EP. 002: Greatest Productivity Hacks? Not so fast! - Part 1

0:01 Hello, this is second opinion with Dr.

0:02 Dub. I am Dr. Dwayne Layman, doctor of

0:05 business administration with a focus in

0:07 public policy. And today we're going to

0:10 have a second opinion on productivity

0:12 hack tier lists. So let's first

0:16 transition over to what we're going to

0:17 be reviewing today. Going to be looking

0:20 at uh Ali Abdal and very good YouTuber.

0:24 You can see here, you know, people don't

0:26 get 6.51

0:28 million subscribers for no reason. Has

0:31 great videos. One of the things I

0:32 absolutely love, and there's a weird

0:33 spot in this video where it blows out,

0:35 but his production value is, you know,

0:37 we're going to do our own tier list.

0:38 He's doing his tier list, but we're

0:39 going to do a tier list of him. He is S

0:42 tier. Um, very uh highly educated doctor

0:46 as well. Um, of the of a different

0:48 variety than mine, as you'll see. um has

0:52 a lot of good takes and tips. I don't

0:55 necessarily disagree here, but I do want

0:57 to deep dive into some of these

0:59 productivity hacks and we're going to

1:01 kind of debunk a little bit of them.

1:03 Most productivity hacks are actually

1:05 just crap. So, uh we're going to take a

1:08 a second here and then we're going to uh

1:11 just review his video. We're going to

1:12 stop uh at each portion and we're going

1:15 to review um sort of what's being talked

1:17 about, what it's about, and then we're

1:20 going to break it down, find actual

1:22 research, and then figure out what the

1:23 hell that means. And I'm going to give

1:24 you my take. And while you're probably

1:26 going to waste your time on like 95% of

1:29 these, and of the 5% that you're going

1:31 to take something away from, um it's

1:33 actually not as complicated or as

1:36 branded as what you think. So, let's get

1:38 started.

1:45 Hey friends, welcome back to the

1:46 channel. Today we're doing something

1:46 really exciting and we're ranking all of

1:47 the world's most popular productivity

1:49 techniques in order of how effective,

1:50 how useful, how life-changing they are.

1:51 I've been reading all of the

1:52 productivity books under the sun for the

1:53 last decade or so and some of these

1:54 techniques are useful and some of them

1:55 are a bit crap. And so we're going to be

1:56 using the standard tier list ranking

1:57 system that YouTubers have been using

1:58 for all sorts of other things. Uh we're

1:59 going using that tier list system for

2:00 this productivity list. So the tiers

2:01 that we're going to play with are as

2:02 follows. We start with the S tier. These

2:03 are the absolutely life-changing

2:05 productivity methods that you literally

2:06 cannot live without. Then we have A4. I

2:08 just want to say I like his tier system

2:09 here. And yes, I have it on 1.5 speed.

2:12 Uh a if you really want to deep dive

2:14 into his video, please go watch his

2:16 video. Um I'll try to get the link in

2:17 the description. Like still working on

2:19 the workflow video number two here.

2:21 Okay. So um it is going to go fast. Uh

2:24 but I love his um his tier list here,

2:28 which is a little more reasonable. It's

2:29 not a tier list on what's a banger,

2:32 what's not, uh and so on and so forth.

2:34 So uh let's go back through that quick.

2:36 life-changing productivity methods that

2:37 you literally cannot live without. Then

2:38 we have A for essential. These are

2:40 really, really, really useful that will

2:40 really impact your life, but they're not

2:41 actually going to make a life or death

2:42 difference. Then we have B, which is

2:43 like useful and nice to know, but not

2:44 massively going to move the needle.

2:45 We've got C, which is nice to have

2:46 techniques situations. Then we've got D,

2:48 which are techniques that might work.

2:49 >> Ignore everything below S tier uh and A

2:52 tier. If it's not um if it's not going

2:54 to be life-changing or essential, it's

2:57 probably a complete waste of time. It

2:58 might be interesting to know, but it's

3:00 probably just a complete waste of time

3:02 >> for other people, but that don't really

3:03 work for me. And then we have ENF which

3:04 are totally useless and

3:06 >> okay so one thing to cover here and what

3:08 he was saying um the works for others

3:10 not for me this is not a tier ranking

3:13 for what other people can use this is

3:14 his personal list so as we review these

3:17 we're not disagreeing with him these are

3:20 what he believes in and and works for

3:22 him um so but we're going to talk about

3:24 what works for most people um and so uh

3:28 before we jump in in any further I want

3:31 to switch over here Um, and I kind of

3:34 made some notes. You know, I actually

3:35 prepared just a little bit. I don't

3:36 normally prepare a whole bunch, but

3:39 we're going to kind of review exactly

3:41 what was said here and what exactly it

3:44 means.

3:46 And the other thing to note is we're

3:47 actually going to cover the each of

3:49 these like two, three, four, five times

3:53 in a row. And so going through what he's

3:55 got over on his video and then coming

3:57 over to our notes, you're going to hear

3:58 about the same thing. Uh, but it's going

4:00 to be broken down just a little bit. So,

4:02 first let's go into exactly uh what he's

4:05 got here. And we're just going to again

4:07 I I do some AI workflow. So, we're going

4:09 to have some AI read this out and just

4:11 go through the notes a little bit.

4:17 Ranking all productivity techniques

4:19 using a tier list. Sier, absolutely.

4:23 Cannot live without a tier. Essential,

4:26 really useful. Will impact your life.

4:29 tier useful and nice to know but won't

4:31 massively move the needle tier.

4:34 >> Okay,

4:35 >> this is somewhere that I agree. So

4:39 everything below is nice to know. I

4:42 actually think that the ENF tiers, even

4:44 the absolute crap systems are nice to

4:45 know because we're going to hear it's

4:47 like money getting money advice. anytime

4:49 that uh you're having money problems or

4:51 you want to do some type of investing or

4:54 um you're trying to cut down your credit

4:57 cards or you're trying to uh save for

5:00 retirement, you're always going to have

5:02 people in your life um who are going to

5:04 offer you advice. And some advice is

5:07 good, some advice is bad. Um and you

5:11 should be familiar with what bad advice

5:13 is. Um and just be aware of it. So I'm

5:16 I'm a little different. I think

5:17 everything we're going to just we're

5:20 just going to say this and we're going

5:21 to delete that right out there. We're

5:24 just going to we're just going to soft

5:26 that up with a a piece of bread

5:29 like gravy and we're going to go all the

5:32 way B through F tier. That's my tier

5:35 system. I'm going to use a completely

5:36 different tier system. Uh let's kind of

5:39 cover exactly what his video is is

5:42 really about. um and and kind of what

5:45 we're doing here, what we're covering,

5:47 and why that matters.

5:51 >> Summary, Ali Abdal's video is a fast

5:54 runrough of productivity techniques

5:56 sorted from lifeanging down to works for

5:59 others and not for me.

6:00 >> Yep. And probably not for you either.

6:06 >> And again, this is this is sort of a

6:08 sneak peek of exactly what he likes uh

6:10 as well. So, you know, uh, building

6:14 systems, and that's one thing we're

6:16 really going to cover here. We're going

6:17 to use the the term system to mean

6:21 multiple things. A a system can be

6:24 anything from um I take I take these

6:26 five steps to do my daily something or

6:30 other or uh a system could be um I

6:34 follow a uh 20

6:37 20 item uh breakdowns and each of those

6:40 break down into separate tasks and um I

6:43 have workflows and I have metrics and I

6:47 have a dashboard. That's a that's a real

6:50 system. But we also have this colloquial

6:53 systems where it's like, oh, I have a

6:55 diet system. Um, if if it fits within my

6:59 field of vision, I I eat it. If it if it

7:01 goes outside my field of vision, I'm

7:03 clearly eating too much. I should not

7:05 eat the entire buffet because I can't

7:07 see it all at once. Well, that's

7:10 certainly a system, but it's not a

7:12 system in what we would call a system.

7:14 Uh but continuing on

7:17 >> speed

7:19 >> consuming content at 23x speed. Yeah,

7:21 we're covering his video that way. Um

7:23 but we're not covering our our stuff

7:26 this way. If you are listening to this

7:27 at 1.5x or 2x, I review my own videos at

7:30 1.5x just to see if uh there's any

7:32 improvements that can be made. One of

7:34 the improvements I found was my volume

7:36 was just a just a just a hair too low.

7:38 And so when I was listening without

7:40 headphones, um it didn't sound great.

7:42 So, um, you know, listening at a high

7:45 speed can be helpful, but even when I'm,

7:48 uh, going through an an editor level

7:50 quality of stuff. Um, I'm not

7:52 necessarily going 2 or 3x speed. If it's

7:54 very common material, um, audiobooks and

7:57 stuff, sure. Um, but we're going to

7:59 discuss that when we get down to that.

8:01 Um, these really are his points.

8:04 the bigger meta point of enjoying the

8:06 journey while he frames calendar time

8:08 blocking and delegation as core

8:10 practical levers you can actually deploy

8:14 much of this framed as works for me not

8:17 universal truth

8:19 is presented

8:20 >> and a lot of times you really you need

8:23 to view all YouTube that way um anytime

8:27 you're listening to somebody who is a

8:29 productivity influencer a productivity

8:31 hacker a productivity maximize or or

8:35 grind set or any of this. Uh experience

8:38 is a great teacher, but other people's

8:41 experience is better at teaching you

8:43 what not to do. Um and what can fail and

8:47 and what we might call failure modes. Um

8:50 I often will talk a lot about failure

8:52 modes because there are ways in which

8:54 the thing you think is going to work is

8:55 not going to work. And that explores all

8:57 the ways that Murphy's law can

8:58 absolutely screw with what you're trying

9:01 to accomplish. Um but back here

9:05 >> the tier list is presented as personal

9:07 effectiveness ranking not a comparison

9:10 >> the format prioritizes clarity and

9:12 punchiness over nuance and measurement

9:14 evidence is primarily firstand

9:17 >> I'll stop there again we're going to do

9:18 this is going to be a long one I can

9:20 already tell um

9:24 when it says that he's he's prioritizing

9:26 clarity and punchiness over nuance and

9:28 measurement one of the things we never

9:30 really cover in this video um that I'd

9:32 like to cover at the end, but I may

9:34 forget, but at least I've got it in here

9:36 somewhere is measurement. You do if you

9:39 are not measuring, you do not have a

9:41 system. Um designing a system, a real

9:45 system, whether it is a production

9:47 system or an IT system or your any type

9:51 of system that you're engineering. Um

9:53 that system isn't designed just by using

9:57 measurement. It's designed with

9:58 measurement in it. Um, a system is a

10:02 replicatable process that's complex and

10:05 requires constant vigilance to keep it

10:08 within the balance to keep it within

10:11 your tolerances. And so we're these are

10:14 not real systems because nowhere in here

10:17 are you measuring the effectiveness of

10:20 anything. So when we say system in that

10:24 sense, these are not systems. These are

10:26 not what we'd call the real systems.

10:29 They're just um uh huristics and we're

10:33 going to cover that as well, but I want

10:34 to make that very clear right up front.

10:43 >> So, what's a derivative authority

10:45 reference?

10:47 Basically, it's an influencer who is

10:50 referencing another influencer, and

10:52 you're you're you're multiple steps away

10:54 from um uh what you'd call ground truth

10:58 or base authority or or um um the

11:02 authors of research that have actually

11:04 done this. And it depends on the kind of

11:07 research you're talking about. A lot of

11:08 this around productivity and this is one

11:10 of the things that I am very uh versed

11:13 with uh with my work um academically is

11:17 that a lot of these are qualitative

11:19 studies. Um and I I don't mean to say

11:23 this in a demeaning way to qualitative

11:25 researchers. Qualitative research is

11:28 necessary for exploring things. Um but a

11:31 lot of it is also anecdotal which we

11:34 would call this video here is anecdotal

11:39 in research. We would call that it's a

11:41 case study. We did interviews uh we did

11:44 language coding. We broke it out. We

11:48 found themes. Um this is what the

11:51 feedback was etc etc. So it's exploring

11:54 what people think and feel. um at least

11:58 within this space qualitative and other

11:59 areas is is different. So art history

12:02 and all those have different qualitative

12:04 uh types of things. But in this area

12:07 there is the potential for quantitative

12:09 and that means you can ask a lot of

12:12 people.

12:14 Imagine that you talked to all of your

12:17 friends who look like they were very fit

12:20 and all of them told you that, you know,

12:23 what makes a difference for me are lots

12:26 of citrus, lots of oranges, lots of

12:29 lemons, uh grapefruits, those are the

12:32 things that really have made a

12:33 difference in my diet. And you find a

12:35 lack of that uh in those. And so you're

12:38 doing this qualitative and you start

12:39 pointing these things out that it's you

12:41 know it seems as though that people who

12:44 eat a lot of citrus and what you can do

12:46 is you you can find yourself in a

12:48 situation where researchers do this

12:51 thing. They do this qualitative. They

12:53 they find what might be a pattern. Um

12:55 they say hey this is definitely an area

12:57 to explore. This gets out there into the

13:00 world or it's somebody who's a you know

13:02 does the research is a professor at a

13:04 business school. They start really

13:05 talking about this. Of course, students

13:07 love making their professors happy, so

13:09 they start writing about it as well. Um,

13:11 these these these study authors made

13:13 themselves write a book. You're going to

13:14 see all these books by Dr. Such and

13:16 such. At some point, I'll probably have

13:18 my own book. Uh, Dr. Such and Such says

13:21 whatever. Um, but then you also have

13:24 influencers and hackers. And one of the

13:27 people we're going to talk about in this

13:28 video, because he covers them, is Tim

13:29 Ferris. Tim Ferrris is one of those uh

13:31 maximize body hackers, time hackers,

13:34 productivity hackers, language learning

13:37 hackers, everything hacker. Um you know,

13:39 it's just kind of it it's their stick.

13:42 Okay, they'll write a book, but they are

13:46 not an expert. They will, and this is

13:48 qualitative, can get to know Fortune

13:50 500s and they're going to have big

13:52 companies and they're going to talk to

13:53 very important people. Same thing with

13:55 influencers. They're going to get these

13:56 anecdotes. They're going to start

13:58 recognizing that they're seeing some

13:59 patterns and they're going to kind of

14:00 run with it. And then you're going to

14:01 get down to this level where, you know,

14:03 we're we're we're we're looking at Ali

14:05 here and he's he's covering what these

14:07 other authors do and their authority is

14:09 that they've sold a lot of books and

14:11 that there's not a lot of uh push back

14:13 and it's one of those uh it may or may

14:15 not be helpful, but it's not dangerous.

14:17 Like nothing in here uh is explicitly

14:19 explicitly dangerous. And so we're not

14:21 really

14:23 questioning this. where I come from is

14:26 I'm a quant. I do quant work. And so

14:30 when I went into performance management,

14:32 uh the thing that I found was there's no

14:35 data. There's not like the data that did

14:38 exist was among managers and people who

14:40 were implementing the systems. My

14:42 personal view is, you know, language

14:44 warning again here. Who gives a [ __ ] If

14:47 you have a performance management uh

14:49 system and you're talking about employee

14:51 satisfaction, customer satisfaction,

14:53 what the managers say matters very

14:55 little. The managers need a dashboard.

14:57 And if you're building the dashboard

14:58 based on studies that are asking

15:01 managers and having them take surveys,

15:03 well, it's a dashboard of themselves uh

15:06 measured against other managers, that

15:08 type of thing, or CEOs or uh anyone else

15:11 in the seauite. That's not very useful.

15:14 And so while these are great idea

15:16 generators, they're not evidence in the

15:19 same way that's it that you you you have

15:21 a hypothesis of, hey, does citrus help

15:25 weight loss? Anyone out there who's done

15:27 any type of um physical therapy, sports

15:31 therapy, or medical research is going to

15:34 look at something like a qualitative

15:35 study like I just said and say, "Okay,

15:38 where was it?" Well, was it in Florida

15:41 or was it in Minneapolis? Access to

15:44 citrus might be a little different

15:45 there. Also, what are the demographics?

15:48 Were all the people that ate the citrus

15:50 younger? Were all the people who didn't

15:52 older? Were all the people who did eat

15:55 citrus men and all the people who didn't

15:57 women? There's a lot of questions and a

16:00 lot of variables. And what that's going

16:01 to come down to is a factorial study.

16:03 That's the that's the that's the [ __ ] us

16:06 nerds do. Okay? It's that you need

16:09 somebody to go h what's the data really

16:11 say like does is it really matter or you

16:14 know maybe you just happen to find like

16:17 the citrus loving fit friends um and

16:20 you're doing like a snowball study which

16:22 means I'm going to ask Bob and hey Bob

16:24 thanks for the survey you got anybody

16:26 else you think would like to take the

16:27 survey and he gives you a couple numbers

16:29 and you go call them and you ask all

16:31 them the same thing and you kind of roll

16:32 this down the hill like a snowball and

16:35 you might actually wind up with a cohort

16:36 and that's what we call people who are

16:38 kind of, you know, they're they're your

16:39 bunch. I I made this bunch and I'm going

16:42 to do my study on it. When you get into

16:44 quantitative, you've got to have this

16:47 very exact. That's why we you always

16:49 hear this thing about randomized

16:51 surveys. Randomized gets rid of the

16:53 problems that a snowball has where you

16:55 might be stuck inside a cohort. You

16:57 might just be doing your your your study

16:59 of people who are connected to, you

17:02 know, Philly cheese steaks. Okay, you

17:04 did you did the thing in Philly. And of

17:06 course, the people who eat a lot of

17:07 citrus aren't eating eating a lot of

17:09 cheese steaks. And if you're not eating

17:10 a lot of citrus, maybe you're eating a

17:11 lot of cheese steaks. I'm not that far

17:13 from Philly. I love a good cheese steak.

17:16 I just had a cheese steak pizza of your

17:18 dinner tonight. So, you you got to ask

17:21 these questions and quantitative can

17:23 actually put that sort of formally into

17:25 a question and just say, "Hey, what the

17:27 hell's actually going on here?" Okay.

17:29 So, when we're covering this and you

17:31 hear derivative authority references or

17:34 secondary sources and things like that,

17:36 what it think of it as um it's Bob's

17:41 cousin's girlfriend's best friend heard

17:43 this rumor about it like that. Um

17:46 especially when you're following change

17:47 from influencer to influencer to book

17:50 author who then cites studies, you know,

17:54 probably cherrypicking. It's not as

17:56 though they went and did a dissertation

17:58 and picked all of the research on

18:00 attention or all of the research on time

18:04 management. They may have picked and

18:05 say, well, here's the latest research.

18:08 Here's, you know, here's some

18:09 interesting studies that are coming out

18:10 that showed a possible this or that. And

18:13 it could have been quantitative. Um,

18:15 could be a lot of qualitative. It could

18:16 also be based on other books. It could

18:18 also be based on anecdotes. So for

18:19 instance, one of the things that that

18:20 this kind of goes here is a lot of these

18:22 these methods here are attributed to

18:24 such experts as Bill Gates, Warren

18:28 Buffett, Elon Musk. People love them

18:31 because, well, they made a lot of money.

18:33 That doesn't mean they know crap all

18:36 about managing time. Yeah, they made a

18:38 lot of money, but it's it's it's kind of

18:41 like advertising. Uh you see Kobe Bryant

18:44 out there uh in the commercial for

18:46 Sprite. Kobe Bryant drinks Sprite. If I

18:49 drink Sprite, I'm going to be like Kobe

18:51 Bryant. Now, if you have half a brain,

18:53 you realize that's dumb. Um, and

18:56 probably during a game,

18:58 now we don't have Kobe with us anymore,

19:00 but if you were to see someone out there

19:03 killing it in a game, they're probably

19:05 not chugging down a 24p pack of Sprite.

19:08 Um, and if they are, it's because of

19:11 their amazing metabolism, natural skill,

19:14 and a hell of a lot of practice, and

19:16 some a good bit of luck, and they have a

19:18 good day and everyone else had a bad

19:20 day. All of those things kind of coming

19:22 together. Has nothing to do with their

19:24 sports drink. But a sports drink loves

19:26 having this. Just like shoes, you know,

19:29 Air Jordans for Michael Jordan. Those

19:31 shoes are not going to make you play

19:33 basketball better. Um, you know, that's

19:36 shoes are either going to work or not.

19:37 That's its own science. That's a That is

19:39 That is a a a bone structure physical

19:42 motion science that's actually going to

19:44 crunch numbers. Whereas, yeah, it's it's

19:47 cool if you want to wear shoes like

19:48 Mike, but you know, that's not

19:51 necessarily going to get you into the

19:52 NBA. This is a little bit in that. So,

19:54 anytime you hear somebody's like, "Ah,

19:57 well, you know, the method that that

19:59 Elon Musk uses, you can use that method.

20:02 You're not going to be him." Uh, you

20:04 know, this is the strategy for for diet

20:06 that Warren Buffett uses. If you've seen

20:08 Warren Buffett, uh, the man eats a

20:11 cheeseburger every day. He does not

20:13 spend a lot, but he enjoys just a

20:15 regular old simple cheeseburger from

20:17 McDonald's.

20:19 doing that will not make you any more of

20:21 a billionaire than learning about his

20:24 how how he journals or how the the one

20:28 the one the one trick the uh that he did

20:31 that turned him into there's all these

20:33 sort of YouTube videos out there. So, I

20:34 just want to put this very much before

20:37 we continue u in in in light of the

20:42 actual evidence we're looking at here.

20:43 And so that's why we're doing a second

20:45 opinion because we're kind of pulling

20:46 that back and I love videos with Ollie.

20:50 As you can see,

20:52 uh, uh, the guy has got 6 and a half

20:55 million subscribers. The guy is not a

20:57 dummy, okay? Smart guy. Knows what

21:00 works. He also knows that taking the

21:03 time like I am to just explain this,

21:05 you're not going to get 6.5 million

21:07 subscribers. I'm not going to get 6.5

21:09 million subscribers. No matter if I was

21:11 as handsome as him, if I had as good

21:13 videography as him, um if I was as smart

21:16 as him, all of that could still be true.

21:18 But doing this content, it's not going

21:20 to get you subscribers. And hey, you

21:22 know, it I I would say, you know, don't

21:24 hate the game or the player. Like, this

21:27 is just the re reality of what it is.

21:30 And we're going to spend a total of he

21:31 has 14 minutes going on here. I've

21:34 already done 21 and we have not even got

21:36 into his first system because I'm laying

21:38 the groundwork of all of the things we

21:41 actually have to consider before we even

21:42 consider any of these systems. Um, and

21:45 so that's what we're going to kind of go

21:47 into, but I just wanted to kind of lay

21:49 that out. So, let's go ahead. Uh, I'm

21:51 going back up a sentence here. Um, and I

21:54 will let it kind of go through uh more

21:56 of the lens here.

22:00 >> Comparison. The prioritizes clarity and

22:04 punchiness over nuance and measurement.

22:06 Evidence is primarily experience valid

22:09 as

22:11 authority references but lacks

22:13 controlled comparisons or measurable

22:15 outcomes.

22:24 Incentives.

22:25 >> By the way, I just spent

22:28 several minutes going over that little

22:30 sentence. Um, I did have a lot of back

22:32 and forths and I put in some methods

22:34 that uh I I worked with the AI and

22:37 writing a lot of this and then I

22:38 actually kind of went through a lot of

22:39 these and I just wrote down my own

22:40 thoughts which I only did about half.

22:42 Um, I guess my productivity hack didn't

22:44 actually get me through all the notes

22:45 and I'm going to kind of riff the rest

22:47 of them but you'll get an idea. But for

22:49 those people that say it's like uh AI

22:50 hallucinates and AI is stupid and AI is

22:52 this and AI is that. Um, this is on like

22:55 heavy research mode and it's correct. I

22:59 just I just give you the long version

23:00 that can be summarized as that. Um, and

23:03 I've worked with mine for quite a while,

23:05 so it it it already knows exactly the

23:07 kinds of sources and things that I'm

23:08 interested in. Um, but for those of

23:10 like, oh, AI is crap. Doctor of business

23:14 on productivity systems, that is

23:16 correct. AI did this all on its own. Um,

23:19 it actually did this in contrast to what

23:21 was wrong with his video as far as as

23:24 point out the flaws. not that he did

23:26 anything intentionally wrong, but point

23:28 out what the flaws are of someone who

23:29 would view this. That's 100% correct. AI

23:33 is not always hallucinating and making

23:34 stuff up. Um, and so just I'm just going

23:37 to put a plug there that that we're not

23:39 going to we're not going to play that

23:41 game of, oh my god, have AI written

23:43 here, you know, what is this even worth

23:45 listening to? Yeah, because it's

23:47 correct. So, as we continue, let's go

23:49 down into some of the incentives. And

23:51 this is always good to consider. We're

23:53 not sort of casting aspersions here and

23:55 trying to say that Ali is just out here

23:57 trying to scam you out of a buck. He's

23:58 not. Um but

24:01 >> incentives Ali Abdalenefits presenting a

24:05 clean memorable hierarchy that feels

24:10 like

24:12 >> Yep.

24:12 >> Audible

24:15 claims promoting audiobook consumption.

24:17 >> Yep. I still list provide quick and easy

24:24 dishonesty, but the format prioritizes

24:26 clarity over nuance

24:28 >> research based critique. Most

24:30 productivity techniques are branded

24:32 rappers around a small handful of

24:34 psychological management.

24:35 >> Y

24:36 >> the rappers spread because they're

24:39 identity friendly. themsistent.

24:49 >> So, stopping there

24:51 for a lot of these techniques,

24:54 it's it's often helpful for those

24:57 promoting those when they're writing

24:58 books to point out either people like

25:01 Warren Buffett did this, Bill Gates did

25:03 this, uh Sergey Brenn did this, Sam

25:06 Alman did this. Um, this is the one

25:09 protein source Sam Alman swears by

25:11 before he goes off as though if you eat

25:14 a single hard-boiled egg on your way to

25:16 work, you're going to start an AI

25:18 company. Um, these systems have very

25:22 small effects. Let me be very clear. No

25:25 matter what system you do, um the

25:29 effects on your productivity are going

25:32 to be in the

25:35 if you really just unlocked something

25:38 you were doing terribly wrong, maybe you

25:40 might see a few outliers and like 20%.

25:43 But we're looking at for most people 2

25:46 to 3% for the best ones, maybe 5% and

25:50 then a a distribution out to maybe 20%.

25:53 In fact, the distribution is going to be

25:56 a normal distribution. Did your

25:57 productivity improve? Let's say we got

26:00 let's we're making this up. We got a

26:01 normal distribution. H most, you know,

26:04 it it seems like if you take this,

26:06 you're going to at least [clears throat]

26:06 get a 3% boost in your productivity and

26:08 3%'s not big. You got to remember the

26:11 other side of that curve. That includes

26:12 people that lost productivity. There's a

26:15 there's such thing as negative

26:16 productivity. So, if you're sitting

26:18 there and doing like you're bullet

26:20 journaling every single email you go

26:22 through and you're working on a help

26:23 desk and you're doing a ton of work and

26:25 you you you're like, I'm going to do

26:26 bullet journaling. I'm going to get so

26:27 far ahead in my work and you're spending

26:29 five times the amount of time

26:31 documenting in this journal that's not

26:33 directly helping or integrated into your

26:34 systems, you're going to lose

26:36 productivity. I don't care how good you

26:37 think bullet journaling is. And I know

26:40 how to I I stole a few techniques for my

26:42 own journaling from bullet journaling.

26:44 I'm not knocking it. I read the book.

26:45 It's decent in

26:48 in terms of basically making a shorthand

26:50 markdown for paper. That was my that was

26:53 my one and two takeaways from the book

26:55 um is is to separate things on a

26:58 complete page per day uh and a and a

27:01 nice little numbering system. And then

27:02 here's here's like a neat little

27:03 markdown system for paper. Other than

27:05 that, I use a tablet. I don't I don't

27:07 want I don't have time to carry around

27:08 books. Um it's great takeaway, but yeah,

27:11 you can actually get negative

27:13 productivity. So warning here as well,

27:15 you might do these and and and lose

27:18 productivity, especially the harder and

27:21 more complex and more time it takes to

27:24 build up to it or or do this thing like

27:26 building a habit is hard. You're not

27:28 going to get more productive by building

27:29 a habit. You're going to lose

27:30 productivity building a habit. But the

27:32 idea is the habit is, you know,

27:34 improving your life. So, you know, we're

27:36 weighing the pros and the cons here.

27:38 Time management in general shows a

27:40 moderate relationship with performance

27:41 and wellbeat

27:53 underestimate friction and pick systems

27:55 that requ

28:06 >> it really is going to depend depend on

28:08 the type of habit. It's going to depend

28:11 on the resistance. A lot of it you can't

28:14 even control. And we're not talking

28:16 about things like age. Uh but your habit

28:18 for working out is wildly going to be

28:21 dependent on your environment. Uh it's

28:24 going to depend on your friend groups.

28:26 It's going to depend on your the

28:28 pressure around you. Is are are you the

28:31 only person out of shape in your entire

28:32 friend group and they all go to work

28:34 out? it's going to be very easy for you

28:36 to get in shape and to get the habit

28:37 because you're going to be just going

28:38 and hanging out with your friends and

28:40 being more like them. If you're going

28:42 against the grain, you're going to have

28:44 a hard time developing a workout habit.

28:48 Um, and those things are out of your

28:50 control. And it does not matter what

28:53 system you use. Um, you know, the

28:55 saying, no man is an island, no habit is

28:58 an island. Um, regardless of what any of

29:01 these you do, you're going to run into

29:05 so many issues that you will never have

29:08 thought of. And there's nothing you can

29:09 do about them. It doesn't mean you give

29:11 up on the habit. It just realize that,

29:13 you know, you will be going uphill on

29:15 some of these things. And you know the

29:17 habit some habits may be easy like the

29:20 workout habit may be easy but if you

29:21 want to uh read uh good you know uh 50

29:25 good books a year you want to do the the

29:27 you know you're not a reader you want to

29:29 become reader so you want to take a year

29:31 read a book a week 52 weeks well if your

29:34 friends are spending the four hours a

29:35 day at the gym you're also in the wrong

29:37 friend group to do that you're in the

29:39 great friend group for a a habit to go

29:41 to the gym and it's not the right friend

29:43 group that's going to help you along and

29:45 so Now you're obligated to go this extra

29:48 workout that you might not really want

29:50 to do and you've actually got to cut

29:51 down and and and leave them. And so

29:54 you're not one of the guys or one of the

29:56 gals that's going and doing these long

29:58 walks or these hikes or all of this. So

30:00 you're running into an issue that your

30:03 environment is not as malleable as you

30:06 think it is.

30:09 >> Online

30:12 science.

30:14 I know.

30:16 I'm going to call out my own BS here.

30:18 8020s. Um, it's shorthand. Um, the

30:22 shorthand is only pick up the stuff

30:25 that's going to have the biggest impact

30:27 and cause the least amount of disruption

30:28 for you. Full stop. I don't care if it's

30:31 8020. I don't care what the ratio is.

30:33 That's just a journal. I use the same

30:35 thing for instead of sitting down and

30:37 journaling a whole damn book and every

30:39 quote and every stat. And I'm sure

30:41 people have nice 20page notes when they

30:43 read Simon Senn uh Start with Why. Um

30:46 and they may that maybe they review them

30:48 and this and that. It'd probably be

30:50 cheaper for you to just catch catch a

30:53 flight, ask all the questions you want

30:55 of Simon Senk, record them, and then

30:58 just listen to it back. Stop stop doing

31:00 all this extra work unless you're

31:01 actually working on your handwriting. Um

31:03 that's not the way to 8020. 80820 is if

31:07 you read a book, the bigger the book,

31:09 the bigger the takeaway. But just grab

31:11 two. If you happen to grab more, great.

31:13 If you find a book that changed your

31:15 life, but every book, no stop. Stop.

31:19 Stop it.

31:22 If you only keep 20% of this episode,

31:28 put tasks into place. If

31:32 >> this is the takeaways that it found from

31:35 his video, not our video. Um, I'm going

31:39 to skip over these a little bit, but it

31:41 does have some good points. I'm just

31:42 going to hit really quickly. Uh, reduce

31:44 attention switching. This is anything

31:46 you can do to reduce your cognitive

31:48 load. Um there's a lot of behavioral and

31:51 cognitive sciences and educational

31:54 sciences uh that talk about cognitive

31:56 offloading. Um anytime that you can do

31:59 cognitive offloading in an efficient

32:01 manner that is simple and not a complex

32:03 manner which only adds to your cognitive

32:05 load, that's good. What's cognitive

32:07 load? If you have to think about it in

32:10 the slightest bit, that's cognitive

32:11 load. If you're ready to go working out,

32:14 and you find out that your gym bag's not

32:16 put together, your your your workout

32:18 clothes isn't in there, uh you you don't

32:21 have uh your shoes next to the door, the

32:24 your gym clothes, half of them are in

32:25 the laundry, and you got to put that

32:27 together. Suddenly, you got cognitive

32:29 and physical load. You got to you got

32:31 time load going on to this. You got so

32:33 many things. You're probably not going

32:34 to work out that day. It's like, I got

32:36 to do work just to go work out. Uh the

32:40 thing to do is if after working out if

32:42 you don't just crash and you take your

32:43 bag, you immediately get things into the

32:45 laundry. You keep your bag there. So as

32:47 soon as it's laundered, you get it right

32:48 back in the bag and then you do that.

32:51 You keep your shoes nearby. As soon as

32:52 it's done, boom, boom, into the bag next

32:54 to the door. Next time you go to work

32:56 out, there's no cognitive load. Why? Bag

32:58 of shoes are at the door. Time's at the

33:00 door. You're done. That's cognitive load

33:03 is

33:04 getting things ahead of time. It's

33:06 that's why people like meal prepping.

33:08 Um, I don't understand that one. Um, one

33:11 of the most valuable slow activities

33:16 that a human can ever engage. There's

33:19 two there are two main activities and

33:22 you you may laugh. I'm not joking. The

33:25 two main activities are going to be love

33:27 and romance and cooking. These are the

33:31 most communal social things that we do

33:34 that built the civilization we live in.

33:39 You know, let's let's let's go with the

33:40 conservative estimate. 20,000 years ago,

33:43 20,000 years. What separates us from

33:46 most other animals is our our romantic

33:51 habits and our culinary habits. spending

33:55 time with our loved ones, our friends,

33:58 our family around a table during food

34:02 preparation. This is something a few

34:04 other animals do. So, if you look at at

34:06 chimps and great apes, you'll see

34:08 grooming habits.

34:10 Cooking is serving very much the same

34:13 type of space as grooming habits in in

34:15 terms of our social sphere. And so,

34:18 that's one of the reasons I'm I'm I'm

34:20 completely against meal prep. I think I

34:22 think meal prepping has this sort of

34:24 idea and maybe it's great if you're a

34:26 bachelor bachelorette um but you're

34:28 cutting out one of the core social what

34:31 one of the very reasons for living you

34:33 know the the reasons to is to be able to

34:35 have uh a fine food and maybe a fine

34:38 wine you know I I don't have money to

34:40 spend on wine every single day but

34:44 having those times are very special um

34:46 meal prepping I mean uh it's the social

34:50 media ification of cooking. That's just

34:52 my personal opinion. I'm not a culinary

34:54 expert. Um maybe it's great for some

34:57 people, maybe it's great for busy

34:58 families with a lot of kids, but um

35:01 having that communal time I I found, at

35:03 least with my own family, helped build

35:04 relationships every single time it was

35:06 done. And I've always spent time on

35:08 that. It doesn't mean you don't stop at

35:10 McDonald's sometimes you're in a rush

35:11 and people are just freaking hungry or

35:13 you you you hit up some other kind of

35:14 fast food or you order a pizza. Um, but

35:19 take these things in small doses.

35:24 >> This is the highest leverage behavioral

35:26 bridge.

35:26 >> Yeah, we're going to we're going to skip

35:27 a lot of this. Uh, small starts. Uh,

35:30 don't believe in that. Um, it it it can

35:34 be it can be and I I think going with

35:37 the research here, it's a little more

35:38 nuanced uh with that. Um, respect energy

35:41 and motivation micro breaks help. Yeah.

35:44 um stay charged, stay stay refreshed and

35:47 do all that. So before we go into these,

35:50 we got the Pomodoro coming up next and

35:53 we're going to just head over to the

35:55 video and we're going to watch what he

35:58 has to say about the Pomodoro technique.

35:59 We're going to quickly run through um

36:01 I'm not going to say a lot. So we're

36:03 we're already been a half an hour. We

36:05 haven't even touched a single thing. We

36:07 are at the 54 second timer of his

36:10 14-minute video. I told you guys I can

36:13 talk. Um, you know, I I I probably uh

36:17 should have been somebody that was a u

36:19 one of those uh u circus callers trying

36:22 to get people to buy tickets cuz I could

36:23 stand there and talk for eight hours

36:24 straight.

36:26 So, uh, we're going to go we're going to

36:28 go through the video, listen to it

36:30 quickly, have the AI read the,

36:34 uh, text for it for each, and then I'm

36:36 going to go through and I'm going to

36:37 read my thoughts, how I kind of with the

36:40 bucket that I put it in and what my

36:41 recommendation, uh, for it would be. So,

36:44 let's get started on that.

36:50 That might work for other people, but

36:51 that don't really work for me. And we

36:52 have ENF, which are totally useless and

36:53 junk, respectively. Let's start with

36:54 technique number one which is pomodora

36:55 technique. Now the vibe here is that you

36:56 want to work for 25 minutes and then

36:58 have a 5-minute break. Work a 25 5

36:59 minute break and repeat this four times

37:00 and after four repetitions then you get

37:02 to have a half an hour long break. And

37:03 the pom pom pom pom technique is

37:03 absolute classic that's been used mostly

37:05 by students as a way of motivating

37:06 themselves to work. And I only used to

37:07 use

37:08 >> the number of times I or other people

37:10 tried this while in university is uh you

37:14 could you could probably make a fortune

37:18 just selling Pomodoro timers outside of

37:20 classrooms uh or or in dorms for people

37:24 looking for an app or something else.

37:26 People love those little items that you

37:27 know you can make this special little uh

37:29 sort of Etsy style handcrafted uh little

37:32 digital or analog timer. uh probably

37:35 probably uh uh at least a few

37:38 hundred,000 worth of of ideas there.

37:41 >> Use it back when I was at university.

37:42 But the problem with the pomodoro

37:43 technique is that for me, I often felt

37:44 like I was just getting into the swing

37:45 of things at around the 25-minute mark.

37:46 And so when I would have to stop working

37:48 to have a break, I would find that that

37:49 would interrupt my

37:50 >> We're going to go into that quite a bit

37:52 there. My take is right at that point.

37:54 By the way,

37:55 >> flow state. And so for me, I actually

37:56 tend to work for about 40 or 45 minutes

37:57 if it's something that I'm enjoying

37:58 working.

37:59 >> We're not going to cover the flow state

38:00 here. um that we're going to talk about

38:02 flow and the research behind flow much

38:05 later on. That's going to be such a deep

38:07 dive into flow and the actual science

38:09 behind that. Um where a lot of that

38:13 research comes from athletics. Um it's

38:16 very fascinating. It's very cool. It's a

38:19 real thing. Um but there's so much hype

38:22 around it. Um but I get where he's going

38:24 here. He's absolutely right on. I find

38:27 that is the ideal amount of time to get

38:28 into the flow state. And so it's a bit

38:29 controversial, but I'm going to rank the

38:30 Pomodoro technique a C on RTS next week

38:31 with the

38:33 >> Okay, so he is going to put the Pomodoro

38:37 technique on C tier. Let's see if we can

38:40 find that exact spot.

38:42 >> Rank the Pomodoro technique a C on RT.

38:45 >> Now, let's cover this

38:49 and what we've got on the Pomodoro

38:51 technique. So, let's do a little AI

38:53 review of what we just heard. Break that

38:55 down a little bit.

38:57 54 pomodoro technique tier ranking C

39:00 work for 25 minutes then take a 5 minute

39:02 break four times then take a 30 minute

39:05 break technique used mostly by students

39:09 often interrupts flow state just as

39:11 you're getting into the swing of things

39:15 45 minutes to get into flow state

39:23 >> now I'm gonna put this out

39:26 the second opinion lens and the research

39:28 analysis that we're going to go through

39:29 here. Uh the AI sort of did this. I

39:33 didn't really feel like reading these.

39:34 I'm very familiar with these. So, I

39:36 didn't actually read these before

39:38 writing my thoughts, but I found out

39:40 that uh they lined up very well on a lot

39:44 of these. So, again, um you you can

39:47 trust AI on some of these. Just make

39:49 sure that you ask it for pros and cons.

39:52 and and often times uh uh let it be a

39:55 little cynical. Let it let it give you

39:57 the pitfalls because it's going to start

39:59 stripping away a lot of the crap that's

40:01 in there. Um adversarial AI is actually

40:04 quite amazing um because it's really

40:07 good at finding flaws um if you're not

40:10 just trying to either date your AI,

40:12 which I do not suggest doing uh or

40:15 conversely um you think you have a great

40:18 idea and it's hyping you up. Let it

40:20 break things down. Let it summarize. Let

40:23 it strip them apart and it'll be much

40:25 much better experience. But let's

40:27 continue.

40:30 >> Creator from student lore pressure test.

40:33 Compare focus quity output between 25

40:35 intervals versus tuned intervals.

40:37 Verdict situational tuned intervals.

40:40 Confidence medium.

40:42 >> Again, data. Are you more or less

40:45 productive actually using if you're

40:47 really going to use anything like this?

40:48 Is it actually working? Um, create a

40:51 control.

40:53 Just don't do anything. Take two weeks,

40:56 see how you do. That's probably not even

40:58 long enough, but at least do two weeks.

41:01 Um, if you even remember that you wanted

41:03 to do this in two weeks, uh, then do the

41:06 same measurements after after starting

41:08 this. Maybe even give yourself, you say,

41:10 well, I was new at it and I wasn't

41:12 consistent. Give yourself a week to

41:14 transition, then do two weeks on it. See

41:17 how well you are. If you don't know at

41:18 the end of this is a total of five weeks

41:21 that you're I'll be honest wasting of

41:24 your time trying to figure this out and

41:26 you're not doing a study. Um you're

41:28 probably not going to see massive you

41:31 know uh improvements

41:36 taking improves performance effects are

41:39 mixed and depend on break

41:42 the tomato is branding. The real tool is

41:45 structured work. Tune intervals to the

41:47 task and keeps restorative, not doom

41:50 scroll.

41:51 >> Okay. I don't know why it's a tomato. I

41:54 could probably look this up. I could

41:56 probably see find out exactly the the

41:58 source of the pomodoro. We're not going

42:00 into that. I'm noting a dissertation on

42:02 this. Um, but let's go into some of my

42:04 thoughts on this and the problem I have

42:06 with the pomodoro. U but for the ones

42:10 that I actually did notes on, I'm going

42:11 to do a little bit of reading. Um, the

42:13 thing about this one-sizefits-all timer

42:16 is that it destroys deep work. Uh, so

42:19 deep work is another set of books you

42:21 can read up on. Uh, deep work is when

42:24 Ali is talking about flow. And so if

42:27 you're doing this, you are never going

42:29 to get into flow. You're never going to

42:31 do good deep work. Um, this is not the

42:34 way that a a professional writer is

42:36 making a novel is in little tiny 25

42:39 minute bits. if they're having problems.

42:41 Sure. The other portion of this is also

42:44 that it is wrong in that it gives you a

42:46 five minute break. What are you going to

42:47 do in five minutes sometimes after

42:50 you've worked for a couple hours taking

42:52 a nice quiet walk outside in nature? One

42:55 of the best things you can do for your

42:56 well-being is when you take your breaks,

42:59 even if it's cold outside, even if you

43:00 can't go outside, look out a window, get

43:03 nature into your brain. Uh greens, far

43:07 distance. It's the 2020 2020 rule. This

43:09 is a good rule uh to rest your eyes.

43:12 Stare, you know, they say every 20

43:15 minutes when you're staring at these

43:16 computer screens, um look away at

43:20 something at least 20 ft away for 20

43:23 seconds every 20 minutes. Uh it's for

43:25 your eyes. It's not going to help you

43:26 with deep work. Um but while you're

43:28 working in deep work, you can also just

43:31 zip sit back,

43:33 I think, close your eyes. Uh you can

43:36 also adjust the lighting of your

43:37 environment. I don't suggest anyone

43:39 don't work in complete darkness. Um,

43:41 it's pretty dark in here. Um, but it's

43:44 cozy. I've got a little LED sort of sign

43:47 that's up here. You can see the sort of

43:48 red glow. I've got a table lamp. I've

43:52 got a light behind me. Um, I've got

43:54 these nice soft lights. And even the

43:56 light back here, which you can see is a

43:57 pretty bright LED light. It's bouncing

44:00 off of the walls. Um, you know, you

44:03 don't you you don't want these strong

44:04 lights. You want something natural. You

44:05 want something with a color temperature

44:07 uh that's closer to the yellows, look up

44:09 hug, h y g. Uh hug will give you the

44:14 best recommendation for the type of

44:15 lighting that's very natural on the

44:16 eyes, very much like a a strong candle

44:18 light or a fire or a sunrise or a

44:21 sunset. That's what you you really want

44:23 to kind of go for. Um but taking that 5

44:26 minute break, it's going to do nothing.

44:28 Sometimes you just need to get away and

44:30 if you can only get 5 minutes, take your

44:31 5 minutes. But to intentionally crunch

44:34 yourself into like five five, you're

44:36 going to get me as someone who does a a

44:39 crap ton of work is is going to get

44:42 frustrated that I'm getting broken up

44:44 every now if I'm doing a bunch of small

44:46 things. I'm doing email email and I'm

44:49 like, "Oh my god, I just got to I got to

44:51 walk away." Yeah. Um but the idea behind

44:56 this also is when you start turning

44:58 yourself into an assembly line. Uh

45:01 that's called tailorism. Uh this is sort

45:04 of early uh late 19th century early 20th

45:08 century. Um the idea of tailorism was

45:11 was scientific management. What they

45:13 basically did this is the like the the

45:14 needle experiment or the pen experiment.

45:16 So, imagine you're putting together,

45:18 you've got a you've got a ballpoint pen

45:20 here, and you got people who are

45:21 assembling this this thing. And I I hate

45:23 taking this part, these are wonderful

45:25 pens. If I have, if I ever got sponsored

45:27 by whatever this company is, I buy these

45:29 things in bulk. I love these pens. But

45:31 let's say I'm at this pen factory and

45:32 I'm making this pen. It's got a spring

45:34 in it. It's got a an a ballpoint ink

45:38 device. I think it's gel. It's got the

45:40 clickers. I'm putting these together.

45:42 What scientific management discovered

45:44 long before Ford and his assembly line

45:47 is that if you break up each of the task

45:49 for each person and then you maximize

45:51 the amount of uh uh you know distance

45:55 they're moving per part where the parts

45:57 are how much time they have to take to

45:58 assemble things get together you start

46:00 have you have someone that literally

46:02 sits there I'm going to grab my IP my

46:04 iPod or the my AirPods and they're just

46:08 sitting here clicking the timer

46:10 measuring people and they're measuring

46:11 how people do different things and

46:13 they're getting them down. The bad thing

46:15 about that is it basically turned people

46:17 into machines and that's where we get

46:19 the assembly line from which is the

46:21 soulless soul crushing work of the

46:23 assembly line but which also drove the

46:25 industrial revolution

46:28 but it's pseudocience. It's the idea

46:30 that we that all people are

46:32 interchangeable as cogs and that you can

46:35 just maximize their productivity

46:37 assembly line style. And now you come to

46:40 the Pomodoro technique. It's like, yeah,

46:43 you just sort of you chunk yourself into

46:46 these 25 and five, 25 and five, 25 and

46:49 you do this and then you get your your

46:51 long break and you just keep doing this

46:52 like like you're just a machine. Um when

46:56 instead, you know, there are sometimes

46:58 when you do need to do short spurts or

47:02 sprints of work. uh if we're going to

47:04 use some other productivity uh uh uh

47:07 words there with with for those of you

47:09 familiar with sprints, those of you who

47:10 might be in IT or programming or any

47:12 other work environment with agile or

47:14 scrum,

47:15 but they think that you're going to do

47:17 that and you're going to get good work

47:18 done, you're not. You're going to get

47:19 the assembly line work done. Um and

47:21 you're not going to feel great

47:22 afterwards. You're just not. Um he put

47:25 it at C C tier. My bucket right here, my

47:28 bucket is put it in the crap tier. throw

47:32 it in the trash. It's a false sense of

47:34 productivity by counting the number of

47:36 times you can count alarms. It creates

47:39 hard lines of context switching too big

47:42 for small tasks and too small for deep

47:45 work. My recommendation is it makes for

47:48 a really good idea if you want to sell

47:49 people useless productivity apps or as I

47:52 just came up with little little kit

47:54 items that you could just you could sell

47:56 students. Um, bonus if you make it

47:59 buzzworthy by calling it AI Pomodoro or

48:03 something like that. You think I'm

48:05 making that up? Those apps exist for uh

48:08 if you're on Mac, there are so many apps

48:10 you can subscribe for that are going to

48:12 look over your calendar and do all these

48:14 things and do all these techniques and

48:16 AI is going to going to give you

48:17 dashboards and all this sort of stuff.

48:19 Um, you're just trying to turn yourself

48:22 into a machine. Um, and that has rarely

48:26 ever worked in any science of turning a

48:29 human into a machine or any type of

48:31 animal into a machine. The consequences

48:34 of that can be quite dire, especially if

48:37 you um don't have any kind of

48:40 safeguards. This isn't in that area of

48:42 things, but it's still crap. So, we're

48:45 we're going to move on. Uh, we were

48:47 talking about delegating next. So let's

48:50 go back over and let's see what what

48:52 we've got for delegating

48:55 >> this next concept of delegation. Now,

48:57 Tim Ferris talks about this a lot in the

48:58 4-hour work week, which one of the books

48:59 that that's most changed my life. And

49:00 recently, I've heard entrepreneur and

49:01 investor Nal Robert because normally,

49:03 >> oh, I screwed that up. I just wanted to

49:05 pause here. Um, the

49:10 delegate, the 2hour or sorry, 2hour work

49:13 week, the 4hour work week. Um, they

49:15 talked about here by Tim Ferris. I read

49:17 the book. Um, I'm going to cover a

49:19 little bit. Um,

49:22 I like some of the ideas. Tim Ferris is

49:25 one of those people that comes up with

49:27 good ideas. Um, big warning here though,

49:30 and I kind of want to I'm going to point

49:31 this out in a lot of my videos.

49:34 Never worship a person and be like,

49:36 "This is the guru." And there's a lot of

49:39 people that look at Tim Ferrris, and I

49:41 don't think Tim Ferrris would would do

49:43 this himself, but they look at him as he

49:47 is a guru. He's a guy just trying things

49:50 out. Um, he is an expert in a few

49:53 things. um he he's sort of hacked his

49:57 way uh through a lot of life scenarios.

50:00 He has a he has a very interesting story

50:03 uh but don't guru people. So I'm just I

50:05 just want to put that out there. I'll

50:06 start this over again. Next concept of

50:08 delegation. Now Tim Ferris talk about

50:09 this a lot in the 4-hour work week which

50:10 is one of the books that mode that's

50:11 most changed my life. Recently I heard

50:12 entrepreneur and investor Robert talk

50:13 about the idea of setting an

50:14 aspirational hourly rate. Now the idea

50:16 here is that we should figure out what

50:17 is our time worth to us personally in

50:19 like dollar [music] amounts and then if

50:20 there is stuff that we're doing that we

50:21 don't enjoy then we can think about

50:22 delegating it to someone else if it is

50:24 cheaper than the amount that we set as

50:26 our aspirational hourly rate. So I'm

50:27 going to give delegation a tier ranking

50:28 because it's genuinely an essential tip

50:30 and if you haven't started valuing your

50:31 time.

50:32 >> So [clears throat]

50:34 this is one of the the spots where Ali

50:36 and I are going to wildly disagree um

50:40 because for the normal person this is a

50:43 horrible idea. But let's break down

50:46 exactly what he said and we'll discuss

50:48 why it's probably great for him. It's

50:51 probably great for some people and it's

50:53 probably the dumbest thing you could

50:55 attempt to do in your life depending on

50:57 your situation and it's very

50:59 situationally dependent.

51:02 By the way, if you're doing it if you're

51:04 doing it the 4-hour work week style, uh

51:06 don't and we're going to cover we're

51:07 going to cover that why. So, let's go

51:09 over to our notes

51:12 and I will get the AI going on this and

51:15 then I will cover some of my thoughts.

51:19 >> 138 ranking a concept popularized by Tim

51:23 Ferris.

51:27 >> AI is wrong about some things.

51:29 Delegation was not popularized by Tim

51:32 Ferrris. Um outsourcing was popularized

51:35 by corporations realizing that overseas

51:38 labor is cheap. Um Henry Ford also

51:41 figured out that delegating rather than

51:44 building all the cars by hand himself.

51:46 So is not popularized by Tim Ferrris. So

51:48 just just a quick little correction

51:51 there. I I said AI is amazing. I didn't

51:53 say I AI was perfect. So have a little

51:56 bit of common sense.

51:58 >> Idea set an aspirational hourly rate.

52:02 Figure out what your time is worth in

52:03 dollar amounts. If task you don't enjoy,

52:07 >> it's going to be your hourly work rate.

52:08 Um, I'm a marketing forces kind of

52:10 person. Your my time to me is worth a

52:14 million dollars an hour. Is that going

52:16 to help me? No, it is not an aspiration.

52:20 I just I I really do have to stop on

52:21 something. An aspirational I aspire to

52:24 make $150 an hour. Um, I'm not going to

52:28 secret it uh into reality. Um, because

52:33 what what the and maybe this is AI

52:36 because I don't know this the the the

52:38 specific author uh uh con book or

52:41 writings or what they've done that that

52:43 that says this aspirational. Um, there's

52:46 what you're willing to spend per hour to

52:48 not do a thing. And depending on that

52:51 thing, this is so incorrect. Um, so I'm

52:54 I'm going to break this down just right

52:55 right here right now.

52:58 The idea that you're going to set an

53:00 hourly rate for what you're going

53:02 willing to pay someone else to do the

53:04 thing for you um is ridiculous. Now, the

53:08 rate at which I'm willing to pay a

53:10 surgeon, and I have had life-saving

53:13 surgeries within the last years, the

53:15 amount that I'm willing to pay a surgeon

53:17 to do it on me or read a DIY book and

53:21 try it myself is I'm willing to pay in

53:26 the seven, eight, nine figures. I don't

53:28 care what it costs. I will pay whatever

53:31 it is. That rate is infinite.

53:35 Meanwhile,

53:37 I would like to have extra time, but I,

53:40 you know, I watch my my my child do

53:43 sports. Um, what is it worth to me to

53:47 pay someone else to go and watch my

53:49 child do sports? That rate is negative.

53:53 Um, infinite. No one could pay me enough

53:56 to take my place there. And so this idea

54:00 of an aspirational hourly rate, I'm

54:03 just, you know, I'm not I don't know

54:04 what they were actually saying, but this

54:07 idea and that they were probably more

54:09 nuanced on this, but this idea is

54:12 absolute [ __ ] Um there's also the

54:16 idea that um for a company,

54:21 companies outsource all the time. um

54:23 Intel uh uh might have integrated where

54:27 they design their chips and someone else

54:28 makes the chips. Apple designs the

54:31 chips. They don't make the chips. They

54:33 let TSMC make the chips. Why? Because

54:37 the core, and this is uh this is the

54:40 phrase you want to look for if you're if

54:41 you're kind of following up on your own

54:43 little bit of research here, never

54:44 outsource your core competency ever. You

54:50 don't need to exist if you do that. For

54:51 instance, my core competency is being a

54:54 father. You don't outsource that.

54:57 But the distance between where I am and

54:59 the core competency of a surgeon, wildly

55:02 different. This hourly rate depends on

55:05 what your core competency is. And I'm

55:08 sure whoever this author is probably

55:10 goes into this quite a bit. And this is

55:12 a an unfair summary. I can't imagine

55:14 anybody would actually say that's it

55:16 without a [ __ ] ton of caveats.

55:20 So a a TSMC their core competency is

55:23 making chips. Apple's core competency is

55:26 designing

55:28 and understanding the workflows. They

55:30 outsource but they train Foxcon to

55:33 assemble the phones and other other

55:36 items. So Apple's core competency is in

55:38 software and hardware design and

55:42 marketing. Whereas TSMC, Foxcon, Samsung

55:47 who makes the screens, that's the their

55:50 core competency. That's a an easy

55:53 outsource. And the reason they did is

55:55 not some aspirational rate, but focus.

55:57 They're willing to pay more. They

55:58 probably could do it cheaper. They pro

56:00 if they put enough money in the the

56:03 amount of hundreds of billions of

56:05 dollars they spend on all sorts of

56:07 things from training to design

56:09 everything else, they could probably

56:10 save a lot of money by bringing it in

56:12 house. But it would shift their core

56:15 competency over a wider area and it

56:18 would lessen their impact in their in

56:19 their current core competency. In other

56:21 words, even with all the money in the

56:23 world, it's still going to hurt them to

56:25 bring it in house. Um, so this idea of

56:29 just figure out what your time is worth

56:31 in dollars. And if your task you don't

56:35 enjoy, that's such a [ __ ] caveat. Like I

56:38 don't enjoy uh my laundry. The the when

56:42 I'm willing to pay for someone to do it,

56:44 um I'm not. Why? Because I can listen to

56:47 audiobooks or have YouTube playing in

56:50 the background and see what Alli's

56:52 talking about next. I can do that. Um, I

56:55 don't enjoy it, but you know, if it

56:58 takes

56:59 five minutes loading and I I sort of

57:02 enjoy a little bit. Um, but the other

57:04 fact is

57:06 don't be such a lazy ass. Um, you don't

57:09 delegate everything out of your life

57:10 because it's inconvenient. Um,

57:14 if you attempt to remove all of the

57:16 friction from your life, you're removing

57:17 all of your humanity and reason of

57:21 being. I'm not saying laundry and all

57:23 that's going to do that. But um I will

57:25 say this. I think that people who are

57:28 millionaires, billionaires, stars who

57:30 have private chefs and all this, I think

57:33 they've lost a major piece of humanity

57:35 if they are no longer cooking for

57:37 themselves. I honestly think that if you

57:40 have a private chef coming in, and you

57:42 can say, well, that the health benefits

57:44 and this that you've lost a core piece

57:46 of your humanity.

57:48 the cost of what you gain from something

57:52 like that. Again, I have a bluecollar

57:54 background as you might have seen in in

57:56 my previous video.

57:59 What I learned through manual work, an

58:01 Elon Musk will, no matter how rich he

58:03 gets, he will never [ __ ] have in his

58:06 life those lessons of actually

58:09 physically being there and doing a

58:11 thing. um of of seeing the systems from

58:15 truly from the inside and not just on

58:17 paper or conceptually or abstract are

58:20 wildly different. It's the difference

58:22 from a temp ferris who lived the life

58:25 that he wrote the book about which is

58:27 why I'm not giving him crap. He lived

58:29 that life and wrote a book about it

58:31 versus you or I who read the book and

58:34 then we think because we read his book

58:37 we understand the experience the way Tim

58:39 Ferrris understands his experience. We

58:42 do not. Those are wildly different. And

58:44 putting these things into here and

58:46 saying, "Well, if you don't enjoy it,

58:50 you know, I kind of again I this is

58:52 going to be the second video in a row

58:53 that I've I've mentioned Ryan

58:54 Holidayiday just because of of the

58:56 people that talk about a little bit of

58:57 stoicism and and building character and

58:59 being a being a good human, being a

59:01 human you want to be. Um, which should

59:04 be your first goal. It should be the

59:06 first reason you want to do productivity

59:08 habs because you want to do your best.

59:10 That's why you're That's why you're

59:11 probably watching videos that Ali puts

59:13 out or watching this video. You want to

59:15 know um learn to enjoy the work that is

59:20 given you. That doesn't mean do it all

59:22 yourself. So, we're going to get into

59:23 that caveat, but I just I really wanted

59:25 to jump in here that that if you are at

59:28 least and we'll we'll we'll just blame

59:30 this one on AI. We'll just blame

59:32 Masonic. If this is what you think

59:35 um is is is what they are doing or even

59:39 what someone like a uh Warren Buffett or

59:42 Elon Musk if you think this is what they

59:44 are really doing um

59:48 a whoever is telling you that is full of

59:50 [ __ ] they're not. Um B

59:55 if you do take it to that level, you're

59:58 you're cutting out like

1:00:01 Is your goal to sit in a hot tub for the

1:00:03 rest of your life? You can do that

1:00:05 without your job. Um,

1:00:08 you you could sit in in in cold springs

1:00:12 and and enjoy nature and all of that um

1:00:15 without a job. It's called being

1:00:17 homeless. Uh you might freeze to death

1:00:19 when you jump in the river. Um but what

1:00:21 exactly are you going for here? the the

1:00:23 this shallow pampered uh life of of

1:00:27 being ostentat, you know, ostentation

1:00:30 and and what are you looking for? What

1:00:35 why you know it's it's it's one of those

1:00:36 it's one of those questions you really

1:00:37 have to ask somebody who really thinks

1:00:39 that that's the end goal. It's instead

1:00:41 of being a person who doesn't just like

1:00:43 enjoy like a good quality of life. It's

1:00:44 like the difference between somebody

1:00:45 who's like all they want to do is eat

1:00:47 Twinkies and that's what this will get

1:00:49 you. This is this is turning life into a

1:00:51 series of Twinkies.

1:00:53 Or would you like food that makes you

1:00:56 feel good, food that tastes wonderful,

1:00:59 that takes time, that takes effort, and

1:01:02 isn't all enjoyable? You know, it's not

1:01:04 enjoyable if you're the kind of person

1:01:06 who wants to grow a little garden. For a

1:01:08 lot of people, it's not. But they love

1:01:10 the taste of a home garden. And you've

1:01:12 got a little bit of a yard. You might

1:01:13 live in the city and it's crap and you

1:01:15 it's hard to grow them. But if you put

1:01:17 the work in and that's not enjoyable,

1:01:20 you get a payoff. And in in this in this

1:01:24 period that I I'm still calling the

1:01:26 threat of going to attention zero. Um

1:01:29 it's it's crap like this that that's

1:01:30 going to get us to attention zero. What

1:01:33 are you going to do in an exchange? What

1:01:35 uh take the take the two hours of

1:01:37 bathroom time you've scrolled Tik Tok

1:01:40 this week on your phone or Facebook or

1:01:44 Instagram watching videos or YouTube and

1:01:46 you just sit there or playing a mobile

1:01:48 game and you're going to turn around and

1:01:50 you're going to delegate something that

1:01:52 actually does matter. If you're willing

1:01:54 to pay for it, it does matter to you,

1:01:57 but you're willing to take the hit on

1:01:59 something else. I call [ __ ] Okay,

1:02:03 let's let's keep going. I'm going to let

1:02:04 the AI finish before I I jump back in um

1:02:07 and kind of give you some nuance on

1:02:08 this. Like this is actually way more

1:02:10 nuanced than where we're going over

1:02:11 here. Joy cost less than your hourly

1:02:14 rate. Essential

1:02:17 useful thought exercise even if you

1:02:19 don't delegate everything

1:02:22 with aspirational lifestyle

1:02:25 evidence conceptual reasoning fairest

1:02:27 naval references pressure test if

1:02:30 delegation cost benefits overhead

1:02:33 verdict good

1:02:37 medium high research based analysis

1:02:40 empowerment delegation aligned practices

1:02:43 correlate with positive outcomes But

1:02:45 delegation has real coordination and

1:02:47 quality control costs. Research gate

1:02:50 delegate repeatable tasks with clear

1:02:52 specs. Avoid the outsource your life

1:02:55 fantasy 216.

1:02:58 >> And that is where that's where you're

1:03:01 going to run into problems right there.

1:03:02 If you're chasing this like, "Oh, I

1:03:04 should delegate things." If you're not

1:03:06 in a position where you didn't already

1:03:07 realize to delegate things, um you you

1:03:10 should not. If you don't already know

1:03:12 that you're supposed to delegate the

1:03:14 things you're doing now, u let's say

1:03:16 you're a founder and you're you're

1:03:20 starting a company. Yeah, there's a real

1:03:22 discussion of when do you delegate and

1:03:24 when do you don't. Um the number of you

1:03:26 who are watching this as a founder is so

1:03:29 infantessimal. There might be one of you

1:03:31 if I happen to get a 100,000 views on

1:03:33 here. I don't care if you're grind if

1:03:35 your grind said if you're if you're

1:03:36 like, "Hey, I'm doing like like no legit

1:03:39 grind." It's like, hey, my job sucks.

1:03:42 I'm I'm doing I'm getting some hours as

1:03:44 a barista. I'm driving for Uber Eats.

1:03:47 Um, you know, working with friends

1:03:49 trying to like see if we can do like a

1:03:50 record label. I'm I'm making websites.

1:03:53 I'm trying social media. I'm I'm

1:03:55 thinking if I can, you know, uh make

1:03:57 these hats and sell them. And then on

1:03:58 the weekends too, I'm going to the local

1:04:00 ball game and I'm selling water. Like

1:04:02 I'm I'm really trying to get out of hole

1:04:04 out of a hole here. Um

1:04:07 dude, you're not delegating anything. um

1:04:10 you are you are clawing your way up. And

1:04:14 I'm going to be very honest, I've been

1:04:16 there. Like I've hardcore been there. I

1:04:19 understand. Times get real hard

1:04:21 sometimes. And you got to decide like

1:04:26 do do I pay rent on a credit card or do

1:04:28 I think that I don't know maybe I could

1:04:31 couch surf for a while and find a second

1:04:34 job and then just save up and and have

1:04:36 some friends help me out. Like that

1:04:39 shit's real. Okay. Um if you're in that

1:04:42 position, you're not delegating. You're

1:04:44 not considering delegating and you're in

1:04:46 a situation that a a founder with VC

1:04:48 money going through Y Cominator couldn't

1:04:50 [ __ ] imagine. Most of them are doing

1:04:52 this in college. Most of them are are

1:04:54 are either being found in college and

1:04:56 dropping out um or they're trying to

1:04:58 drop out with with an idea. Um they're

1:05:01 going to have to work just as hard. And

1:05:02 if they're thinking about delegating,

1:05:04 that's probably why they're going to

1:05:05 fail. Um it is long after that step that

1:05:08 they delegate. Let's talk about where

1:05:11 you do delegate.

1:05:13 I'm just going to read because I'm

1:05:15 already topping an hour here. I'm

1:05:16 already have to break this up. This one

1:05:19 14-minute video that I've gone two

1:05:20 minutes in on two things. I told you

1:05:23 second opinion is one hell of a deep

1:05:26 dive. So, we're probably going to

1:05:28 probably going to wrap this up and I'm

1:05:30 going to break it off into video two.

1:05:32 And I think he's got How many's he got

1:05:34 here? He's got enough. He's got enough

1:05:37 that we're going to have uh uh multiple

1:05:39 videos. Um but let's let's wrap this one

1:05:42 up here and I want to give you some

1:05:43 final thoughts. If you're a manager,

1:05:47 delegate. Who's a manager? Are you the

1:05:49 shift manager at a Subway? Yeah. You

1:05:52 don't get to make all the sandwiches. If

1:05:54 if if you got, you know, you just hired

1:05:56 a 15-year-old or 16-year-old, whatever

1:05:58 it is in your state, and you're the

1:06:00 18-year-old, 19-year-old, or even

1:06:02 30-year-old manager, you're going to do

1:06:04 a lot. You're going to spend time on

1:06:05 training. You're going to spend time on

1:06:06 cleaning and other things. You're going

1:06:08 to you're the one responsible for

1:06:10 keeping both of you going. You are a

1:06:12 manager. Does someone report to you?

1:06:15 Like

1:06:17 when I say report to you, I don't mean

1:06:19 the legal definition of a manager or

1:06:21 supervisor. The legal definition is you

1:06:23 have hiring and firing decisions over

1:06:26 those people. You probably don't. Um

1:06:29 it's a quirk in labor law that you get a

1:06:32 manager so they don't have to pay you

1:06:33 overtime.

1:06:35 So that's it's something that also

1:06:36 applies to IT as well. Um I say that I

1:06:39 am an IT director. I have hiring and

1:06:41 firing, but it also means there's no

1:06:44 overtime, your salary. Um, so if you

1:06:47 don't get overtime or you get you get

1:06:49 straight time because they say, "Well,

1:06:50 you're a manager." You'd better be able

1:06:52 to fire people around you. But that's a

1:06:55 whole other episode. If you are in a

1:06:57 position where anyone has to answer to

1:06:59 you, when you tell them to do something,

1:07:00 they are supposed to go and do that

1:07:01 thing. If you ask them to sweep the

1:07:03 floor and they're supposed to go and do

1:07:04 that and not say, "I don't answer to

1:07:07 you." If they can say, "I don't answer

1:07:09 to you." and they're right. You are not

1:07:11 a manager. You do not delegate to them.

1:07:14 You do not pretend to delegate to them.

1:07:17 Um because they will rightfully tell you

1:07:19 to go to hell. Again, that's my

1:07:21 bluecollar background. If I got a

1:07:23 co-orker and we're working together,

1:07:24 we're going to talk about what you do in

1:07:26 that situation. That's that's a whole

1:07:27 different concept than delegation. But

1:07:29 you don't look at your job and you're

1:07:31 sitting at the line or you're, you know,

1:07:33 doing I've made fries at McDonald's.

1:07:36 you're making fries and you might ask

1:07:38 someone for help like hey I am behind I

1:07:41 got to run outside I got to get this can

1:07:43 can you when that goes off can you hit

1:07:45 them dump them and salt those salt those

1:07:48 for me you can ask but you don't sit

1:07:50 there and go hey I'm going to run

1:07:52 outside what I'm going to need you to do

1:07:54 cuz you're younger or you're less like

1:07:57 again you can go to hell manage yourself

1:08:01 you don't delegate you don't have to to

1:08:03 delegate you don't have the right to

1:08:04 delegate Um, you know, you need to know

1:08:07 your uh what's what what's the old

1:08:09 saying? Know your place before your

1:08:11 authority. If you your place is not a

1:08:14 manager, your authority is not to

1:08:16 delegate. Um, that includes to customers

1:08:19 by the way, but again, different

1:08:20 discussion

1:08:22 because the world is not a multi-level

1:08:25 marketing. Delegation is not is a

1:08:28 pyramid scheme in this sense. And what

1:08:30 what's the bad the bad if you're not a

1:08:32 manager and you're trying to do you

1:08:34 think you're going to attempt ferish

1:08:36 your way out of all of your work by by

1:08:37 co-opting your family and co-workers.

1:08:40 Delegation can be a pyramid scheme for

1:08:42 lazy people. Most people do not manage

1:08:45 other people. And so you are coercing

1:08:48 your co-workers and families into into

1:08:50 doing the work you should be doing. Or

1:08:53 and I will just add a caveat here. If

1:08:56 you're paying all of your fees and and

1:08:58 God bless all the people doing Uber Eats

1:09:00 and Door Shash and all that, I'm not

1:09:02 buying your services anymore unless for

1:09:04 some reason they're outsourcing to you

1:09:06 because my god, those services, if you

1:09:08 were getting the money, it'd be

1:09:09 different. If you were being paid like a

1:09:11 decent wage and all that, but based on

1:09:13 their service fees and this fee and that

1:09:15 fee and also taking a forcing companies

1:09:18 into a 30% price hike, uh, Instacart and

1:09:21 Door Dash Uber can kiss my ass. I am not

1:09:24 about to delegate to you to go shopping

1:09:27 for me. There isn't a price point in the

1:09:30 world that I'm going to give up $40, $50

1:09:34 on my groceries

1:09:36 for the delivery. I can order through

1:09:38 the store and at least sit outside and

1:09:40 do a pickup. I might delegate that. Not

1:09:43 a bad idea. They they offer curbside

1:09:46 pickup at your local grocery store.

1:09:48 Highly recommend. Very great. They often

1:09:51 won't get the things you want, but you

1:09:52 know what else? I actually enjoy

1:09:53 spending some time going through. Don't

1:09:56 overdelegate everything. But there

1:09:58 there's a little a little wiggle room in

1:10:00 there. But for most of it, we're talking

1:10:02 about money. It says it says make your

1:10:04 aspirational pay. Well, that didn't cost

1:10:06 anything. So, I guess that's not real

1:10:07 delegation according to the rules.

1:10:11 But there is there's a sense of

1:10:12 accomplishment that can be gained by

1:10:14 doing your own work. Again, little

1:10:16 stoicism, you know, make your own damn

1:10:19 bet. I don't care if you're a

1:10:20 billionaire. Make your own goddamn bed.

1:10:23 Okay. I

1:10:26 dear billionaire who who doesn't have to

1:10:28 do that. I don't care if you are in the

1:10:31 White House or the [ __ ] house. Make your

1:10:33 own bet. You can do it. Do you have to

1:10:35 do that in a hotel? No. But should you

1:10:38 at least make your bed at home? Make

1:10:40 your bed at home, you lazy bastard. Like

1:10:42 like again, this is we're we're we're

1:10:46 pulling things a little further apart

1:10:47 here. Um and um uh like I I love to tell

1:10:51 people it is like oh should a doctor be

1:10:54 saying that? I ain't that kind of

1:10:56 doctor.

1:10:58 Um YouTubers and I'm going to read here

1:11:01 because I have specifically put some

1:11:02 YouTubers not this one and often are

1:11:05 often

1:11:07 just little CEOs. Think of uh Lionus uh

1:11:11 uh Lionus Tech Tips runs a company

1:11:14 100ish people. It's an okay company.

1:11:16 It's tiny. It's itty bitty. It seems

1:11:18 like a lot of money. It's itty bitty.

1:11:20 But they're CEOs. Should they be

1:11:21 delegating? Yeah. They're CEO. They

1:11:24 actually have, you know, 100 people are

1:11:26 answering. Yeah. But does that person

1:11:28 need

1:11:30 this YouTube video? If you need to tell

1:11:32 that piece person to delegate, they

1:11:34 never would have gotten to where they

1:11:35 are. So, they already know they're

1:11:36 supposed to delegate. If they don't,

1:11:39 they're just going to die of a heart

1:11:40 attack. I'm going to tell you right now,

1:11:42 they they're going to they're going to

1:11:43 die out of a heart attack sometime in

1:11:44 their 40s. If you're running a 100

1:11:46 person company and you're not delegating

1:11:47 anything um and you're just going to do

1:11:50 this like it's not going to work. Um

1:11:53 continue on so much burning the time

1:11:56 here. Um use too much self-reference

1:11:58 about how the productivity grind set

1:12:01 maximizes and all this sort of stuff. So

1:12:03 here's what I don't like. Um and I'm not

1:12:06 faulting all here. I mean you you're

1:12:08 right about what you know. If you like

1:12:09 if you like reading Stephen King, you'll

1:12:11 notice that a lot of the the main actors

1:12:14 or characters in his book are freaking

1:12:16 authors. You're telling me that all this

1:12:18 goofy weird [ __ ] happens to authors?

1:12:20 He's an author. It's what he writes

1:12:21 about because that's what he knows. Um,

1:12:23 you know, it's like it's like I think

1:12:25 it's one of the reasons that Ramstein

1:12:27 sounds so industrial

1:12:30 because that's their background is

1:12:31 industrial. So, they sound a lot like

1:12:33 the machines. You know, it's one of

1:12:35 those is it nature or is it nurture? But

1:12:37 the fact is, all he's a YouTuber now.

1:12:40 That's that's a big thing. So he has

1:12:41 classes. He'll teach you how to be a

1:12:43 YouTuber. He'll teach you you need to

1:12:44 learn how to delegate. What's delegation

1:12:46 mean? When you're starting off, you do

1:12:48 your own video editing and later on you

1:12:49 hire a video editor. That's what he's

1:12:51 talking about. That's what he means.

1:12:53 Should you do that? No. Is there any

1:12:56 point in this channel where I'm going to

1:12:59 hire an editor? No. Why? Because I don't

1:13:03 edit.

1:13:05 I build a workflow. I don't care if

1:13:06 there's a million people watching. This

1:13:08 is the format. This is it. If there's a

1:13:11 different format, it will be a different

1:13:12 channel. This is the format. Why?

1:13:14 Because I'm not editing.

1:13:16 Full stop. I don't need a I don't need

1:13:19 the uh mixed in little clips like or I

1:13:23 don't need I don't need uh uh llamas

1:13:26 coming in making weird faces and and the

1:13:28 goofy sounds and and and and all these

1:13:31 shots. I don't need that. So, uh he's

1:13:33 talking to those people. Um,

1:13:37 so is he talking to potential customers

1:13:40 or his existing customers or is he

1:13:41 talking to you? That's where we go back

1:13:43 up top and it it matters what the

1:13:44 incentives are for you.

1:13:48 You're just, let's say you're just an

1:13:49 hourly worker or a contractor, right? If

1:13:53 that is you and you're getting your

1:13:56 overtime, should you do this? No. Now,

1:14:00 going a little bit back into the script,

1:14:02 the 4-hour work week has a couple good

1:14:04 ideas, and it's a fun read, but don't

1:14:08 follow any of it. Like 99 like there's a

1:14:11 it's it's you'll take things away from

1:14:13 it, but you won't take away what what it

1:14:15 was written to take away from. For

1:14:17 instance, it's based on drop shipping.

1:14:18 Um, start a business by being a drop

1:14:20 shipper and making uh these these French

1:14:23 uh shirts with the the white and black

1:14:25 stripes. It's got a whole thing about

1:14:26 how to do that to and and drop shipped

1:14:28 your way to financial freedom. Um, and

1:14:32 what happens when something like that,

1:14:33 yeah, it's it might could have been a

1:14:35 little background cult book where people

1:14:36 kind of took that idea and hey, people

1:14:38 actually started, you know, on their way

1:14:39 to being more like him and kind of get

1:14:41 off that, but the book became a

1:14:43 bestseller and suddenly got 50,000

1:14:45 grinds on people. They're just pushing a

1:14:46 bunch of crap products. And I will tell

1:14:48 you, back in the day, I looked into drop

1:14:50 shipping. I looked at the fees.

1:14:53 There there's a few big there were even

1:14:55 back then probably less today there's a

1:14:58 few big drop shippers every single

1:15:00 person doing drop shipping has the same

1:15:01 products you do and they're already

1:15:03 maximizing all of them and now we work

1:15:05 in AI AI can do all of this AI

1:15:09 these businesses don't need you

1:15:13 AI can do them and so if you think

1:15:14 you're going to compete against people

1:15:16 putting in uh changing over their their

1:15:18 Bitcoin miners into AI uh powerhouses

1:15:22 doing doing logistics work and then

1:15:24 going out through all the AI. I'm doing

1:15:25 little bits of AI here. But if you think

1:15:28 people rolling that back in and and

1:15:31 getting, you know, running inference

1:15:33 costs north of $10,000. I I only run I

1:15:37 can at my at my heaviest I I can run

1:15:39 about $500 $600 a month for what I do.

1:15:42 um nowhere near what what a lot of

1:15:44 people are going to put in, which is

1:15:45 going to be in like the the $10 to

1:15:46 $50,000

1:15:48 um going much further than your that

1:15:50 book is not going to apply to you at

1:15:52 all. But the concept's interesting. Um

1:15:55 but when I see things like this, and

1:15:57 again, this video is 4 years old.

1:16:00 there's a reason I went to it because

1:16:02 we're also going to see a lot of these

1:16:04 things carry through and they keep you

1:16:06 know you'll see these things continually

1:16:08 pushed um and they don't apply unless

1:16:11 you are specifically trying to grind max

1:16:14 your YouTube or you're trying to uh sell

1:16:18 classes um you know hopefully you're not

1:16:21 an Andrew take kind of piece of garbage

1:16:23 person um

1:16:26 but if you're a grind set person this is

1:16:28 about the choice of when when you're

1:16:30 becoming overworked. Um, most of the the

1:16:33 regular people out here, we've got

1:16:35 hourly jobs. We might also throw in like

1:16:38 Uber, Lift, Uber Eats, Instagram. So,

1:16:41 you're not you're getting off your work

1:16:42 and then you're spending your your time,

1:16:44 you know, picking up someone's dinner at

1:16:47 a restaurant or running through the

1:16:49 aisles and shopping for whatever, and

1:16:51 you're going to pay [snorts]

1:16:53 per hour. Like,

1:16:56 honestly, I can't imagine how the worker

1:16:58 makes money. I I've seen the orders I

1:17:00 put in for groceries when I tried those.

1:17:01 It's like, oh, let's let's give this a

1:17:03 car a try. And I'm paying 50 for $75

1:17:08 or it's a car full of groceries. But

1:17:11 man, I'm I'm figuring up the per hour

1:17:12 and the they're probably doing multiple

1:17:14 orders at once. I would if I was them.

1:17:17 But can you imagine just how many hours

1:17:20 and running through and grabbing

1:17:21 everything? Her crap on that. um you're

1:17:25 probably getting better running your ass

1:17:27 through an Amazon warehouse and that's

1:17:29 not great. So again

1:17:33 though if you're that person you're

1:17:35 grinding because you're trying to

1:17:36 survive

1:17:38 you're not delegating anything. That's

1:17:40 what Instagram is like. How are you

1:17:42 going to delegate? Well, you're going to

1:17:43 subcontract in uh Instacarting. You're

1:17:46 going to subcontract Uber driving.

1:17:48 You're going to make your kids, you

1:17:49 know, hey, I got a 16-year-old just got

1:17:51 his license. I'm going to have him

1:17:52 drive, too. and we're going to get cars

1:17:54 working all over the place. I'll be I'll

1:17:56 be rich. No, you won't. Um, my bucket,

1:18:00 manager only tier. Unless you are a

1:18:02 manager, this is a crap tier. Do not

1:18:05 delegate anything. Instead, cooperate or

1:18:09 coopetition. What's coopetition?

1:18:11 Coopetition is if uh let's say you're in

1:18:13 sales and you guys trade um uh support

1:18:18 for each other. Maybe you're doing a

1:18:19 really crap phone bank or maybe you're

1:18:21 doing car. Maybe you're doing furniture.

1:18:22 Maybe you're doing something else. I

1:18:24 actually have some experience doing

1:18:25 sales. I used to manage some uh

1:18:27 door-to-d dooror sales for two different

1:18:29 companies and then when I got into

1:18:31 actually managing uh an IT service uh

1:18:34 company, I did a lot of work for point

1:18:36 of sales across about nine states. Uh we

1:18:38 basically acted as managers. You can

1:18:40 have a little competition, but it's

1:18:41 competition. So, everyone goes out

1:18:43 there, everyone learns things, everyone

1:18:44 wants to kind of be a winner, and you

1:18:47 know, you can have have that. What's the

1:18:49 cooperation? Um, you know what? I

1:18:51 decided I'm I'm I'm going to delegate

1:18:54 the dishes to my wife tonight. You think

1:18:58 that's going to go over well? [ __ ] no,

1:19:00 it's going to go over well. It's going

1:19:01 to go over horrible. I'm cooperating.

1:19:03 I'm like, "Hey,

1:19:05 if I if I do the dinner and then uh pick

1:19:08 up the front room, dining room, would

1:19:09 you be able to do the dishes or um have

1:19:12 you got something going on? Like, how

1:19:14 how do you want to handle tonight's

1:19:15 stuff?" Cooperate. Okay? Don't don't

1:19:18 delegate to your spouse. Um because if

1:19:21 you do, you're just a dick. Um and

1:19:23 you'll probably be divorced uh sooner

1:19:25 rather than later. Now, if you are if

1:19:28 you are a manager and you don't know

1:19:30 this and you don't delegate, you'd

1:19:33 better learn real quick. You better take

1:19:34 the A lot of people, they can't be they

1:19:36 they they feel like delegation is

1:19:38 confrontational.

1:19:41 Workers rely on you to do your job. If

1:19:43 you can't delegate delegate, their jobs

1:19:46 will become crap. If you can't

1:19:47 discipline people when they need it,

1:19:48 everyone around that person, their work

1:19:51 environment will become crap. And so,

1:19:53 it's not confrontational. you are

1:19:55 protecting those who want a good work

1:19:57 environment. And if you're not capable

1:19:59 of doing that, learn very immediately or

1:20:01 I recommend you quit. You if you're not

1:20:03 a manager, don't be a manager. Um, and

1:20:06 I'm going to go here and and and kind of

1:20:08 deep dive a little bit more. This is

1:20:11 gold tier. This is S. This is this is

1:20:13 out of the ballpark for managers only

1:20:16 and only at your work. And you need to

1:20:18 identify if you're going to be a good

1:20:20 manager first. If you can self-reflect

1:20:22 and realize realize if you are a Peter

1:20:25 principle problem person um in other

1:20:28 words what's the Peter principle

1:20:30 everyone is promoted to a level that to

1:20:35 all the way to the level that they're

1:20:36 finally not competent to be at that

1:20:38 level. So you're a good worker, you're a

1:20:41 good engineer, you're you're you're the

1:20:44 you're the best person who knows

1:20:45 everything inside the pizza parlor uh

1:20:48 behind the counter. Um, you're great in

1:20:50 the kitchen, so they make you the

1:20:52 manager. You suck at management, though.

1:20:55 Um, you are now a victim of the Peter

1:20:57 principle. You have been promoted up to

1:21:00 a level that you are now no longer

1:21:01 competent in what you're being required

1:21:03 to do. And that happens a lot where they

1:21:04 take a good worker and they make them

1:21:06 the the supervisor manager of that

1:21:08 department because, well, you were good

1:21:09 at this, so you can teach and tell

1:21:11 people. That doesn't mean you're a good

1:21:13 teacher. It doesn't mean you're good at

1:21:14 telling anyone anything. It's same with

1:21:16 sales. They'll take the best salesperson

1:21:18 and that salesperson will then run the

1:21:19 sales department. They might know dick

1:21:21 all about management. Um, management is

1:21:25 not fun. Delegating makes it workable.

1:21:27 And if you can't delegate as a manager,

1:21:29 you and your team will eventually fail

1:21:31 and you'll burn out. You will hate it.

1:21:33 They will hate it. Ask for a demotion

1:21:36 and just be honest. Just say, "Hey, I'm

1:21:38 not I, you know, I know you wanted to

1:21:40 maybe reward me. I'm terrible at this.

1:21:44 I'm good at what I was doing. I am

1:21:46 terrible at this. Not trying to quit,

1:21:48 but I can't do this. Um, you might have

1:21:52 to take a pay cut. It's because it

1:21:55 sucked, didn't it? That's why that's why

1:21:56 as a pay because it sucks and you're

1:21:59 never really off work. Uh, that's one of

1:22:02 the bad things about salary. You're

1:22:03 never truly off. Um, and there's a whole

1:22:06 boundaries issues. Now,

1:22:09 we are an aan 22 minutes in. Um, I I

1:22:13 tried to get this. There's so much rich

1:22:15 material in this. That's why I told you

1:22:17 guys in the last video, I really want to

1:22:18 hit these productivities. Uh, we're

1:22:19 going to start with the two-minute rule.

1:22:21 Next time, um, this was really fun. Uh,

1:22:25 covering Ali. Um, and this easy video to

1:22:28 find. Uh, it's one of his more popular

1:22:30 ones. Just all you have to do, you know,

1:22:32 you can look in the description. I'll

1:22:34 try to remember to actually get this in

1:22:35 here. Um, the best productivity hacks of

1:22:38 all time. Um, you will see it doesn't

1:22:40 look like I'm subscribed here. This is

1:22:42 because I'm logged in as my channel. I'm

1:22:43 not logged in as my personal and I'm not

1:22:45 trying to spread the joy of my what my

1:22:47 personal channel is. I am a subscriber

1:22:49 of Ali Abdal. Um actually a really great

1:22:52 channel. Interesting what his takes are.

1:22:55 Um if you take them with a grain of salt

1:22:57 of realizing why they're useful to him

1:22:59 versus why they will be uh useful to

1:23:01 you, it's going to to help you a lot.

1:23:04 This is like one of those um you ever

1:23:05 see like an MKBHD or you see someone

1:23:07 else doing a channel and they'll do this

1:23:09 um what's my everyday carry and what I

1:23:13 always find everyone everyone is very

1:23:15 shocked. Um they look at an MKBHC and go

1:23:17 oh wow yeah I can't what does he carry?

1:23:20 He probably carries all the best stuff

1:23:21 and then you find out he carries a ton

1:23:22 of cameras and lenses uh a lot of the

1:23:25 times or at least you know that used to

1:23:26 be his everyday carry stuff and you're

1:23:27 like wait what I don't want to do that.

1:23:30 Of course you don't cuz you're not

1:23:31 MKBHD. He is very specifically talking

1:23:33 about himself. Uh just like Elise

1:23:35 talking very specifically about himself

1:23:37 and his customers and his business in

1:23:40 his world. Things like delegation are a

1:23:43 tier. In your world they should be B

1:23:46 tier. You should probably learn about it

1:23:49 because if you're not ready for

1:23:50 management now someday you might be. And

1:23:53 I'm just going to tell you if you're not

1:23:54 already a parent. Parenting is

1:23:56 delegation. Parenting is negotiation.

1:24:00 Parenting is communication. and doing so

1:24:03 with the other parent and the children

1:24:06 and your work and time off and coaches

1:24:10 and teachers and all of that. So, uh

1:24:14 it's in the good to know. Um but is it

1:24:17 going to be a productivity hack? Because

1:24:20 um what was uh was r/ uh am I the

1:24:25 [ __ ]

1:24:27 I think there was one I I saw a clip of

1:24:29 that where guys like, "Hey, am I the

1:24:32 asshole?" Um, so I secretly quit my job

1:24:35 and I started uh Twitch streaming

1:24:38 because like I had like 10 subscribers,

1:24:40 but if I really grind all day, I'm going

1:24:42 to turn this into a career and, you

1:24:44 know, how's that working? I'm, you know,

1:24:46 I know they're paying the bills and such

1:24:47 and I'm just going to be like, well, you

1:24:48 know, I'm going to I'm going to just I'm

1:24:49 going to I'm going to this is going to

1:24:51 take off. What they did was they

1:24:52 delegated the entire responsibilities of

1:24:53 household and kids and everything to

1:24:56 their spouse. Then there was like an

1:24:58 update like a year later or two years

1:25:01 later. It's like so the divorce

1:25:04 finalized last month. [laughter]

1:25:08 Of course it did cuz you're an [ __ ]

1:25:10 Uh you tried to delegate life

1:25:12 responsibilities because you just

1:25:14 couldn't be a grown adult. Um, again,

1:25:17 same thing with with I don't care if

1:25:19 you're a millionaire or a billionaire.

1:25:20 Uh, make your own damn bed. You don't

1:25:22 have to make your bed, but don't pay

1:25:24 someone to make your bed. Uh, home

1:25:27 cleaning services are great, but but

1:25:29 dear God, wipe your own butt. Like,

1:25:33 I I it it it's wild to me. Um, you know,

1:25:38 I I I'm used to um being able to take

1:25:42 care of a of a young child uh being sort

1:25:45 of a um a dad having a lot going on and

1:25:50 not having a lot of time and the mom

1:25:52 having to do her own thing and and you

1:25:55 know, you're the dad. Um and you're

1:25:57 you're there by yourselves and you've

1:25:58 got so many things. You got a house to

1:26:00 clean and you got to do and everyone's

1:26:02 out. You're like, "I don't I've got a

1:26:04 three-year-old and you're like, "I don't

1:26:06 have any time."

1:26:08 It's okay if you don't make your bed.

1:26:10 And it might be okay if you're like,

1:26:11 "Listen, we are both so freaking

1:26:14 stressed. What about once a month we

1:26:16 just have someone come in and clean?

1:26:18 Like, we're just we're we're getting our

1:26:20 we're getting our asses handed to us.

1:26:21 Like, money's not really an issue. We're

1:26:23 kind of covering it. Like, the diapers

1:26:25 suck, but now they're gone. Um, what if

1:26:28 we just like save up a little bit and we

1:26:29 do this this like little bit for us just

1:26:31 so we get a little Sandy back. Cool. Do

1:26:34 that.

1:26:35 Do you need a living nanny? Oh, dear

1:26:37 God. Do you need an Opair?

1:26:40 Come on, people. Um, I don't know where.

1:26:44 It's like the old Dr. Spock idea. Like,

1:26:47 if your baby cries, don't hold your

1:26:48 baby. Of course, hold your baby. Um, we

1:26:51 we we have a lot of these dumbass ideas.

1:26:54 They got stuck in the ether on bad

1:26:56 research and bad data. Um, do your own

1:26:59 work. It's like that. It's like the book

1:27:01 Girl, Wash Your Face. Wonderful book, by

1:27:04 the way. Um, I should cover that

1:27:06 probably sometime. See if anybody does a

1:27:08 breakdown of that. I actually enjoyed

1:27:10 that.

1:27:11 Take care of yourself. Um, it's you can

1:27:14 wash your own dishes. You can make your

1:27:16 own bed. It's this is nobody's asking

1:27:19 you to, you know, it's the same 24 hours

1:27:21 everyone else. That's the funny thing is

1:27:23 people say, "Well, yeah, I I realize

1:27:25 that I have the same 24 hours that

1:27:27 Warren Buffett has and he's using his

1:27:29 time to be a billionaire and blah." You

1:27:30 know what Warren Buffett can do? Warren

1:27:32 Buffett can make his own bed. I don't

1:27:34 care how rich you are. You can make your

1:27:35 own bed. Um, you can drive yourself to

1:27:39 work. Um, now granted, I make enough

1:27:41 money. You're probably not driving like

1:27:44 traffic anymore. Like I will still

1:27:47 drive.

1:27:49 There will be limits. And of course they

1:27:51 don't they do that for liability

1:27:52 reasons. If you're not the driver and

1:27:53 you have another company driving you,

1:27:55 then technically you can't be sued and

1:27:56 all of that good stuff. So if you're a

1:27:57 billionaire, you might not want to drive

1:27:59 just because one bad accident and

1:28:01 suddenly you're no longer a billionaire.

1:28:04 But

1:28:06 take care of yourself. You know,

1:28:08 some of this can be good. I would say,

1:28:10 you know, learn to do these things a

1:28:13 little bit. Learn how delegating works.

1:28:16 Um but learn cooperation.

1:28:20 A lot of managers delegation is is an a

1:28:24 work order. Um you can tell employees

1:28:27 what to do. You know what's easier?

1:28:30 Cooperating. So, one of the things one

1:28:32 of the things that we aren't going into

1:28:33 this. I would I'm so very tempted to go

1:28:35 into, but we've got to finish this one

1:28:37 and we're already an hour and a half is

1:28:40 I'm very very much in in in in the area

1:28:44 of leadership styles and followership

1:28:46 styles. And if you are just delegating

1:28:49 by like go do this, you go do this, you

1:28:51 go do this, you are a terrible manager.

1:28:54 Um, if you are disliked as a manager and

1:28:57 not for a good like there's good reasons

1:28:59 to be disliked, but if you're you're

1:29:01 just a jerk to the the people you work

1:29:03 for, you're not a good manager. Like,

1:29:05 anyone can bark orders. And someone

1:29:07 would say, "Well, but they really can't

1:29:08 because they don't like confrontation."

1:29:10 Well, I can bark orders. Um, I'll get

1:29:13 more with honey than vinegar, though.

1:29:15 You know, being a being a jerk um is not

1:29:18 going to really help you

1:29:21 build bridges, get the most from people.

1:29:22 You're going to find that if you're the

1:29:24 jerk, all those sick days are going to

1:29:26 skyrocket, buddy.

1:29:28 I I didn't learn that just from

1:29:30 education. Yeah, it's backed up by

1:29:32 research. Um, if you're a jerk, you you

1:29:34 will get your productivity tank. That's

1:29:37 where the whole quiet quitting thing

1:29:38 comes from. And um you can post on

1:29:41 Instagram and Facebook all day long

1:29:43 about uh these people are quiet quitting

1:29:46 and and I'm going to catch them and I'm

1:29:48 not going to put up with it. You don't

1:29:49 even know what they're doing. Like I

1:29:50 didn't learn this from academia. I was

1:29:52 from blueco collar. Um I as a child I I

1:29:56 remember going through strikes and if

1:30:00 you think that you're going to hard ball

1:30:03 your employees into doing something they

1:30:05 don't want to do, you're going to find

1:30:07 out that your company has a whole bunch

1:30:09 of problems that magically appear um and

1:30:13 you're not going to catch them. They

1:30:15 know those systems far better than you

1:30:17 ever will as a manager.

1:30:20 I will tell you now that the mechanics

1:30:22 and people working on lines know those

1:30:24 machines far better than the engineers

1:30:26 designing them or designing parts for

1:30:28 them. Um

1:30:30 quite it's always funny that there there

1:30:32 are two kinds of you know there's two

1:30:34 kinds of machines. There's the one that

1:30:36 the engineer designs and then there's

1:30:38 one that actually exists on the chop

1:30:40 shop floor and those are not the same.

1:30:42 One of my favorite things to do was

1:30:43 always to push production of a machine

1:30:45 past what an engineer said the machine

1:30:46 was supposed to be capable of. And I'm

1:30:48 like, well,

1:30:51 clearly not. Um,

1:30:54 but yeah, if you're if you're going to

1:30:57 look into management techniques, I I

1:30:59 think talking about productivity hacks,

1:31:01 you know, maybe this isn't maybe this is

1:31:03 a little grind steady just being this

1:31:05 this topic. But if you're up here

1:31:07 talking at man at manager tier type

1:31:09 stuff, um, that's not productivity

1:31:12 hacks. Those are management hacks. And

1:31:15 that's something else I I almost went in

1:31:16 a direction with on this video was that

1:31:18 a lot of these have nothing to do with

1:31:20 productivity, personal productivity or

1:31:22 business productivity. There's nothing

1:31:23 really here for business productivity

1:31:25 because these are not systems in the

1:31:28 sense that we talked about systems

1:31:29 earlier. And number two, then I get

1:31:31 personal productivity hacks. Delegation

1:31:33 is just removing work. And again, pardon

1:31:36 my language. The [ __ ] does that have to

1:31:38 do with your productivity? I'll get more

1:31:40 done if I have other people take take

1:31:42 some of the things off my plate. Well,

1:31:43 you're not getting more done. You're

1:31:45 just taking things off your plate.

1:31:46 That'll work whether you delegate. You

1:31:48 could just not do those other things and

1:31:50 do different things. Like that's not a

1:31:53 productivity hack. Like that's nothing

1:31:55 to do with it's like it's like saying um

1:31:58 yeah, I'm I'm I'm good at uh I I'm a I'm

1:32:02 a sports hack hacker because um how I

1:32:05 got better at basketball was I stopped

1:32:07 playing baseball or how I got better.

1:32:09 Like what?

1:32:11 if you didn't get better at basketball,

1:32:13 you just stopped playing the other

1:32:15 sport. Um, yeah, sure you got better.

1:32:17 That doesn't mean you're a better

1:32:18 athlete. You're you're just doing less,

1:32:20 which is fine and legitimate, but don't

1:32:23 don't be like, I I hacked the system.

1:32:25 Hey, just stop. It's like saying if you

1:32:28 want to get good at your day job, quit

1:32:31 your night job. Like, no [ __ ]

1:32:36 Oh, gee, I didn't realize that. that if

1:32:39 I didn't work a night job and I get good

1:32:41 sleep, I bet I'd wake up all happier and

1:32:43 more productive with more energy on my

1:32:45 day job. Who would have thunk it? Like,

1:32:49 we are just scratching the surface here.

1:32:51 We've got we've got uh delegating to go.

1:32:54 We've got I'm going to I'm going to do a

1:32:56 sneak peek here. He's got two-minute

1:32:58 rule, the two-day rule.

1:33:01 It's not as bad as it sounds.

1:33:04 Time blocking the five minute rule.

1:33:08 Systems,

1:33:11 it's gonna hurt too. That That one I

1:33:13 probably got to look at again. The

1:33:14 systems one that's going to hurt because

1:33:16 what you mean by a system is it's from

1:33:19 atomic habits. Okay. It's not talking

1:33:21 about it's not talking about real

1:33:24 systems. Like I'm not trying to get uh

1:33:27 on on James Clear's ass about this, but

1:33:30 those aren't real systems. Um,

1:33:34 they might be methods.

1:33:37 Maybe that's where I can kind of split

1:33:39 the baby on this one. They are not

1:33:41 systems. Like

1:33:44 they're not systems. Um, but you know,

1:33:49 language is malleable. Um, but his thing

1:33:52 is systems versus goals, which is, um, I

1:33:56 think is really it's it's goals versus

1:33:58 habits.

1:34:01 habits habits put down into writing.

1:34:04 Also going to put talk about the daily

1:34:05 highlight. Um it's one of those things

1:34:07 where Oi and I are going to wildly

1:34:10 disagree again. Um this is one of his S

1:34:12 tier ones, the daily highlight.

1:34:15 I think it's a whole bunch of marketing

1:34:17 [ __ ] um not necessarily his and

1:34:22 it's not necessarily wrong, but it it

1:34:25 the the the amount of sugar coding on

1:34:28 this this thing that's also quite simple

1:34:30 and not that complicated is well

1:34:32 overblown. He's going to cover batching.

1:34:35 That's going to be an interesting one.

1:34:36 Color coding. You can guess what I you

1:34:39 can probably already guess what I think

1:34:41 about color coding. Um to-do lists. I

1:34:44 bet you can't guess what I'm going to

1:34:46 say about to-do lists. consuming content

1:34:48 at 2x speed. Um, we're now 34 minutes

1:34:52 in. I would advise you if if you're a

1:34:54 time traveler to go back and watch this

1:34:56 at 2x and you're probably not going to

1:34:59 understand the video, but might not even

1:35:01 understand me. I do kind of talk fast. I

1:35:03 have to see why I have to talk fast. I'm

1:35:05 already an hour and 40 minutes in. And

1:35:07 if I talk slow,

1:35:10 it would be 6:00 a.m. already. It is

1:35:12 2:30 in the morning. Uh, and then we're

1:35:15 going to cover uh deadlines. Um,

1:35:20 and I really need to review that again.

1:35:21 Ali has a problem with deadlines.

1:35:25 Out here in the real world, they just

1:35:27 exist. They're not optional. Um, but I

1:35:30 think we might be able to agree on

1:35:31 artificial deadlines. I think we'll just

1:35:34 be a little more exact. Um, and then

1:35:36 also we're going to talk about something

1:35:38 else which I'm going to pull up into a

1:35:42 different different tier because I'm

1:35:43 going to answer one of one of the things

1:35:45 he has a problem with with the

1:35:46 Eisenhower matrix and then later on he's

1:35:48 going to tell me that the Eisenhower

1:35:50 matrix is Dtier and I'm going to tell

1:35:52 you why he's wrong.

1:35:55 He's not wrong on the on on probably for

1:35:57 him but on the principle it's it's it's

1:36:01 doesn't have to be quite exact. We're

1:36:03 going to get kind of nuanced here. And a

1:36:05 lot of these things here is I don't

1:36:06 think you should adopt any of these to

1:36:08 be fair. Even if I think they're

1:36:10 wonderful, they're great to learn. And

1:36:12 then you just do you just get the just

1:36:14 grab the principle from the method

1:36:16 method, not system. Just grab that out

1:36:19 of there. You'll be fine. Um what about

1:36:22 goals? Um it looks like I believe he

1:36:26 goes into smart goals. Um which is going

1:36:29 to be interesting.

1:36:31 my dissertation um one half it was on

1:36:34 smart goals

1:36:36 and turns out actually none of that

1:36:38 matters. I have the research to back it

1:36:40 up. I'm an expert on those. Um

1:36:44 do you think they're crap? You're right.

1:36:46 Do you think they're not crap? You're

1:36:48 also right. I'll explain that when we

1:36:50 get to that video. And of course he

1:36:51 talks about enjoying the journey um and

1:36:54 his full tier list and just kind of

1:36:55 working through things and and having

1:36:57 fun going through and actually just like

1:36:59 kind of experiencing life and not not

1:37:01 trying to get so wound up. And I think

1:37:03 that's where him and I massively

1:37:05 massively massively agree. Um I have a

1:37:08 lot of things of of kind of wrapping up

1:37:10 a little bit. So I might have two

1:37:13 videos, I might have three videos. I'm

1:37:15 really going to try to wrap this up

1:37:16 because

1:37:18 Oh, okay. 2:30. I'm going to try to get

1:37:22 it out there. Um,

1:37:24 I love to interject. Um, I'm going to

1:37:27 try really hard in video two of this

1:37:30 series that which I might actually turn

1:37:32 around and you might not even see it. I

1:37:34 did change. I just wear the same hoodie.

1:37:36 Um, and I just love my my scarf here

1:37:38 because I like having the window open

1:37:41 for fresh air and it is currently 29

1:37:43 degrees outside so I'm sitting here with

1:37:45 an open window. Um, so it's not a it's

1:37:47 not that much of a fashion statement.

1:37:49 Um, but hopefully uh in part two of

1:37:52 this. Um, let the video go. Stop trying

1:37:56 to interrupt so much. Again, um,

1:37:58 self-improvement is not some big system

1:38:00 or method. Um,

1:38:03 one of the things that I probably will

1:38:04 introduce at the end, we might talk

1:38:06 about the UDA loop. And why would why

1:38:09 would I have a system or method? Um, and

1:38:12 this sounds like a branding in this

1:38:13 acronym thing because the military used

1:38:16 it. Um, is actually used in active

1:38:18 combat in life or death situations. Um,

1:38:21 when you do that, you're just valid. I

1:38:24 don't care what your research is. Um,

1:38:26 there is there is the school of hard

1:38:29 knocks and there's academia and then

1:38:32 there's people trying to kill you. And

1:38:34 when you get to people trying to kill

1:38:35 you, either your system works or it

1:38:37 doesn't and you die. So, it's sort of

1:38:40 trial trial by uh trial by by evolution

1:38:44 and like those ideas get Darwined hard

1:38:46 on the battlefield. Um, so we might

1:38:48 cover the udaloop and that's kind of

1:38:51 like how how that's why we're not

1:38:53 promising any any you know that the I'm

1:38:55 going to go back over with a fine tooth

1:38:56 comb on the information. That's what I'm

1:38:58 doing here. I'm udalooping. Um, which

1:39:02 we'll go deep into, but um, you don't

1:39:05 get to stop flying the plane. you fly

1:39:07 the plane and you better figure it out

1:39:09 in the air, which is what we're doing

1:39:10 right now. Um, anyways, I hope you

1:39:13 enjoyed this. I'm probably going to

1:39:15 artificially release part two of this a

1:39:18 day later. I'm kind I'm still trying to

1:39:20 space them out today, so I apologize as

1:39:22 I'm probably going to have this ready to

1:39:24 go and up in the morning, and you're not

1:39:26 going to get the next part two until

1:39:28 Monday morning. U, but it will be ready

1:39:30 to go. I'll even set to schedule to go.

1:39:32 Uh, but I hope you have a fantastic day

1:39:34 and I hope this wasn't a complete waste

1:39:35 of your time because well, you probably

1:39:38 listened to it at 2x. Spit second

1:39:40 opinion with Dr. Doo. Hope you have a

1:39:42 great day. Bye now.