is less emergent. My one is, when you think of a friend, text them like that. Does no at no point in there is there any deceit, right? I was just thinking about you hope that everything's well like you said, what's happening your one is I may see, but not IT depends on what it's like. Hey, mate, my reminder just came up telling me to message you.

Do you say that? Well, yeah, good point. So if you say that the .

magic is gone precisely so you .

want it's knowing how to the magic c, i'm now just onna, check my one every and if you've not message me, I have thought of you.

Maybe I think of you so much .

that I can't .

more than one today, right, George? You can't.

My my one, my one is fuck. Meet really great.

He said, no private job. Yeah, yeah.

That's not private, everyone.

I actually, some .

baby say so, and not for the other five two references. My one is gonna is three, four one. I think it's going to add years on to men's lives, reduced the divorce rate and IT also killed my fear of dying alone.

So um I had very low bar yeah I had this simultaneous sphere for ages. I wouldn't be able to share a bed with anybody because I would constantly get woken up throughout the night. And it's like what point in the date process you bring that up with? Like we're going to half separate beds. So I just assume that IT won't work out. And there was this image on redit for people who haven't seen .

IT then where .

any where a boyfriend and girlfriend tracked their sleep for like over a year in both of the top two are very similar, so faster in bed uh three hours before bed um is a sixteen percent improvement in sleep, getting in bed before eleven P M both of them that was the two most beneficial factors. And then for her a beneficial factor was sharing bed with partner.

And then you go all the way down his list through all the good ones, all the way past alcohol, all the way past like everything bad. You can think of the single biggest thing, a minus twenty five percent score was sharing bed with a partner. However, for me, IT was plus seven percent benefits from IT.

Meanwhile, he's tank. And for context goals, her monstrous was minus fifteen percent. So that him, yeah him sharing bet with the part with her was we were careful with this. Sorry, was way worse than a demonstrating.

Is there a hockey, a gear?

Yes, I know. I really know what's coming at this movie. Do you lead .

Better or worse? A.

I don't. My date is good enough to answer. I'd say IT doesn't affect me OK well when but not with a partner and about it's like in a hotel traveling yeah and that's worse anyway. okay.

So isn't that is not a player? I mean, the evolutionary explanation would be you actually maintain to sleep near the door anyway, on average for these relationships. You're then thinking, if somebody breaks IT whenever SHE moves the duvet, your adjourn y goes up and her adjournment goes down because you, oh, he's that double duvet is the life to do this scandal vian style. I tried that and it's IT is the best thing I .

don't want to. Okay, so we need to really dig into this. You sleep in a king, super king, super king, super king, which is actually only in real size, two singles side by side.

I mean, IT might be if that feels smaller.

it's not big as a king, right? okay? I think a king is actually two singles, right? Any super king? So how would you do? IT? He has a super king bed. Yeah, you can't have two super king device, so you get two double. Do those?

Yes, I decide why you can play around with that. I just really, but we just too.

how do I do? The site is like saying .

on my iphone, I don't know the exact iphone case for your iphone, right? However .

legal, lazy.

Oh, what .

sized do you have? again? See king. But just get .

two superconductors team. Do .

it's .

flow? Think about IT.

It's .

caught in because I really .

think.

I really think that this this needs, I mean, we can put this out of millions of millions of people. I would go as far as to say, probably too double, do baz.

if you have a super king, if you have a good.

what we need is a PDF new, a supplemental appendices. please. All the guys .

who sleep with their girlfriend or wife have to go listen to this episode. Then salad to someone state, I think George said, because of my court is all so on.

that that we need to do there .

and say how we get the device.

I forgot to the follow up, which was then when they track the double deva. IT was the single biggest positive thing for him the day. I seems to suggest .

that i've been in the process of negotiating .

this since the issue. Negotiation.

just that he thinks it's about anti social.

anti social.

social.

Yeah, but I think two singles will do, because what we are in a king, and if a king is truly two single bed starts.

the part I think you're gonna want, I think you are going to want a little bit more. I think queen, I think you're going to want two queen.

two doubles.

two doubles on a Normal king is gonna a lot?

Is a double less more than is a queen.

The amount of band would have .

given to this important the'd be A P, D, A at some point matter. I mean, this is another thing is how do you sell IT to the partner on? My answer is .

just been .

buying the extra deva .

and then just going in .

the .

way and wait. I discovered by accident because I I read that data I didn't do IT um and then stayed the hotel where they was like a blanket, like a do that extra and IT was magical. I went from waking up five to six times a night.

Not they were using think or the ora is made of a custom journal. Try and let's split test this yearly no you just use something that IT isn't some yeah like IT or a all right so lessons first one from you life is .

ready for one loop of life .

x one loop of lessons and keep IT variety good ogi. Just before we actually got to started with that, do you remember was I knew exactly where I was at a set of traffic lights when I tested both of you this years ago. I wanted to do something.

I think IT was called like like lesson, lesson hacked, or like life lessons. He was life lessons. And I was like, why don't we do a series of life lessons as well as life hanks, which is kind of what we going to go through here. And I seem to remember you saying something on the lines of like that, a big shout to presume that was sufficiently interesting to actually, but still, lessons on anybody. So I bailed out of doing that. But a couple of years later, all of the lytic al style episodes that I do like, the hole mozzi style one, the ones that me and George do, if it's a list of mental models, all of that that is the progeny of original what was thinking about doing from life lessons. And um I think he probably wasn't time at the time, but I I reckon now what we've ascend ded to be.

I thought that was you the most requested guests on the broadcast as well. so. According to my brain.

you want to listen to me on the forecast the most.

I would listen to you talking.

talk me all the getting. I'm so my first lesson is actually from equis, okay, really recently, and it's a linked to what George just said. So if anyone's listen to life x from the very beginning, i've been on a real journey with tracking devices, fitbit or a woop borried your arrowing years ago didn't like IT that much. He was, you sum up. But I think what the whole point of all these things is, which was he said something like it's not about how recovered you are or what score is, it's just how much sleepy get.

And I think the point what i've learned from all last stuff this year because we have well as well get on IT, we've had a fairly like daring year where ever realized like if I don't prioritize the recovery side, i'm so focused on the activity side, the training side, the step side, but I never like to sleep in the recovery like was pushed to inside. But having something to just remind you every day, like you should have a nap player, like you taken the piece, like if you keep doing this is going to get worse, worse, worse. So having a recovery trucker or something external to prompt to, like you are not prioritizing this. And if you don't prioritize IT.

it's a problem. It's gonna scope. You yeah yeah you mean this? I'm aware that i'm both the woop and eight sleep partner, so this is maybe not great for my partnership with them, but I can give you the only take away that everybody that has one of those learns you're sleeping less than you think you yeah yeah you're slept less than like it's just wop constant.

You're sleeping less than you think you are hand all that you get from tracking asleep is fuck, I was in bed. I was sure that I was in bed for eight hours. Turns out I was actually sort of seven fifty.

And of that seven, fifteen, my efficiency was eighty five percent, which means I got six hundred and thirty minutes of sleep last night. And I thought I got eight hours. It's just that over and over, over, over and over again what you need to be .

in bed for I I was going to get .

aid you but yeah.

I just it's such a there's a .

good quote on that which I think I forgot who said IT. But there's no such fingers being overworked. There's just unrest.

So true, so true.

Yeah.

i'm yet to find. I'm yet to find a time where i've been overworked.

If just interested, yes, just unarrested.

yeah. If I get a good nigh sleep and train, there's pretty much no amount of work. We have been serious. We finished .

just poured through.

just decided, like this is an obviously that .

I I contact .

to do the same .

time OK guys, what do guys do? Use whip, just win. IT was sleep. I mix IT up. I used.

uh, web. I used ora IT depends on like different periods. If I want to testing to the channel, the one thing that can happen is begin to have like a reverse placebo, where if I have a bad night sleep and then I check IT, I feel like i've had an even worse nights sleep.

I think for the woop uses completely disregarding a recovery score is a good idea.

So that that was a good you said electricity to me. We were working to excEllent in london and you said it's not how recovered you are time I got and and I just I know so simple, but i'm so focused on like that under the day about eight and half hours.

Sleep well, I got, I slept through my flight. Sorry, i'd stayed away through my flight from Austin back to the U. K.

Which means that I eight hours had lasted me for two days. Not good dying all day. Yesterday I got tracked on woop eleven hours of sleep last night.

That's probably like eleven and a half with a little bit of a weakness. But I only forty percent recovered like he get fucked, right? I had eleven hours of sleep last night. I feel great today regardless .

my H V in arresting a fillin proc t you start telling yourself the story that ah maybe and then you perform worse and the studies that confirm that that if you if people are told false, they've slept badly. They perform worse on cognitive tests, then if they just data lead both.

So I I think you the way you've .

done one about IT is great because you ve identified what is the keystone needle mover, which is total sleeping. And there's a lot tracking devices have a lot of redundant data. excEllent.

Um they do have a lot for done the data.

And so my medical training very much drilled into me that you don't test what you're not looking for because if you just do a panel of blood tests on someone who's accentuates and something thing is out of work thing, you've now got a thing that you have to deal with. You don't have a context for being able to put IT into into the context of the symptoms of dealing with. So and IT adds to the bond wish as well as if you if you test loads of things all at once, if you have a smart meter, for example. And IT tells you this is how much energy i'm using now, and this is how much is costume will is not really gna change my behavior, or if I just added to the open loops in my head, yeah, if something that isn't helping.

I like that. I like it's.

yes. So I suppose the summary is put less attention on trucking like the other side of the equation, because you probably do that IT well, pan's his listening, the problem with these things. But if you're the sort of person who was, we would probably handling the activity side and you probably ignore like i'm Green recovered, but I got six of sleep. And actually the biggest change is just just.

just on the lessons, lessons.

So as Johnny said, we've had quite a turbulent year.

but he told about that.

So both, I guess, the main thing is that from this time last year to know the team has gone from two people to nineteen people, which along along with that comes a lot of Operational complexity, a whole bunch of skill sets that john y and I just didn't have, that we have to suddenly develop. We set up proper in about ten years ago, well, fourteen years ago. And we're very much like skip zod d introvert type characters that just like to be at our desks doing our own thing, and we barely even communicate with each other. We just like .

in so we just .

kind of in the whole doing our thing and suddenly it's like, oh, there's a team and we have to learn to let go of a lot of the processes that Normally we'd be handling ourselves. So the lesson has been that when you're especially running a business is like an accelerated version of this. I know you've been thrown into this is that it's as James clear as it's a vesle for self improvement disguised as the money making up the Price. The it's the the biggest driver of your personal growth because IT comes in and just twin nipples and finds all of the the the spot that you've got your trigger points and IT will force you to level up and to learn the skill sets and to .

grow what is external to you. All personal growth is always done at your own pace.

but the business isn't .

IT forces running in.

Yeah, you're getting steam role and it's like a heat seeking missile as well because IT finds all of the things that would get you emotionally triggered or wound up. So a difficult client or getting working late night or getting stressed about a potential at an illegal case.

So whatever a day more ago, disagree that point.

Fear little go away, fear that little fail. Feel you people down, fear how people think of you. There are turn out.

I turn me. Business is a vehicle for personal growth disguised as a wealth making machine that's fucking in bully .

is that in a time habet IT is the biggest tax um i've found for that is documentation.

So let's say if you write quite a lot about anxiety and other stuff, get full employee you db the count and if you can now go back at nineteen and review those thoughts about how worry you was, an anxious he was and you go, oh and you can see the evidence of you know going have now almost five banks that um IT makes IT a lot easier to then play that again going. Look how actress I was there and I figured out it's constant evidence in business. There's no like instagram account for IT. So I try to create as much documentation. Is that so I especially between you two guys as well to be .

able to share .

IT oh yeah thing remember that thing that thought .

was a massive problem. Be a really good way to do a slack, a private slack channel that just got youtube in where you can just bring dum shit to each other like do dum feeling little bit whatever whatever about today and that's all that goes in there. And that would be the journal between especially we got a business partner can be tougher for the solar pronouns.

I remember it's in my day one, so day one for me is serious shit, right? It's like there's a period of three years where nothing's gone in. This been periods of six weeks where i've documented three times day one is for like fucking out like something really dramatic has happened.

I remember there's it's still fucking in that does this one where the MC for room two, upstairs in the R N B room, a voodoo saturdays at riverside, told me that he was leaving to go to a competing clubman in sundered land. And I felt that that was silly enough to put in my fucking day one right. That was the beginning of the thing that was going to be the snowball effect that would cause that. First of the like, asian sock wasn't gonna come anymore because he was their favorite MC. In the after, asian sock went, obviously, all of other dominoes were going to tumble, and I was going to be homeless alone on the street, and I was going to get .

glitterin tolerance and .

living the bridge. But not perfectly appropriate because at the time you are just reacting to the circumstances as you find them. IT was a hot button for you. Like that's the thing that tapped into this golden thread of like i'm going to be under a bridge, i'm i'm going to get gluten tolerance, i'm gonna all it's like so that was like a real hot button then. And as you said, great to come back to that be like .

have seen day one has this feature of the on this day feature? yes. Yeah I just I don't have an adventurous so I try and use IT. I I just after medical, I just.

right? What's on my mind? And if you just always want this very much, always if you did enough enough as a on this day, on this day, eight years ago, ten years ago, twelve ve years ago, and just like got to so many like recurrent things.

I have to bank both of those comments for my next round, because you got a front running one of my other lessons.

So again, like one of the worst life episodes is when two different people arrived and had done the same life out. And then, all right, so my first one is cool that we're got this sort of human centipede of ideas coming on here the um this is from you, which is max content razer. Would you consume your own content? If not, don't post IT and that inspired post content clarity, which is your content diet should be spirlea for the soul, not fast food via mic dollar.

And um what I realize was that when you're consuming anything on the internet, it's almost always IT IT tends toward the limbic AI jack because if IT didn't, you would watch something else which was olympics eyes jacking, you know I mean, so during the moment of consuming pretty much anything this podcast included, you are a bad judge of whether or not that piece of content is good for you or not because it's just compelling. But what you can do is have a sort of pillow talk post tidal review of how did that particular session of youtube watching or tiktok drawling ling or instagram browsing make me feel almost that any anything in there that is Better or worse. And if the stuff that continues to come in as worse, like unfolding, not interested in this channel, don't recommend me again.

Does all of the all of the social media have a way of down voting as well as up voting, uh, channels? And you can get rid of them. You can hide them from your feed.

You can do all the rest of the stuff. And if you hide something from your feet, it's time, amount of that entire worlds are that created just die, right? It's exactly the same. So on following .

great isn't IT like there are people who just they always come up on your feet and they annoy you and and follow .

them as or even muting you know, if you can't if some you know, interpersonal reason why you can't get away with the unfolding just muting accounts that you don't.

I had this when I always struggled instagram download go back and four for that. And I had this realization one day, like this. Three full question of light.

Did this educate me? no. Okay, move on to next question.

Did this like entertain me or make me laugh? So it's like now in outrage, saying or a funy, but meme IT stays on if no moves onto the next list of do I want to see this person in the next six months if no mute and that IT takes about twelve hours of pro once all like a day and a half of pruning just whenever you're on. And immediately the news feed is infinitely bad.

That is the one thing about the people complain about the four u algorithms that they are filter bubbles. But you can also create a wonderful filter abble. If all you do is like photos of dogs, you will just have a feed of dogs.

What we're training the algorithms on what we actually want. But the problem is that what we want in the moment is not what we want to want after the moment. Retrospectively, we wish that we were watching more of x oy as ad.

One interesting thing, I think that happening with youtube is I think they have time based recommendations. So different times of the day, different things get recommended to me based on my viewing habits. So I tend to listen to world war two documentaries, which shame gillers calls early onset republican, like being getting interested in history.

Documentary is like you, if your man starts watching world war two documentaries. IT is a gateway drug. It's early onset republican.

And but I did that, but I only recommends them to me at night. First thing in the morning, it's not middle of the day. It's always ten minute to fifty minute videos I can watch with my lunch.

So again, just train the album but yeah um and then for the content creators of flagged content creators out there, this is something that i'm battling with at the moment. There are ways to play the algorithm and there are ways to add value. And there are things that you want to do.

And between within those three prongs is some baLance of what you have to do. You have to play within the limits of the algo or else you're just going to be shouting into the either, but you don't want to be completely controlled by because that's your audience capture. There is ways of having impact, but you can sacrifice reach and what you want to do.

And then that's also that's kind of a more virtuous version, but still a kind of audience capture. And then is what you want to do, which can be like just total solipsistic self. Master bati congratulates ory glory, but that also not playing the game.

So somewhere in all of them is where you want to be, but not leaning too far to just what does the audience want and what will get lots of plays. Because if you wouldn't consume IT, what the fucking you doing? And I realized this, that the live shows, that I was doing this tour, I would happily go for a beer with any of the people that arrived.

And I know for a fucking fact that there are tons of podcasting ers who could not say the same, like they're not making an audience of people that are like them, or people that are cool, or people that are interesting. And every single person that came up to me was like fucking like a happily like go train with this person ago, for a coffee with this person or whatever they are interest in. They are killing IT.

They're all in good shape. They're like cool or whatever in some form. Another, and would you consume on content? If not, don't post IT is just IT slicer is through all of the bullshit.

Do you think do you think the people who listen to your pocket are you but like a previous version of, I think like you have to make content for what would five years ago, Chris, listen to IT will watch rather because I I see what you wanna watch now this is probably .

a bit different, right? So yeah um but I also think that if you are posting what you ten years ago needed, IT wouldn't be a few steps ahead of where you want and so you can still frame things in the learnings that you've had. You know all of us have been shaped by your time a big for accounting firm, your time as a doctor, your time in a bunch of different agencies are moving to london to go do this thing.

So you talk where you're at, but you frame IT with where you've been. And I think that that helps people to get along steps. This is an ally, adult thing where he said, you don't want to teach people who are ten steps behind you because you can't remember the problems that you had ten steps ago.

You want to teach people that are three or four steps behind you because IT gives them the path. IT allows you to still be within the preview. But this is, you know, a reason for tracking the journey.

Again, we said about taking photos, about noting things down, because if you don't track the journey, all of those learnings are just lost. And you can't remember the things that were only sAiling to you five years ago. Revolutionary, because now they're taken for granted.

You see that with, like, wealth gery so that grand cardin saying, oh yeah when you are buying companies you really need to think you remember that this is a it's like for a regular person of the street or talking about how you gonna um rent your fourth holiday home in and order like IT it's stuff that so far removed from and it's like agree with life yeah you like, will what do I do with that? yes. Do you think that a possible press evolve the cause? I see a lot of youtube, but they will have a second channel for that kind of monologue.

E they think not just .

for them to scratched the h of content, they want to create what .

they want to post on the other lots of second channels that are also like like that. They still done add value. I heard this term a little while ago probably do goes to help spin this up, uh, growth, hacking, relatable ability or speed running, authenticity and a lot of people try to do that.

It's like what what are the ways that I can make myself seem more authentic than I am? But it's one of these things that just it's like the speed of light, like you are as authentic as you are authentic and trying to growth hack authenticity result in you seeming even less authentic. The brian rose effect, right? Like fucking shadow boxing under a bridge with degenerate skateboarders looking for a bar market in a bush.

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George, can I tell them the story about that day? We did. We are. No, yeah, go right. okay.

So well, what are we here for? What were we in town for? OK? No, remember we were came to lend. We've been back and forth so many times, we came to london for some event, and we had a day, and I had some mushrooms with me, some image c mushroom capsules. So me and George decided to do two.

We, we double bubble bang bang, the world's two most advanced virtual reality experiences, jeff wain's war of the world at dot, dot, dot in london, and then the tower of london, virtual reality experience. Uh, we did those back to back on mushrooms. So if you think that mushrooms is crazy, mushrooms in V, R.

with a full look like .

cast of actors around you for two hours, twice in the same day, was just fucking mind enough .

to ensure a psychotic c break.

I think the dosage was pretty often. And I was seven, not point eight, kind of like, just like nice little fluffy. We made everything, so something to do.

but .

some mushrooms, so we can go to A V R. I flip a coin, right?

So similar .

yeah yeah is fucked in brilliant day.

right? europe. Um I want so um related to the chat so far ah so the content raised about that is very midwood.

It's very what is the simple answer that works. And the big thing for me this year has been the midway name. I'm quite obsessive about the middle me because i'm a midway.

I diagnosed myself as a midwood. I'm a recovering midway. I think you have to say publicly to start recovering from IT. And I did something that was quite midway.

But I think IT ends up working, which is like trying to figure out an algorithm, that movie, to the guy on the left, to the stupid guy on the left. Because if you trying to be the genius on the right, that's what the middle does. Where is what you want to do? Is simplify IT down of, rather than a complex content strategy of scheduling at two thirty P.

M. Every single day in this editing strategy for alex homos. Not would I consume this? So the middle algorithm basically is what we spoke in the first episode a i've kind of completely neglected that, which is just basic inversion.

So the biggest take away from me is, so let's say I got at three examples here. So one is writing, one is writing, the other is e commerce um or like an international business. And the other one is happiness.

So for like writing that the obvious middle thing would be to consume the best writers of all time and find out their specific morning routines and trying to reverse IT backwards verses with inversion. You just say, if he was to make sure you was a terrible writer, what would you do? Well, the first thing you do is you wouldn't write right. The second thing you would do is you would write inconsistently if you ever did. And then the third thing is actually what you set them, which is you'd write about things you didn't like to write about.

I think you would do things that make you feel like a making progress toward writing? yes. Aren't writing? yes? exactly.

And all of a sudden, via just inverting, you found out what the guy on the left would say would be like, right, right, consistently and write what you like. And then even internet businesses, where I see there's a lot where people have these complex dynamic flows to this chat board that then moves them through this A B cycle verses. If you went okay, you wanted to guarantee an internet business would fail.

What would you do? Well, one, you'd have like the world's worst margins. So you don't make like what like not point one percent margin, but give you the worst margins possible. The second thing is there's like no repeat purchase. So there's such little L T, V and and also the average age of values tiny and then they be like a zero principal, which would be like you're selling shit sandwich es. You're selling something that nobody wants to be selling shit with.

No margin, no repeat, make IT really hard to buy.

make the site too late down the list. But it's just right now shit sandwich with no margin, no repeat.

Customer thing is shit sound, which is got a bit of a new appeal. The nai milk. Did we talk about that? I was correct me for if this brings a well, you got so as women start doing photo shoots with nazi memory beila all around her and she's got her feet and milk and she's baths in milk and then bottles IT up and sells IT online as nai milk .

and caught a decent pretty about those are things .

that people want.

actually wanted to buy anything, something that actually .

sponsor. So and then happiness is another one where people are doing such like complex strategies for that and going to peru and taking eye again, the time in a place for, but if you had to make somebody miserable, terrible sleep, terrible diet, exercise and terrible people, and midway, the way to find out what the guy in the left word be is just to invert things round and avoid the top three or four.

What is the opposite of success? Actually.

what someone .

that was going to run a terrible online fitness, bit like if you wanted to try to make the worst online fittings business, you could. What would be the three things to try to do? Do .

them? yes. But most smart people will get caught up on the sixteen smart thing for success or not along those things, including myself.

We we have a phrase which is just stay stupid with the advice. So stop trying to make something complicated, like what stupid person they wouldn't understand. The complexity, the difficulty is, I think, convincing yourself that the stupid advice is actually that because these examples of things where IT seems simple, but IT actually is the wrong thing to what like.

And here you gona ask me, okay, so go in training chest every day. For example, I wanna a good shape and he's going to train chest every day. What do I like to doing? I like training chest.

I'll just do pet that every day. That simple advice. But it's probably not the best.

There's a level of being informed. You you need to like get just over the it's like a White pt mentality, right? Like the White belt actually does know.

So all the ship that you learn when you first start boxing, like here, is how to throw a good job. Guess what? You're going to throw a most stop during your entire boxing career jabs. But then when you get to blue belt syndrome, a purple belt syndrome, the equivalent in boxing, you like, yeah, well, it's all about like my back off hand up the cut, think that's really where I I like. No, no, get fucked.

This is the way to figure out out is that you look out, what are you a black belt in now? And then think about what was I trying to do? And I was a White belt, and i've just come all the way back to basics, doing the basics consistently well.

use of how one which was someone asked, you have recently like what? Like what's his recommendation for prety workout nutrition? And he was like a like coffee and some like honey on toast or something.

And is like, that sets on both sides. The coffee in loney on to, it's the first thing you try before you do. You first i'm session and then you go through all the like .

gi but i'm going to .

train or some honor to coffee. I don't .

trying to find, but it's still informed.

Tell you useful. What's mental about this is that the first ever episode that me George did in your old, old, old, old offices at social chain, where we did inversion. How do you make? It's hard to work out how to be happy, but it's easy to work how to make a happy person and miserable. Yes, this is one of the most painful things that I ve had to realize, which is many of the questions that I strugling with now exist in podcasts I recorded on at some point over the last six years.

getting front run again.

But you know but clearly .

very similar to twenty, twenty three.

So yeah, I mean, it's been I think maybe you just get disquiet by less stuff than us like you're psychologically more stable, I think, than both of us.

This is the trend of noticing that, like here we are coming up with these half formed ideas and actually algorithm, the full process.

There is something to be said, though, about making contact, forgetting that you made IT and then IT coming back to you. So like I said, so David, and where from founders recently tagged me in something where IT was these two kinds of people in the internet um one that doesn't understand the scale of the internet and the other the other of people that know they don't understand the scale of the internet and he then quote to me and I like, I didn't realize I said that I that's good so this is way back and found that I got I did say.

right so there's two ways that this happens as well. The first one is you get caught by someone saying a thing that you forgot to eat, said that's level one, level infinity is you get quoted by people who attribute quoted to you that you never said, because IT seems like IT fits. So i've talked all of you guys about this before.

But churchill and drift is the name of the phenomenon. Whether unattributed quotes get attributed to churchill more and more over time. It's like what you want is to develop like William, Sonia and drift like you want to insert yourself into a niche whereby its people go. He said that that sounds like a like a Chris walliams and thing.

going to be very careful with the other Chris Williamson.

Yeah, well, you know, this is also where would be used to have a Andrew tate desk army of vietnamese. We purposes just starting to post quotes with like unattributed, but like suppose to the attributed to Chris illian s and to create the trend, I told you begin that sunni, that's great. I really like that one. Is anything else on inversions .

that's IT just um think of the top three to five things flip IT around and you've figured how to be the guy, the left and you will forget those things time and time again.

They are joining the either guy on the left. Am I on hacked .

lesson? Hacked.

please. Take take, here we go.

Here we go. So i'm get i'm personally invested in this one. So yeah, this is this is now an address ad for tick tic for me. Forget the fact that .

there's a few million other other news.

Don't say anymore. sorry. That's all right. Don't worry.

Is IT now just news? I think we've done Christa to take a .

way fucking left me out to drive, hang me out to dry. Would you like to tell? yes. Would you like to tell the story of what you did to me?

Well, I mean that I thought at the time, Chris, I was doing the right thing. Okay.

I think I just listen to my sixteen.

The problem is this, and we love you very much, but a lot of use of software recommendations come from a like a nih bean .

mentality. They come from a very dry .

roasted bean mentality.

call I doctor everything, which means some of some of its sticks and some of IT doesn't. The reason is called bean is instead of like microsoft word, you used software will bean, which I used to use.

No, IT was some really lightly open source text editor just to check, have you got youtube premium yet? But I need this. So what was the question that I asked? no. Have you still got the argentinian version for, like seventy .

month through A V P? But that that you spend how much money for you on youtube beds?

Can we just say the argentinian youtube? Let's not skim over that because that is beating. If I have a saw, one that is near and dry roasted, don't you .

worry .

her baby OK.

So all that is to say that when when you have says i've got this way of software and it's good, you just let IT you let IT summer for at least and ninety days there and then ask him again. Take ticket is one of those things. It's a calendar to do list habit tracker.

anything else? P retire .

or retirement. Does that always such a thing? But the thing is given me is which is a .

little bit going against.

you have a knife, had a debate, a long time of a high treat calendar. You should put all of his tasks in his calendar. And I just put event in my calendar and then delete them and then delete them, old person. But I I recommended only focus you five years ago, four years, and you've been using his hand.

I've been locked in. I've been grandfather in. I even took Peter arch's course on IT. And then I brought Peter arches on the show separately.

You know what I respect about you, Chris, is that like when you say, okay, i'm gonna take on this recommendation, you really.

yeah, you you are one of the least flaky .

men i've ever met.

What you saw me doing the killers rehab when we first went to dubai. Mani, do that, that would. He was laid with my thought up.

boring. We went to a.

we went to to buy. And George's lay by a pool. Like reading, like, like throwing monger courts at me. And I am, i'm over there doing five second decently. C like single leg salas raises .

when you did the mgi bic three, I used to thousand, thousand.

thousands of hours i've done the dog and side plank and mil, cul up. Do you regret?

IT not the one.

No, I now have a spine that that function that works.

yeah. So the thing I remember you saying to me, like i'm doing my weekend of you and I hate her and I hate and I just kept saying, just still a is good take, take makes that easier. So I basically just every nothing the hack is nothing leaves the inbox without a date attached to IT, but it's not necessarily a date.

You'll do the thing. And then all you have to do is look at the today of you on take, take when you go down at the start. The day I look at there's a batched box at the top, I either dragged IT to a time slot to do IT that day, or I review IT chancellor deleted delegated.

Do you have a group view on tiktok? Can you send me to like.

you can email things to his inbox, and he can email things to my inbox.

You be, you can view each other.

others not check list.

right? Okay, that's prety good. So if you're working on a project together, you could .

delegate tasks, conversing.

Can you a good example of separating planning from execution? So you have the planning time, and then you turn up on the day and you just work through the time.

It's something I change my mind on this year, big time. I thought I was terrible, tried IT didn't like IT got rid of IT. When back to only focus.

but you just then move to things. Three.

don't get your prior. It's it's web. I tried .

the whole the inform get to switch to things. three. And so I made one of you in such satellite delay from you. I'm Douglas murray in the gaza strip. Like waiting for peer Morgan.

like which just got pocket all some way.

Yes, yes, thank peers. I've got you like .

that's me in .

a fucking for get right. I you've both promise me that one of you will sit down and and transfer well, I wanted to get the best in before you sit down and personally coach me through IT. And I feel like to be honest, I feel like I should be you because you yeah cause me with three years of the most advanced task manager in the history, IT is is just like, yeah you I put you .

right in the deepen and I want to you on me hos they just want to it's quite interesting .

with like social networks or apps a bad view. They quite quickly get a mode like instagram.

Face always gone, guys gone. He's bail out right? If you you have to be at least partly Christmas. So they um .

you have that instagram, tiktok, facebook, youtube, the only reason is ticked up really come along. But with productivity apps, there's so it's so such decentralized and so much turn from product to product. People leave. But I do like what you said that about the life. I do think you that the problem I often have, life facts, is if a friend has just died, one, you need that cooling off period, because that's the time when I was a loud, but come back in that the matter life fact today, which is wait at least ninety days for.

did I send you that thing the other day? That was poor bloom, caesar, someone else where IT was like, i've just learned about the recency bias. And I have to say, out of all of them, is my favorite.

very good.

And when someone .

says to me.

he SAT reminded in teco.

yes, many days are so the .

most enduring life hack. You guys will be no stranger to this. But I feel like since we've this is a new audience seeing this, it's got to be altered.

wow. So Alfred .

is one of the O. G. Life hacks, and I have gonna be one of the heaviest est users.

So i've checked my starts. I've used at four hundred thousand times, four hundred times a day. I, four hundred times a day.

I invoke out for four hundred times a day. Vote IT is him. It's a twenty dollar a piece of software like spotlights that genuinely, I would pay four .

figures for five.

five.

They fared on color.

They could have me over a barrel. So, Alfred, developers.

please don't I remember when you change laptops, you said the thing you are most concerned about .

changing preferences. Yeah, like IT is a busted. I had to go through IT with you. IT feels like walking through a trigger using a computer that doesn't have offered and i've worked in the end of dress and not like.

so did I come from a conversion rate optimization background? okay. So Alfred is the hack. Let's say that no one, people that listening don't know.

So they describe IT as spotlight on steroids. So it's what spotlight spotlights the little magnifying glass button, your .

keyboard on my space.

what command's space opens up any weapons or file or apple, whatever, but offered has a load of extensively as well. So you can, I can control all of my lights, my blue youth clipboard history based in, uh, text expansion, if you start typing a mobile number, text that you often send quite a lot like hello, thankyou for inquiry, bubbly, best wishes, all that kind of stuff you just have at the type of fingers and IT is saved.

What do you use the most?

The clay .

board history? Clip manager, huge. Anyone that doesn't have a clipboard manager that spends modern among any more time on their macbook or the laptop macbook only, as well as a so racist, I love IT. So bigoted, I I love that .

though as well because it's like if you using a windows computer, you've got bigger problems.

Yeah, let me learn you. Let me learn you about this. The clipboard manager is insane.

So for the most part, you can only copy the last thing. You can only pace the last thing you copied. Or as this is, you can set IT up to basically infinity.

But it's like, I think, for me, to the last three hundred and five hundred or something, things which means you can go through a document or a web page and find all of the different things that you need to copy and then go on to where you need to paste them and paste to all of the different things that you need to paste. Full blood manager ah you can even do conditional formatting when IT comes to the snipers, which is the text expansion. So I have an invite message mine bite for the podcasts ers got progressively shorter.

Now it's hider. Can you direct me to whoever handles your podcast invite, please? thanks. And that's I envy three I envy two is when I need to show a little bit more ah how did you say like reputational ankle .

like a sort of a little .

bit 啊 and then I M V one is I haven't updated that in forever， is not short, not huge. But oh yeah that that's only fans, only funds free member access. Um very nice.

yeah. So i've got a full guide on that as well that kind of to walk through, but just start playing around there and you'll figure out .

so many free trial period, I think focus with there's a .

free version, but then the real juice comes from the twenty doll, twenty dollar. Once off, I pay .

five figures for that .

one delta of Price. I think it's you pay five figures for use of set up.

Yeah, I think I set up probably worth in the like high for figure in yeah.

yeah.

Um all .

right. What have I got next? I'll for this one, i'm pretty certain that hold luggage is a sign up and to keep you poor and late wow, i'm yet to find a scenario in which hand luggage isn't sufficient. Now you need to get good luggage. That's a huge mediator of this.

But I was on tour mean, James smith, I did twenty nine days on the road, just hand lugged wow, no waiting ever the luggage to come out the other end always with you at all times are and IT causes you to be a little bit more thoughts with what IT is that you're packing, which is important because what you find is if you've got like to hold luggage is massive. Twenty three key los, unless you're Carrying a ton of condition and shampoo. I was going to say, where do you put your treasure salon? Great champaign, we once went the lid is we want to went to iceland, not the supermarket. The country we want drove to edinburgh, while you have had many gives to fly to iceland. And I tried to transport five kilos of treaty because I thought, I just thought to get IT into .

something smaller. Wo you managed to sweet .

talk the gloves .

on personal as sweet talk .

gas vagon into us.

into a national security threat for iceland?

What a me.

What is this that you brought with you? Um so cheapest thing that I .

was .

the cheapest thing, but yeah whole luggage is a sign up meant to keep you poor light and you can get away with hand luggage journal quite easily. I have a lot of questions. Me liquids .

get travel size containers .

and you run out to buy more when you one hundred hundred million. So I will copy at this. There's a couple of complications.

First one is going to be, if you use spray anti perspiring, very difficult to find a seventy five mill of that, very difficult, lots of hundred five miles, which is fucking infuriating. Don't use a role, not as a fun of a roll on, would rather go for a spray. That's that's a chAllenge, yes, liquids.

but not by an anti person when you arrive someone if .

IT depends how stops you doing. If this is one trip, yes, if it's a multiple trip to know because that's just you that imminent purchasing so you can get you know like twenty five mile spring and just get like three or four or five of them and .

just roll them and you must be doing like you must be washing your clothes.

I I laundry well, but I don't know about you. I the how would do you say like over to window of acceptable clothing to me? Isn't that abroad? I don't have much more than about hold luggage worth of clothes that like nice and cool to me at any one time.

So for me to cycle through that stuff, I would probably be doing IT anyway. And I would just have random surplus pieces of clothing that wouldn't get one. So I don't like that t shirt, like I really love that t shirt though. I'll get that one washed and i'll do IT again. So probably do that even if was in hold luggage mode.

And then what is the what is the hard luggage recommendation?

So before I started spending any amount of money on luggage, I would have said luggage is luggage. It's fucking pointless like why you even trying to do IT. Then I upgraded and got in a way which is pretty good um and has sort of tie down straps that make things like much more organized.

And then I started using dramatic before I was a partner with them. So I bought that stuff and then became a partner with them. And it's just magical, like different sections, magnetic ties, so you can lock things down and push things down, different sections for everything they have a it's called, you got, you got the backpack.

What's your backpack called travel pack? We've got to ones a travel pack in the others of a fucking can't remember IT A I link IT in the showers below but it's just this backpack opens like climb shell from bedsides and it's just phenomenal. So Normative s website just has all of the stuff on that.

And IT is really good. But IT just changes IT changes the quality of your life, having genuine and high quality luggage, even if you're gonna go hold luggage like there's ways that you can like lift different things up. But man, it's fucking its outstanding. Well.

I can IT fit. Spread evo.

James James Smith managed to fit a pillow with because troubles with his own pillow.

what? See pillow?

No, like Normal head pill bailed out of the pregNancy pillow life. A lot of people flying long hall had brought their own pillows. I noticed that I feel like that's probably going to be a future, if was to predict what mind life next year is going to be. Reckon taking a pillow with .

you while you travel. Lower pillar, no flook in hand luggage.

right? Hand luggage .

in pillow.

I S squashed down.

Anyway, that's my, that's my thing. Hold luggage. Bail out of IT, get good hand lugaid and backpack and roller, and you will be able to get away with them.

Also, one final one, if you are travelling and really struggling to space, whether IT be hand luggage or hold luggage, if you want to just have like, let's say, shoes, shoes take up quite a bit of a room aren't that heavy, and you usually don't have space for them, just go into the airport, go to W. H. Smith or something like that. Buy a bottle of water, put your shoes in the bag. No one ever complaints about you taking retail on from within the airport.

whether the shoes before is this before you go through security?

yes. So like literally .

just see you walking into the airport holding .

those Carrying shoes.

bottle of water, ask bag.

put IT in the back because if they didn't allow you on with stuff to eat, purchased from W. H.

Smith or w Smith would not Operate in the apple.

my self airports.

And so my one again, it's one i've done for a wild I put IT. It's spin. It's not fresh this week.

It's been through the filter, past the ninety day filter, pretty much I would be as everyone who's listen to you as well as youtube in the fitness, seeing the track like their lifts, they're track their nutritious theyve tracked sleep over the years. But very, very few people have ever track, let their mental health or mood. So I created this idea that I realized is quite a big thaw, te technical, which didn't realize at the time.

But essentially a you have your mood, so you have zero here, which is worst day of your life. And then like ten here, extasy pill in the system, serotonin like maxing off the charts. And let's say you kind of each day varies between a four, two or six and maybe not a british four or six as a british person, like the worst days of four and their best days of six, but um A A wide arranging once so lets you have a four to a six every single day as soon as you go outside of that. If you go sub for for whatever reason, just have a little you like apple note table like negative mood here, positive mood there, just drop in the day and what the cause was unlike wise if you go above a sixx just write down a great morning of slept eight hours coffee in the system d works that whatever is that calls that to right down to do ways um write IT down and then at the end of the year you have like seventy different entries or even at the end of the month you'll like five or six different entries that you can just be like OK this thing shown up multiple types and it's one thing to have like a bad hand over and say not gona drink again but you then forget come saturday but then let's say you look at the data, you hold on eighty three percent of my bad mood that were enough to register in this table like was alcohol and you can you can put in a little google sheet and you see that that thing that that hits so much harder and likewise with the positive .

moods as well, it's basically woop for mindset isn't IT for mood.

Can I add a couple of things? Here I go. So I love that idea. Um this is the new apple as my a step count as well for thousands, twelve hundred steps, busy morning, but slightly pleasant or slightly unpleasant day, for example.

So I think this is the journal one of the recent I have to find you, but so this is part of the new I O S. They have A A mood trucker with tags. So you can do that natively within apple health.

But also for something that's more sophisticated, you can use exist, not I O. Now that's a logger mood. Can we show that? Can we show that .

to the camera? Neutral, slightly pleasant.

But the reason that I still prefer exist to I O about seven dollars a month or something is that you can pass the data and do a lot of good stuff with them and figure out .

what that sound like. You it'll put yeah export to a CSV lovely .

and IT IT pulls out correlation. Some of them might be a bit experience like on on days that IT rains, you have sex more or something, but that but .

something about the the correlation between the number of niclas cage films released in a year in the number of people who die from, die from drowning in swim pools, like a really strong correlation.

Yeah.

high summer ice cream, ice cream cells and made isn't as the sound of so if you lend anything from those relations.

yes. So I do IT for a lot of the tests that we do. So what i'm testing out, red light therapy or vehicle tone methods or anything like that i'll use, exist to track what are the effects on different aspects of your life and that connects with .

your web in your upper health. You, a stop private web page that exports to a google sheet. So you may, between apple health and exist, the I O, you may find the a way to do this.

this. There's a simple one, which is just insight timer. We seen that I ask you how you feeling and you can dislike five faces like very sad.

But you need to be able to have, why feeling that was that? But you need to have IT in metrics. And then you need .

to able to track trends. You need to the solution. I come back to maid the apple notes table and because I can then write, I can get quite specific about what the thing was that day and then the ability to reflect back on that six months ago, oh, that then trigger the memory of that day. And I can go into a lot more detail verses if it's just purely a score and a tag. IT doesn't ring the same because sometimes that be like a lot of lower effect as well to be three or four things.

Imagine if you had IT all connected where IT says. When you tweet more frequently, your heart rate is higher and then you're like uh OK .

so that's pulling like woop .

data IT pulls everything and like IT connected so .

much that's either really helpful. I really obsess.

Well, again, I think it's about identifying the trends and then letting go of the whatever IT tools yeah right.

John y.

you're a lesson. lesson. Lesson is looking at things in ten year windows. So we as you have mentioned, we gone from two to thousand nine employees.

And the natural assumption would be what did we do in january to make that happen? I actually think it's a decade of work that make that happen. And so the lesson is if you assume that if you just take enough swings, that whatever IT as you try to achieve eventually get there.

And I will likely take a long longer than you think, how focusing on how you can just be comfortable with the mondaine repetitive nature of IT. And if you mentioned this in your talk about how well when we, besides here you are doing these episodes, and norm was listening. So there was no reward.

There was no where there wasn't a little bit like the episodes wing, I guess, but there's a lot of repetition without much success. And then this year, vertical. So if it's gonna take another ten years, how do you make what you're doing now enjoyable? You know.

the touching from the outcome, almost. He's got a bit about this. He says, discipline. People aren't more patient. They just find something .

to do in the meantime.

Yeah, yeah. It's like just find something to do in the meantime. If you assume that is gonna a long time to achieve the thing that IT is that you want to do, and presume that is gna take the ice as long as you want IT to take, oh, did you really think I think that please take. yeah. How could you make IT bearable?

The between now and then, life just takes over. So there's two, two cloths that are like one of them is usual, but supposedly never know. The one is a ggt v concept. The gary v concept is being very patient micro, but impatient micro. So like allows to take ten years, but be very impatient this week, today, this hour, whatever. And the church of thing is success is going from fairly, fairly, fairly without lost these asm, which I think is really not to say where are success, but I think the success for us has happened because we just didn't lose enthusiasm.

IT wasn't like you had a lots of failures. That wasn't a point where you guys were close to bankrupt or anything like that .

beside behind the scenes, lot of failure.

lots of things that we tried like boring failure yeah but you are actually in some ways, even even .

the course you are only lucky in a failure .

when against the like.

really try and try this thing. And I didn't, yeah, you tried this thing, but this, I talk about this in the live show, the like, unspectacular failures and how common they are, right? That like, finish your entire experience of whatever is that you're doing because you hear rocky cut, seen montage and he can't lift the log and then he goes back and he still can't lift the log and he goes back and he still can't and then he does left the log.

And like all all live those things with that. And yours is like you're not even trying to left a log. You just trying to get you Alfred shot cuts to work, right? You're trying to send an invoice through quick box and he just doesn't want to work. You like like .

you know, I mean, no easy way out, just sending fucking .

quick books, invoices.

I've dragons got all the Alfred short cuts.

Yeah, yeah. Better to touch. Tool is completely optimized.

Three, two, those three .

do those. Yeah, I think so. The lessons just assume it's gna take you longer than you think, then focusing on how do I make myself OK everyone want. There's a lot of focus on, especially in our world, in building building business world where ever one's IT now. And if you said to those people like it's gona take ten years, how you going to make yourself come with up, it's it's trying to accept that and come up with this strategy where you still enjoy IT finding something to do.

In the meantime, I guess you gave me instant nausea when you mentioned that earlier. If this, the idea of you mention this, you get to the top of the ladder and you realize the ladder get to the wrong war.

yes. So with the ten years, you are planning out things on a ten year time horizon or how IT can attacked.

it's it's just look at rather than thinking like what's the goal this month, this year. Thank you. okay. Whatever we we need to keep doing whatever we're doing for longer than we're planning to do instead of setting up something that feels unsustainable. How do I make you feel .

so emergent success is something that i've been thinking about a lot. So we had like joker William said this before we started the podcast. I don't even think that we were recording when he said, but he said I asked him about plans, long term plans, that we might be the absence I can remember.

And he said, five years ago, I never write a book, hadn't launched a supplement company, didn't have a podcast, and was basically a grunt out of the army. If i'd had any plan, all of the optionality and exponential success just blew IT out of the water. So I think having long term plans might work for some people in relatively predictable industries of sort of predictable processes. But for me, i've almost largely dispensed with plans that are longer than a year. I can guess where we're going to be over the next twelve months ish, but most of its just emergence.

So free reviews. So we had we had a business to start the year. We we met that in the first quarter. How did how your business the best kind? yeah.

But like, so the plan points, one of one of the a guy used to coach me a power of thing, shifted mike to shara. I don't have not. He shifted like long, complicated paradise ation to just why don't we just write a week of training and then just do that week training until that stops?

Working a year, give or five years, gives people a sense of control. But it's completely .

reacting to circumstance and change.

It's so dependent on the industry urine. So like being a doctor, I imagine it's quite an easy thing to do. A five year plan.

oh yeah, because the whole .

path is laid out ticul ly treated .

neurons or something .

that very dynamic and kind of technology is constantly changing.

expensive and throw no, to throw your shed out of the water. There is no way to be able to hold on all of the there are things and opportunities that are going to be laid in front of you. You literally don't even know exist, right? You know you if you are trying to be a neural gon pediatric neurosurgeon, there isn't going to be some area of pediatric neuro y that you as yet unaware of that's going to be able to be achieved with in the space of six months. But if it's anything with a turn of auctioned in, all of the ship could have immediately europe that.

I've been seen a therapist for just under two years now, and it's been a fantastic decision. So I think there's a lot of resistance that people have to doing that because this kind of an implicit assumption, the if you see a therapist that you somehow broken or traumatized, and I think that keeps a lot of people away from growing.

And you know and it's become, i've noticed, become rebranded a lot in the corporate world is like performance coaching whenever that is just IT is just therapy just rebranded under a new name, what IT basically is. And a true therapy is actually just a mirror to you so that they don't really they're not forthcoming with advice. They're they don't kind of nudge you too much.

You turn up and they just hold up the mirror and show you how much of a twat you being in your daily decisions. And I very much think it's like turbo journal. The difference is when you journal, you are writing within your own echo chAmber and your journal doesn't call you out for being a twat, where as a therion will call you out on your a bulls shit. So that's been really valuable, and I would very much recommend. Like for the sake of fifty to a hundred quid procession, well worth IT.

I've been in therapy as well. In Austin side, I found a friend who did an awful lot of therapy for a very long time and is superbly fucked up. And i've figured if his heritage can deal with him, he can definitely deal with me because I i'm way less mess up than he is. At least that's I thought it's been it's been really, really great.

Yeah the mere thing what ends up happening a lot of time you spent just thinking about your childhood and you just don't give yourself the room any even marginally busy person just doesn't have the room to think about like that conversation you one side with your history teacher um I had doctor paul county on the show. He did that four episode series with huber and a few months ago, yeah unconscious ous mind trauma, all that stuff. What did I living in Austin, texas? So the concept of people being SAT in a sauna whining on about their ancestral trauma, or like about how this thing from before affected them, and all the rest of IT has really kind of put the web lies up me about just not wanting to here, all right, mate, like jogger. This isn't the gogin joko pilled side of me just doesn't want to hear IT, but doctor counties reframed my perspective on that, that there are things that you don't think about that are part of your unconscious programing that your body takes completely for granted, and just sort of grandfathers in as part of the landscape of the texture of your mind to the way that you see the world. It's just this unconscious assumption that you take is truth of fact and it's not and IT wasn't before you had IT and you'd I washed your entire life to believe that this is the way it's always been and IT isn't .

and not shapes all of your micro decisions and the filter that you see the world and all of that, as you say, because of one way that you choose to interpret something early on. So I guess the i'd see journal and therapy, they're all on the same spectrum, is just the one of them is kind of assisted like is almost like you you're using steroids to journal and you're getting more out of IT.

It's like a like a forced guided prompt a journal. Yeah exactly the questions that prompted like I have to talk about that before and .

there's not like external accountability. Isn't that like you you you then because you can choose not to journal one day or you can chose not to right stuff out in debt foot. Tell me more about that. So on that note, and I guess this comes wrong to what you what you say before, I consolidated about twelve years of journals. So from day one, I was a lot more, I use day one a lot more heavily than you did by the sound of IT. And I went through IT, took me to three months of a lot of time every day, to consolidate all of the lessons and journal entry, aries and everything, turn them into a visual map, identify the emergent themes.

This was before in such gp. T could have .

done this a minute. I know IT, but actually I think .

doing IT manually was quite useful if you don't need someone else to some marise surprize.

So I am maked IT out. And IT was phenomenal to see IT just laid out in a very big spatial categorize wave, like, okay, this is what twelve years of journal has taught me. And the ridiculous thing about this is that twenty one year old, you knows all the stuff that you need to be doing now, but you just keep cycling through the same lessons. And it's like twenty one year old version who is shouting like, just do this thing and then couple days later you like the child birth and easier about IT you is fine and then IT keeps coming back ground. And I think until you integrate and do those lessons, the same things going on to keep bouncing back into your conscious ness until .

you process IT one of the worst things to realize, we often get asked all of us, well, what you, what would you, ten years ago, wish that you would know that? You know now, and you look back and you think about you, there's this and this and this. And this is where I see the world. Are these one of my patterns? Almost always those things when I answer those questions are still things that me in teniers time will be wishing that .

me right now you it's once again, but we're looking for the the higher optimization.

the next this you want. I'm more sophisticated. No, no, you are still you and your patterns to steal your patterns.

And maybe this is where the unconscious work comes. And maybe some of the in a doctor poll, county style, like unveiling the unconscious would break that. And you might genuinely have new on novel chAllenges that you need to change. But given the fact that you are still you the things that you were fighting with ten years ago are almost certainly the same things you're fighting now.

When did we do the things you would tell you at your self forecast? You know, I think we should all go back and listen to that.

Always, always tainted be the same thing. I think IT was by big one in five.

three one.

That was by big one. Do five three one. That was IT by big kind to five, three, one may be not the worst of if you had that. In fact, if you heard, if you can count five, three, one as a single word, that would be four words that you could just like, text your last self by bit time to five, three, one.

I found a tool when I was, like, eighteen, that you can email yourself in ten years time. Yeah, like, and I got the email of the day was like, I old. Yes.

what? You still still mula yeah.

very deeping. The muslim .

did you buy?

I might have.

actually, I might have set one for another ten years. Honestly, I can't remember.

I was like motion of nice, looking forward.

getting IT right. We on lessons. We are on lessons, and we are on lessons.

All right. So this is technically one from last year. And IT was inspired by conversation I had to jack countries.

He said, these are the golden years. You can't wait until you've got no stress or worry in your life before you decide to be happy. Because, guess what, you will always have stress and worry and anxiety and problems and issues to deal with.

So you have to decide now that happiness is something you're going to have. And it's that little throw away line at the beginning, which I uses a mantra, these are the golden years is a great hissed. To always think that when you look back these times right now will be the ones that you cherish and to approach them with record.

Y, only in retrospect can we see how beautiful the present actually was. Problems are a feature of life, not a bug. I will never come a time when you have no problems. What do you think that one day you're just going to wake up and seize having problems like completing a video game and leveling up to a map where there's nothing that that's never going to happen? Your problems will change, but having problems is going nowhere.

Whatever negativity is consuming your thoughts to probably want to matter in three months time, in three months, you won't remember the negative texture of your mind or the boring, repetitive things you thought, or maybe even what you were worried about, but the time that you spent worrying will have passed. So you are sacrificing your joy and presence in the moment for a problem which you won't even be able to recall in the future. Immortality would be the only life in which such flimsy with the days that you live for is acceptable.

In your talk, you say everybody has this month of, after this week, things will calm down. It's diet starts monday and naval talks about that is like you assume that because your calendar has White space in three months time, they are i'm gonna be full of um excitement and willingness to just book in coffees with all these people that have haven't been doing for a long time and i'll i'll be able to start these new hobby and start fishing and I be full of jubiLance and willingness to try try new things like no is just you haven't filled up your calendar yet with the Normal mundane stuff. So from a time management perspective and from a happiness perspective, that's been a real .

yeah if you wouldn't say yes to this proposed meeting for tomorrow, don't say yes to IT for three months time because exactly I can be the exact same yeah. You just have to presume that things are going to remain the same in terms of workload.

And yeah, I think just these are the golden years as like don't you know this is kind of, I guess, a little bit of account to some of the more goggins jaco homozygous LED like homos maxing philosophes, which are, you know, you can greet your teeth and now is the time I go to war and like all of that stuff. But so many of the best outcomes that we've all got in life is when we found the intersection of something which is valuable and that we enjoy to do because IT makes everything easy. And in the meantime, that's actually going to be fun.

Like what's the fucking all point? yes. Like if you're going to sacrifice your enjoyment in the moment for success in the future so that when you finally have enough success in the future, you can enjoy yourself like the bus stoles upside down, given that most of all, destination acquisitions can constitute journeys like optimize for the journey, not the destination.

The horse I think of the and he calls at the grandfather frame we had one. You haven't heard that one. I depends on IT is what so IT was. It's like a taminent youtube video he has and listen to a while, like while on holiday actually. And he talks about how he tries to look at life now, how eighty old him would see currently. And you suddenly get appreciation for, like I can like get up to the kitchen and like my back doing her moneys, don't her? I don't know authority, us spending time with my wife who just got married like this is a one a like beautiful time of life. You like look at now and look at that focuses the things on focus is sense things that you take for grounded, but in when you're eighty, when to be the animal and I think that's like a everyone talks about like feel gratitude and I like right down things grave for each morning that that that single video was the biggest of like a like all this stuff. I had spend time doing a podcast when I meet, i'll be SAT there in on my own, like looking back on now, thinking that was so good.

so fun. Are these are the golden? I think it's just such a good, such a good reframe. Just assume that now is the best that your life is ever going to be. And in retrospect, CT, you're going to wish the echoed back in now that whole when I was twenty, I wanted to be a million. Now a millionaire, just want to be twenty.

Yeah, it's like what warm buffet is rich, but he would trade places with every last eighteen year old.

Yeah, time billion.

as is what they call that. Hard to make a profound statement with these glasses on .

IT really be surprising. I really think .

IT works. So one of my favourite ones from this year, which I think by definition IT won't change because it's the jeff bao ism of asking what's not going to change to everyone's obsess with like what's going to happen with A I and what's going to happen in this industry. What however things gna change gonna take this off um but few people ask what's not going to change.

So he uses IT frames and work on, is this technology and is this competition in the communities? All that could happen. But even the smart st.

People, through our history, have a very, very difficult time predicting the future. But if he goes well, what's not going to change? You, like, creates this fake scenario of no customers.

Gna say, can I have a slow at times? Can IT cost more? Can you have fewer choices available? Amazon, then? OK, okay. Those are the things to fox on. And looking at every industry or every sector that you give a piece about, really and just saying what isn't going to change and then just focusing on those.

It's the blow at the electrical tower or the telecoms tower who is just got the liver like he's not going anywhere unless electricity gets subverted by a new thing that smoke onna change one hundred .

percent even like for the the podcast, you could the loads of new things that you can try with spotify and youtube and things like that. But what is not going to change ten years from now?

People want to listen to a combination of guest that they already know and love, people that they never heard of, and topics that they are interested in now, topics that they didn't know that they were rest in in the future. And they want to listen to IT in an acceptable quality of video in video like that's podcasting in a nutshell. So yeah, optimizing for those things.

And is the point of that to get distracted less?

Yes, to focus on the few things that matter. okay.

See, put your attention on the cost stuff and like let the changes and the technology or ever comes to go. I mean.

can still play around with the technology. You can do that. But when people get so caught up, like for example, he was getting so caught up in a new technology, but then delivery speed was getting slow.

And so all people were getting faster or the Prices were getting higher and higher. It's reminding of, oh, there's there's an infinite dashboard of metrics for me to focus on here. What are the ones I should focus on?

He lives that as well. Like he's now just building infrastructure on infrastructure. Is me like multi generation? This is amazon web systems now moving onto bigger things from the the lex episode.

right?

Jenny, europe, pe.

Huck, huck, this is the recent one. Want to told you about recently .

OPPO phone up as a careful about my recency bias.

I've been with window well gone. No, but it's a kind of of all that i've tried a lot of different like screen time, iphone up blocking stuff. I think this one makes IT the simplest and it's cool hay can have like your friends on there. I think that's the best thing about IT. So you can just just like a IT kind of taps into the equality .

to top the leadership as he did four hours and fifteen minutes the other day. May I thought i've got next three .

hours today.

like I .

feel like I do OK with my phone. Saw that not like god.

like it's pretty much different. So yeah ople time blocking .

and they have like preset things like so I have an automated one which is like seven A M til midday is like deep work. And then there's one which is like they do a lunch time, one they did like a last hour of the day, one i've .

custom put mine together. It's pretty easy to do.

I think i've seen that in action. Your state is changing .

on I message s switch to do not do. I think that's a separate thing. I wonder if you could create a shortcut. So almost when you when OPPO triggers a focus block, put you in focus automatically, puts you in, do not disturb.

I think just making the greek screen time hard, right? Like a hard to use a phone properly, like without going struct. So turning IT into a game, making a competitive, I anna, beat Chris.

How do I beat Chris like you? You starting in my life, my phone, I mean, my screen times can trust ed at the minute, but I could leave my phone away during this part the day I could not have IT with me. Then, like, I strugling to think i'm i'm going to be too honest, impressive.

I'm bad. I'm bad. I don't worry. Did you just have like a give give me had a couple of good days, but it's also like new APP effectiveness, right?

Something news come in that's just obliterated .

my ability to be like the path of the rivers. I we going to divert .

IT around this way really .

a just so ah exactly. I'm gonna st. The bank eventually. But right now i'm in this beautiful golden IT .

gives you a little James each day as well you noticed i've got loads, yeah, look excited. Are about not using a phone .

OPPO good cock good. Pro eype ren Doris.

who are think you met few weeks ago, has changed the way that I structure my day with the six alarms principle. So I set in multiple alarm throughout the day that sounds so stupid, saying IT a lot, but we've realized over the last few years that you have to treat yourself like a child to be able to get anything done. And I now set alarms at midday just before shut down, shut down and then like bedtime routine.

So what they do is just create this kind of book end like A A wall in the day. We is like, okay, this block of time is now over. You're into the next phase. You're into the next phase. And IT stops me from just kind of running on and just working late or ignoring my own arbitrary boundaries.

And I think when you're self employed, that becomes so important, especially shifting from what we've done, which is going from full time employment with a clear clock on and clock off into an officer or into a hospital. And then it's like the time is very clearly defined for you. But suddenly when yourself employed, there's no boundary on your time. And you could just if you if you have the disposition like us, you would just work infinitely and end up working late and then stealing time from yourself because then you wake up late the next day and tired and will start day and to catch up. And then so IT just avoids all of that with a simple alarm.

Or why you have six.

I actually have four. Uh read says you can he he says you can pick a number that's not not so many that IT divides the day into l like a ridiculous number of blocks. But I think it's important just pick time time blocks that makes sense for you based on when you want to start working, when you want to stop and work back with from there.

So you start to start the end of day and then alarms to like book mark that like where should I .

be yeah and IT stops you from then just being like i've got quite a bit to do today. I'll just work bit later because it's like, oh, no, there is a hard deadline to the day now so IT forces you to then filter things more aggressively and do .

everything gets parkinson's load yeah, yeah, that's nice. His anti morning morning routine as well of just stop writing within ninety seconds of opening your eyes is.

I have been really good.

It's really good. This book IT .

looks like .

gone flow, flow us.

Yeah, I like, I like to switch between theatre and delta.

Yes, i'm going .

to go for art. fuck. Sleep token is my next life that the album they abandon.

I guess halfway between the technically referred to now is come metal, come, come metal. It's like metal that you d have sex with, so like them low. Oh, wow, called come metal anyway.

So sleep token, or a band that been around for quite a while, they managed ed to do at the start of this year. Five tracks released from the album. Each one of them made IT onto spotify most trending page each release, like every fortnight for three months or something as a metal band.

But calling them a metal band probably does them at the service. It's got kind of jazz in there. It's got rap.

It's got RMB. And IT is, I would say, the most complete album. Take me back to eden is the most complete album that i've ever heard my entire life. And it's just at their phenomenal and I was listening to them in the gym and you're thinking about life acts for today.

And I realized that across the last year that all my top five songs from spotify rapped to all by on the album that are all by sleep talking that all from take me back to eden and IT, listening to music that just makes you so happy and is useful for upload your mood, making me train harder. Getting you into a good state. Just that. So sleep talking. Take me back to eden talking.

I'm up there. You sent that album to me when I dismissed IT twice. So I think IT .

takes a couple of times Better. And four, did you really yes.

just if I think I was expecting something very different, it's very different. It's fuck brilliant but it's very, very good, strong, very good um my one .

so um yeah this is one that everybody knows about but not to the level I think i'm going to suggest. So mean a ChatGPT of developed quite interesting relationship, say the least. But basically um what ChatGPT is along, but I don't think realized yet, is you can basically go to like level one of every single video game.

So what I mean by that is I went lie to be things that people would speak about who were a lot smarter than me. So people discuss laws of physics and they start talking. I be like nodding my head. But I didn't actually know what any of that meant, or like any kind of rudimentary concept that I just as own now at school.

And they immediately it's like level thirty seven or it's like they talking about level a story season twelve, episode four of friends at the six minute mark and I have no context of who any of the characters are in the ability to go into ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a useful feeling like dynamic on the edge topic. So if you were learning tiktok ads, IT wouldn't be that great for IT. But if you go on, there could be two examples. So like David dochters book, the beginning of infinity already, and it's quite dry, probably just below the I Q fresh hold, where I would like the I Q market fit for that book.

And what I would do is I prompt T G P T A 那个 O K um I want to know the ten most important concepts from this book won by one， and do not move on until I say, I understand and I would just sit there, exit prints the first one and I go, I don't get that word there and I don't get what you mean by that and then I sprint something else out and I go, okay, explained like a smart, tiny road. 对， 对。 And you get to the bottom of the basement.

You got I get IT, wherein the book, you'll should you'll be getting IT, getting in IT. And then they'll say a concept that you don't fully understand. And then he moves on.

And then that concept is like the the foundation for all these other stuff. And you just check out and the ability to use ChatGPT for any kind of foundational topic and say, with an ipod showed me the other. You can use the audio version as well. You can speak back and forward to IT. You can you look at, you go I can understand anything that nothing is too intimidating if I use ChatGPT correctly.

So there's almost there's no such thing is not knowing something is just not prompting ChatGPT to the level and the personalization IT can have because I think that's the fundamental thing the education system breaks is um I think the else book back, but you'll be understanding, understanding, understanding. Then you're off one day, you come back in and you didn't get that bit of algebra and they keep going on and on and on. But the ability to get any bit of nonfiction foundational tax personalized to you and doesn't move on until you understand IT is absolutely massive.

With that, I did a math degree. And if, if if you zone out for a couple of minutes in. So the fact that you can, the airports thing I think is massive that you should like. So chat P T have now introduced conversational A I, so you can have an ipod in, go out for a walk and talk to IT about, explain relativity to me. And I .

tonality that that uses as frighting.

Hey, would you like to know more about that?

It's sound's so human.

more more human. yes. But thing i'd say with this is for anybody of listeners, any topic now that you are kind of embarrassed to ask people about, or somebody says something that you don't want to ask, because you assume every smart person knows that. Any topic you just say, explain them about ten most important topics, don't move on until I say I understand and just keep asking why, why? Why explain, like a ten old and you just realize you can understand any topic if .

you leave at all in the same, you have one big thread with all the stuff will learn as IT. Can I just .

quicker and to learn as well? Fundamental problem is google had a little bit of that, but with time, google only got worse and worse. Somebody said something recently um where is like if you google what disease you have, you don't find out what disease you have. You just find out which one has the best you and that's that's the fundamentals of public like google.

This is always the .

most serious one as google as a product is getting worse and worse every single year and ChatGPT is getting Better. And Better is just a matter of until IT goes. But IT is so good for personal education, particularly for historical or foundational topics, any moment of history, any it's been around for a long time, so good. Or even if you're on holiday somewhere and you go, i'm here, tell me the ten most important things about this place is incredible.

That's strong. All right. We've got about ten minutes life. You would do one more round of hacks, or one more round of lessons.

What do you think? I've got a decent lesson a week, all the lesson lesson to this. 嗯， i think this is originally from the book, ten thousand weeks by all the book, all the book.

But defining something I strugling with a lot defining done or defining a productive day. I had a time. So I had this realization.

I very rarely, if ever, leave a training session with unfinished exercises. I finish exercises, but i'm not in the gym for like, stupid amount of time. I like thought about IT.

I've like planned myself at reasonable them are exercising and to finish them. But I almost always end a day with on complete tasks. So I like look at that and you you finish today feeling unsatisfying, satisfied.

So just slightly underrun ging is as simple as that is just slightly underrun ging how many things you're gna do in a day. So create your to do this for like hangover, tired you, because you can always just borrow stuff from tomorrow. And if you, let's say you do eight things a day every day today, you you planned to do six and you borrow you from tomorrow. You feel mind when you finish today. But if you planted you ten and you only do IT.

you feel terrible. There's a permanent dissatisfaction, I think, that many people especially may have without to do this. There are more things that you have to do that you have an infinite number of things to do. Even if you don't have an infinitive number of things, do you definitely have an infinite number, almost infinite number of more things than you can do today means that they will permanently be i've it's not it's like like bAiling out it's and that's enough for now as opposed to I am finished. And that sense of I am finished is a degree of satisfaction that I think we should all be try .

to I have this resistance is like I will, but that means i'll do that stuff, but I won't.

I'll get to the end of the to do something. Yeah, do. And White space. E, if not IT all self with tasks, then i'm pulling short. But actually, if you do that and you have no buff for time, IT just takes a poo that two minutes too long .

to completely. Did I remember this when I snap my a Kelly? I had this very precisely planned weekend. So is the weekend.

A bunch of new tenants were moving into one of my houses, and I needed to get this new TV and drop IT off, and all of the art stuff that was in the back of my car so that the guy that would build IT was going to be done. He was going to be there the next day. But the TV needed to be collected today.

And at that meant that I had to go the same breeze, but already planned because the same breeze was next to the cricket pitch where I was going to play. Didn't action for the fact that wasn't going to be at the cricket pitches going to beat the fucking royal Victoria in fermi, like having A A boot put on. And then I realized as, like, right dad, I know that I just had the most traumatic of my entire life thus far, but we now need to leave the R.

V. Eye and go to saint breeze to collect this fucking television, or else this very carefully put together house of cards is all going to come tumbling down. So yeah.

I got a self fee with you in the hospital. You were in cricket White.

correct? I was I to be cut out of my fucking cricket, my brand new cricket White.

My mom, my mom was just on that.

You send me a picture .

of IT with.

how's the bucky? Because so buggy squeak.

where your color, this is just flash. I left foot drove home from the r eye. I snapped my right foot. My left foot drove home because I was like, I kind of always going to get my car tomorrow.

That's the Better hope of which is the variation way you over Price break. Left.

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has by automatic. Yes, wow. yes. That's possible. Game over.

alright. Yeah, that's good. I like it's just one thing. Like tactically, how do you do that? Like what does that look like?

And tactic so just so you'll learn in your private one to one, but you just I generally will like stuck the morning and then leave White space the afternoon morning. So always takes long ger than you think. And then you I always end almost always end up with a little bit actual time the day you can just take off a few bonus things.

And if you leave with if you finish today with nothing to take, feels great. That's nice. That's like a couple of hundred quitter day in happiness, I think, every day.

So of course, a many lesson from you and a .

many lesson from you.

Mom, for me. Well, we've we've kind of you don't .

have to try make him feel more important than anything you are.

So I learned a lot from George visiting 今天 couple of weeks ago。 But one of the things that definitely clear here is that whenever you run into a problem, you derive a principle from IT. You write about IT include some content to can to solidify that lesson.

And you fail fast with figuring out, like, how can I stress test this problems of the midwife? St thing works very well and the fAiling fast. So I experiences this because George took me fAiling.

Which was excEllent, is like a motoring zed surfboard. And on the way there, he said you save you are going to fall spectacularly in the water forty times before you can consistently stand on the foil. So expect that so that you're not just always disappointed with how badly are doing and having the bar.

That there was great because then that meant that I am not expecting to be good. I can have lots of spectacular forms. And then if you managed to stand on any show any less than forty after forty fails, brilliant feels like a bonus is .

what the metal lesson.

The metal lesson is, pull out the principles, stress, test them and fail. I think .

pricing in failure is so good. Pricing video is when I take before I given listen, because the first time. But that one thing always rings home, because otherwise they try and stand up on the first, go for off and go on a, and then each rap reinforces that verses when you say you are going to fall off forty times in a row, did then see each one as a rap. Or I excited to the next .

time and actually took ten yeah James Smith has a bit about this in .

his live talk where he says he was knocking door to door for n power and realized that every two hundred door knocks he got a sale and then his sales manager was like, how many more sales need for today he said to, like, how many doors is to take you to get a sale? Two hundred I will not on four hundred more fuck in doors and and it's just OK that's the way to bake IT in. It's like just the Price of business basically hundred percent you say are the second one.

The lesson from you is pick a thing and take IT seriously. So that's something that's a idea. But this part one, okay, is this podcast is the testers to that.

We we started our podcast in twenty thirteen. We picked the thing among many things. We didn't take IT seriously. You did an episode with us in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. You will like quite like this and you like, i'm gonna balls deep on this three episodes a week, well researched episodes aiming for good production quality straight away. When you did the raps and you enjoying the process as well, you didn't just do IT expecting the like, oh, I want to epo de, for why isn't this got more easier or whatever IT was, just i'm doing this to master the craft and enjoy the process. And without being able to do that, i'm sure you'd have given up way earlier than you did and way earlier than the what are .

less than all of the pursuits that were all trying to do that. The person who enjoys walking will walk away further than the person that .

has to walk exactly. So those are the two metal lessons, as much as I can say would apply to everything. What's difficult is giving a prescription without a diagnosis. And I think this is the problem with content in general.

The without doing that, your kind of Scott gunning, stop your shot gunning stuff because obviously in medicine use that acknowledge you always have a patient in the room with a symptom, a guiding principle, and you do history, examination, investigation, diagnosis, treatment. And if you shuffle those steps around, you're gonna a really low hit rate. So the the broader principles are as good as we can get.

And then the the fastest way to make faster progress is to work with someone to diagnose, what is my boat neck right now? And how can I then fix that? Alright.

I think I can do one hacked and one lesson quickly because I can do that. The hack is kindle, released this year, the largest, most expensive kindle yet, which is the kindle scribe, which has got a pen that comes whether it's all advertised as and you can use this and will replace your paper, it's kind of try to compete with the remarkable doesn't have the features of a remarkable like it's not IT doesn't have a folio keyboard fold out thing, it's not as advanced as that.

And like how many times are you thinking I I really wish that I could like hand write a note right now. They're also trying to say what you can hand Anita books, but you can't write on the margins or write on the words you have to highlight. Tag a note and then within the note that gives you an area that you can write.

So for the writing area, stuff kind of box. Also, if you haven't got a paper White on the way is yet and still found yourself wanting more kindle, it's not enough. That being said, IT is probably in turn to the screen area, maybe even bigger than an eight four piece of paper so you fit a ton of text.

And I didn't realize how enjoyable reading long pages of texas rather than moving through pages a lot each time that I move the page. There's a non zero chance that i'm going to be like on the top of another page here and there's something about is very enjoyable for me, personnel as well. I have a habit of spinning a pen through my fingers, and IT helps me focus if I do something small that distract a little bit physical energy for myself, i've focus a lot more on whatever thinking about.

So the fact is, always got this pattings ed can do that, can change page with the pen by tapping IT can also highlight very accurately by using the pen, which is something I used that that get through surface to read wise. But like a power user when IT comes to kindle, send to kindle is the way that I read articles. I don't read sub stacks on the computer.

I don't read blog posts on the computer. All of that goes through kindle. And it's just a huge monster piece of kit with a pen attached to a the you can highlight, navigate with and that's very enjoyable, super bright is .

that I can eat in screen or is like ipad.

you can do like the flook setting as well. So but IT is i'm sixty percent of the way through elan's new biography and i'm not even thought about the charge. I've got to eighty six percent battle.

I'll tell what's even more in same way to do IT turn IT to airplane mode, turn a kindle to airplane mode and IT it's it's an infinite fucking a energy machine is crazy. And then just a quick lesson, which is from Morgan housel your expectations to find your happiness more than your circumstances, if you presume that happiness is what you want, minus what you have, like a lot of billion as a broke. And that metal lesson of you can try and dial down .

your expectations.

which is kind of hard. We're all taipei I people that want to achieve a lot and not leave IT on the table, but always just looking for that reframe of look.

Why am I even bothered about chasing this particular thing? Is that just because I won't saw this guy that I used to go to, whatever way D, D, I used to know from this thing who's just done x, or why are there or they are on in the, say, shells, or he's got a for or what, like all of that bullshit just comes back to like every time you decide to bring a desire into your life, see IT as a it's like a corner payment on happiness. It's like i'm going to if I decide to bring this in, i'm withdrawing from an overdraft. I'm going to have to repay that at some point, like really, really carefully desires and expectations because there that delays on happiness.

A great mean for that is like net reality, say when you have net profit like reality minus expecting t reality, that if someone is incredible reality, but expectations are Green through a minus bitter. And that's about something .

you skim over with consuming content mindfully was that you have a read later up, whatever that is, and you only allowed to read from that up. So that stops you from reactive vely. Just reading an article in one of the twenty times you go open instead, IT has to go through your establish system yeah .

by doing that as well. The center of kindle thing that makes you very mindful, it's do I want this on my kindle library page? Do I really want this on the probably not.

And there's always most stuff to read, the time to read IT in. So triggers what you have to read. Send candle, plus scribe, plus pens pinning, plus massive battery time and big screen fucking. I I have to say I also bought another oasis, so I now have kindle next to my bed, and I have a kindle downs that I have two kindle devices. I found that moving them between the two, I would get into bed downs. Irs, guess what? I'm not reading now like i'll watching athletes or or whatever, and the same vice versa for a morning routine and like I slip stairs, i'll just skip reading today like things in places.

I think just one final thing on the expectation thing that like the ted talk where paradoxical choices barry short yeah has to talk think he talks about like the key to happiness is low expectations. And i've always struggled with us with actionable that because the the happiness to increase happiness is decreased your expectations. Do you guys have any practical ways of doing that?

Be careful about what desires you let into your life. Like expectations are always going to be high for when you want, but there's ways that you can tune that up. I could definitely make your expectations higher.

It's the inversion thing. Like how do you reduce expectations? How do you increase expectations? Would spend tons of time on the internet looking at people that are doing Better than me.

I'd see things that I don't want and unquestioningly presume that I want to have those things because the ahead of me in some former another, like, you really want a private jet? No, but I file, look at someone that has one. I go, oh yeah, I should have a private jet and just get .

added into that. If you extend that, it's like OK. So my like, the people I spend all my time with should be like the successful people.

I should find a god said, mean, god sad. Found in this book about happiness is most recent one that a, you need to have a minimum of t of sex, but we in order to be happy. But the best way to be happy about your sex life is to be having a little bit more sex than the friends around you.

It's like the thing of that, you should be more successful than your wife's sister s husband yeah, whatever IT is yeah. And like as long as you're above that Christian jan.

so i've got, i'd do a quick life back in a blush in my lesson. So a quick life fact is most of people listen to this probably or significant about love iphone. And the alarm clocks are designed by apple.

All like guantanamo bay creations from the C. I. A. They are horrific. And the thought that you'd wake up your sleep. But i've tried, if you go through them all, you press every single one, all of them like, that's a nice suing thing.

You'd hear us got a really high attack.

And what you can .

do if you go on the custom tune store and search by neural beat, seventy 8。 So IT is a big investment. Seventy nine P, I found this like, and find the one relaxes you. And it's .

such a Better way if you .

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to phone in your bedroom yeah but I use .

use the lesa and then asked the .

new radio .

alarm clock have been around .

for new year hundred years.

It's about three life had contraventions .

that you all of a lot .

of people listing to this will be using their iphone. And that is a .

useful this is the don't use the phone, don't try to repair, pose the phone alarm to be more successful, get rid of the phone and buy either sunrise alarm clock. You can get one on amazon for fifteen books or standard radio alarm clock five five past .

you know this one called, I think it's called like clockwork now that has whales on IT. It's ARM clock and as as is off riving around .

you to get a one is a math and and solve a much problems.

just something .

I don't I just wake .

up my just go .

back at the .

same time easy that's .

not always .

and lesson and I ve a lesson from little, obviously free back to mongo bezos. This one comes from the gallagher brothers. They know nice. So they have a lyric which hits me everything that I think is the best lorik i've ever heard, which is questions, all the answers you might need and IT that hits me hard.

So essentially, even when I have people asked me for advice now, or even when I thinking myself, or even creating content, just having a recurring question that I come back to is so useful. This is having a specific answer. So you avoid the proscription of mindset.

One of the things um is a this hit hikes guide to the galaxy. And if you heard that and they within that, they create a supercomputer which like supposed to give them the answers to life in the universe and IT just spits back forty two. And it's like because you didn't know what the question was and so many things, I come back to questions now.

So have you read elon's book here? So I mean, I can tell you that right now, this is what IT is. Okay, it's basically him. He comes up an idea, and then somebody watch him ago. That's not possible.

He goes, does IT define the laws of physics? And then they will not text, but we still can't do IT is why? why? why? And then he hits the base level belief in, I fix that and then he goes, also do IT by next tuesday.

And he said, build a rocket. It's it's that it's just him go in. Does IT defy the laws of physics? And then they go now ago.

I want IT done by next friday. It's just, is just a question, does he defy the laws of physics? And then deadline, that that is the one hundred and ic dotes.

Is the book just doing that again, again, again. So does IT defy the laws of physics is a question, one of my favorite things right now. I have friends come to me for advice, and I, after you to, like, get super detailed and give them so much vice. And people ouldn't listen. And I was like, okay, so what I do know is I just like, well, what would you is me if I came to you in the exact same situation?

You diddled me with this in dubai? yeah. Diddly me with that in a uber? yeah.

And IT works, and they come up with something that so profound and personalize that hits home verses me, trying to give .

them generic things in the tourney. Robinson, like, what would he do? I don't know. What if he did know?

What would he be? unbelievable.

Ah what is what we said earlier when we had a quick model ate uh if you have bad breath, you're the only person in the river doesn't know but as soon as somebody else has bad breath, you do know. And IT is the ability when you took them out of that frame and have A A question, it's given them the answer that they needed all along.

And then a few of a favorite questions that I have at the minute, which is where if you meet somebody who's way smarter than you asking them, the question of or what question should I be asking you is a great one. Another one, which is kind of a test right now in where people often end up in super tribal isc thinking of team, this team over here, or this team over here. I can tell whether someone to fall on NPC by whether they can answer this question, which is, who is somebody you admire? You get in times of that is your kind of cut hero.

And he goes, what do you disagree with them on? Or what's their worst point that they make? And then the invert, like, whose somebody you strongly dislike, and what's a great point that they have and you find people who are really high, a critical thinking or a really thought through from both sides can answer that really fast. But a lot of people just let the thought of them conceding a point to somebody on the opposing team that or being able to criticize their gu, the software just hit a four o four error .

very fast of thinking. Gentleman, I really appreciate you coming through um it's been a wild yeah for you guys and for me and for you as well. Although you're less traumatized than we also think you seem to be able to do do with IT more effectively.

IT goes without saying everyone that's been showing in for any of the episodes where you use to see us sitting on this couch. I really appreciate you for tuning and hope you have a fantastic Christmas. Is gna go out two days before Christmas so we can say merry Christmas to everybody. Is mas? Uah.

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the thing out. I appreciate you will have a merry Christmas. Mcat, he son.

merry Christmas night.