SECOND OPINION WITH DR DEW
Episode 003: Greatest Productivity Hacks? Not so fast! - Part 2
Published: 2026-01-05
Runtime: 2:28:45

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[0:00] Welcome back to Second Opinion with Dr.

[0:03] D. I am Dr. Dwayne Layman. I'm a doctor

[0:04] of business administration with a focus

[0:07] in public policy. And this is part two.

[0:10] Uh go see yesterday's video.

[0:13] Technically, I'm just recording straight

[0:15] through, but we hit an hour and a half

[0:17] uh on the last video. So, I'm making

[0:19] this a two-parter. We are currently

[0:22] burning through this video right here,

[0:25] which are the best productivity hacks of

[0:27] all time. And I had quite a bit to say

[0:31] about the best productivity hacks of all

[0:33] time. It's a video from four years ago

[0:35] from Ali Abdal. Uh also a wonderful

[0:39] content creator and doctor in his own

[0:42] right. Uh but we have a differing uh set

[0:45] of opinions which is why we are uh

[0:48] having uh some disputes. But again, as I

[0:52] pointed out in the first video, these

[0:54] are his tier list rankings for him

[0:57] personally, and I'm taking more of a of

[1:00] an approach of you figuring out whether

[1:02] something is right for you or not. So,

[1:04] we are coming up on

[1:07] move ahead a little bit here. Let's move

[1:10] to the twominut rule. Uh, so here's how

[1:14] the format's going to go if you're new.

[1:17] Uh, we're playing his video. But yes,

[1:19] it's playing at 1.5 speed. Um, we spent

[1:22] an hour and a half getting 2 minutes and

[1:26] 17 seconds into his video.

[1:29] My god. Um, so I'm going to try to speed

[1:33] up video three. Um, as I explained at

[1:35] the very end, if you made it to the end

[1:37] of all my talking of video two, um, I'm

[1:40] udal looping these, so mistakes and

[1:43] warts and all. I don't edit these. Um,

[1:46] I'll just stop recording or pause

[1:48] recording and start over. Um, but I

[1:51] usually oneshot these. Um, and what

[1:53] we're going to do is we're going to play

[1:54] what he has. I've got AI notes. So,

[1:57] we're going to read out through here.

[1:58] And then once we get through all the

[2:00] notes, which I'll show you over here,

[2:02] we've got the two-minute rule. We're

[2:04] going to go through the notes. And then

[2:06] we're going to get down to my thoughts

[2:07] and things in which I will read them

[2:09] out. And then what I'm going to try to

[2:12] do, and I apologize cuz this is going to

[2:14] be a little bit different. One of the

[2:16] things I'm going to try to do is not add

[2:19] my two cents until the end. I don't know

[2:22] if we're going to get through the rest

[2:23] of these. We've got quite a few of

[2:25] these. Um, so we might burn through some

[2:27] of these. I really think that this is a

[2:30] good addendum to to video one. And what

[2:33] I said throughout video one is really

[2:35] going to apply here. Um, but we're going

[2:37] to get to a portion where I didn't even

[2:38] write notes. Um, again, I was spending

[2:41] so much time writing notes, I'm like, I

[2:42] I actually can just riff this. I was

[2:44] riffing the notes, so I can probably

[2:46] just riff this live. Um, that's sort of

[2:48] my superpower is just riffing live and I

[2:50] can speak forever. I've got a water

[2:52] bottle here, uh, to keep me going. I've

[2:55] got a pause button to refill it. So, um,

[2:58] I will have a few breaks where I just

[2:59] hit pause and reset things uh on my

[3:02] screens, but there's not going to be any

[3:03] editing and probably never any editing

[3:05] going forward. And it's the only only

[3:08] way I can keep up ahead of the AI slop

[3:11] stories that uh we covered in the first

[3:14] video. If you want to go back and watch

[3:16] that one, um I can almost outproduce AI.

[3:20] Uh but the only way that I can do that

[3:22] is um I do one takes. I do a lot of

[3:25] talking. This is kind of very raw. So uh

[3:28] why don't we get to back to the video

[3:30] and again we're going to do his video.

[3:33] We're going to do the notes and then uh

[3:35] I'm going to go through some of my takes

[3:37] on it. So, I apologize for a little bit

[3:39] of a lower quality, but it took an hour

[3:40] and a half to go two minutes and we've

[3:42] got a full My god, what have we got to

[3:44] go here?

[3:46] We've got 12 minutes. That That could be

[3:50] days worth of video with as much as I'm

[3:52] rifing. So, we're going to try to get

[3:54] through this just a little bit faster.

[3:56] And I don't know how, but I completely

[3:59] borked that window. My apologies. All

[4:02] right, let's jump into it.

[4:04] >> Two-minute rule. Now, this was

[4:05] popularized by David Allen in the book,

[4:06] Getting Things Done. And the idea behind

[4:07] the two-minute rule is that if there is

[4:08] something that you need to do and that

[4:09] something is going to take less than 2

[4:10] minutes, then you should do it right now

[4:12] rather than add it to your to-do list.

[4:13] Now, the two-minute rule is actually

[4:14] like really, really, really, really

[4:15] useful. Uh, I just don't do it very much

[4:16] because I'm a bit of a waste man. And

[4:17] so, I've got to give it a rating of a D

[4:18] because normally if I have something

[4:19] like replying to an email or replying to

[4:20] a WhatsApp message, that actually would

[4:21] take less than 2 minutes. I would love

[4:22] to actually do it there and then, but

[4:23] generally I just think, oh, I'll get to

[4:24] this another time and then it just ends

[4:25] up, you know, people following up,

[4:27] following up, following up, hundreds of

[4:28] hundred messages on WhatsApp. Apologies

[4:29] to anyone who's tried to email message

[4:30] me in the last like two years, but I

[4:31] really do suck at replying to messages

[4:32] because I don't apply the two-minute

[4:33] rule.

[4:34] >> Okay. Uh I'm going to mostly agree with

[4:37] him here, but let's go over to our notes

[4:40] on this one. We have the two-minute

[4:42] rule, and uh I'm going to let AI talk

[4:45] about what it thought about those things

[4:47] and kind of break down what we just saw.

[4:52] The twominut rule tier ranking Den

[5:02] to-do list

[5:05] but personally doesn't apply it

[5:07] consistently admits to being bad at

[5:09] replying to messages because he doesn't

[5:11] follow this rule analysis. GTD's classic

[5:15] twoinut rule is another reduce friction

[5:17] move. If it's truly tiny, do it now

[5:19] because it costs more than it researched

[5:23] an

[5:24] offload

[5:26] plan.

[5:31] The two minutes is arbitrary. Use it as

[5:34] triage. Dole defer with a time or

[5:38] delete.

[5:40] >> And that's uh I believe that those are

[5:42] from the the GTD method, the get things

[5:44] done method, which is the the book that

[5:46] he talked about. Uh again, not a bad

[5:49] method. Um it's if you have no method,

[5:53] you know, at least something as a

[5:54] placeholder might not be too bad. But

[5:56] let me go into some my thoughts about

[5:57] this. Um,

[6:00] again, I'm going to try to read as much

[6:02] as possible, uh, because we're just

[6:04] we're going to be a little short on

[6:05] trying to get through 12 whole minutes,

[6:07] which might expand to 12 whole hours

[6:09] into my takes. So, my thoughts, um, it's

[6:12] good if you're just completely done with

[6:15] your priorities. Um, make the main thing

[6:18] the main thing, and the two-minute tasks

[6:20] are just the tick- tock of productivity.

[6:22] You aren't getting anything important

[6:23] done, and you feel more productive than

[6:25] you are. So, I'm going to let you just

[6:28] kind of read this. I am going to riff a

[6:29] little bit. I can't help myself. I'm

[6:31] like an addict. I just I just can't help

[6:34] myself. I wrote this, but um

[6:38] when you are

[6:41] working, you have things you need to get

[6:43] done. And a lot of people use the

[6:46] two-minute rule as you don't know where

[6:47] to start. You don't know where to get

[6:49] things at. But I if you're doing

[6:52] two-minute rules, you're not getting

[6:54] anything important done. And you might

[6:56] say, well, I've got a very important

[6:57] email. Um, it's not that important if

[7:01] you're able to do it in two minutes. And

[7:03] I kind of go into that here, which is

[7:04] again why I should just read what I

[7:05] have. Um, so for instance, I, you know,

[7:08] my thoughts are you need to think about

[7:11] what is being asked in the email. You

[7:13] need to think about, uh, how you want to

[7:15] reply, the responses that could come,

[7:16] and if you could include, uh, some of

[7:19] that extra information to avoid the back

[7:20] and forth. Uh, if you can save time by

[7:23] answering questions and emails without

[7:25] having back forth, back forth, back

[7:27] forth, just write it all. I know people

[7:29] don't like long emails. Just write the

[7:31] whole damn thing. It It saves everyone

[7:34] time. The thousand email threads are

[7:37] wasting everyone's time. If you're

[7:39] really that back and forth, just do a

[7:41] quick call. Stop the paper trail. Maybe

[7:45] you might need the paper towel,

[7:46] especially if people are sort of busy

[7:48] and you're working across different

[7:50] departments or different agencies or

[7:52] you're doing that sort of thing. Um,

[7:54] yeah, maybe that's the way. But other

[7:57] than running to the bathroom because you

[7:59] are laugh you laugh so hard to joke that

[8:01] you're about to piss yourself or you're

[8:03] calling 911 and performing CPR, there's

[8:06] absolutely no productivity to be gained

[8:08] in the two-minute rule until you are

[8:10] completely done with your main tasks.

[8:12] You've gotten a good break. You've

[8:13] gotten hydration. You've gotten food.

[8:15] You have absolutely no priority ahead of

[8:17] you. In other words, you've accomplished

[8:20] your day, but you still have things that

[8:23] need to get done. Sure, do your

[8:25] two-minute rule then. Um but just do all

[8:28] the things and uh you know, look for

[8:31] those things that need to be done. Um

[8:32] but don't put the minutes on it. Um, you

[8:35] should just go through things either as

[8:37] they come up or you should uh organize

[8:40] them in a in a different way. I put this

[8:42] in crap tier. Um, I don't see a purpose

[8:46] in the two-minute rule unless you're

[8:48] just completely clueless and you're

[8:50] like, "Oh, I've got a whole list of

[8:52] honeydew items and I'm at home and

[8:54] there's no real priority. I've got to

[8:56] fix a sink and unclog the toilet and I

[8:59] need to vacuum and I need to do this."

[9:02] You could just organize things. The

[9:04] two-minute rule is like, ah, which of

[9:06] those things can I just do in two

[9:08] minutes? Like, could I just call my

[9:10] insurance? Could I just do this? Those

[9:11] things will wind up being time sucks

[9:13] that absolutely just just suck every bit

[9:16] of time. Um, and what's funny is he

[9:19] talks about this later, but just do a

[9:21] good Eisenhower matrix. And I do mine a

[9:23] bit different. It's make a square, you

[9:25] know, make a a square, cut that square

[9:28] into into four smaller squares. Top row

[9:32] are your important lose my job and wife

[9:35] types yet. Your bottom row is if I don't

[9:38] do it, nobody will really give a damn.

[9:40] And your left column is I can do this in

[9:43] a single coffee or less. And your other

[9:45] column is I need a full pot of coffee

[9:46] for this. If it's anything longer than

[9:48] that, you're actually looking at a

[9:49] project. If you can't do something in a

[9:51] single pot of coffee, which you know,

[9:53] two or four hours, like it's a project.

[9:56] uh unless you are in the middle of that

[9:59] project and you're wondering where to

[10:00] start in that that's a that's also a

[10:02] completely separate question because

[10:03] that requires real planning. Um

[10:08] if it's too hard just use basic

[10:10] logistics that have run the world since

[10:12] the time of Napoleon. And my god did I

[10:15] spell Napoleon that horribly wrong. We

[10:18] just

[10:20] bad doctor do

[10:24] can't spell

[10:30] can't spell I just misspelled you. Ah it

[10:34] is late. Yeah

[10:36] thank you. Anywh who

[10:41] easier way to do this is just rank

[10:42] everything from most to least important

[10:44] and move through that one at a time. and

[10:46] get your more most important stuff done

[10:48] first and work your way down. Or if you

[10:50] want to get more things done, list them

[10:53] by the time required and work them from

[10:55] the short tasks through the last.

[10:57] There's a couple other ways you could do

[10:58] this. You could use other old logistical

[11:00] methods like first in first first out or

[11:02] last in first out. So, uh, if you're

[11:05] doing something like a memory retrieval,

[11:07] you've got a stack of papers. Um, what's

[11:10] a good what's a good quick no BS way to

[11:12] organize them? It would be last in first

[11:15] out. you put papers down in a stack in

[11:18] the order that they arrive. And if

[11:19] you're looking for something, uh, it's

[11:21] more than likely that the most recent

[11:23] thing you got is probably going to be

[11:24] related to the task you need to do. So,

[11:26] it's probably going to be on top. And

[11:28] it's le less likely the further down you

[11:31] go. So, automatically, the things that

[11:33] are right at the top that you're going

[11:34] to get to very quickly are going to be

[11:35] very easy to find. And so, unless

[11:37] something is wildly out there, it's not

[11:39] going to be at the bottom. So, that's a

[11:40] last and first out. First in first out

[11:42] is the opposite where you set things

[11:45] where uh uh the the very first thing

[11:48] gets at the top and everything else goes

[11:50] under and it gets stacked up in a row

[11:52] and you get this sort of train of of

[11:54] tasks to do. And so first in first out

[11:57] is is what's used by a lot of

[11:58] manufacturing. Um you know so you don't

[12:01] keep old stock around. You don't get uh

[12:04] uh coffee and stale food. You want your

[12:06] food to arrive at the grocery store in

[12:08] first in first out. You want the stuff,

[12:10] you want the oldest stuff to move first

[12:13] out of the warehouse to the grocery

[12:15] store. You want the oldest stuff to move

[12:17] quickly out of the grocery store.

[12:18] Otherwise, you're going to have a ton of

[12:20] waste. If you do that for your tasks,

[12:22] you would take your oldest task and do

[12:24] it first. Um, until you catch up. Um,

[12:28] people, if you do this in your email,

[12:29] you're going to your oldest emails first

[12:31] and reading up towards your newest

[12:33] emails. Um, so that's how first in. Now,

[12:37] last in first out email would be read

[12:39] the most recent email and work your way

[12:41] to the oldest email. First in, first out

[12:44] is doing the the opposite. Go to the

[12:45] oldest emails and work to the newest.

[12:47] Eisenhower matrix if you were looking at

[12:49] that is um sort your emails by which

[12:53] ones are flagged or name you or you're

[12:55] in the two line or they have a keyword

[12:58] for uh something that's important.

[13:00] That's going to be do those first and as

[13:02] you look through them, you could sort

[13:04] your tasks by what's the most important

[13:06] to the least important. And then you're

[13:07] going to have emails that yeah, you

[13:08] could read and catch up on, but you

[13:10] don't need to reply or you could

[13:12] probably just ignore. You eventually get

[13:14] around to reading it. If you want to get

[13:15] to that whole that holy grail of inbox

[13:17] zero, um, focus on making a list of your

[13:22] important stuff and then, uh, sort that

[13:26] by by recency. people are most

[13:28] interested in what they most recently

[13:29] their most recent request is their old

[13:31] request may have already expired. Start

[13:33] there, work your way down. If it if you

[13:36] quickly scan it doesn't apply to you,

[13:37] just mark them red and move on about

[13:39] your day. Um,

[13:42] yeah, that's basically it. Um,

[13:47] where did I add? I I I thought I had a

[13:50] um some things some of this could cause

[13:52] you problems where when you're looking

[13:55] at a two-minute rule, um if you do this,

[13:58] and that's how you're going to get ahead

[13:59] at work. Um that's basically quiet

[14:01] quitting. You're doing the easiest,

[14:03] shortest task, and you're never tackling

[14:05] the big task. And uh if you don't skip

[14:08] it, you're probably going to lose your

[14:09] job. Um that's, you know, you can grab

[14:13] it here. I I thought I had a nice little

[14:15] uh anecdote here. Um, you can either

[14:18] actually get your stuff done or you can

[14:20] vibe farm on small [ __ ] tasks and

[14:23] think you've conquered the world like

[14:24] Jack on the Titanic and spoiler, you'll

[14:26] die at the end of the movie or just lose

[14:28] your job. I think that's not a hot take.

[14:30] I think that's pretty pretty solid. Um,

[14:33] it's it's like if you do the most

[14:35] menial, meaningless tasks, it's not

[14:37] really going to to help you a whole lot

[14:40] through through pretty much any of that.

[14:43] So, let's move back over and get to the

[14:46] two-day rule. This is a a little more

[14:48] interesting.

[14:50] >> Message me in the last like two years,

[14:51] but I really do start replying to

[14:52] messages because I don't apply the

[14:53] two-minute rule. Next on the list, we

[14:54] have the two-day rule. And this is

[14:55] something from my friend and fellow

[14:56] productivity YouTuber, Matthew,

[14:58] >> which by the way, um, good YouTuber. Um,

[15:01] if I'm not mistaken, let me

[15:04] >> Next on the list, we have the two-day

[15:05] rule. And this is something from my

[15:06] friend and fellow productivity.

[15:09] >> I'm trying to remember if I've watched

[15:11] some of those videos. is I think he had

[15:12] some over note takingaking app. So um he

[15:15] also is if I'm not mistaken he is a

[15:18] minimalist. So if you're interested in

[15:19] minimalist context uh Matt's a good

[15:21] channel to watch as well.

[15:24] >> After 8 years of attempting to put

[15:25] weight on ever since high school and

[15:26] failing miserably I implemented the

[15:28] two-day rule. It's very simple. I would

[15:30] not allow myself to take off more than

[15:31] one day in a row for some kind of

[15:32] workout. Be it at the gym, a jog, or a

[15:34] hike. I had to do some kind of physical

[15:35] activity at least every other day. This

[15:37] allowed me the time to take days off as

[15:38] I needed it, often multiple days a week.

[15:40] but it also kept me committed to my goal

[15:41] and most importantly it prevented me

[15:42] from falling into a slump and neglecting

[15:44] my health for weeks or even months at a

[15:45] time.

[15:45] >> And I really like the 2-day rule because

[15:46] it's an alternative approach to sticking

[15:47] to your schedule that offers a little

[15:48] bit more leeway. Now, I tried using the

[15:50] 2-day rule at one point back when I was

[15:51] working out in the gym fairly regularly.

[15:52] And I found it didn't quite work for me

[15:53] because I'm not as uh on the workout

[15:55] hype as Matt is. And so instead, what I

[15:56] found was useful for me was having an

[15:57] accountability buddy in a personal

[15:58] trainer. And so I'd end up working out

[16:00] two or three times a week. And so the

[16:00] two-day rule is awesome and I know a lot

[16:01] of people use it. But because I don't

[16:03] personally use it at all, it's going to

[16:04] have to go on the D ranking on our tier

[16:05] list. Next we have the concept of time.

[16:07] Okay, so let's cover this real quick

[16:10] here. Let's review what we just saw.

[16:17] >> Oh, AI. Oh, you silly AI.

[16:29] >> Prevents falling into slumps and

[16:31] neglecting goals for weeks, months.

[16:34] Personal note, didn't work for him.

[16:37] prefers accountability buddy personal

[16:40] trainer instead

[16:45] and variable lapses happen what matters

[16:49] is returning

[16:51] online

[16:57] spiral

[17:00] >> okay my thoughts um not bad most

[17:03] productivity and habits and such is a

[17:06] system method. We we covered this whole

[17:09] it's not a real these are not real

[17:11] systems of kicking yourself in the ass

[17:13] over a long period of time unless you

[17:15] just sleepwalk through the h until you

[17:17] just sleepwalk through the habit. My

[17:20] bucket uh I put it in the can of

[17:22] whoopass tier. Um recommendation stop

[17:26] first. Just stop. You get to do one

[17:30] priority one thing to kick your own ass

[17:33] over. This isn't about you taking your

[17:36] next top 20 New Year's resolutions and

[17:39] making up a calendar where you space

[17:41] them all out and you maximize the breaks

[17:43] with your brand new shiny 2-day rule and

[17:46] decide that you're and decide you're

[17:48] going to be Einstein and brains or the

[17:50] rock and body because uh you can make

[17:54] doodles on a calendar. This is going to

[17:55] show up later. I'm not reading it now.

[17:57] This is not going to show up. This is

[17:58] going to show up a little bit later with

[17:59] the color coding. Um, but with this

[18:03] method, pick one thing, the best thing,

[18:06] the only thing, the thing you need to

[18:07] learn a habit for, and relentlessly kick

[18:10] yourself in the ass until it's a habit.

[18:13] Um, research is going to show that you

[18:15] can't just constantly kick yourself in

[18:17] your own ass. Put some real, you know,

[18:19] be BF Skinner behavioralism, you know,

[18:22] uh, do some sort of the Pavlovian, you

[18:24] know, bell rings your your mouth

[18:26] salivas. Uh, Skinner was able to train

[18:29] animals. Uh there's sort of the the

[18:30] birth of behaviorism. Um you know,

[18:33] throwing in my my extensive doctoral

[18:35] knowledge in there. Um most of you are

[18:37] probably familiar with with Skinner uh

[18:39] the Skinner experiments. Uh interesting

[18:41] stuff making birds peck for food and

[18:44] making them peck out patterns and things

[18:46] like that. Um and you can do that, but

[18:48] you have to reward yourself for

[18:50] accomplishing milestones. Um, negative

[18:52] behaviorism all on its own is not going

[18:54] to be positive or mentally healthy uh

[18:57] for you or an animal. Um, but I'm, you

[19:01] know, I personally

[19:03] I threw this in here. I don't know.

[19:05] Maybe I was tired. Maybe I may maybe I

[19:08] had a little extra wine cooler with the

[19:11] uh dinner tonight. I don't remember

[19:13] having it. But um, personally recommend

[19:16] eating an entire box of jelly donuts

[19:18] after your 30-day workout. But really,

[19:21] not joking, if you get to 30 workouts,

[19:24] you've already got your lifelong habit.

[19:25] Like, you've pretty you've pretty well

[19:27] done it at that point. And I'm probably

[19:29] assuming you didn't do those in 30

[19:31] straight days. So, you probably been

[19:32] doing uh three days a week for 10 weeks.

[19:35] You're really into this already. and a

[19:37] single box of donuts uh is just you

[19:40] being your happy gluttonous sloth self

[19:44] uh and taking a bacon uh a baker's dozen

[19:46] like a champ and wash it down with a

[19:48] milkshake and take all of your Instagram

[19:50] photos of you at the gym and working out

[19:52] and sneak in a photo of you with your

[19:54] face covered in powdered sugar and jelly

[19:55] and the empty box and if you're into the

[19:57] captioning record it with the workout

[20:00] with your new best score 38 minutes 13

[20:02] donuts # do you even gains bro # don't

[20:06] skip donuts that day. But I'm not kind

[20:08] of I'm really not joking. Set up an

[20:11] audacious reward. Make it silly. Make it

[20:14] memorable. Uh make it something that's

[20:17] kind of a struggle to enjoy even uh if

[20:20] if your habit is being struggling. Um

[20:24] the donuts and plus you're diabetic.

[20:26] Dear God, don't do that. Um but you can

[20:29] kick your own ass, but you got to you

[20:31] you got to have fun. You got to show

[20:33] other people you're having fun. No one

[20:35] just sees you suffering and like, "Oh, I

[20:37] killed my legs again. I can't walk up my

[20:39] stairs. I had to pull myself up to the

[20:42] bedroom with my massive new forearms."

[20:45] Um, and I kind of point out like if if

[20:47] you're if you make a habit to eat tree

[20:49] bark, you're going to quit in a day like

[20:52] everyone else. Actually, it's I'm

[20:54] recording this on January 4th. Uh, it's

[20:58] going to post on January 5th. 99.999%

[21:03] of you are going to quit your New Year's

[21:04] resolutions. I believe by they say by

[21:06] day six. So, uh if you for you to get to

[21:12] your 30th workout, yeah, enjoy a box of

[21:15] jelly donuts. Um have something of

[21:18] reward after it. And if you fail, well,

[21:21] if you're someone who does enjoy like a

[21:23] donut once a month, you grab a donut

[21:25] with your coffee and it's just it's what

[21:27] you like to do on the first of the

[21:28] month, start the the month off, right?

[21:30] tell yourself you're going to punish

[21:31] yourself, too. I I didn't do it. So, um

[21:35] yeah, I I kicked myself in the ass and

[21:37] um now I just can't have a donut for a

[21:39] couple months. I'm just cuz I'm every

[21:41] time I think about having my my single

[21:43] doughnut on the first of the month, I'm

[21:45] going to realize I couldn't keep my

[21:46] habit. And maybe you can get yourself

[21:48] back to it. Um but do do you think you

[21:52] can just kick your own ass all the way

[21:54] to winning? Um well, of course you do

[21:56] because you're built different. Um news

[21:58] flash you are not I guarantee you are

[22:02] not built different. Um so let's go to

[22:06] our next one which will be time blocking

[22:12] blocking. Now this is basically where

[22:13] you block out a certain amount of time

[22:14] for a particular task or project and

[22:16] ideally you stick it in the calendar and

[22:17] so when that time comes around you

[22:18] actually end up doing the thing. Now

[22:19] this is going to get an A rating from

[22:20] me. I think this is an absolutely

[22:20] essential tip. The day I started using a

[22:22] calendar was the day that my

[22:23] productivity basically 2xed overnight

[22:24] because I was now using a calendar. Cuz

[22:25] normally like I find for me I don't know

[22:26] about you but like for me when I have an

[22:27] empty gap on my calendar at that point I

[22:29] think oh I could do all these different

[22:30] things and I end up kind of paralyzed by

[22:31] the amount of different things I could

[22:32] be doing. Whereas when I have a slot in

[22:33] my calendar where a in which there is a

[22:35] defined task at that point I know what I

[22:37] should be doing in that time and if I

[22:38] want to do something else I can choose

[22:38] to do it but at least I've got my

[22:39] default option and this has been an

[22:40] absolute game changer of my

[22:41] productivity. It's not just me that's

[22:42] why time blocking people like Elon Musk

[22:43] and Bill Gates and author Cal Newport

[22:44] also use time blocking quite a lot and

[22:45] they've written and talked extensively

[22:46] about how it's the best thing.

[22:49] Okay, I'm just gonna because I'm gonna

[22:51] point this out later if I also think I

[22:53] pointed this out in the last video. Um,

[22:57] I don't give I don't give two shits what

[22:59] Elon Musk or Bill Gates do. That does

[23:02] not make a system well. And if you go

[23:04] back to video one, uh, you're going to

[23:06] see where I talk about the qualitative.

[23:08] The problem with a lot of qualitative

[23:10] and then lower than that are the book

[23:12] authors and lower than that are the pure

[23:14] influencers. Um, the lower you get away

[23:17] from data, the more people people will

[23:19] care what Elon Musk, Bill Gates or

[23:21] Warren Buffett do, like time blocking.

[23:24] If you want to know about uh high-tech

[23:27] startups, Elon Musk and Bill Gates are

[23:29] probably the If you want to know about

[23:30] investing, uh, Warren Buffett is

[23:32] probably who to talk to. If you want to

[23:33] know time block, do not [ __ ] talk to

[23:35] those people. They do not live lives

[23:37] that reflect your life. U, that is just

[23:42] horrible logic. Um, and as I pointed

[23:46] out, I believe in the last video, it's

[23:47] like believing you're going to be in the

[23:48] NBA because you bring Sprite. You drink

[23:51] Sprite just like Kobe Ryan. That's not

[23:53] going to effic. So, let's cover some of

[23:57] this and I'll go into um, you know,

[24:01] let's see where we started and and get

[24:04] there.

[24:08] >> When that time comes, you do the thing.

[24:12] Productivity basically doubled overnight

[24:14] when started using a calendar

[24:17] paralysis by options

[24:21] slots provide default actions used by

[24:23] Elon Musk and author

[24:28] reinforces my system

[24:31] authority names.

[24:35] >> I didn't tell AI that I wrote my notes

[24:39] without really reading. Yeah, I was

[24:40] like, well, what's interesting is if AI

[24:42] is wrong, I get to critique the AI then.

[24:45] Um, because I get to show like, ahaha,

[24:48] human human intelligence and education

[24:50] has triumphed over the machine. Um, I'll

[24:54] throw on some Tom Mel and Rage Against

[24:56] the Machine. We'll freaking rock out to

[24:58] to kicking the machine's ass.

[25:01] Unfortunately, it's so right here. It's

[25:03] like the name dropping. I'm gonna let

[25:05] this continue a second, but um yeah, who

[25:09] gives a [ __ ] what a famous person does?

[25:11] I'm just like I'm not trying to dog on

[25:13] on the creators. Like this is just a

[25:15] thing they do. They everyone does this.

[25:17] It's a it's a psychological hack. It

[25:21] works. The average they're going to hear

[25:24] like

[25:25] I want to use something that works.

[25:28] Okay.

[25:29] I I think I I think I qualify. I just

[25:32] dedicated like the last

[25:35] depending on how you count the time 13

[25:37] to 15 years of my life going from no

[25:40] education as an adult and all the way

[25:43] through a doctorate. I think I'm pretty

[25:45] good at time blocking because I held a

[25:47] career down and raised a child in that

[25:49] period did uh as well as well as living

[25:52] in

[25:53] four different states over that period

[25:55] of time uh and also career changes and

[25:58] education changes and all that. So, um,

[26:03] honestly, I think I could have ran Tesla

[26:05] better than Elon had I had I put all of

[26:08] that time into that task. And I I

[26:11] actually I No, I think he could he

[26:14] probably could have done my task as

[26:15] well. Like, we could have traded Task. I

[26:17] just I feel like I could have done

[26:18] better at Tesla. I couldn't have hyped

[26:20] it better. Like, you got to have the

[26:22] brand. Like, you got to be the

[26:23] charismatic, culty, weird, nerdish type

[26:27] thing to do what he did. like uh I'm not

[26:30] going to give him a lot of credit, but

[26:31] I'll give him credit for that. Um same

[26:34] with now Bill Gates.

[26:36] Bill Gates has some hardcore management.

[26:40] Um I I would question if I could have

[26:46] tackled

[26:47] half of what Bill Gates tackled. Uh that

[26:50] he truly is on another level. Uh not

[26:53] everyone thinks he's he's a smart nerd

[26:56] kind of. Um, I think I'm probably more

[26:59] of a nerd in in some areas. He certainly

[27:01] is a nerd in other areas, but in

[27:02] management terms, I'm a doctor of

[27:05] management. Uh, Gates, Gates blows so

[27:11] many people out of the water. Looking at

[27:14] like a Jack Welch, uh, looking at GE,

[27:17] looking at looking at IBM, looking at

[27:20] Intel starting off, looking at sort of

[27:22] the Huelet Packard Compact, real, you

[27:24] know, the real growth days. Bill Gates

[27:26] just stood head and shoulders far and

[27:29] above everyone. Um he also later

[27:32] admitted he was he didn't need to be so

[27:33] much of an [ __ ] Um he very admits it

[27:37] but um ju a mind people think of mind

[27:41] for technology. I I think a mind for

[27:43] business. Um Musk

[27:47] Musk thinks ma money is magic. Um and

[27:50] that happens when you get all your money

[27:51] from government grants. I don't remember

[27:53] the last time that Microsoft uh started

[27:55] an entire new section. I didn't remember

[27:57] that the Xbox was started by government

[27:59] defense grants from NASA or uh energy

[28:03] bills. So

[28:05] I I give each they may both be famous. I

[28:07] give them different credibilities and I

[28:09] don't give a [ __ ] what their net worth

[28:10] is. Um you know, different time,

[28:12] different space. Um so there's this

[28:15] thing. I'm getting a little too excited.

[28:16] I'm getting a little too fired up over

[28:18] this. Let's let's continue with the

[28:20] pressure test.

[28:22] Pressure test AB test completion stress

[28:24] would be challenged if

[28:30] lower rates than a looser task based

[28:32] approach. Not likely, but

[28:35] >> not depends on

[28:42] days unblocked. Measure

[28:45] >> fairly easy to do.

[28:47] >> Yep. Check your stress

[28:50] >> implementions

[28:52] when

[28:53] plans have support.

[28:55] >> Yep.

[28:56] >> Attention switching has costs. Cancer

[28:58] control population sciences.

[29:01] Don't time block your entire existence.

[29:02] Block one, two high impact tasks. Leave

[29:05] Slack and defend those blocks like

[29:06] meetings.

[29:08] >> Slack, Slack, Slack, Slack, Slack. And I

[29:11] don't mean the damn messaging platform.

[29:12] Slack. Um, if you have people that block

[29:16] their entire days with meetings and

[29:18] such, you are 120,000%

[29:23] uh going to run into the issue of of

[29:25] overlap. And you you see people have

[29:27] meetings all day long. They're late to

[29:28] every single one.

[29:31] So, let me go

[29:33] to thoughts. I think I think time blocks

[29:36] are good. And as I point there, um,

[29:38] don't do the block block block block

[29:40] block block block block block block

[29:41] block block block block. People do this

[29:42] with meetings and they're always late to

[29:43] every meeting. My gosh, it's almost like

[29:45] I it's almost like I wrote these notes.

[29:47] Um, and your work does not give a [ __ ]

[29:51] what time you set for work. It will not

[29:53] obey your boundaries for getting things

[29:56] done. Uh so when you set these up uh you

[29:59] need to ensure that you turn on your do

[30:01] not disturb, you put everything away and

[30:02] you focus on one thing. A time block is

[30:05] for one set of things or one thing. It

[30:09] is all together. You don't time block

[30:11] and say I'm going to do work

[30:14] or I'm going to do home. You you need to

[30:18] be very specific. Are you cleaning the

[30:21] house, the downstairs? Are you cooking?

[30:24] Are you meal prepping? which I'm not a

[30:26] fan of. I think I think meal prepping is

[30:29] a is a human destroying task. Um it's

[30:32] just sucking the joy out of life, which

[30:34] is uh meal time with people. And I'm

[30:36] going to keep saying that. Um but if

[30:38] you're going to do that, you create a

[30:40] block. Um but realize that um you need

[30:43] the end of a time block to be

[30:45] open-ended. When you do a time block, we

[30:48] just we talked about, you know, like the

[30:50] whole twominut task things and what

[30:51] you're supposed to do. If you have free

[30:53] time and energy and you want to do that,

[30:54] I s, you know, if you're really done, go

[30:56] take a break. If you got a real good

[30:58] time block done, recharge. That's the

[31:01] time to recharge. But if you're truly uh

[31:04] uh g getting into the work and you set

[31:07] aside an hour, it might take two and you

[31:10] might be on a roll and you don't want to

[31:11] stop. It's like, well, I got another

[31:12] time block. When you hit deep work, do

[31:15] not interrupt your deep work. That is

[31:16] the worst thing you could do. Um, and

[31:19] that's why I call this the deep work

[31:21] tier. If you time block correctly and

[31:23] you get used to what your deep work is

[31:24] like when you really hit your stride um

[31:26] or what we'll cover later your flow

[31:30] you're you're winning. Um it's nothing

[31:33] at all with time blocks. The only

[31:34] problem with time blocks is people are

[31:36] doing they want to time block their

[31:37] entire damn week entire damn day. Be

[31:39] very judicious with time blocks. Um I

[31:42] say that as somebody who has completed a

[31:46] dissertation on time. I say that as

[31:48] somebody who has go gone through three

[31:51] degree stages and has had every mo

[31:54] waking moment of my time sucked up by

[31:56] studying, reading, research papers,

[31:59] writing, conducting an actual

[32:01] experiment, a nationwide US experiment.

[32:06] Yes, time blocking works. Um, he puts

[32:10] it, I believe, at a tier. This is S tier

[32:13] if you do it right. It's not it's not

[32:16] some super complicated method. It's just

[32:18] make the time that Saturday at from 11

[32:25] a.m. until 300 p.m. you're just going to

[32:28] do a thing. You're going to grab your

[32:29] snacks. You're going to put them in

[32:30] there. You're going to get plenty of

[32:31] water. When you take a break, you're

[32:33] going to put your headphones on. You're

[32:35] not going to talk to anybody. You're

[32:36] going to walk outside. Your mind's going

[32:38] to be going. What I like to do during my

[32:40] time block breaks because you can do a

[32:42] time block and still take a break in the

[32:43] time block. Put the headphones on or you

[32:46] know if you got little headphones on

[32:48] actually brought this out just like I

[32:49] show you. Put on put on a hat and just

[32:52] just go all school fat Albert on it and

[32:55] just just head down and when you do that

[32:59] oh boy I'm popping things out now. When

[33:01] you do that, you will find the most

[33:03] amazing gains because what you're really

[33:05] accomplishing

[33:07] um is deep work. You're allowing

[33:09] yourself to fully engage

[33:13] mentally, physically. The the rest of

[33:15] the world does not exist outside of that

[33:18] time block. And what I recommend when

[33:22] you use your time blocks is um your time

[33:25] block is the minimum amount of time you

[33:27] will work, not the maximum amount of

[33:29] time. And a good time block is you

[33:31] setting up a start and a minimum time to

[33:34] work. And if you're working slow and it

[33:38] seems like time is is is got to be going

[33:41] much faster and you need to be done, um

[33:43] you have a clock. Like don't don't put

[33:45] yourself in a a a a chamber uh for your

[33:50] senses. Have a clock. Look at the time.

[33:53] If you're glancing at I have a clock

[33:56] behind me. If I look at the clock and

[33:57] I'm like, "Okay,

[34:00] I've got the next hour and a half. I

[34:02] need to get a handle on my uh trans my

[34:05] paragraph transitions uh for section 3.9

[34:10] of chapter 3. I'm going to just I'm

[34:12] going to spend an hour and a half just

[34:14] going over those, making sure that

[34:15] they're good and not repetitive, and I'm

[34:16] going to do this." And I go through

[34:18] there and I'm like,

[34:20] "This is hard. This is hard. God, how

[34:23] long have I been at this?" You know,

[34:24] you're not in deep. If you're looking at

[34:25] the clock, you are not in deep work. You

[34:29] look at the clock and you see 20 minutes

[34:30] past,

[34:32] you'd better put on some background. You

[34:34] better you whatever is on your mind that

[34:36] is distracting you, you need you're not

[34:39] hitting flow at all. Um, close your

[34:42] browser. You're you're going down some

[34:44] kind of rabbit hole. You're looking at

[34:45] something else. you need to refocus

[34:47] yourself because you're not being

[34:48] focused and you're being overwhelmed and

[34:50] your brain is trying to escape like like

[34:53] the task is an escape room and it's

[34:55] trying to find any way out. Um, and as I

[34:58] right here um you know maybe you decided

[35:01] that do not disturb wasn't possible and

[35:03] you keep getting a text message from a

[35:05] loved one or someone else and you need

[35:07] to let people know when you have these

[35:08] time blocks like you are not reachable.

[35:10] You may as well be on the moon when

[35:12] these time blocks happen unless it

[35:14] involves them. So when you hit these

[35:16] time blocks, you are unreachable. Um you

[35:19] go back to the 1800s where you are

[35:22] somewhere in the country and there are

[35:23] no phones, telegraphs, telegrams or

[35:26] carrier pigeons. Um and if you decide

[35:29] not to turn on your do not disturb, you

[35:31] will have essentially [ __ ] yourself

[35:33] out of two hours of time that you have

[35:35] now wasted. You may as well have watched

[35:37] a movie. Like that's the that's the poor

[35:40] situation you have put yourself in. Um,

[35:43] and now you're just stuck in that room

[35:44] for another hour and 40 minutes and you

[35:46] aren't leaving because once you set a

[35:48] time block, you need the habit of

[35:50] sticking it out. If you've got to sit

[35:52] there and stare at the wall and watch

[35:55] the paint age for another hour and 40

[35:57] minutes, you do it because you're there.

[36:00] If you need to

[36:02] put the headphones on, not because

[36:04] you're listening to the music, and walk

[36:06] and think, work through the issues of

[36:09] why you're not able to engage. If you've

[36:11] got to wa go into your back and I do

[36:13] this, you got to go into your backyard

[36:15] and walk circles for two hours. Then you

[36:17] go into your back back uh yard and you

[36:20] walked circles for two hours.

[36:24] The reason you set a time block is it's

[36:26] important to you. It's a priority. It is

[36:28] the main thing and keeping the main

[36:31] thing the main thing is important enough

[36:33] for to you that you have. This is why

[36:35] you don't block your like I'm a time

[36:37] block my workout. I'm a time block.

[36:39] Those are not all priorities. They're

[36:41] things you do. They may be habits. They

[36:43] shouldn't be time blocks. Time blocks

[36:45] are enough that you are closing the

[36:47] world out. This is important enough to

[36:49] you to shut off people that unless

[36:52] something is on fire, unless unless

[36:54] someone is dying, no one reaches you.

[36:57] You are you are shutting out the world.

[36:59] It's that important. That's where time

[37:01] blocking if you if you're someone who

[37:03] needs that deep work, time blocking is

[37:05] great. It's judicious. It's for one

[37:09] thing and when it works right, you will

[37:12] blow the doors off time blocks. I like

[37:15] to put time blocks on days with things

[37:18] afterwards like dinner

[37:21] or something else. I mean, you don't

[37:23] necessarily want to lose all your family

[37:24] time, but when you're doing a doctorate,

[37:26] there's not a lot of family time. Like,

[37:27] you're just you're getting a distration

[37:29] done. You're not sitting BSing around

[37:31] the dinner table. Um, and so a lot of

[37:34] times once you get into that habit,

[37:37] you're not in the time block and you're

[37:39] the work is still in your mind. You're

[37:40] like, I can't, yeah, I'm going to do

[37:43] this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to

[37:44] do this. I got a time block coming up

[37:45] tomorrow. Yeah, I know. I was thinking

[37:47] about this. And you just you kind of a

[37:49] little consumed with it. You're a little

[37:50] obsessed with it. And when you hit that

[37:52] and you've got your hour time or your

[37:54] hour or two hour, three hour time block

[37:56] and you've got three hours after that of

[37:59] just like, ah, you know what? If I do my

[38:01] time block, I've earned myself just

[38:04] laying on the couch staring at the

[38:06] ceiling, right?

[38:08] But a lot of times you get so into it

[38:10] that by the time you look up, it's like,

[38:13] "Oh my god, it's night out. it's it's

[38:16] 8:00 and then you emerge from your home

[38:19] office or wherever it is you're doing

[38:21] your work and suddenly you have a spouse

[38:22] going hey I didn't want to disturb you

[38:25] you know cuz we talked about this is not

[38:27] servant but I I figured you'd be close

[38:31] to done but dinner might be a little

[38:33] cold do you or they may have already

[38:35] eaten I ate at 6 but I have plenty I'm

[38:38] ready to heat it up are you good and you

[38:41] emerge and you're going to have to after

[38:43] a really good deep work session, you're

[38:45] probably have to decompress and just

[38:47] kind of come back to the world. It's

[38:49] kind of like it's kind of like shaking

[38:50] off anesthesia and you got to just come

[38:53] back into the real world. Um that

[38:57] there are few things better than and

[38:59] this isn't even a method. It's just like

[39:01] if you really care about something,

[39:02] you're going to set the time to do it

[39:03] and you're just going to effing do it.

[39:06] Um, if you care about your children,

[39:08] you're going to go to their play. And

[39:11] short of you being an ER doctor or you

[39:14] being in charge of uh something

[39:16] missionritical

[39:18] for public safety or something else, I

[39:21] don't think you need to

[39:24] necessarily uh abandon work. Um, but you

[39:28] should have special times. If your child

[39:30] is putting on a Christmas play and they

[39:34] are a pre-teen or if they're a teen

[39:38] and they're they have a very, you know,

[39:40] critical match or game or whatever and

[39:44] even if you can't make them all, you

[39:45] need to make special ones that you're

[39:47] going to make a big deal that's a big

[39:48] deal to them and you show up and you

[39:51] just like the time like other you know,

[39:53] you could time block those especially

[39:55] and it is one of the situations and I I

[39:58] you know again language warning But I

[40:00] want to be very very blunt here. When it

[40:02] comes to a time block, anyone that tries

[40:04] to interrupt your time block without a

[40:06] damn good reason, and I do mean like a

[40:08] fire or someone is dying, not because

[40:11] like, hey, I or if your spouse is trying

[40:14] to get to work and they cannot find

[40:15] their keys, yeah, that qualifies. But

[40:19] for everything else, a time block is

[40:22] your chance to tell the entire rest of

[40:24] the world to go to hell. If you're going

[40:27] to your children's sports, you are at

[40:29] your children's sports. That is what

[40:31] you've decided is the number one

[40:32] priority and nothing will screw with it.

[40:33] A time block is a force field of telling

[40:36] everyone to piss off. That's what a time

[40:40] block is.

[40:42] We normally treat it with the

[40:43] productivity, but it doesn't have to be.

[40:45] Doesn't have to be at all. So,

[40:48] let's get to the five minute rule.

[40:54] Okay, let's go.

[40:58] and author Cal Newport also use

[40:59] unblocking pot a lot and they've written

[41:00] and talked extensively about how it's

[41:01] the best thing ever. Next on list we

[41:02] have the five-minute rule. Now the

[41:03] five-minute rule is that if we are

[41:04] struggling with procrastinating on a big

[41:05] task or a project, we just tell

[41:06] ourselves we're just going to do it for

[41:07] 5 minutes. And actually I have a 5minute

[41:09] hourglass on my desk back in Cambridge

[41:10] that if I'm struggling to do something,

[41:11] I'll just turn the hourglass over and I

[41:12] will genuinely convince myself that I'm

[41:13] only going to All right, we're going to

[41:14] speed this up a little bit. Um I'm even

[41:17] going to skip the the little bit of AI

[41:19] on this one. um what this really is. I I

[41:23] will get the research uh portion of

[41:25] this. I think that's probably the only

[41:27] port portion that we we really need. Um

[41:30] let's do the let's do the full AI from

[41:33] second opinion uh lens right here

[41:46] in pressure test if it doesn't increase

[41:48] task start rate. Yeah, sort of a

[41:52] >> very anecdotal method.

[41:57] Procrastination is tied to

[41:58] self-regulation and short-term mood

[42:01] repair. Making starting easier helps.

[42:05] It's a starter motor, not the engine.

[42:07] >> Okay. So, basically, this is a take on

[42:10] another type of productivity hack. That

[42:12] productivity hack is that you're you're

[42:16] you you don't how to get started to get

[42:19] to the gym and work out. So, what you're

[42:20] just going to do is put on your workout

[42:22] shoes. I'm just going to put on my

[42:24] workout shoes. That's all I'm I will if

[42:26] I still don't go. At least I put on my

[42:28] workout shoes. Then you put on your

[42:30] workout shoes. Like, well, I already put

[42:32] my shoes on. What if I just get my bag

[42:34] and I go sit in the car and I put the I

[42:38] put I get ready like I'm going to drive.

[42:40] I'm just gonna get in the car and start

[42:41] it and I'm just gonna sit there and

[42:43] like, well, I'm already in the car and

[42:45] you're just sort of hacking your way

[42:46] through this. Um, and this is you're

[42:50] your own fool. So, you are just trying

[42:53] to fool yourself into taking one little

[42:57] step and another step, another step. And

[42:59] I have a big breakdown here which you

[43:01] are free to read. Um, but basically it

[43:06] it

[43:07] if you're having serious issues with

[43:10] this, you might not need a productivity

[43:11] hack. You might need to talk to a

[43:13] professional. You may have OCD. You have

[43:15] may have ADHD. You may have something

[43:18] where

[43:19] you're feeling

[43:21] much more unmotivated. If you want to do

[43:24] this every once in a while and you just

[43:26] have this little trick in your head,

[43:28] you're like, you know, some days it's

[43:29] really hard to get to the gym and I'll

[43:31] just sit on the couch. Then you can say,

[43:33] "Okay, on those days when it gets really

[43:34] hard, I'm going to put my my shoes on."

[43:36] You're not going to do the, "Well, I'll

[43:38] just do it for five minutes." Well, I'll

[43:40] just do it for five minutes does not

[43:41] work for most tasks. In fact, that's why

[43:44] I actually hate this. I hate the just do

[43:46] it for five minutes thing. And the

[43:48] reason I absolutely hate it is there's

[43:49] no just doing five minutes of working

[43:51] out because it's going to take far

[43:53] longer than that, even if the workout

[43:54] equipment is in your home to actually do

[43:57] that. So, doing the the micro steps um

[43:59] is the same basic thing. But if you're

[44:01] really struggling with this, this might

[44:03] be more of a motiv motivation issue. It

[44:05] could be a neurochemical issue where um

[44:08] you know, you may just want to double

[44:10] check um you know, are you experiencing

[44:13] depression? Are you having real

[44:14] motivation problems in this and other

[44:16] things or is it really just this? Is it

[44:18] just this one? If it's just this one

[44:19] issue, it's probably not. Uh but always

[44:23] helps to talk to a a medical health

[44:25] professional or your doctor and just

[44:27] say, you know, I'm having problems

[44:29] getting motivated. Um, I'm not really

[44:31] sure. Here are the various issues I

[44:33] have. And talk to a professional. Like,

[44:35] it's uh don't don't screw around in

[44:37] productivity hack your way out of ADHD.

[44:40] Like, yeah, you're you're likely going

[44:42] to be um uh on a therapy path. And that

[44:45] could be something like cognitive

[44:46] behavioral therapy or neural linguistic

[44:49] programming. These are very old

[44:50] concepts. A lot of people don't like

[44:52] them. Um but and as I point out here,

[44:56] that's what this is. Um, this is the if

[45:01] you don't like cognitive behavioral

[45:03] therapy or you don't like neural

[45:04] linguistic programming, you're not going

[45:06] to like the five-minute rule or the just

[45:08] put your shoes on uh hacks because it's

[45:11] like saying, "I don't want to drink

[45:13] alcohol, but I'm willing to do shots."

[45:16] It's the same thing. It's the same

[45:19] method. Um, and th you know those will

[45:22] set up

[45:24] complex methods borderlining on actual

[45:27] systems to deal with that if you're

[45:28] doing that in a therapeutic setting to

[45:31] actually get your motivations and you're

[45:32] setting some very extensive guard rails

[45:36] that will lead you down certain paths.

[45:38] So, um I don't mental health and things

[45:42] like that are not a topic. Uh again, I I

[45:46] I'm I'm in the I'm on more on the PhD

[45:48] side of things, not the MD side of

[45:50] things. I'm on the research side of

[45:52] things, the practical, but definitely

[45:53] not the medical side of things. Um I am

[45:56] not going to speak to productivity hacks

[45:59] if that's your actual problem. And so,

[46:00] explore that if if that's what you

[46:02] think's actually going on. Um, I think

[46:05] we're going to just go and speed right

[46:07] on to the next. And I think after after

[46:09] this point, um, I have a few more where

[46:12] I I highlight and then we're going to

[46:14] kind of go even quicker cuz it's we're

[46:17] really getting getting down to some of

[46:19] the bottom of the barrel, but we have a

[46:20] few more uh things that I think he has

[46:23] in his S tier. So, the next one up is

[46:25] going to be systems.

[46:28] Going to do it for 5 minutes. And this

[46:29] works really well. You've got to give

[46:30] this probably a B. It's not like

[46:31] absolutely essential, but it works

[46:32] really, really nicely because the way

[46:33] procrastination works is that

[46:34] procrastination is generally a failure

[46:35] in getting

[46:36] >> Oh god, we're still stuck on this

[46:37] 5minute rule. Let's get up to systems.

[46:40] >> Procrastination. Next on the list, we've

[46:41] got systems. Now, this is something that

[46:42] James Clear, the author of Atomic

[46:43] Habits, talks about quite a lot. And the

[46:44] distinction here is between goals and

[46:45] systems. So goals are that, you know,

[46:46] the goal that we want to achieve. But

[46:47] systems are the process and the thing

[46:48] that we do to get to the goal. And

[46:50] focusing on systems is actually an

[46:51] amazingly useful productivity. And in

[46:52] fact, this is going to get the S

[46:53] life-changing ranking for me because I

[46:54] often find that if I'm trying to get

[46:55] anything done, if I focus on the goal

[46:56] and I fixate on the goal, generally the

[46:57] thing won't get done. But if I think

[46:58] about what what system can I build, what

[46:59] can I do right now? what's the process I

[47:00] can follow to do the thing then the

[47:01] thing will get done and if you hear

[47:02] interviews with anyone who's like super

[47:03] productive like you know world class

[47:04] athletes and authors and stuff the thing

[47:05] they always

[47:06] >> this is worth listening to so to I know

[47:09] it's going fast but just let's pay a

[47:11] little extra attention here we're going

[47:13] to cover this a lot more and I will have

[47:15] the the the discussion of how this is

[47:17] not a system but this is important to

[47:19] listen to

[47:20] >> swear by right now what's the process I

[47:22] can follow to do the thing then the

[47:23] thing will get done and if you hear

[47:24] interviews with anyone who's like

[47:25] productive like you know world class

[47:26] athletes and authors and stuff the thing

[47:27] they always swear by is the system of

[47:28] training or the system of practice that

[47:30] they follow rather than having a goal.

[47:31] Like everyone who does any kind of sport

[47:32] wants to do really well on it and

[47:33] everyone who's in the Olympics wants to

[47:34] win gold. But so and so just having the

[47:35] goal is not enough. It's actually more

[47:36] about what is the system that gets you

[47:37] there. Next up we have the daily

[47:38] highlight. Now this is another thing.

[47:39] >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Too fast.

[47:42] Um I'm going to disagree with on the

[47:44] goal thing. I think that's absolutely

[47:46] ridiculous. Um you don't you won't

[47:48] create a we'll use the term system. I I

[47:50] I would prefer method, but you don't

[47:53] create a system or method because you

[47:56] don't have a goal. Of course you have a

[47:57] goal. If you don't have a goal, like I

[47:59] intentionally became a doctor. It's like

[48:01] I don't like setting goals. I just want

[48:03] a system for going to university. There

[48:06] are stopping points. Um in product, and

[48:08] this is where my expertise is coming

[48:10] back in project management or goal

[48:12] setting, you need a definition of done.

[48:16] I would consider a gold medal a pretty

[48:19] damn good definition of done. You may

[48:22] not win it, but completing it with your

[48:25] best effort type of thing. you know, you

[48:27] may not want to say gold medal, but if

[48:29] you want a gold medal, yeah, you're

[48:30] done. Now, I think what they're really

[48:33] talking about here is you don't make a

[48:34] goal and then it's like, well, I have a

[48:37] goal and then I'm just going to randomly

[48:39] like, yeah, when you make a goal, you

[48:41] make a plan. Like, I I've read Atomic

[48:43] Habits. It's it's not bad. But I think

[48:46] what it's basically the my two takeaways

[48:48] from the books is goals are not enough

[48:51] which you know I you know the AI points

[48:54] out very clearly here. Um that is true.

[48:59] Um and do you need to break down the

[49:00] steps and then break down you know how

[49:02] do you eat an elephant one bite at a

[49:04] time. That's the takeaway. That's it.

[49:06] That's all you need to know about this.

[49:08] Um but it you know a lot of people treat

[49:10] this there's a there's a real debate

[49:12] between goals and systems. No there

[49:14] isn't. Um, a system of fitness will not

[49:18] get you to an Olympic gold. Period. Full

[49:20] stop. It's like, well, to get a gold, I

[49:22] need to be fit. So, I'm going to start

[49:23] weightlifting and I'm gonna do that. Um,

[49:26] well, you need to practice whatever the

[49:27] health sport is, unless it's just

[49:29] weightlifting. Um, the goal is going to

[49:32] tell you what system you're going to

[49:34] choose. Um, it's a map system. When I

[49:39] set a destination will tell me the turn

[49:42] by turns. Knowing what city I want to go

[49:44] to at least points me in the right

[49:45] direction and then I get the steps and

[49:47] the turn by turn. But if you don't have

[49:49] a goal, there's no there's no system of

[49:53] driving that will get you to good

[49:55] places. And I think that's where the the

[49:57] woo woo [ __ ] around this goes. I'm

[49:59] not pointing out either the influencer

[50:00] or the author, but I think where this

[50:02] method gets twisted and turned and just

[50:06] nipple pinched to death on is this idea

[50:09] that well, you know, you want to be

[50:11] healthy, why don't you just make a

[50:13] system of of eating and cooking? Why

[50:15] don't you just make a system and then as

[50:17] your needs change, you can tweak that

[50:19] and it will always guide you to things

[50:21] that are not just goals, but you will

[50:23] get further. You may not get to the goal

[50:25] or you may go blow past the goal and you

[50:27] don't need to stop. you can keep going

[50:28] down this sort of good path of of good

[50:30] things and good vibes. Um, don't vibe

[50:34] yourself into into life systems goals,

[50:37] however you want to call them. That's

[50:38] [ __ ] Um, h have real goals, have

[50:41] realistic goals, have even I I know it's

[50:44] kind of buzzwordy, but you can have

[50:46] stretch goals, which is, you know, you

[50:47] want to do a little better than LA,

[50:49] sorry, a little better than last year, a

[50:51] little better than last year. Um, but to

[50:53] not have goals is is is awful [ __ ]

[50:55] Um, maps work with both map. You need a

[50:58] plan

[51:00] and goals. You need a goal to know where

[51:02] the hell you're going and you need a

[51:04] plan on how to get there. They do not

[51:06] work without the the other. You don't

[51:08] teleport to uh from the east coast to

[51:11] the west coast and you don't get there

[51:12] without turnbyturn directions. Neither

[51:14] of those work that way. Uh you can vibes

[51:17] your way through um and and wind up in

[51:20] interesting places. Uh but this is not a

[51:22] debate. Um, and I think this is just u,

[51:26] I'll be honest, kind of idiocy. Um, but

[51:30] I think what the lens is saying here is

[51:31] that fitting for them, they don't

[51:35] they're talking about things that can't

[51:37] have goals, but the goal if they're

[51:42] thinking in terms of I hit goal and I am

[51:45] done. All done forever and good. Um, if

[51:48] you're running a company, you you have

[51:51] yearly goals. you have uh fiveyear goals

[51:55] or 10 year goals, you have stretch

[51:57] goals, you have department goals, um you

[51:59] have quality goals, you have profit

[52:01] goals. Um and you have you make those

[52:04] every year. You it's what you're you're

[52:06] going towards. Um but research is going

[52:08] to be mixed on that because setting the

[52:11] goal for a company, it's very different

[52:13] than goal setting for a person. Um, but

[52:16] I wouldn't have become a doctor without

[52:17] setting the goal to become a doctor. And

[52:19] I wouldn't become a doctor without

[52:20] having a plan on how to get there and

[52:22] working with a committee and experts to

[52:24] get there. I wouldn't have been I

[52:26] wouldn't be a published researcher

[52:28] without a freaking goal. Like that was a

[52:30] goal to publish. Uh, this was I'm just

[52:33] like I'm just going to have a system of

[52:35] really good writing. Okay, you you'll be

[52:38] a really good writer with and you'll

[52:40] never have accomplished that because you

[52:41] got to know where to apply the system,

[52:44] when to apply a system, and you need to

[52:45] know what priority has in your life. If

[52:47] you don't have a goal, you can't

[52:49] prioritize that goal. And so, you just

[52:52] you just you're just a bunch of uncooked

[52:54] spaghetti at that point. Um, it's not

[52:56] actually forming to to what you actually

[52:59] want. And it's you're gonna have your

[53:01] life's gonna be best tasteless. you're

[53:02] going to be a you're going to be a

[53:04] collection of cool methods with with no

[53:06] real direction. And uh I'll call out

[53:08] again like it's like a start with why.

[53:10] You know, you could call a why a goal.

[53:13] If you want to be a certain type of

[53:14] person, you want to be someone who has a

[53:17] certain percentage of body fat. You want

[53:19] to be a person who is kind or or spends

[53:22] holidays with family. That's a goal.

[53:26] Yeah, a goal by any other name uh still

[53:29] smells as sweet as Romeo would say.

[53:32] Probably not. But I don't think I don't

[53:33] think Romeo was very good at

[53:34] productivity goals. He did not end well

[53:37] um you know if Romeo and Juliet add

[53:41] goals

[53:42] and methods, neither of which they had.

[53:45] That's what happens to people with

[53:47] neither goals nor methods. You get Romeo

[53:49] and Juliet. They could have just run off

[53:52] and got married and not played this

[53:54] little game. But A, they're children.

[53:57] Uh, which is its own weird issue. But B,

[54:00] it's just it's it's not a tale as old as

[54:03] time. Um, it's not Starcross lovers.

[54:07] It's people who don't know how to set a

[54:08] freaking just set a goal and go about

[54:11] it. Um, the if you got that's Romeo and

[54:15] Juliet is what happens when you just

[54:17] vibe your life. They just vibe their way

[54:20] to

[54:21] double suicide. Bad, bad thing. And I

[54:24] don't care about the monetization. I

[54:25] don't use the the unal alive [ __ ]

[54:27] Um, sorry.

[54:29] In a no [ __ ] zone. I'm not doing

[54:31] those. Oh, Romeo and Julia unal alive

[54:33] themselves. No, they didn't. I the

[54:36] [ __ ] play myself. That's not what

[54:37] they did. Um,

[54:40] but this is this is always done. And

[54:42] when I say this, you know, I put in here

[54:43] it's it's it's always done wrong. Um,

[54:46] you know, these are these are always

[54:50] done wrong. And my biggest takeaway here

[54:52] is they keep calling it a system. Um I

[54:55] really and and this might be a

[54:58] misinterpretation of my remembering and

[55:01] AI of systems.

[55:04] Systems being processes and actions.

[55:07] Processes and actions. They're just

[55:09] methods. Um people people are not

[55:11] creating complex enough to be to be real

[55:13] systems. Systems are things that

[55:15] integrate with other systems. Systems go

[55:17] on forever. Systems create spheres of

[55:19] influence. Um, we're talking about like

[55:23] here's the four steps I take to to go to

[55:26] the gym. Uh, there might actually be a

[55:29] workout system and you could talk about

[55:30] something like CrossFits a system or or

[55:33] the I don't I don't know working out

[55:36] things. U, but I'm sure the the bike

[55:38] riding. Um, I did do the what's the one

[55:41] that there's the dance one. I tried

[55:42] that. Oh my god, that just hurts the leg

[55:45] so much. Um, some of those are systems.

[55:47] Some of those have are very intricate

[55:49] and you fill out papers and you do all

[55:51] sorts of things. Those would be systems.

[55:54] Um you becoming a better cook is not a

[55:57] system. It's just a method. Every day

[55:58] I'm going to try I'm going to stretch

[56:00] and try a new ingredient every week or

[56:02] something like that. That's just a

[56:03] method. It's not a system. U but you

[56:05] could have a goal that I you want to be

[56:07] able to cook 10 new dishes by the end of

[56:09] the year using uh and have used 20

[56:13] ingredients that you've never considered

[56:15] you could cook with before. You could do

[56:16] that with a every week I'm going to pick

[56:18] an ingredient. I'm going to load up a a

[56:21] recipe from the internet and I'm going

[56:22] to try it and fail or not. I'm going to

[56:25] try it and then if it does fail, I'm

[56:27] going to I'm going to take the recipe,

[56:29] throw it into chat GPT. I'm going to put

[56:31] my results on what I thought and I'm

[56:32] going to get feedback. I'm like, "Oh,

[56:34] okay. I I did put the salt in before

[56:39] instead of after." And that's why it I

[56:41] because then I rinsed and of course the

[56:43] salt's gone and it didn't really absorb

[56:44] it. Okay, I totally get why it tasted

[56:46] bland. That's a method. That is not a

[56:49] system. That's just like I'm going to do

[56:51] these three things. And I So I hate the

[56:53] word the use of the word systems in that

[56:56] context when it's it's not it's not a

[56:58] system. Like I'm somebody who's worked

[57:00] with systems my entire life.

[57:04] Soup to nuts. Uh go, you know, where

[57:06] where I work now is is so much

[57:08] interconnected systems. Um

[57:12] think of it even from a programming

[57:13] sense. A system is something like an

[57:16] integrated piece of software. Whereas a

[57:19] simple piece of software or a simple

[57:20] piece of programming is a method. It's a

[57:22] function. It does a thing. It does one

[57:25] thing. Might have a couple variables,

[57:27] but it just does a thing. That's a

[57:28] method or a function. A system is an

[57:32] interconnectedness.

[57:34] Um, and so systems are not the process

[57:38] and actions together uh in that sense,

[57:41] in the professional sense. And I believe

[57:44] that productivity systems kind of fall

[57:46] under business. When we think of

[57:48] business systems, we don't think of

[57:52] first in first out. Okay, we talked

[57:54] earlier about first in first out. First

[57:55] in, first out is a way that you do your

[57:58] inventory so that you don't have a bunch

[57:59] of old stock laying around. You don't

[58:01] have metal parts that are sitting on

[58:02] shelves rusting because you make sure

[58:03] they get out the door first. And the the

[58:05] newest parts get, you know, they they

[58:07] work their way out. the the first one

[58:10] that got done is a is the next one out

[58:12] the door and the 10 that that got done

[58:14] after are waiting in line to go out.

[58:15] First in, first out. That's not a

[58:18] system. That's a method. A system uh a

[58:23] business system would be an inventory

[58:25] system that uses multiple methods for

[58:28] planning work, planning jobs that are

[58:30] going to come into the factory and do

[58:32] those things. And it's going to be

[58:34] multiple methods interconnected.

[58:37] It's it's Those are the actions. And the

[58:41] reason it's not a system for a person is

[58:43] people don't have the same separation

[58:44] that that a system would have where it's

[58:46] something like um you know where we're

[58:48] talking on on the level of of do moving

[58:51] like we're not interconnected with our

[58:55] our hands and feet putting the workout

[58:57] shoes on. That's why it's not it's not a

[58:59] system. Um, a lot of times we try to

[59:02] take these big professional things, the

[59:04] Fortune 500s, um, large manufacturing,

[59:07] uh, large data centers and and

[59:10] technology companies, and we try to take

[59:11] these big systems like what can this

[59:13] teach us about how we live our lives.

[59:15] Actually, not as much as you think.

[59:19] People do not operate the same way as

[59:22] corporations.

[59:24] I just wish me I I wish we would stop

[59:26] trying to fit this massive square peg

[59:29] into our our that was going to come out

[59:32] wrong. Don't put a square peg in a round

[59:34] hole. Let's just go that

[59:39] Oh, that almost came out really wrong.

[59:42] Um but you see what I mean? Like you're

[59:43] you're not going to fit a Fortune by

[59:46] God. You're not going to fit Fortune 500

[59:48] methods into personal productivity. So

[59:50] we we need to stop calling things

[59:51] systems uh and things like if you're if

[59:54] you're going with a sangi systems

[59:56] thinking uh uh uh five methods that does

[1:00:00] that applies to GM that applies to

[1:00:02] Chrysler if you're if you're reading a

[1:00:04] book like Sangi it's not applying to to

[1:00:07] to you having a better workout schedule

[1:00:11] for your week that that doesn't

[1:00:14] coincide with your daughter going to

[1:00:16] ballet class. That's not what that's not

[1:00:18] a system. So that was my only other big

[1:00:21] thing about that. Um and yeah, I had So

[1:00:24] the other thing, you know, I I'll cover

[1:00:27] just the top portion at least. Um who

[1:00:30] have systems? Employers have systems,

[1:00:31] MLMs have systems, cults have systems,

[1:00:34] CrossFit has systems. Um what people

[1:00:37] have are heruristics and habits and

[1:00:40] methods. That's that's a little more

[1:00:42] exact I think that I came up with after

[1:00:45] writing my notes was to was that they're

[1:00:47] really methods.

[1:00:49] Um,

[1:00:51] one of the things that I also say is

[1:00:54] that a lot of this is a bunch of crap.

[1:00:56] It's like, um, my other take on this,

[1:00:59] this is a bunch of bull. Um, saying, you

[1:01:03] know, it's better to have a what they're

[1:01:06] saying, it's better to have a system

[1:01:08] than a goal. That's like saying it's

[1:01:10] better to have a juicer before you get

[1:01:13] into juicing things. You can juice if

[1:01:16] you got a basic blender and you kind of

[1:01:18] juice, you start making orange juice and

[1:01:20] stuff, you can just squeeze the juice

[1:01:22] like it's not this isn't magic. You

[1:01:25] going and buying a $200 juicing system

[1:01:28] when you're not even doing it yet um is

[1:01:31] dumb. It's just really dumb and wasteful

[1:01:34] and expensive. So, if you're following

[1:01:37] this uh systems are more important than

[1:01:39] goals, you're going to waste a lot of

[1:01:41] money. You're going to be a wonderful

[1:01:43] consumer. businesses are going to love

[1:01:45] you because you're going to buy all the

[1:01:46] stuff because that that's what feeds the

[1:01:49] system. You know that's oh you can't

[1:01:52] juice. You don't have a system for

[1:01:54] juicing. How are you going to say that

[1:01:56] you're going to drink more juice? You

[1:01:57] don't even have a juicer.

[1:02:00] What you should do instead have the

[1:02:01] goal. Take the steps that you can for

[1:02:04] things like that. Like you can squeeze

[1:02:06] your own damn oranges with a spoon and

[1:02:09] your hands. Start doing that. realize

[1:02:12] what's hard. If if you once you start

[1:02:15] getting into the habit and you start

[1:02:16] really wanting to add things, then

[1:02:18] consider a juicer. When you are a

[1:02:20] juicer,

[1:02:22] children start with a goal of being an

[1:02:24] Olympian way before they have a damn

[1:02:27] system of like they dream of being a

[1:02:30] gold medalist before they have a [ __ ]

[1:02:32] workout routine. Like I I I swear like

[1:02:35] it's it's very hard for me because I'm

[1:02:36] not I'm not we're we're taking extracts

[1:02:40] from the YouTuber and extracts from the

[1:02:43] book and this is not they are more

[1:02:45] nuanced but the idea that people take

[1:02:48] have taken away from this that um uh it

[1:02:52] doesn't matter what your goals are uh

[1:02:54] the systems are what get you there. Well

[1:02:55] of course they are but the goals will

[1:02:57] come first. Um, yeah, you could happen

[1:03:01] into something you find out you're

[1:03:03] really good at and you just happen to be

[1:03:05] uh skating on ponds as a youth your

[1:03:08] entire life and you just happen to be

[1:03:10] good at hockey. That's actually not

[1:03:11] really how hockey players work. Um, I

[1:03:13] have books to recommend on that. Just

[1:03:16] random.

[1:03:18] But you have a damn goal first. like

[1:03:20] your kid wants to maybe be a a

[1:03:23] full-blown ballerina, so she goes to so

[1:03:25] she goes to class, but her dream of

[1:03:27] doing that came first. She probably

[1:03:29] watched Frozen or something like that.

[1:03:31] It's like, "Oh, I'd love I want to dance

[1:03:32] like that." Mom's like, "Well, I have a

[1:03:35] way you can do that." The goal comes

[1:03:37] first. Like you could there are

[1:03:39] exceptions,

[1:03:41] rare exceptions. um becoming a doctor,

[1:03:46] wanting to become a doctor to have the

[1:03:48] goal came before I enrolled in a

[1:03:51] doctoral program and I had to come up

[1:03:53] and write an essay of reasons and my

[1:03:57] educational background before I was even

[1:03:59] considered having a system of of well to

[1:04:03] get there I need steps so I'm going to

[1:04:06] need a system for writing a dissertation

[1:04:08] that comes later and if you don't

[1:04:11] understand that Um, you can read these

[1:04:14] books to help you

[1:04:16] work on, you know, how you're defining

[1:04:19] your steps maybe. Um, that could be your

[1:04:21] takeaway for these things. But you're

[1:04:23] going to have the goal first. And I

[1:04:24] don't care how prominent anyone is. It's

[1:04:27] one of those it's one of those things I

[1:04:28] actually like doing when when you learn

[1:04:29] enough about things, you can actually

[1:04:30] say what you what no real expert will

[1:04:32] ever say. No real expert will say that

[1:04:34] you just wander your ass into big

[1:04:37] accomplishments. Um, yeah, there's a lot

[1:04:39] of lux and and there's a lot of things

[1:04:40] that do happen by chance, but when we're

[1:04:42] talking at a certain scale, people are

[1:04:45] not accidentally Olympians because they

[1:04:47] just happen to do a bunch of skiing and

[1:04:50] a gold medal fell in their lap. No, they

[1:04:52] had the [ __ ] goal. Like, I can't

[1:04:55] soften that language. Like, it's just

[1:04:57] idiotic uh that there are some out there

[1:05:00] that are spewing this crap that um uh

[1:05:04] magic suddenly appears. It's like it's

[1:05:06] like that book, The Secret, except for

[1:05:08] we're going to system our way to good

[1:05:10] things. If I just have the right

[1:05:12] systems, then good things will come my

[1:05:14] way. That's not how any of this works at

[1:05:17] all. This is how none of this works. So,

[1:05:21] let's go on to another that I also have.

[1:05:23] I love the the little more

[1:05:25] confrontational. I love Ali, but I I

[1:05:27] just I love having a little more

[1:05:28] confrontation because I think it it it

[1:05:32] shows that you you can't strip away a

[1:05:34] lot of the BS. Like these are

[1:05:36] interesting books. These are good books.

[1:05:37] These are not people who don't know what

[1:05:39] some of the things they're talking

[1:05:40] about. But when we're going to clarify

[1:05:41] things, we're going to clarify that in

[1:05:44] no world ever, no matter what argument

[1:05:46] is ever made by any professional or

[1:05:48] anyone with a a PhD after their name,

[1:05:50] whatever claim they make that that

[1:05:53] somehow magical results are going to

[1:05:55] exist in systems alone. Um, and we're

[1:05:59] going to go into goals. They're full of

[1:06:01] [ __ ] They wouldn't have their PhD

[1:06:04] without the goal to be there preeding

[1:06:07] everything. That's not how cause and

[1:06:09] effects works at all at any level ever.

[1:06:13] So from there, let us proceed

[1:06:20] to do really well on it. And everyone

[1:06:21] who's in the Olympics wants to win gold,

[1:06:22] but and so just having the goal is not

[1:06:24] enough. It's actually more about what is

[1:06:25] the system that gets you there. Next up,

[1:06:26] we have the daily highlight. Now, this

[1:06:27] is another thing that's going to get the

[1:06:27] S lifechanging ranking. And this is

[1:06:29] probably the single most useful single

[1:06:30] productivity tip I've ever come across

[1:06:31] in my life. And the idea behind the

[1:06:32] daily highlight is just every single

[1:06:33] day, we decide what is the one thing I

[1:06:34] want to get done today and then we just

[1:06:36] make sure we do that thing. And this can

[1:06:37] be something productive like completely.

[1:06:46] Dear audience,

[1:06:50] I'm going I'm just I'm going to be a

[1:06:52] nice person. Dear Ali, I love you. You

[1:06:55] have such you have such good stuff. I've

[1:06:57] gotten such good good tips for for for

[1:07:00] honing some of the things that I do into

[1:07:03] to sharper tools. So, I really love your

[1:07:05] input, but are we really go like were

[1:07:09] you I I do know where this sort of also

[1:07:12] comes from. Like, it's not it's not just

[1:07:13] him, but were we really just were we

[1:07:17] just trying to pull things in to fill

[1:07:18] the S tier because I get that some of

[1:07:20] the name stuff is crap. Um, and it's

[1:07:23] very niche. It's it's like the Apple

[1:07:26] note, like I've said before, the Apple

[1:07:27] Notes versus Notion versus Obsidian

[1:07:29] debate. And by the way, if you haven't

[1:07:31] noticed, I've been using Obsidian over

[1:07:32] here. Am I a big note taker? No, not

[1:07:34] really. I use what I I I use a lot of

[1:07:36] markdown. This is not Obsidian is not

[1:07:38] actually my normal notes. Uh it just

[1:07:40] looks nice when I'm presenting to you

[1:07:42] guys. Um I actually use an IDE uh

[1:07:44] cursor. So I use software development

[1:07:47] because it's actually the better place

[1:07:49] to do notes. I don't use notes like any

[1:07:52] other regular human on on planet Earth.

[1:07:54] I actually use a programming engine

[1:07:56] because it actually

[1:07:59] is is fire when it comes to doing notes.

[1:08:01] And I find notion and obsidian have

[1:08:04] their places, but

[1:08:08] but

[1:08:10] that same kind of debate like I see

[1:08:13] where Ali didn't want to get into a lot

[1:08:16] of productivity tools that are

[1:08:19] questionable. He didn't I notice he

[1:08:22] didn't really get into getting things

[1:08:23] done so much. He is he got into the

[1:08:25] little hacks. He's not trying to go into

[1:08:27] the big systems. Um,

[1:08:30] but audience,

[1:08:33] can you tell what my problem here is? I

[1:08:35] I I just I want to I'm going to slow

[1:08:38] this down. I got this nice little I tell

[1:08:40] you this. Let's take it down to 1.2.

[1:08:43] Let's do this one over again

[1:08:48] to achieve. But since are the chapters

[1:08:50] broken here?

[1:08:54] >> I think daily highlight is just every

[1:08:55] single day we decide thing that's going

[1:08:57] to get the S By the way, I don't know

[1:08:59] what's happening if the sun is rising,

[1:09:00] but you will notice his video is blown

[1:09:02] out, but this does not reflect on

[1:09:04] >> changing ranking. And this is probably

[1:09:06] the single most useful single

[1:09:07] productivity tip I've ever come across

[1:09:08] in my life. And the idea behind the

[1:09:10] daily highlight is just every single day

[1:09:11] we decide what is the one thing I want

[1:09:13] to get done today and then we just make

[1:09:14] sure we do that thing.

[1:09:19] >> You know,

[1:09:21] when I started this channel, I was

[1:09:24] talking to my wife and I said, you know,

[1:09:26] it really does fit in. There's almost

[1:09:28] nothing I watch that I don't have I

[1:09:31] don't have a real comment on, especially

[1:09:34] with something that is just so

[1:09:36] completely

[1:09:44] I I get a whisper so I don't scream.

[1:09:47] It's called a [ __ ] priority. It's not

[1:09:50] called a daily. That's literally the

[1:09:52] definition of a priority. It's just a

[1:09:55] daily just daily priority.

[1:09:59] So I have to I have to I have to whisper

[1:10:03] just scream and and I would probably

[1:10:07] wake everyone up.

[1:10:10] Let us power through again.

[1:10:13] I'm sending love. I'm sending love.

[1:10:17] Jesus.

[1:10:19] I'm sending love. So

[1:10:20] >> and this can be something productive

[1:10:21] like complete chapter of my book

[1:10:23] proposal or

[1:10:25] Yeah, I've done that. You know what else

[1:10:27] they're called?

[1:10:32] Called goals.

[1:10:34] I think we just talked about that.

[1:10:37] They're called goals.

[1:10:47] Sometimes I think it's only me and that

[1:10:50] scares me when I see and I I'm like, am

[1:10:54] I the only one? I'm tempted to go into

[1:10:56] the comments, but I don't even like

[1:10:57] comments on my videos. Like, love you

[1:11:00] guys, but I'm not putting up with the

[1:11:01] bots and spam all the crap. I just, you

[1:11:02] know, if if if you like it, you like it.

[1:11:06] Like, hey, you know, you have your own

[1:11:08] thoughts. That's why I'm not in the

[1:11:09] comments of these videos. and made a

[1:11:11] YouTube channel.

[1:11:14] But dear God, tell me it's not just me.

[1:11:17] >> It can be something completely

[1:11:18] unproductive, i.e. not work, like hang

[1:11:20] out with friends or like call my

[1:11:21] grandma. It could be anything like that.

[1:11:22] But the idea here is that if for every

[1:11:24] single day of the year, we could

[1:11:25] actually just do the single most

[1:11:26] important thing that we want to get done

[1:11:27] that day that genuinely would change the

[1:11:29] needle for our productivity and also for

[1:11:30] our life. And so we're going to give the

[1:11:32] daily highlight an S ranking on the tier

[1:11:33] list. Next up, we've got the T.

[1:11:37] >> I think chapters did get messed up

[1:11:39] because I didn't he didn't actually get

[1:11:40] that up on the S and I maybe didn't have

[1:11:42] an icon for it, but um

[1:11:46] to the notes.

[1:11:50] Um

[1:11:52] I don't even want to do I don't even

[1:11:54] want to do my thoughts.

[1:11:59] Um the research is interesting. Um and

[1:12:03] it's about okay this is basically

[1:12:07] is just planning that you know not

[1:12:09] leaving everything up to whim that

[1:12:10] urgency bias is real planning helps but

[1:12:14] one thing is most and I kind of I put

[1:12:17] this here

[1:12:24] read if you want this is my what the

[1:12:26] tier I see I stopped myself one of my

[1:12:29] goals this year was I was going to have

[1:12:31] a swear jar

[1:12:32] Cuss less

[1:12:34] WTF tier.

[1:12:36] This should be like are you serious bro?

[1:12:40] Like are you being serious right now?

[1:12:44] Your productivity hack is to set

[1:12:48] priorities or could also say set goals.

[1:12:52] And I I am a believer yes there you can

[1:12:54] only have one priority not multiple. But

[1:12:55] when I say priorities I mean like days

[1:12:58] where each day has a priority of its

[1:13:00] own.

[1:13:01] um that's actually going to feed into

[1:13:05] um later on our to-do lists. And if you

[1:13:11] and I will spoiler, he doesn't like

[1:13:13] to-do lists, but if you have a what

[1:13:16] what's the [ __ ] rapper on this one?

[1:13:18] If you have a daily highlight, you have

[1:13:20] a to-do list of at least one.

[1:13:24] You just do. My actual problem with

[1:13:26] to-do lists and and why I disagree is

[1:13:28] not because I think to-do lists are

[1:13:29] great. I think that's actually an

[1:13:30] interesting discussion. But man, this

[1:13:32] feels like so much filler. So much

[1:13:33] filler that there wasn't even a there

[1:13:35] wasn't even a tear icon. Like man, I I

[1:13:40] get you like do the long form, my dude.

[1:13:42] Do the long form like I am. Like just

[1:13:44] just kind of riff on a couple of the

[1:13:46] things longer. You can still hit near

[1:13:47] the 15-minute mark. Like don't

[1:13:51] Why are we renaming priorities? Why are

[1:13:53] we renaming goals? Like why are we

[1:13:55] inventing language to to fluff it up?

[1:13:58] It's like I'm a

[1:14:01] I'm in the I What was the old joke? I'm

[1:14:04] in the U news delivery service for the

[1:14:07] paper boy. Now you're a paper boy. It's

[1:14:09] like it's just priorities. It's just

[1:14:12] goals. What the hell? Um where are we at

[1:14:17] now? Okay, we're going we're going into

[1:14:18] batching.

[1:14:21] Let's move on to something that's

[1:14:22] actually

[1:14:25] productive.

[1:14:28] and also for our life. And so we're

[1:14:29] going to give the daily highlight an S

[1:14:31] ranking on the tier list. Next up, we've

[1:14:32] got the technique of batching. Again,

[1:14:33] something that Tim Ferris talks a lot

[1:14:34] about in the 4-hour work week. The idea

[1:14:35] being that if you have tons and tons of

[1:14:36] emails, instead of checking email

[1:14:38] throughout the day at different times,

[1:14:39] you check email all at once, all at the

[1:14:40] same time. Or, for example, like I'm

[1:14:42] doing today, instead of filming a

[1:14:43] YouTube video every day, I film four

[1:14:44] videos in a single day, and then I have

[1:14:46] the other three days off. This is

[1:14:47] batching. It's pretty good. It works in

[1:14:48] a lot of things. It's not like massively

[1:14:50] life-changing, and therefore,

[1:14:52] >> okay.

[1:14:54] Um,

[1:14:58] it's not massively life-changing.

[1:15:00] Actually, it is. The entire reason that

[1:15:04] the world works the way it is is

[1:15:07] batching. Um,

[1:15:10] batching is

[1:15:14] is changing a little bit with

[1:15:15] manufacturing with just in time. It's

[1:15:18] changing a little bit with AI. It's

[1:15:21] changing a little bit with with certain

[1:15:23] things but we often batch things.

[1:15:26] Meetings are batching

[1:15:29] topics of discussion with a particular

[1:15:32] group of people. If you are if your

[1:15:35] company or agency or organization has a

[1:15:40] change management meeting, you're

[1:15:43] batching all of your change management

[1:15:44] discussions. If you're having a uh board

[1:15:49] meeting, you're batching all of your

[1:15:51] board member discussions and votes.

[1:15:53] Meetings are batches. Time blocking is a

[1:15:58] batch. That's that's exactly what those

[1:16:01] are. Um is the world changing? It

[1:16:05] absolutely is. Now,

[1:16:07] let me put a a steelman into this. what

[1:16:11] he's also talking about is those tasks

[1:16:14] that you that that that

[1:16:18] poke at you. Um, this actually is going

[1:16:21] to matter a little bit like this

[1:16:23] actually is this is a serious

[1:16:25] disagreement that that he and I have. Um

[1:16:28] if you are a certain kind of individual

[1:16:31] where you're very focused on a singular

[1:16:33] task you may not never think of as

[1:16:35] batching such as a writer um or YouTube

[1:16:40] where things are not necessarily on a

[1:16:42] big assembly on on a a batched up so you

[1:16:45] don't make 10 videos and then you edit

[1:16:47] all 10 videos at once. So that workflow

[1:16:50] may not work in all situations. Batching

[1:16:53] doesn't solve everything, but without

[1:16:55] batching, the world collapses. And I

[1:16:59] literally mean the world collapses.

[1:17:03] Shipping containers is batching. Um,

[1:17:09] internet traffic is often batching. Uh,

[1:17:13] that's kind of the whole point of a CDN.

[1:17:16] Um,

[1:17:19] batching as a whole. um that's how you

[1:17:23] think that your computer is

[1:17:25] multitasking. Um today it actually can

[1:17:28] there's actually like multiple processes

[1:17:30] that can run but in the old days they

[1:17:32] they introduced multitasking and again

[1:17:34] you'll get this this story anecdote from

[1:17:37] many of the books. Um, it's batching

[1:17:40] things up so that you know certain

[1:17:42] things are are being held back in a

[1:17:44] batch that don't need to be immediate.

[1:17:45] But all the immediate things they seem

[1:17:47] to work like the mouse seems to move

[1:17:49] while the video is still playing and yet

[1:17:50] the computer must think separately with

[1:17:52] one processor. The mouse moves need to

[1:17:55] redraw. Also the video is playing

[1:17:57] completely separate workflow but it

[1:17:59] looks like it's multitasking because

[1:18:01] it's dealing with batching and

[1:18:03] unbatching. If it you can't have that,

[1:18:05] the world would collapse. The modern

[1:18:08] world would not be possible if you take

[1:18:11] away batching. You can't even have

[1:18:13] agriculture.

[1:18:15] Agriculture is batching tasks of animal

[1:18:20] husbandry together in the morning and

[1:18:23] batching. This is the the work time. And

[1:18:25] so we're now going to do all the seeding

[1:18:28] and now we're going to do all the

[1:18:29] harvesting and we're going to put the

[1:18:30] we're not going to put one before the

[1:18:32] other or have you know we're not going

[1:18:34] to focus on a single plant. We're going

[1:18:35] to plant all the plants at once.

[1:18:38] Batching is how any of this works.

[1:18:42] Without batching, we're no better than

[1:18:44] bonobos.

[1:18:46] Um, I cannot strongly enough talk about

[1:18:50] batching. And that's just logistically.

[1:18:52] Let's talk mentally. Um, let's go into

[1:18:56] the notes. And man, AI nailed the exact

[1:19:01] problem uh with the thinking. I to be

[1:19:05] fair, I don't think Ali thought about it

[1:19:07] in this way. I think he thought about

[1:19:08] like, is it really life-changing if I do

[1:19:12] all of my emails at 2:00 rather than

[1:19:15] every half hour? Is it really is that

[1:19:17] really going to change my life? I think

[1:19:19] what he understood that is properly in

[1:19:22] the batching basket is wrong. I just

[1:19:26] think he had the wrong frame of

[1:19:28] reference for thinking about this issue.

[1:19:30] And I think in I think he would agree

[1:19:32] with me in this larger one as I would I

[1:19:35] would hope so. He's he's probably

[1:19:37] smarter than I am. I think he was being

[1:19:39] very specific in is there anything that

[1:19:42] he's actively extra batching that he

[1:19:46] thinks of as batching? He is batching. I

[1:19:48] guarantee you he is 100% batching all

[1:19:51] the time. He just doesn't realize it.

[1:19:54] Um, and I'll go to my notes to just how

[1:19:56] pedantic I can get with it really does

[1:19:59] affect everything you do. So, here we

[1:20:02] go.

[1:20:07] >> Concept from Tim Ferris.

[1:20:10] >> No, it doesn't.

[1:20:14] >> Another It's not another yet another

[1:20:16] concept from Tim Ferrris. It's just how

[1:20:18] civilization works. It's it's how entire

[1:20:21] communities works. It's how society

[1:20:22] works. It's how government works. It's

[1:20:24] how accounting works. It's how

[1:20:25] everything works. Everything works by

[1:20:26] batching everything.

[1:20:32] >> YouTube videos in one day have three

[1:20:34] days off. Pretty good. Works on many

[1:20:37] things, but

[1:20:40] that would be batching without chunking.

[1:20:43] So chunking is required for batching. To

[1:20:46] batch properly, you need to be able to

[1:20:49] chunk things properly. I'm filming a a

[1:20:52] very very long video. I'm almost up to

[1:20:54] my third hour filming today, part two.

[1:20:56] It's the same video though. I'm still

[1:20:58] doing the same series and I'm going to

[1:20:59] get through the rest of this. I know we

[1:21:01] have quite a few to go, but we're going

[1:21:03] to fly through the rest. Trust me on

[1:21:04] this, but this this one's important.

[1:21:09] >> It's the only thing that makes life

[1:21:10] possible. um

[1:21:13] batching

[1:21:15] like biology batches like we have we

[1:21:20] have gestational stages certain a bunch

[1:21:24] of certain things have to happen in this

[1:21:26] batch before the before we can start on

[1:21:28] the entire we can't have like one cell

[1:21:30] at a time go from zygote to born baby

[1:21:34] and just string this along with it's

[1:21:37] life is batches

[1:21:40] >> research based analysis And I know it

[1:21:41] sounds pedantic, but it's the the reason

[1:21:44] I mean pedantic is it is a it is a

[1:21:47] batching is is one of those things

[1:21:49] that's close to a complete abstraction.

[1:21:50] When I'm say a complete abstraction, I

[1:21:52] mean it matters at the universal scale

[1:21:55] down to the quantum scale. Batching

[1:21:57] matters. Batching is is one of those

[1:21:59] things that that could almost be its own

[1:22:02] fundamental aspect of reality. Like it

[1:22:05] really does matter. There's nothing. The

[1:22:08] reason it sounds pedantic is it is

[1:22:10] everything. Like everything winds up

[1:22:11] being batches and when you fight against

[1:22:13] batches and you don't go with the flow

[1:22:16] of that you you are will be a train

[1:22:19] wreck.

[1:22:22] Switching cost and attention residue are

[1:22:24] real batching.

[1:22:26] >> So what's a switching cost? Switching

[1:22:28] cost is you just got down to analyzing a

[1:22:31] spreadsheet and your phone rings and

[1:22:33] it's someone from another department and

[1:22:35] they have a question and you hang up and

[1:22:36] you're like okay I'm I'm back I'm back

[1:22:38] on this and then you get an email

[1:22:40] notification from the boss and they need

[1:22:42] to ask about the quarterly results of

[1:22:44] something else and so you go over there

[1:22:46] and but you you keep sitting down to the

[1:22:49] spreadsheet but you're switching costs

[1:22:51] you cannot keep attention and every time

[1:22:53] you switch it is take taking upwards of

[1:22:56] 15 minutes to get back on track because

[1:22:58] you're allowing yourself to be

[1:22:59] interrupted. Switching cost is the

[1:23:01] reason that time blocking works because

[1:23:03] you're eliminating switching cost by

[1:23:05] telling basically the entire universe to

[1:23:07] piss off while you do this one thing or

[1:23:09] this one set of things, this one batch

[1:23:12] of things.

[1:23:19] >> Again, there's this focus on comms.

[1:23:21] There's this real focus on batching is

[1:23:23] just the example Tim Ferrris used. I

[1:23:25] think that's myopic. It's just just just

[1:23:28] tunnel vision. Um batching works great.

[1:23:33] I wouldn't say that um uh you know the

[1:23:37] people that do the the the the the

[1:23:40] prepping for cook, you know, and and

[1:23:41] they do they do you know they're going

[1:23:43] to sit in their kitchen for 10 hours um

[1:23:46] doing all this this meal prep stuff. I I

[1:23:50] is that life-changing? Probably not. Um,

[1:23:53] but most of us would sit down if we're,

[1:23:55] let's say if you do holiday cards, try

[1:23:56] not to batch your holiday cards.

[1:23:58] Instead, hide them around your house and

[1:24:01] randomly sign and fill out your holiday

[1:24:03] cards and only mail them one at a time.

[1:24:07] Now, compare that to batching them.

[1:24:10] Is there a context switching difference?

[1:24:11] Are you going to miss some people versus

[1:24:12] not missing? Like, batching matters.

[1:24:14] Like, and there are big things, but it's

[1:24:17] just so easy to make these these for the

[1:24:18] small.

[1:24:19] >> Apply it to urgent ops or relationships.

[1:24:22] expectations.

[1:24:24] >> No, apply it to relationships. When you

[1:24:26] have a date, batch all the things you'd

[1:24:28] like to do with somebody. If you'd like

[1:24:29] to watch a movie and go to the zoo, go

[1:24:31] to zoo in the morning and then go. Don't

[1:24:33] start spreading that out all over the

[1:24:35] place. There's no reason to to start

[1:24:37] doing that. Like, you can do that in

[1:24:39] relationships. Like, I I have a group of

[1:24:42] friends at work and we sometimes text

[1:24:44] back and forth. Um, but we save up the

[1:24:47] big conversations for when we meet. We

[1:24:49] we save them up for a batch.

[1:24:55] >> Okay, that's the color. That's the color

[1:24:56] coding. Um,

[1:24:59] so I'm going to read this because I

[1:25:02] think it's just I think it's just

[1:25:03] batching lowers context switching tasks.

[1:25:05] Period. Full stop. It And it lowers them

[1:25:07] all the way down to the freaking quantum

[1:25:09] level. Um, yeah, nature batches. That's

[1:25:12] what an atom is. Things group. Uh, like

[1:25:16] things group, opposite things group.

[1:25:18] things that attract things that

[1:25:19] magnetize. Um

[1:25:22] the weak force, the strong force, it's

[1:25:24] all batching. It's all organization. Um

[1:25:27] it's all batching. And Ali says he

[1:25:30] doesn't do this. Um and once you think

[1:25:32] about it, this is just the obvious here.

[1:25:34] Um

[1:25:37] the only time I'm going to call like I

[1:25:39] just I am I'm going to call [ __ ]

[1:25:40] He's he's I'm going to call [ __ ]

[1:25:42] because I don't think he thought about

[1:25:43] it. I think this was a video he didn't

[1:25:45] really put that much into and I think he

[1:25:47] was really talking about emails. Um, but

[1:25:50] I'm pretty sure that he doesn't take one

[1:25:52] shower to wash his hair and a separate

[1:25:54] shower to wash his ass that he he

[1:25:57] batches his body washing at a particular

[1:26:00] moment. Those are not they are separate

[1:26:02] tasks. Like if you go to the bathroom

[1:26:04] and you wash your hands, you're not

[1:26:06] taking a full shower. There are separate

[1:26:07] tasks or you can wash your face or you

[1:26:09] can brush your teeth or you can batch

[1:26:11] them. You have a time when you shower

[1:26:12] and brush your teeth. Like that's if you

[1:26:17] if you're going to mow your your lawn

[1:26:20] and you've got a fence and you got to

[1:26:21] take care of the weeds, you're either

[1:26:23] going to probably weed just before or

[1:26:24] just after mowing your lawn. You're

[1:26:26] going to batch them. You're not going to

[1:26:27] like, you know, I'm going to weed in the

[1:26:28] morning and I'm going to mow at night

[1:26:30] unless there's some other weird reason

[1:26:32] that you need to do that. When you're in

[1:26:34] your kitchen, you're going to clean your

[1:26:36] kitchen counters in the same time frame

[1:26:37] you do your dishes. If you don't, you're

[1:26:39] weird. Why would you why would you leave

[1:26:41] your stove and everything uncleaned

[1:26:42] after dinner and cooking and whatever

[1:26:45] and the stuff and put stuff away after

[1:26:47] you're done? You're batching these as

[1:26:49] they're complete sets of tasks. That is

[1:26:51] batching. What Tim Ferrris is pointing

[1:26:53] out is that we shouldn't treat anything

[1:26:55] else not as a batch such as taking

[1:26:58] emails as they come like raindrops

[1:27:00] falling from the sky. And he says,

[1:27:03] "Well, that's not life-changing." It

[1:27:05] actually is because we batch.

[1:27:08] The only argument is don't let things

[1:27:10] unbatch.

[1:27:11] Look at it in the reverse. You don't let

[1:27:13] things unbatch. So, I disagree. It's not

[1:27:16] only the S tier. It's the only thing

[1:27:17] that makes the tier list even possible.

[1:27:19] You know why? He's batching all of these

[1:27:22] reviews. His video is a batch. Like,

[1:27:26] maybe it's the IT guy and me, but

[1:27:28] everything he knows is a batch. It's all

[1:27:31] a batch all the way down. It's like

[1:27:33] turtles all the way down. It's batching

[1:27:35] all the way down. Um, let's go on to the

[1:27:38] color. And I'm pretty sure here I am

[1:27:42] definitely not Yep. Nope. We're going to

[1:27:45] we're going to start rapid firing

[1:27:46] because we're coming up in the next hour

[1:27:47] and a half. And I really don't want to

[1:27:49] actually do um if I can avoid it a third

[1:27:53] video. We might get there, but I'm going

[1:27:54] to try not to. We're going to fly

[1:27:55] through these. I might not even need the

[1:27:57] notes. Let's see how fast we can go.

[1:28:00] We're so close. So close.

[1:28:03] >> I'm going to give it a C ranking on our

[1:28:04] tier list. All right, let's speed up

[1:28:05] through these a little bit more. Next on

[1:28:06] the list, we have color coding. Uh,

[1:28:07] which my friend Noah Kagan uses quite a

[1:28:09] lot. The idea here is that you color

[1:28:10] code your calendar depending on what

[1:28:12] category the task is in. So, self

[1:28:14] >> don't do this. Like, have fun with your

[1:28:16] calendar. This is not a product. This is

[1:28:18] a categorization. Um, you can use

[1:28:21] colors. Your phone does this. You can

[1:28:23] categorize your uh folders. Now, in Mac,

[1:28:26] you can color code your emails and

[1:28:28] topics. Color coding is fine. Uh, it's

[1:28:31] somewhat of a quick reference. I usually

[1:28:33] use things like um I would use blue for

[1:28:38] school, I would use red for personal, I

[1:28:40] would use green for work, and yellow for

[1:28:42] just my projects or or something like

[1:28:45] that. And it's like, well, where would

[1:28:46] you put your home stuff? I consider it

[1:28:48] personal. So, I have those everywhere.

[1:28:50] So, if I see something of those colors,

[1:28:51] it kind of gives me a quick little thing

[1:28:53] of where to do. And, you know, I I have

[1:28:56] an odd, not quite ever finished folder

[1:28:59] organization method. That's a whole

[1:29:00] other discussion. Um, that is that is a

[1:29:04] quagmire. Um, but yeah, I throw colors

[1:29:07] around. Have fun. It's not a hack.

[1:29:08] Doesn't matter. You do it, don't do it,

[1:29:11] doesn't matter. But, you know, some

[1:29:13] people are artsy. Some people some

[1:29:15] people love it. There's a whole YouTube

[1:29:17] deep dives where people are just like

[1:29:18] making these intricate personal uh

[1:29:21] calendars and they sell stickers and

[1:29:23] stuff like that and they're like a

[1:29:24] coloring book for adults. They look

[1:29:27] cool. I'm not like ragging on them. They

[1:29:28] look cool, but it's not productivity.

[1:29:32] Like, it's like, should you organize

[1:29:34] things and categorize? Yeah, you can use

[1:29:36] colors. You could you could technically

[1:29:38] organized by sound. I'm sure that if

[1:29:40] more of us um uh paid attention to the

[1:29:43] the uh um the the hearing disabled or

[1:29:46] sorry, the visually disabled and we had

[1:29:48] to have more visual or audio cues. We

[1:29:51] could actually have like, you know,

[1:29:52] they're now making like I think it's the

[1:29:54] new M MXM from Logitech. the mouse will

[1:29:57] have uh audio or like uh u rumble

[1:30:00] feedback so you can actually sort of

[1:30:02] feel the screen. There's a lot of

[1:30:04] different ways you could do things. Uh

[1:30:06] it's not it's not groundbreaking. I

[1:30:07] agree with

[1:30:08] >> okay stuff gets a different color and

[1:30:09] stuff gets a different color and life

[1:30:10] stuff gets a different color. I don't

[1:30:12] personally use it myself. So this is

[1:30:13] >> I do that with uh some things I've got.

[1:30:15] My whiteboards are currently thin. Uh

[1:30:18] two of my entire office walls are

[1:30:19] whiteboards. I like to color code stuff

[1:30:21] just to give it contrast. I sometimes

[1:30:24] will pick a color for certain topics. um

[1:30:26] they don't mean anything. I just it

[1:30:28] looks like if it's all black and white,

[1:30:30] then I I it just blurs together for me.

[1:30:32] So, I want things to pop out different

[1:30:34] ways. So, if I look at a yellow thing, I

[1:30:36] see all the other yellow things on the

[1:30:37] board. If I look at a blue thing, all

[1:30:38] the other blue things are popping out

[1:30:40] because I just know, hey, oh, those are

[1:30:42] related. It It's just markdown. It's

[1:30:44] just it's just more real world

[1:30:47] heristics.

[1:30:48] >> It's going to get a D ranking. Next on

[1:30:49] the list, we have to-do lists. Nothing

[1:30:51] much needs to be said there.

[1:30:53] >> Wrong.

[1:30:55] So, oh, I did actually write notes. Um,

[1:30:58] yeah, highlighters neat. Use them.

[1:30:59] What's the last one? Uh, the to-do list.

[1:31:02] Uh, we're going to have

[1:31:05] we're going to we're going to

[1:31:06] >> I don't really like the idea of to-do

[1:31:07] lists. Instead, I

[1:31:08] >> sure you do. Everything you do is a

[1:31:10] to-do list. Everything is a basic to-do

[1:31:14] list in the most basic sense of the

[1:31:16] word. The very first recorded human

[1:31:19] writing is a list. Whether to do or not,

[1:31:23] people like lists. People get mad that

[1:31:26] Chad GBT keeps making bullet lists. And

[1:31:29] I hate bulletoint lists as well. That's

[1:31:31] just people it's just speaking a bullet

[1:31:33] point list. It gets frustrating and

[1:31:35] annoying, but no, they're great. Um I'm

[1:31:39] I'm going to go through this one real

[1:31:40] quick. I I know the research on this one

[1:31:43] basically said that, you know, it's

[1:31:44] offloading planning to reduce. Yeah,

[1:31:47] it's it's your external memory. It's

[1:31:49] called a piece of paper or a tablet or a

[1:31:52] mud and clay. Um, that's what

[1:31:54] civilization is based on. Writing is

[1:31:57] fundamental. And a to-do list is just,

[1:31:59] hey, I have a bunch of stuff I need to

[1:32:01] get done. I don't want to forget them.

[1:32:03] So, let me write them down somewhere. A

[1:32:06] to-do list could even be an inbox. But

[1:32:08] the idea of writing something down to

[1:32:10] not forget it because you need to get it

[1:32:12] done rather than holding your memory is

[1:32:15] S tier because again like batching

[1:32:18] civilization is built on it. Um if you

[1:32:22] want it's like the whole should we take

[1:32:24] notes based on books?

[1:32:29] Well no there there is a piece of paper

[1:32:30] that already contains those notes. It's

[1:32:33] called the book.

[1:32:35] It's called writing. It is written down.

[1:32:37] It's the book. Now, maybe maybe take

[1:32:40] those highlighters and highlight in the

[1:32:41] book. Just some ideas, but I'm gonna I'm

[1:32:44] gonna let him fly through here because

[1:32:46] >> I call like my to-do list a my to-do

[1:32:48] list. And so, when I figure out what I'm

[1:32:49] doing for the day, yes, I do the daily

[1:32:50] highlight. That's the one thing that I

[1:32:51] swear by because that's the one thing I

[1:32:53] absolutely have to get done. But then

[1:32:54] everything else falls under the might-do

[1:32:56] list. This is stuff that I

[1:32:58] >> I don't know who his if he has or who

[1:33:01] his partner might be. Um, it's like,

[1:33:03] "Hey, can you go can you pick up stuff

[1:33:06] at the store tonight? I'm going to be

[1:33:08] making this recipe and so I need these

[1:33:10] four items." You just got a to-do list

[1:33:12] with four items on it and it's batched

[1:33:15] in a single trip. But yeah, that's just

[1:33:18] how the world works. It doesn't have to

[1:33:19] be a specific to-do list. So, I'm I'm

[1:33:21] I'm kind of being a little pedantic, but

[1:33:25] not like a to-do list is basic entry

[1:33:27] level. You're not eliminating them.

[1:33:29] they're just going to exist in your life

[1:33:31] whether you actively sit down and say

[1:33:33] todo list and you start making like

[1:33:36] check boxes where you're going to check

[1:33:38] off each one and I think going to that

[1:33:40] yeah do you need them no should you have

[1:33:43] the list do you need to check them off

[1:33:45] no but you need the list um one of my

[1:33:47] suggestions that I have within my um is

[1:33:51] you know and my bucket is externalized

[1:33:54] memory tier yeah that's a thing it's

[1:33:56] just it's just a thing um back Back in

[1:33:59] the day,

[1:34:01] we used to have

[1:34:04] little notepads. These tiny little

[1:34:05] notepads that were like gay big that

[1:34:08] were like the tiniest little wirebound

[1:34:10] notepads and used to have a pen or you

[1:34:12] can even get a small pen. You just kept

[1:34:13] them in your pocket. If you had

[1:34:14] something that came up, you flipped it

[1:34:16] open. You wrote on a page. The next

[1:34:17] thing you remember if you remember where

[1:34:19] you left off, you just flip to the last

[1:34:20] written on page and usually your your

[1:34:22] most recent to-do list. And when you

[1:34:24] were done, you flip it over. You could

[1:34:25] use the other side. it would just the

[1:34:27] pages would flip from one side to the

[1:34:28] other with the spiral bound and if you

[1:34:30] wanted to get rid of it you done or if

[1:34:31] you need to give someone your phone

[1:34:32] number you wrote it down you ripped the

[1:34:34] paper off you handed it to them like

[1:34:36] that's how the world worked before

[1:34:38] phones uh and so I think a lot of people

[1:34:40] today might not think they have a to-do

[1:34:41] list um because back then yeah maybe not

[1:34:44] everyone had one but the person who had

[1:34:45] one had like a superpower um then of

[1:34:47] course you know you got into the whole

[1:34:48] rolodex thing which I was never a

[1:34:50] rolodex kind of kind of guy um but now

[1:34:53] we all have phones therefore we all have

[1:34:54] lists and we're doing we're doing list

[1:34:56] things all the time. It just we treat

[1:34:58] them as text messages or or or some

[1:35:01] other type of DM or shared Apple notes

[1:35:04] or reminders, but they're all to-do

[1:35:07] list. Like at at their base core,

[1:35:09] they're all to-do list of uh that's that

[1:35:11] is my only, you know, it's just is it S

[1:35:15] tier? Yeah, it's S tier because for us

[1:35:17] all because yeah, humans got way more

[1:35:20] advanced when we started writing [ __ ]

[1:35:21] down. Full stop. like S tier, like the

[1:35:26] reason we have civilization. So

[1:35:31] on we go.

[1:35:37] If I feel like it, if I if I want to be

[1:35:39] bothered to do the thing, then I will

[1:35:40] just check things off. Important things

[1:35:42] are being done each day thanks to the

[1:35:43] daily highlight. I don't really need to

[1:35:44] overly worry about these little things

[1:35:45] on my to-do list. Therefore,

[1:35:47] >> that makes and I just want to add there

[1:35:49] that makes zero sense. It's just because

[1:35:51] you have a daily priority. Why the hell

[1:35:52] wouldn't you have a a daily list if you

[1:35:54] had an idea for dinner and you need to

[1:35:56] get the the chicken out to thaw if you

[1:35:58] had something else to do? Like there are

[1:36:00] more things to do in your freaking day

[1:36:02] than a to-do list. Maybe he's just

[1:36:04] focusing on work, but um even having

[1:36:07] that you still have to atomize going to

[1:36:10] your the atomic habits. You still need

[1:36:11] your methods and systems. So if you need

[1:36:14] to do a new things like for instance

[1:36:15] file your taxes and it's the first time

[1:36:17] you probably better have a checklist

[1:36:19] it's like yeah but I made my daily

[1:36:21] highlight I mean priority I mean goal of

[1:36:24] the day uh that

[1:36:27] you might actually still might want to

[1:36:29] like mark things down of like well you

[1:36:31] know tomorrow's daily highlight like you

[1:36:34] don't just wake up one day like no I

[1:36:36] think I'll do taxes today I write my

[1:36:38] daily highlight of do taxes probably

[1:36:41] should be something you plan weeks ahead

[1:36:42] head. And therefore, it's going to be

[1:36:44] something. It's like, what am I going to

[1:36:46] need? What are you going to write? A

[1:36:48] to-do list. I'm going to get this

[1:36:50] document and this document and this

[1:36:51] document and this document. I'm going to

[1:36:53] talk to this person. I'm going to set

[1:36:54] this aside and I'm going to check this

[1:36:56] account, this account, and this account.

[1:36:57] Yeah, you do it all the time. It's I

[1:36:59] could just pull those examples out. Like

[1:37:01] I I kind of feel like Alli's not not

[1:37:04] even really thinking hard in this. It's

[1:37:05] like he's like he's saying like, uh,

[1:37:08] would I recommend to-d doist to people?

[1:37:09] Is that a good productivity app? It's

[1:37:11] like, no, you live in a society that's

[1:37:13] based on list. Regardless of whether or

[1:37:15] not you get to-doist or whatever you

[1:37:17] want, you want to do everything. Like my

[1:37:19] system of productivity is all to-do

[1:37:21] listbased. Like, okay, easy. But no,

[1:37:24] it's it's it's like batches. Like, you

[1:37:27] don't exist without it. Like, you don't

[1:37:29] work without it. You It's everywhere.

[1:37:32] I re I mean, doing this video for me,

[1:37:35] like my dude, your chapters are my to-do

[1:37:38] list right now. No, I didn't I didn't

[1:37:39] have to write it down. There. It's

[1:37:41] there. So,

[1:37:42] >> we're going to give this a ranking of C,

[1:37:44] which is pretty good in some contexts,

[1:37:46] but not in all contexts. It's all right.

[1:37:47] They're pretty good. Next up, we have

[1:37:48] the idea of listening to things or

[1:37:50] watching things at speed multiples.

[1:37:53] >> I think this is sponsored, but I think

[1:37:56] in honor of this, just going to sit here

[1:37:58] and

[1:38:02] we're gonna show that sometimes it's

[1:38:04] good

[1:38:06] and sometimes not. So let's just do a

[1:38:08] 2x. We'll do this section as a 2x.

[1:38:11] >> This is absolutely yes. This is 100%

[1:38:12] life changing. One of the most exciting

[1:38:13] things you can do which is like when

[1:38:14] when I'm listening to audio books on

[1:38:15] Audible generally I'm listening to them

[1:38:16] at double speed. Sometimes even when I'm

[1:38:17] watching TV shows if I'm watching on my

[1:38:18] own I always watch them at double speed

[1:38:19] or triple speed and slow down for the

[1:38:20] more interesting bits. I know people

[1:38:20] like people lose their minds over this

[1:38:21] stuff but genuinely I enjoy TV shows and

[1:38:23] books more when they're faster pace at

[1:38:24] 2x speed. Then I do it on X like I'm

[1:38:25] sorry it's just the way the way it's

[1:38:26] more fun when something quickly you

[1:38:27] haven't got

[1:38:29] about let's talk about deadlines next.

[1:38:30] Now I'm not really a huge fan of

[1:38:31] deadlines. Deadlines work for a lot of

[1:38:32] people because that's the only thing it

[1:38:33] takes to get ourselves

[1:38:34] >> Wow, that popup was just painful. Um, I

[1:38:38] kid, but I actually agree with him here.

[1:38:40] Uh, if you can learn to consume content

[1:38:43] like audiobook readers are slow.

[1:38:47] Audiobook readers,

[1:38:51] this is audible. So, yeah, speeding it

[1:38:54] up, it's going to sound more like normal

[1:38:56] conversation. Speed it way up, it'll

[1:38:58] almost sound like me. Uh, I don't need

[1:39:00] to do that. I have a shortcut. Um, and

[1:39:02] man, he is getting so blown out. I think

[1:39:04] his time is burning as much as I am. I

[1:39:07] So he must have spent hours making the

[1:39:08] 15 minutes whereas I'm taking his 15

[1:39:11] minutes and making it into hours. Um

[1:39:14] yeah, no nothing wrong with that. Um now

[1:39:17] he does something I don't do and one of

[1:39:19] the things uh uh he and again the if you

[1:39:22] go if I go into the notes here like oh

[1:39:24] big sponsor alert this is all about the

[1:39:26] sponsor. Um not really comprehension

[1:39:30] does start breaking down at 2x. Um,

[1:39:34] I don't know if that's with or without

[1:39:35] training. My comprehension starts

[1:39:37] breaking down at three, but it really

[1:39:39] depends on the original

[1:39:41] uh speed. It's better to to judge that

[1:39:43] by words per minute um if you know it's

[1:39:45] study-wise. But um I generally agree. Uh

[1:39:48] I try to I baseline 1.2 because people

[1:39:52] tend to speak slower in any kind of

[1:39:53] presentation. So it just brings them up

[1:39:55] to a at least a a normal slow speed. Um

[1:39:58] or all normal at 1.5. And if I'm

[1:40:00] listening to long long form content or

[1:40:03] podcast, I'll often fire it up to 2x. If

[1:40:06] it's high content dense, like for

[1:40:08] instance, if I listen to an NPR news and

[1:40:10] they're doing like seven minutes and

[1:40:11] they're just going over the news, it's

[1:40:13] usually high highly packed in dense

[1:40:16] content without a lot of filler. Um,

[1:40:18] I'll actually do that at like a one

[1:40:20] because or one or 1.2. Uh, because

[1:40:22] you're just it's it's cramming so much

[1:40:25] it's hard for the the the person to

[1:40:27] absorb. Whereas like this normal

[1:40:28] speaking like this like you can listen

[1:40:30] to me fairly well at three even with my

[1:40:33] rapid speaking because there's a lot of

[1:40:37] nuance filler conversational style. I'm

[1:40:39] not just giving you like like two hours

[1:40:42] of facts. So there's a little difference

[1:40:45] there. Where are we at now?

[1:40:47] >> Delve into gear because now we have a

[1:40:48] deadline and there are consequences. Now

[1:40:50] I'm not really a huge fan of deadlines.

[1:40:52] Deadlines. Well, none of us are, but um

[1:40:56] I think what he's talking about here are

[1:40:58] self-imposed deadlines. Um

[1:41:02] research that that the pulled up says

[1:41:04] that self-imposed deadlines are set

[1:41:07] suboptimally. I think that's usually due

[1:41:09] to a lack of milestones. I think this is

[1:41:11] something setting deadlines

[1:41:14] I think most people are pretty poor at

[1:41:16] this task naturally. I don't think

[1:41:18] setting deadlines is something people

[1:41:19] are very good at. and project management

[1:41:21] whether it's waterfall method or

[1:41:23] something else is very very good of um

[1:41:29] giving people the false impression of

[1:41:31] timelines. People are piss poor at

[1:41:33] timelines. Um, if you've ever played

[1:41:35] project management poker, um, you know

[1:41:38] how pissed poor people are at managing

[1:41:39] timelines because even after you do the

[1:41:41] project management poker, you got to

[1:41:43] take that timeline and multiply it by

[1:41:44] like 1.5. Like is the project timelines,

[1:41:49] things being uh uh over budget and over

[1:41:53] time are just like it's a truism. It's

[1:41:56] it's not like it's not like, oh yeah,

[1:41:58] that happens a lot. No, it always h like

[1:42:00] it always happens. It's it is shocking

[1:42:02] if something is is actually on time and

[1:42:04] on budget. Um or even one of those.

[1:42:08] Um

[1:42:10] he's not a fan of deadlines,

[1:42:13] self-imposed deadlines.

[1:42:17] You know, if you're very

[1:42:21] binary on this um and you have the

[1:42:23] things that have like there are not

[1:42:25] self-imposed deadlines, they're just

[1:42:26] deadlines. like doing your taxes is just

[1:42:29] a deadline versus a self-imposed

[1:42:31] deadlines. I I'm a forgiving person as

[1:42:34] well. I think on this I think we can

[1:42:38] agree. I think what really helps is you

[1:42:40] have to get down to the essentials. Um

[1:42:45] you know you have to you know and where

[1:42:47] who's this matter for most? Uh managers.

[1:42:50] Managers have to self-impose deadlines.

[1:42:52] Um so again this is one of those manager

[1:42:55] only tiers. If I if you're not a

[1:42:59] manager, I don't think I don't think you

[1:43:01] need to worry about, oh, I actually just

[1:43:03] had a badly copy. No, you don't have to

[1:43:06] worry about deadlines so much. But if

[1:43:07] you're in a management, um, you do have

[1:43:10] to worry about deadlines. I think one of

[1:43:12] the things that I would disagree with

[1:43:14] him here is um

[1:43:18] what

[1:43:20] kinds of deadlines he's talking about

[1:43:22] because I think if we're talking about

[1:43:25] actual like deadlines that he would give

[1:43:27] staff um I think he very much is in

[1:43:31] favor of them because I don't think he

[1:43:32] would give infinite time to editors. But

[1:43:34] you know whether that's a deadline or

[1:43:38] you know there's a lot of ways to frame

[1:43:40] that. I I don't really I don't really

[1:43:43] disagree because I think what he and I

[1:43:46] probably both would struggle with is

[1:43:48] what does a deadline mean? Um you know

[1:43:52] again you have an assignment to do, you

[1:43:54] have a job assignment or you're doing

[1:43:56] taxes and again that's even what the AI

[1:43:58] was like that's the first go-to is like

[1:44:00] you're not filing taxes against the

[1:44:02] deadline or you're going to go to

[1:44:03] prison. Um, but this is more the

[1:44:05] self-imposed. Um,

[1:44:09] and I don't, you know, it's it's one of

[1:44:10] those, uh, come as it may. There there's

[1:44:12] a few different ways to do this. You

[1:44:14] know, your whole life doesn't have to be

[1:44:15] about, um, productivity. You don't need

[1:44:18] to hack everything. Sometimes it is okay

[1:44:20] to, you know, you don't need a deadline

[1:44:22] on how on becoming a good cook, unless

[1:44:23] you're doing that as a profession. If

[1:44:25] you just want to enjoy it, you know, it

[1:44:27] really does go into something he talks

[1:44:28] about there, which is just sort of enjoy

[1:44:30] the enjoy the ride. So, yeah,

[1:44:33] I'm having a hard time on this one

[1:44:35] really giving him a second opinion

[1:44:37] because this is its its own true deep

[1:44:39] dive.

[1:44:41] I'm finished up here

[1:44:44] work for a lot of people because that's

[1:44:46] the only thing that it takes to get

[1:44:47] ourselves into gear cuz now we have a

[1:44:49] deadline and there are consequences. But

[1:44:50] I really like the way Seth Goden

[1:44:52] approaches this. He says in one of his

[1:44:53] blog posts, deadlines work. They work

[1:44:55] because they focus the mind and they

[1:44:56] create urgency. They work to get us to

[1:44:58] file our taxes or finish an assignment.

[1:44:59] They're an external lever of the work

[1:45:00] that we have to do. On the other hand,

[1:45:02] dessert works, too. You don't need an

[1:45:04] external force to encourage you to eat

[1:45:05] dessert after you finish all your

[1:45:06] vegetables. It's something you get to

[1:45:08] do, not something you have to do. And

[1:45:09] so, I much prefer to think about stuff

[1:45:11] as get to rather than have to. And

[1:45:12] that's why I don't really like using

[1:45:14] deadlines. Yes, they're effective and

[1:45:15] we've got to give them a C on the list

[1:45:16] because they're useful in some

[1:45:17] circumstances, but I think we do want to

[1:45:18] build a life in which we don't have to

[1:45:19] rely on deadlines and instead we just do

[1:45:21] the stuff that we enjoy doing that we

[1:45:22] feel like

[1:45:25] >> that I'll slightly disagree on. I think

[1:45:27] yes for the enjoyment of life but I

[1:45:30] don't believe in building a life of

[1:45:31] discernment like I I'm I'm sorry I you

[1:45:35] know again that doesn't comport with you

[1:45:38] know people with children unless like

[1:45:40] you're doing like farm raise you know

[1:45:42] cage-free children some kind of you know

[1:45:45] turn them loose and uh not taking an

[1:45:47] interest in life it's just that's just

[1:45:49] not a thing that's it's just not a thing

[1:45:52] um it's never going to be a thing um I

[1:45:56] don't I think a certain circumstance I

[1:45:57] think most circumstances have some sort

[1:45:59] of deadline. Um there are the government

[1:46:02] requirements, plates, taxes, renewing

[1:46:05] your license, passports, all those

[1:46:07] things are deadlines. Um but so are many

[1:46:10] of our endeavors. I enjoyed school. It

[1:46:13] was very stressful. It took all of my

[1:46:15] time and I loved every minute because

[1:46:16] I'll never get to do it again. Um but

[1:46:21] filled with deadlines, deadlines,

[1:46:22] deadlines, deadlines. maybe, you know,

[1:46:25] maybe his academic experience, like a

[1:46:27] lot of people, is is enough stressful

[1:46:28] that then you'll never want to deal with

[1:46:30] those deadlines again. And you're free

[1:46:32] of deadlines and you you run free and

[1:46:34] you hold your hands out through the

[1:46:36] through the field of flowers and you

[1:46:38] live deadline free. Um, but doctor's

[1:46:42] appointments have deadlines, especially

[1:46:44] if you have a pregnant wife. Um,

[1:46:47] life has a deadline. You know, momento

[1:46:50] my we will all die. I've been at Door's

[1:46:52] Death quite a few times and have gone

[1:46:55] into the black abyss not knowing if I'd

[1:46:58] ever wake up again. Life is deadlines.

[1:47:01] It's not all dessert. Um, it's I don't

[1:47:04] know. I I it's not most of the videos I

[1:47:07] see from that, but that's a little too

[1:47:08] fluffy of a of a mindset, especially

[1:47:10] when you know you turn on the news, you

[1:47:12] realize that life is preciously short.

[1:47:16] So, feel like we get to do that. We feel

[1:47:18] like we are blessed to do. Next on the

[1:47:20] list, we have the Eisenhower matrix.

[1:47:21] Now, the idea here is that we split up

[1:47:22] everything we have to do into one of

[1:47:24] four quadrants based on whether it

[1:47:28] >> I don't believe in the exact method, but

[1:47:30] I think it's a um it's the you know uh

[1:47:36] the importance level versus the urgency

[1:47:38] level. I went with cups of coffee and

[1:47:40] such like that, which was funny because

[1:47:42] I hadn't looked at his. I just started

[1:47:43] going through the list and I pulled out

[1:47:45] an Eisenhower matrix as a better

[1:47:47] alternative to to one of his uh

[1:47:49] >> whether it's important or not important

[1:47:51] and based on whether it's on I think the

[1:47:53] Eisenhower matrix is absolutely

[1:47:54] fantastic. I don't really use it

[1:47:56] consciously. I kind of use it.

[1:47:58] >> I 100% agree here. Um I point it out as

[1:48:03] a good way to train yourself to think

[1:48:05] about things. Uh just like a SWAT

[1:48:08] analysis. So if you go through your MBA

[1:48:10] or do anything where uh ma for some

[1:48:12] reason mast's programs love this for

[1:48:14] anything doing with uh organizational

[1:48:16] management they love SWAT analysis. The

[1:48:19] number of times I've been in

[1:48:20] organization when the organization

[1:48:21] wanted a SWAT analysis. I don't know

[1:48:24] what industry they got this from and

[1:48:25] it's never left management books but

[1:48:27] I've never been in an organization that

[1:48:28] really wanted a SWAT analysis. um like

[1:48:32] you can if you're doing like small

[1:48:34] business like it's helpful to do but

[1:48:36] it's also once you do a few you just

[1:48:38] know how to think and so you're always

[1:48:39] just going to think in those terms so

[1:48:40] it's not a thing you do so much as a

[1:48:43] thing you understand and it's just a

[1:48:45] part of your thinking going into it I

[1:48:46] think in Eisenhower's matrix is like

[1:48:48] that that you understand that there is

[1:48:50] things that are uh uh urgent and

[1:48:53] important things are not urgent and not

[1:48:56] important and you've got the the but

[1:48:57] there's another way to do that too it's

[1:48:58] like not necessarily the the urgency

[1:49:00] versus the non- urgency. There is the uh

[1:49:04] the time to task completion. So, if

[1:49:05] you're tying that in with the the that

[1:49:07] idea of of twominut uh task, then you

[1:49:10] have things you can accomplish uh

[1:49:13] quickly and things you can't accomplish.

[1:49:14] And it's that doesn't speak to their

[1:49:16] urgency. So, if you you could you could

[1:49:19] turn this into a Rubik's cube. If you

[1:49:21] just keep adding things, you can make a

[1:49:23] matrix. Um, however,

[1:49:26] I will point out one area because again,

[1:49:29] this video

[1:49:31] is four years old. Do you know where an

[1:49:34] Eisenhower matrix is highly valuable

[1:49:36] today?

[1:49:38] In AI, if you give AI a list of types of

[1:49:42] categories

[1:49:43] and

[1:49:45] you have any related broken down by how

[1:49:48] you feel things are important and how

[1:49:50] how urgent you feel things are, you can

[1:49:53] then have the AI automatically take

[1:49:55] these things. And when it's given big

[1:49:57] lists, it can go, "Oh,

[1:49:59] well, let me think through the

[1:50:00] Eisenhower matrix of what's important to

[1:50:02] the user versus what's not important.

[1:50:04] We're just going to throw the not

[1:50:05] important away. And then we're going to

[1:50:07] see the urgent versus non-urgent. We're

[1:50:08] going to prioritize by urgent and

[1:50:10] non-urgent. So, highly useful for AI

[1:50:13] because it's one of those things when

[1:50:14] you get a reasoning model that's

[1:50:16] thinking,

[1:50:18] it can do that there and doing that lets

[1:50:22] it bypass and like, oh, gee, I wonder

[1:50:24] what this and I wonder what that. It's

[1:50:26] going to sort of condense and compress

[1:50:28] that information. So if you think of as

[1:50:31] a as a um an adultsized child as intern

[1:50:37] for a lot of AI thinking and

[1:50:38] understanding um Eisenhower matrix is

[1:50:42] actually useful inside of a process not

[1:50:45] necessarily something you would just sit

[1:50:47] down and do. Um, I mean, you could, um,

[1:50:51] I would I would probably do it before I

[1:50:53] would even sit down and do a todo list.

[1:50:56] Um, because at least in my head because

[1:50:58] I'm I'm already in my head prioritizing

[1:51:01] or looking through my email inbox. I'm

[1:51:03] like, these are all not important and

[1:51:05] just mark them red and then I'm going

[1:51:08] and marking everything that's important.

[1:51:10] I'm just looking for everything urgent

[1:51:11] and moving it to the top. So, it's an

[1:51:13] Eisenhower matrix. You're not just

[1:51:14] sitting there drawing the box, though.

[1:51:16] Oh, let's let's

[1:51:17] >> use it subconsciously, but I don't

[1:51:18] really use it as the Eisenhower matrix.

[1:51:20] I didn't decide,

[1:51:21] >> man. Just didn't even see that. You

[1:51:24] know, I didn't actually watch this

[1:51:25] video. I really wanted to go through

[1:51:26] this uh live. I'm trying to trying to

[1:51:28] get that down to just making sure my

[1:51:30] workflow is working. But man, me and

[1:51:32] Olly, we're on the same page. It's like

[1:51:34] the SWAT analysis. You just get it in

[1:51:36] your brain. You're like, "No, it makes

[1:51:38] sense." It's like the um when you learn

[1:51:40] genetics and you learn like the you got

[1:51:42] a blue-eyed parent and a browneyed

[1:51:43] parent and you got another browneyed

[1:51:44] parent another and you try to figure out

[1:51:46] like what's the percentage that or you

[1:51:49] know what's the what's the the genetic

[1:51:51] chance of having a child with this

[1:51:53] colorized or something like that like

[1:51:54] you get in your head nobody sits down

[1:51:56] and and actually draws that out like

[1:51:58] it's like geneticists are not sitting

[1:52:00] there going I think we need an eye color

[1:52:03] chart I think we need to figure out yeah

[1:52:06] like the that's as I

[1:52:09] everything I need to do. Is this

[1:52:10] actually important? And do I actually

[1:52:11] need to do it? And generally, if it's

[1:52:12] important, I'll find time to do it. So,

[1:52:14] we're going to give this a ranking of D

[1:52:15] on the list. Like, it's it's use.

[1:52:20] >> I don't know about his rankings. I would

[1:52:22] put it I' I'd move it up at the C, but I

[1:52:25] basically anything be B or lower is just

[1:52:27] something you should be aware of. So, um

[1:52:30] I I think for most people

[1:52:33] I think for a lot of people it's

[1:52:34] intuitive. I think where the Eisenhower

[1:52:37] and SWAT really come into and SWAT's not

[1:52:40] so so much natural. I think where it

[1:52:41] comes into is it's where people don't

[1:52:44] think that it applies and it should. So

[1:52:46] there are situations where people aren't

[1:52:48] prioritize like in email people kind of

[1:52:51] do that but I I you know because they're

[1:52:53] just used to it but I think there's

[1:52:54] areas where they don't think about that.

[1:52:57] Like for instance would you Eisenhower

[1:52:59] matrix uh your shopping list? You could

[1:53:02] um especially if money was short or

[1:53:04] you're trying to save money. It's like

[1:53:06] which of these items are really

[1:53:07] important? You know, which of them are

[1:53:09] an ingredient we use everywhere. Which

[1:53:10] of them do we need now or which do we

[1:53:12] already have some left? You know, I

[1:53:14] think you could actually sit down and

[1:53:16] you would you could consciously do that

[1:53:18] in an area when it's very much not

[1:53:20] needed. So, I can't argue too hard about

[1:53:22] the D tier.

[1:53:23] >> It's useful for some people, but I don't

[1:53:24] personally use it a lot myself. Next, we

[1:53:26] have the technique of setting goals.

[1:53:27] Now, this one is a little bit

[1:53:28] controversial because

[1:53:30] >> Now, I did get a little sneak peek about

[1:53:32] what he's going to talk about, and I

[1:53:33] have a very interesting take. I just had

[1:53:36] a whole thing about goals, right? You're

[1:53:39] going to get a take you had probably not

[1:53:41] expected at near the 2-hour mark.

[1:53:42] >> A lot of people swear by the idea of

[1:53:43] setting goals, that your goals should be

[1:53:45] smart and specific and measurable,

[1:53:46] achievable, and if you set your goals,

[1:53:47] then you'll manifest.

[1:53:50] >> I just did a study on this.

[1:53:53] I I just ran a study and I can tell you

[1:53:56] right now um and this is comparing it to

[1:53:59] other conceivably better methods from

[1:54:02] Harvard Business School nonetheless. And

[1:54:05] I compared it directly to

[1:54:08] Smart Goals. Um which my hypothesis was

[1:54:12] Smart Golds was going to get its ass

[1:54:14] kicked. It did not. um things did change

[1:54:19] but it had nothing to do with that. So I

[1:54:22] actually did a study on this. So I can

[1:54:24] actually speak authoritative probably as

[1:54:28] the world's like I don't get to say I

[1:54:31] don't get to say where I'm like like the

[1:54:33] expert on when it comes to productivity

[1:54:36] smart goals in um certain business

[1:54:40] settings. I am the world's foremost

[1:54:42] expert now on smart goals in this

[1:54:46] context. I had a limited it was a study

[1:54:49] that was limited to a particular

[1:54:51] industry within the US. So I'm not uh

[1:54:55] but there also as far as I can tell

[1:54:56] outside of medicine there are no other

[1:54:58] smart goal experts in the world. They

[1:55:00] just don't exist. You know why? There

[1:55:02] probably don't need to be anymore.

[1:55:06] I'll be honest. You're probably fine

[1:55:07] without more smart goal experts. I did

[1:55:09] not want to be a smart goal expert. And

[1:55:11] granted, I was expert about the

[1:55:13] outcomes, not working on the actual

[1:55:17] aspects of it.

[1:55:19] >> Your future and you'll know what you

[1:55:20] want to get to. I'm not really a huge

[1:55:21] fan of goals. I think they're useful in

[1:55:23] some areas of life, but generally I'm

[1:55:25] much more about the systems and about

[1:55:27] the journey

[1:55:28] >> and we just proved sorry all that's

[1:55:31] actually wrong. It's in in very limited

[1:55:34] context. You can be about the journey,

[1:55:36] but you wouldn't be a doctor at all

[1:55:38] without the goals. Like your life is is

[1:55:40] like the entire foundation of your life

[1:55:42] is goals. Smart goals.

[1:55:45] Yeah, we can live without smart goals.

[1:55:46] Like smart is not a bad way to think

[1:55:49] about the things you probably should put

[1:55:51] in a goal, but it's it's an interesting

[1:55:54] method for making a goal. It's certainly

[1:55:56] not the only method. You don't you

[1:55:57] wouldn't need to do your daily

[1:56:00] affirmative what your priority. You need

[1:56:02] to do your daily priority when you're

[1:56:04] setting your daily goal of the thing you

[1:56:05] need to accomplish to have a day. Again,

[1:56:08] you you set one of these daily, my dude.

[1:56:10] I don't care what you call it. It's a

[1:56:12] goal. It's the one thing you want to

[1:56:13] accomplish today. That's a goal. I think

[1:56:16] what he specifically means, and he

[1:56:18] probably gets better later on,

[1:56:19] especially with a lot of feedback with

[1:56:21] some of these videos, is what you mean

[1:56:22] are long-term goals. Um, like a yearly

[1:56:24] goal or lifetime goal or, you know, I

[1:56:28] think that's one of the things that that

[1:56:29] was lacking in this video. And I think

[1:56:31] that's one thing a lot of people need to

[1:56:32] look at. Like, but that's the thing.

[1:56:33] Like the reason I'm kind of giving Ali a

[1:56:35] little crap here is regular people are

[1:56:37] going to watch this and he thinks he's

[1:56:38] just dogging on goals when what he means

[1:56:39] are long-term goals. And for someone

[1:56:42] it's going to cause the comments it's

[1:56:44] like how do you mean you can't have

[1:56:45] goals? Like how do you how do you even

[1:56:48] function in life and you don't? He's

[1:56:49] talking about whether or not you're

[1:56:50] going to set long-term goals of where do

[1:56:52] you see yourself in 5 years? Can you

[1:56:55] live without those? Thousand% I'm a I'm

[1:56:58] a thousand% on board with Ali. He's 100%

[1:57:01] correct. The language is just so inexact

[1:57:04] here. Um I get that he's kind of

[1:57:06] bringing it down, but

[1:57:08] I I I don't think we you shouldn't just

[1:57:10] be like goals. like you you don't have

[1:57:13] to go into too deep of a detail, but you

[1:57:16] went into smart goals and that's not

[1:57:18] smart goals aren't even really related

[1:57:20] unless you're talking about performance

[1:57:21] management systems used by employers uh

[1:57:24] during their performance reviews of

[1:57:26] employees and they ask the employees to

[1:57:27] set smart goals for yearly when they're

[1:57:30] working on things like stretch goals.

[1:57:31] Like then the smart goals come into that

[1:57:32] context, but doesn't sound like the

[1:57:34] context you're working on. I'm I'm not

[1:57:37] sure

[1:57:39] where your head's at. Like I I'm

[1:57:41] splitting it apart for you, which is

[1:57:43] like you 100% have goals. Atomic habits

[1:57:46] as interpreted through systems are more

[1:57:48] important than goals is absolute

[1:57:50] complete [ __ ] But you might be

[1:57:53] talking about long-term goals, but

[1:57:54] you're not specifying it. And yet you're

[1:57:56] bringing smart goals. And that really

[1:57:57] doesn't have anything to do that that is

[1:57:59] a method for making goals. That is not a

[1:58:01] a a complete system in and of itself.

[1:58:04] And I hate to tell you this, but smart

[1:58:07] goals does have one piece where it's

[1:58:10] very it has been shown to be valuable

[1:58:12] and that's in patient outcomes that when

[1:58:14] smart goals are made for health reasons,

[1:58:16] for treatment reasons for whether it's

[1:58:19] paliotative care or other types of care,

[1:58:21] smart goals actually do show um to be

[1:58:26] better than general goal setting. So,

[1:58:29] as a as one of them doctors, you you

[1:58:32] might not want to say the smart thing

[1:58:34] because the research went the other way.

[1:58:36] just just a

[1:58:39] just just take it take it from somebody

[1:58:41] who read all that research because I had

[1:58:43] to because there is no other research on

[1:58:44] smart goals except for the medical like

[1:58:46] don't don't go in that direction my dude

[1:58:48] like

[1:58:50] >> es even in your life you you bust your

[1:58:52] knee you might get put on smart goals

[1:58:54] during your re during your physical

[1:58:55] therapy and rehab so it it'll matter a

[1:58:57] whole lot to you then like I get he's

[1:58:58] like do I set them set long-term goals

[1:59:01] now no

[1:59:03] however one of the things that you

[1:59:05] should always do which um we're going to

[1:59:08] we're going to go into in other videos

[1:59:09] here you the the second letter in smart

[1:59:13] is measurable and as we pointed out here

[1:59:17] a real system has measurement if you

[1:59:19] look at the last video because there's

[1:59:20] no measurement in any of these I defy

[1:59:23] that any of these are productivity

[1:59:25] systems if there is no method of

[1:59:28] measuring outcomes um I I think you

[1:59:32] could validate a lot more of these

[1:59:33] systems with proper management ment or

[1:59:36] sorry proper measurement. Um what gets

[1:59:39] measured gets managed but also got to be

[1:59:41] careful if you start um uh performing to

[1:59:45] the measure which is a complete separate

[1:59:47] problem. But if you're not measuring

[1:59:48] anything um you know even your own

[1:59:51] satisfaction

[1:59:52] um yeah you might want to look at the

[1:59:54] smart goals like you you literally just

[1:59:56] let's go back here and your future and

[1:59:58] you'll know what you want to get to. I'm

[1:59:59] not really a huge fan of goals. I think

[2:00:01] they're useful in some areas of life but

[2:00:03] generally I'm much more about the

[2:00:05] systems and about the journey rather

[2:00:06] than about

[2:00:09] >> but uh is it the journey you want? are

[2:00:12] you measuring, you know, what what was

[2:00:14] the happiness things? They don't have to

[2:00:15] be that official of a measure, but you

[2:00:18] need to have some type of measure and

[2:00:19] accountability. And of course, you might

[2:00:20] you might be using journaling to that.

[2:00:22] You as a viewer might be using

[2:00:23] journaling for that. Um, and that's

[2:00:25] fine, but you you all of this lacks

[2:00:28] measurement. And the only thing that

[2:00:30] came close to bringing in some form of

[2:00:32] measurement was the smart goals. Um, and

[2:00:35] so I would I would argue none of these

[2:00:37] are systems. So to say I'm focusing on

[2:00:39] the systems, none of these were I don't

[2:00:42] think that was the point, but um it it I

[2:00:44] don't hear a system message. I think

[2:00:48] possibly

[2:00:50] I don't know. I I don't I honestly, you

[2:00:53] know, this is one of the first ones that

[2:00:54] came up. It's sort of a lower one, but

[2:00:56] it's the number one. If you put in uh

[2:00:58] best productivity hacks, this is the

[2:01:01] number one video. So I'm not really

[2:01:02] sure.

[2:01:05] >> Yeah, I'm not really sure. Not sure if

[2:01:06] this And so to me, goals h I keep

[2:01:09] changing my mind about goals. These days

[2:01:11] I'm rating goals as a C on the list. I

[2:01:12] think they're kind of useful.

[2:01:14] >> Yeah, it's one of those things like I

[2:01:17] want to be an actor, but I don't know

[2:01:18] what kind of movies I want to do. Like

[2:01:21] still finding myself. I know what I want

[2:01:23] to do type of thing. It's like I think

[2:01:26] in this point in his career, he's

[2:01:27] basically like the college student who

[2:01:29] who knows he wants to go to college, but

[2:01:30] he doesn't want to know know what he he

[2:01:33] doesn't know. It's like at this point in

[2:01:34] his life, Ali doesn't know what he wants

[2:01:36] to actually do with his life uh in the

[2:01:38] YouTube space or the business space or

[2:01:39] things like that. So, I can see where he

[2:01:42] doesn't think he has goals. Um but he's

[2:01:44] doing videos with metrics. He's looking

[2:01:46] a lot at his metrics. He's got shorter

[2:01:48] term goals. Um he has things metrics he

[2:01:52] wants to hit and I think he's focusing

[2:01:54] too much on his aspirations. And I think

[2:01:57] he's he's doing a productivity video

[2:02:00] when what he really wants to do is um uh

[2:02:04] h how do I how do I expand my horizon?

[2:02:07] How do I focus it? He really wants to

[2:02:09] and I think that's why I keep coming

[2:02:10] back to I think he wants a start with

[2:02:12] why. I think he really is searching for

[2:02:14] his why. He's really going down the

[2:02:16] Simon uh cynic road and that's a very

[2:02:19] particular place where you might not

[2:02:21] have goals where you're so in

[2:02:23] productivity this is called explore

[2:02:25] versus exploit um when you're doing

[2:02:29] explore um you are trying think of it a

[2:02:34] common analogy of this is restaurants

[2:02:37] explore is just try all new restaurants

[2:02:39] every every time you try a restaurant

[2:02:41] try a completely separate restaurant and

[2:02:43] you're going to do that for a time and

[2:02:44] you some that were really good, some

[2:02:46] that were really bad, some that were

[2:02:47] okay. Once you have an idea once, you

[2:02:50] know, of all the restaurants in the

[2:02:51] area, now you're going to switch to

[2:02:53] exploit where when you want to go out

[2:02:55] and have a good dinner or a particular

[2:02:56] dinner, you're going to go through the

[2:02:58] catalog of restaurants, you know,

[2:03:01] and and make a selection. You're not

[2:03:02] going to try a new one.

[2:03:05] And generally, in a lot of cases, you

[2:03:07] want to maintain some level of explore,

[2:03:10] some level of exploit. And the level of

[2:03:12] exploit will always be higher except for

[2:03:14] when you're starting off. And when

[2:03:17] you're highly starting off, like my guy

[2:03:20] Ali is here, he's going to just be in

[2:03:23] explore mode. He really he he's the kid

[2:03:26] who it's not like the little girl who

[2:03:28] likes I want to be a ballerina or she

[2:03:30] says, I want to I want to be an Olympic

[2:03:33] skier when I grow up. Um they're not

[2:03:36] exploring. I mean, they're they're

[2:03:38] trying. You could say they're trying the

[2:03:40] clothes on. Um, but then they'll they'll

[2:03:42] go do that. So, they have the goal

[2:03:44] first, which is why I give so much crap

[2:03:45] for goals. And if you're in explore mode

[2:03:48] like that, and you're just like kids,

[2:03:49] like they won't settle down. They're in

[2:03:51] soccer and then they're in ballet and

[2:03:52] then they're in uh kickboxing and then

[2:03:55] they're in wrestling and then they're in

[2:03:57] track and then they're in football and

[2:03:58] then on and on and on. Yeah. They're in

[2:04:01] explore mode. Uh they're they're

[2:04:03] goalless. And all of these read the more

[2:04:08] as a psychological picture of Ali that

[2:04:09] Ali is in explore mode and being in

[2:04:12] explore mode is not the time really.

[2:04:16] I hate to say it. You you are the least

[2:04:20] qualified person in that state of mind

[2:04:22] to rank productivity tools because you

[2:04:24] should not be using productivity tools.

[2:04:26] You're in explore mode. um you're not in

[2:04:29] exploit mode. And productivity tools are

[2:04:31] about exploitation, not exploration. Um

[2:04:35] people going through work emails are not

[2:04:38] exploring, they're exploiting. Uh people

[2:04:41] who are at their day jobs or they're

[2:04:44] they're trying to complete a project or

[2:04:46] they're they're trying to lose weight or

[2:04:47] they're trying they're not nobody nobody

[2:04:50] makes a New Year's resolution to go to

[2:04:51] the gym because they want to explore the

[2:04:53] gym. They want to exploit something

[2:04:55] known and take advantage of the uh a

[2:05:00] system. They don't want to a gee I

[2:05:02] wonder what it would be like to use a a

[2:05:05] Swedish workout method. I I want Okay, I

[2:05:08] wonder what it would be like to use a

[2:05:10] French workout method. Like they're not

[2:05:11] doing that. What about the Brazilian

[2:05:13] workout method? Like they're not doing

[2:05:14] that. They're not explaining. They're

[2:05:15] explaining. They want to go they want to

[2:05:17] do the things that are the common things

[2:05:19] and just they just get it right. Um,

[2:05:22] those people have goals. Those people

[2:05:24] don't need systems. They need a few

[2:05:26] methods. Um, and they're in a very

[2:05:29] different place than where you're

[2:05:30] coming. You're you're in a very

[2:05:31] aspirational

[2:05:33] type of thing here. Um, and you're like

[2:05:36] in freeing up time. You're sort of in

[2:05:39] green field blue sky territory of

[2:05:41] discovering where your life is going.

[2:05:43] And I think that really finally comes

[2:05:45] out here. And we just go back to exactly

[2:05:47] what he said. It's like same with

[2:05:48] deadlines. He I just don't want the

[2:05:51] deadlines. I don't want I don't want the

[2:05:54] the these things weighing me down.

[2:05:56] There's things that I I want to and I

[2:05:57] want a life of dessert. And he's you can

[2:06:00] really tell the mindset's kind of coming

[2:06:01] through here. And I think it's mindset

[2:06:03] and your actual subject matter are just

[2:06:05] clashing so much. And unfortunately,

[2:06:07] like this is the number one YouTube

[2:06:09] result. Like again, all all due respect,

[2:06:12] and I I love watching his channel. I was

[2:06:14] probably I was probably subscribed well

[2:06:17] before this time. has this probably came

[2:06:19] up at once. Um

[2:06:21] >> I keep changing my mind about goals

[2:06:22] these days. I'm rating gold.

[2:06:23] >> See just just he's in explore mode. Uh

[2:06:28] my guy's just in explore mode. Um I I've

[2:06:31] seen far better quality. Um and I hate I

[2:06:36] know I'm trying trying to make this a

[2:06:37] quality and it's more about those

[2:06:38] systems, but um there are a series of

[2:06:41] very bad takes in here because they're

[2:06:43] just very they're too generically

[2:06:45] worded. They're not nuanced enough uh

[2:06:48] where they need to be. The language is

[2:06:50] so not exact. The goals should be

[2:06:52] long-term goals. Smart smart goals

[2:06:54] should have never even come up. Um you

[2:06:57] know, smart goals are for definite achie

[2:06:59] you're definitely trying to achieve

[2:07:00] something like not dying of liver cancer

[2:07:03] or or losing losing weight because

[2:07:06] you're pre-diabetic. like you're trying

[2:07:08] to get very specific outcomes because

[2:07:10] there are definite deadlines that you're

[2:07:12] running up against that affect your

[2:07:13] mortality and your insurance and your

[2:07:15] quality of life. So, I mean it's a lot

[2:07:18] of things in here that probably could

[2:07:19] have been this this might have been, you

[2:07:21] know, I vibe some things, but this might

[2:07:22] have been just a little too vibed out.

[2:07:25] Um,

[2:07:26] >> want to get to I'm not really a huge fan

[2:07:27] of goals. I think they're useful in some

[2:07:29] areas of life. But generally

[2:07:31] >> like just listen for the ex just listen

[2:07:34] for the explorer like somebody who's

[2:07:36] trying to discover the world versus

[2:07:38] somebody who's um really mastered it

[2:07:41] kind of already know what they want.

[2:07:43] They know where they're going and

[2:07:44] measurable achievable and if you set

[2:07:46] your goals then you'll manifest your

[2:07:47] future and you'll know what you want to

[2:07:48] get to. I'm not really a huge fan of

[2:07:49] goals. I think they're useful in some

[2:07:51] areas of life but generally I'm much

[2:07:53] more about the systems and about the

[2:07:55] journey rather than about the

[2:07:56] destination. And so to me, goals, h I

[2:07:58] keep changing my mind about goals. These

[2:08:00] days, I'm rating goals as a C on the

[2:08:01] list. They're kind of useful in some

[2:08:03] circumstances, and I certainly do have

[2:08:04] some goals, but I generally prefer to

[2:08:06] have input goals rather than output

[2:08:07] goals. So, I prefer to Yeah, he's just

[2:08:10] he's just a he's just a wild flower

[2:08:12] floating on the breeze, enjoying

[2:08:16] uh uh uh what's down the the the road,

[2:08:19] you know. My my my guy here is a country

[2:08:22] song. He's a John Denver song. uh just

[2:08:25] one them country roads take me home, you

[2:08:29] know, he's just exploring the world.

[2:08:31] That's it's it's where it's where my

[2:08:33] guy's at. So I I mean I get it, but I

[2:08:36] mean this is bad advice for anyone else.

[2:08:39] If you have things you you'd like to get

[2:08:42] done and and and places you'd like to go

[2:08:43] and see. If you're 17 and don't know

[2:08:46] what you want to do with your life, this

[2:08:47] might be helpful. Um, if you're a if

[2:08:51] you're a grown ass adult and you have

[2:08:53] responsibilities,

[2:08:55] this ain't it. This ain't this ain't the

[2:08:57] one. Um, it's going to be one of his

[2:08:59] others. This ain't the one. Um, and

[2:09:01] that's that is research speaking. That

[2:09:05] is that is who gives a [ __ ] what Elon

[2:09:08] Musk is saying. Like when real ass

[2:09:10] adults need to get things done, like

[2:09:11] they want to know what actually works.

[2:09:13] Um, they don't want to know what's

[2:09:14] hyped. They don't know what what it's

[2:09:17] like if if you're clothing shopping

[2:09:19] because you need business attire. Um,

[2:09:22] you don't need the hype of Yeah, but

[2:09:23] what's Kim Kardashian wearing? Who gives

[2:09:25] a [ __ ] You need good business attire.

[2:09:28] You I need a pants suit. I need I need a

[2:09:31] skirt. I need a jacket or I need I need

[2:09:33] a tie. I need, you know, sport coat.

[2:09:38] Prefer to have goals that are entirely

[2:09:39] within my control. And finally, we get

[2:09:41] to the ultimate point of all this

[2:09:42] productivity stuff, which is enjoying

[2:09:44] the journey. And this is going to go at

[2:09:45] right at the very top of our tier

[2:09:46] ranking. This is an absolutely

[2:09:47] life-changing thing because to be

[2:09:48] honest,

[2:09:49] >> yeah, he's just an explore here. That's

[2:09:52] for most This is the point of of his use

[2:09:55] of productivity goals. It's not the use

[2:09:56] of productivity goals. And I would say

[2:09:59] really if you're enjoying the like

[2:10:00] productivity goals really shouldn't be

[2:10:02] here unless you're just learning because

[2:10:04] it's the content you want to cover. Um,

[2:10:07] you know, like I said, make a video if

[2:10:09] you want to learn about something.

[2:10:11] teaching is the best way to actually

[2:10:13] learn, you know, a subject. Um, I almost

[2:10:16] feel like he's feeling out the audience

[2:10:18] and he's in this moment he's teaching. I

[2:10:21] wish I knew how many subscribers he had

[2:10:22] at this point and what his normal

[2:10:24] content was cuz I don't have a a window

[2:10:25] of that. But at this point, it's almost

[2:10:27] like he's teaching himself because you

[2:10:28] don't see depth. Like it's really

[2:10:30] interesting that he went to he didn't

[2:10:32] actually get into some of the things

[2:10:34] like the getting things done or things

[2:10:35] like that. Like this is very these are

[2:10:38] very generic. They're very undefined.

[2:10:43] Um, you know, it's it's it's

[2:10:47] not like it was a super hit, you know,

[2:10:50] video. So, I don't know. I don't know.

[2:10:54] I'm kind of curious where he was in his

[2:10:55] journey here. I think some of this has

[2:10:57] changed, but I also think, you know,

[2:10:59] some people it's a personality. Some

[2:11:01] people are an explorer, some people are

[2:11:03] an exploit. Uh, ju just naturally. I

[2:11:07] find myself generally explore. I've

[2:11:09] moved all over. So I I I

[2:11:11] feel this um on those things. I carve

[2:11:16] out the explore portion though and I

[2:11:18] don't bring in productivity tools in at

[2:11:20] all. um is if a completely separate

[2:11:23] mindset

[2:11:24] um from you know I on the on the exploit

[2:11:28] side I lock that down and there are

[2:11:30] things that definitely work things that

[2:11:32] don't work things that work in certain

[2:11:33] situations and where these tools come in

[2:11:36] like you don't vibes your way through

[2:11:38] productivity of a business like you know

[2:11:42] you were going to pick a lane you're you

[2:11:45] could I mean there are good and bad

[2:11:46] lanes depending on this but you could

[2:11:48] still legitimately pick waterfall

[2:11:51] for large project management. If you're

[2:11:52] running a construction company, you're

[2:11:54] using project management. If you're

[2:11:55] doing software, even if you're vibe

[2:11:57] coding, you'd better still have project

[2:11:58] management because if you've got

[2:12:00] deadlines and you're not just a startup,

[2:12:02] um yeah, you've got to and you're

[2:12:04] coordinating hundreds of programmers.

[2:12:06] You're a large company, you need project

[2:12:07] management. Um, and if you're selling

[2:12:09] your software to integrate with uh

[2:12:12] credit unions or banks or hospitals or

[2:12:16] clinics or

[2:12:18] anything like that, you're going to need

[2:12:21] project management to keep up with them.

[2:12:23] Um I myself have had to uh you know

[2:12:26] point out when I I have vendors who

[2:12:28] don't have good project management. I

[2:12:31] expect it because I my my my budget is

[2:12:35] is not not conducive to just cowboying

[2:12:40] their way through things. So these

[2:12:41] things matter. Um let's let him finish

[2:12:44] up real quick. Enjoying the journey is

[2:12:46] the ultimate productivity hack because

[2:12:48] when we're having fun, when we're having

[2:12:49] fun doing the stuff that we need to do

[2:12:50] or that we want to do, then productivity

[2:12:52] just m Oh, my job's not fun. Um, I have

[2:12:56] a I I take a lot of pride in my job. Um,

[2:13:01] but yeah, we don't all get to do that. I

[2:13:03] I'm doing what I'm good at. I enjoy

[2:13:06] being good at it. I enjoy accomplishing

[2:13:10] what I do, but

[2:13:12] there's not a lot of fun in my work. Um,

[2:13:16] I do government it. Um,

[2:13:20] there's not there's not this wild um I'm

[2:13:24] just enjoying the journey of citizens do

[2:13:27] not pay their taxes for me to enjoy the

[2:13:30] journey. They pay their taxes because um

[2:13:33] they want someone confident to, you

[2:13:35] know,

[2:13:38] make life not terrible when they have to

[2:13:40] deal with the government. Um, you know,

[2:13:42] I wish the goal was better than that,

[2:13:44] but at a minimum, you know, if they

[2:13:46] don't they don't give two shits about

[2:13:48] me. I don't have the startup business.

[2:13:50] I'm not out here vibing on the on the

[2:13:52] everything else. Like, and I think

[2:13:54] that's probably a different mindset

[2:13:55] where my explorers in different areas,

[2:13:57] but when it comes to career and things

[2:13:58] like that, like I'm definitely hard

[2:14:00] hardcore explore exploit where, you

[2:14:02] know, a lot of these YouTubers, they're

[2:14:04] business people. They're running courses

[2:14:05] and they're doing all these things.

[2:14:07] They're kind of like the they they try

[2:14:09] to be like the cool small small business

[2:14:11] running running all these things and and

[2:14:13] being an influencer. Um, and I I get

[2:14:16] that and I I completely understand. I

[2:14:18] think when they're making content, like

[2:14:20] we all don't want to be influencers,

[2:14:22] like some of us are grown ass adults and

[2:14:24] if if those on my side of the fence um

[2:14:27] just like, "Yeah, no, we're just going

[2:14:29] to go be ski instructors." Like,

[2:14:31] civilization collapses. Like, not even

[2:14:34] joking. If if the if if everyone who did

[2:14:37] my job, you know, in all the in in the

[2:14:40] various places just be like, "Yeah,

[2:14:41] we're going to be ski instructors. Your

[2:14:43] society just burns to the ground." Like,

[2:14:45] we're sitting here trying to hold it up

[2:14:49] in every direction possible. Like, we

[2:14:52] struggle. Like, budgets aren't big. Um,

[2:14:56] you know, it's it's harder to recruit

[2:14:57] people. We're not out here with with dot

[2:15:00] money. You know, we're not out here with

[2:15:02] Peter Thiel money. We're not out here

[2:15:03] with the Elon Musk money. We're not out

[2:15:04] here with Sam Alman money. That's not

[2:15:06] what we got out here. Uh we're trying to

[2:15:09] keep the damn building from burning to

[2:15:11] the ground. We're just trying to keep

[2:15:13] the lights on, my dude. Um that's true

[2:15:16] in a lot of places. So, you know, when

[2:15:20] when people like me see these videos and

[2:15:22] we actually know how real project

[2:15:24] management works and we actually work

[2:15:26] deep in project management, when we see

[2:15:27] productivity hacks and we see these

[2:15:29] things, like we know a lot of the

[2:15:31] [ __ ] too.

[2:15:32] I say [ __ ] in in what we work with

[2:15:34] and we got to put up with [ __ ] from

[2:15:36] from people who can also just pick from

[2:15:39] a laundry list of productivity systems

[2:15:41] and they often pick ones it's like ah

[2:15:43] really really we're doing that we're

[2:15:45] doing this now okay I guess we're doing

[2:15:47] this now um it's understandable but um I

[2:15:51] don't know four years ago this doesn't

[2:15:53] hit at all this is probably cool for

[2:15:55] vibe coders and ski instructor types in

[2:15:58] at this portion of his career but this

[2:15:59] is this is [ __ ] haul for for for someone

[2:16:03] who's like, "Yeah, well, I'm I'm trying

[2:16:06] to I'm trying to look for productivity

[2:16:08] apps to help me with my plumbing

[2:16:09] company. Like, it's not about having fun

[2:16:12] and and loving the journey." Like, I'm

[2:16:14] just trying to figure out, you know,

[2:16:15] what I can do because, you know, maybe

[2:16:17] I'm doing some IT stuff. Maybe I'm my my

[2:16:20] my HVAC company has a YouTube channel.

[2:16:24] Um, I'd like some productivity hacks,

[2:16:25] too. And it's just it's not about the

[2:16:27] [ __ ] journey. It's about food on the

[2:16:29] table for the people that work for me

[2:16:31] and trying to expand my business. And

[2:16:33] you know, in an environment where, you

[2:16:35] know, people are hurting for jobs, so

[2:16:37] we're hurting as well. People aren't

[2:16:39] wanting to to pay as much and they're

[2:16:40] putting off maintenance longer and

[2:16:42] things like that. Like these things

[2:16:43] matter to their families. Um, so like

[2:16:47] not going to like it's just I I think

[2:16:49] that's why I'm getting a difference. I'm

[2:16:50] not trying to crap on this particular

[2:16:52] video uh at all, but I where he's coming

[2:16:55] from and I think where most of us are

[2:16:56] coming from when we're trying to cut

[2:16:58] through [ __ ] and just get some real

[2:16:59] answers on things and we're tired of

[2:17:01] being talked down to by the elites and

[2:17:03] we're we're we're just like again the

[2:17:05] com we're just we're trying to get

[2:17:08] something done here. That's why I go

[2:17:10] after this just like just like some of

[2:17:11] the other topics I'll be going after.

[2:17:13] like this is

[2:17:17] unfortunately this this is uh this is a

[2:17:19] cream this is a cream puff filled you

[2:17:22] know there's not a lot here like it is

[2:17:25] dessert um but it's not filling you know

[2:17:27] and I think a lot of people come to some

[2:17:29] of these and they're you know you got to

[2:17:32] put out content every day and so maybe

[2:17:34] this was just kind of a filler one

[2:17:35] because I think a lot of the entries

[2:17:36] here like we're renaming priorities and

[2:17:38] goals now like come the hell on that's

[2:17:41] [ __ ] Um, that seems like filler. So,

[2:17:45] I don't know. I I think that that was

[2:17:47] the the realization. I would have

[2:17:50] preferred to have this way at the

[2:17:53] beginning and just be like, here's my

[2:17:55] current situation and why I'm going to

[2:17:57] be ranking things the way they are. So,

[2:17:59] um, rather than here at the end,

[2:18:02] >> just magically takes care of itself.

[2:18:03] Now, you don't need to motivate yourself

[2:18:04] to like sit down and watch Netflix or

[2:18:06] hang out with your friends because the

[2:18:07] thing is fun and you don't need to like

[2:18:08] worry about

[2:18:09] >> again

[2:18:10] have people out here that are trying to

[2:18:13] keep, you know, Cloudflare from

[2:18:15] collapsing, that are trying to keep food

[2:18:17] on the table for, you know, plumbers

[2:18:20] that has school teachers out here trying

[2:18:22] to just get through the day. Like,

[2:18:25] our lives aren't [ __ ] Netflix, my

[2:18:27] man. And I'm, you know, I believe he's

[2:18:29] come quite a long ways. I'm kind of I'm

[2:18:32] I'm I'm very happy to see that he's not

[2:18:36] really here anymore. Um, you know, it's

[2:18:39] it's it's solid. It's great to see, but,

[2:18:42] you know, that's why that's why I don't

[2:18:45] really worry about the language or

[2:18:46] things when I go over things because at

[2:18:48] the end of the day, like if you're you

[2:18:50] might be watching this out of interest,

[2:18:52] but I hope you actually get some real

[2:18:53] world like I hope you get meat from this

[2:18:57] like and what actually matters. And

[2:18:58] they're interesting. They're interesting

[2:19:00] arguments and it's a little bit of

[2:19:02] entertainment, but um I hope when I say

[2:19:05] that something is good or bad, it's

[2:19:07] because it matters in reality. Uh it

[2:19:10] matters in the real world. It matters.

[2:19:12] Um you know, if if you're like, "Oh,

[2:19:15] well, I guess none of the none of the

[2:19:18] cool kids are doing to-do list anymore."

[2:19:20] or not. You know, I'm trying to, you

[2:19:22] know, I'm I'm a a man woman over the age

[2:19:26] of 50 at my workplace and I see all

[2:19:28] these kids coming in and they know all

[2:19:29] about AI and they know all about vibe

[2:19:32] coding and they know all about this and

[2:19:34] and that and they're very good. So, let

[2:19:37] me let me find someone young. Let me

[2:19:39] find someone who's hip and on the edge.

[2:19:41] And they come and they might see

[2:19:42] something like this, not necessarily

[2:19:44] from Molly, but from from any

[2:19:45] influencer, and they see this, and this

[2:19:47] is something to let you influencers know

[2:19:49] about. They show up and like, "Okay, I'm

[2:19:51] going to I'm going to get up with it."

[2:19:53] And they take away like it's about the

[2:19:56] journey. I mean, people are going to

[2:19:59] think I go to work with that and I I

[2:20:01] don't have to worry about this, but

[2:20:02] let's say it was me and I had to go to

[2:20:04] work. People are going to think I' I'm

[2:20:05] developing early onset dementia.

[2:20:08] I mean,

[2:20:10] well, I don't believe in goals. Like can

[2:20:14] you imagine if I brought this up if I

[2:20:17] was and I don't have to worry about this

[2:20:18] at my level but imagine I was going

[2:20:20] through a performance review and I just

[2:20:23] I threw that in there.

[2:20:26] Like most people are not in this place

[2:20:28] like right here. Most people are not

[2:20:30] doing this. Like again most people are

[2:20:33] trying to figure out how they can make

[2:20:37] their life work with two jobs. Most

[2:20:39] people are trying to figure out um how

[2:20:42] they're gonna just make it um and which

[2:20:45] is wild because this was

[2:20:50] I want to say let's see four years ago.

[2:20:53] So the yeah that put this just after the

[2:20:56] pandemic. So maybe maybe there's a vibe

[2:20:58] check. Oh hey look at that. Uh maybe

[2:21:01] there's a vibe check here, you know, of

[2:21:03] I'm out of the pandemic and I'm going to

[2:21:04] it's sort of like the what my generation

[2:21:07] remembers this post 911, you know, I'm

[2:21:09] not going to be stuck in my job forever

[2:21:10] and and you know, the soul is soul

[2:21:13] crushing and then uh yeah, we we did we

[2:21:15] stayed in our jobs because not too many

[2:21:17] years later, the entire financial system

[2:21:19] collapsed in 2008. So yeah, we did we

[2:21:22] stayed in our jobs. Um, man, if only

[2:21:25] people thought, "Oh, thank God the 2020

[2:21:29] and 2021 are behind us." And then here

[2:21:31] comes along this video and you know,

[2:21:34] possibly the beginning of 2022. I'm not

[2:21:36] sure. It says four years ago. It might

[2:21:37] hit five. It might be sort of partial

[2:21:39] pandemic, but maybe maybe the maybe

[2:21:41] people wanted aspirational type things

[2:21:43] and coming down for the Zoom the Zoom

[2:21:46] call generation with um real

[2:21:49] productivity haps and telling people

[2:21:51] like no, you might actually have to

[2:21:53] write a to-do list. Like maybe that's

[2:21:54] your problem is you're just not writing

[2:21:56] things down and you're forgetting

[2:21:57] things. And that wasn't the vibe that

[2:21:58] people would like be like h

[2:22:02] people say that make me want to quiet

[2:22:04] quit. Well, you know what? We ain't

[2:22:08] quite quitting now. Um, the world

[2:22:10] changes, but you know,

[2:22:13] I just was very surprised

[2:22:17] at at the at the end of this. I'm just

[2:22:21] kind of blown away for from

[2:22:23] ju just the take on goals. Um,

[2:22:27] I think I've done this justice. Now,

[2:22:29] this is now coming up on four hours.

[2:22:32] This is a 2 and 1 half hour cuz I was

[2:22:33] going to get done. Previous video was an

[2:22:35] hour and a half. I'm uploading these

[2:22:37] straight. Um

[2:22:41] I will find uh more content to hit on

[2:22:44] possibly next time. I'm thinking about

[2:22:46] again. You're not going to get the same

[2:22:48] videos unless I have to break them up.

[2:22:50] Uh you're not going to get them one

[2:22:52] after the other.

[2:22:55] I said 6 a.m. That was close. It's just

[2:22:58] after 5:00 a.m. Um I'm going to be

[2:23:00] switching these up. So, if you think I'm

[2:23:02] going to be doing uh reviews of

[2:23:03] productivity videos, no, I'm not really

[2:23:06] doing that. We're going to hit a whole

[2:23:07] lot of things. I have quite a few topics

[2:23:10] that I'd like to to hit on. I'm thinking

[2:23:12] about something in the uh nuclear energy

[2:23:15] space possibly next. I don't know. I'm

[2:23:17] thinking about uh nuclear power, nuclear

[2:23:21] um uh energy economy. I'm thinking about

[2:23:24] some of the things that might be coming

[2:23:25] down the pipe. I I I like to bounce

[2:23:27] around. We're going from AI slop to

[2:23:30] productivity with one of the the leading

[2:23:32] uh productivity people out there. Um,

[2:23:35] and I didn't I didn't really mean

[2:23:38] towards the end there to just sound like

[2:23:40] I'm coming out and just completely

[2:23:41] eviscerating them, but I'm sorry, man.

[2:23:44] Hey, you I can't I can't undig a grave

[2:23:49] if you put yourself in there and just be

[2:23:51] like, man, we really am just making up

[2:23:53] like it really was downhill from just

[2:23:55] making up words for priorities and and

[2:23:58] then be like, I don't like goals. I just

[2:24:00] set a daily one.

[2:24:04] Oh, but I hope he's learned a lot more

[2:24:07] about these various things over the

[2:24:08] years. And I think I I hope also that

[2:24:11] he's learned way more than just like the

[2:24:13] 4h hour work week or 4H hour body or

[2:24:15] 4-hour chef. But all three of Tim

[2:24:17] Ferrris's books that I read, I hope he's

[2:24:20] progressed far past those days. Like

[2:24:24] Tim's an interesting guy, but you you're

[2:24:27] more going to talk to him about like

[2:24:28] amino acids and and and that type of

[2:24:31] thing these days, and he kind of does

[2:24:33] his own his own thing. I would I would

[2:24:35] go with with with his protege. I would I

[2:24:37] would kind of go more into Ryan Holiday

[2:24:40] if you want to go into like the vibes of

[2:24:43] uh of of things. Go a little more into

[2:24:45] that because you know it's it's uh he's

[2:24:48] found something outside of productivity

[2:24:49] tools to sort of talk about and we might

[2:24:51] actually talk about that. That actually

[2:24:52] might be interesting followup to this

[2:24:53] one is kind of move let's move away from

[2:24:56] the real tools and maybe we'll I'll

[2:24:57] point over to like kind of like I I'll

[2:25:01] see if I can find like a Ryan Holiday

[2:25:02] super popular uh video on stoicism and

[2:25:06] all that and we'll have some comments on

[2:25:08] Stoic Bros versus um I certainly

[2:25:12] consider myself one. Um but I certainly

[2:25:17] I've read I think I've got two books to

[2:25:20] catch up on Ryan Holiday. I've caught

[2:25:21] all the rest. Um, he's very I I like

[2:25:24] when authors do their own readings and

[2:25:27] that's one of the things he does. So, I

[2:25:28] I do very much enjoy his books. They are

[2:25:31] a tad formulaic, but I think he chooses

[2:25:34] such good examples when he writes his

[2:25:37] books that it really helps solidify some

[2:25:40] of the messages. And I feel like he's

[2:25:44] making some more foundational books that

[2:25:47] that are just interesting. It's it's

[2:25:49] always it's the type of content that's

[2:25:52] just meant to provoke some thought, not

[2:25:54] really meant to try to to push an

[2:25:56] agenda, but just like, you know, here

[2:25:59] are just things to consider in your

[2:26:01] life. Um, and I think that's I always

[2:26:04] found that positive. Um

[2:26:07] hopefully if if my guy ever returns to

[2:26:11] the explore exploit on a hardline

[2:26:13] explorer that um like maybe it's as

[2:26:17] special maybe you know there is

[2:26:19] something like you people want to watch

[2:26:20] what they want to be maybe um I'm sure

[2:26:23] you know a lot of people are thinking

[2:26:24] like hey they're going to take this

[2:26:25] course they're going to be academy

[2:26:27] they're going to live their best life

[2:26:28] ever um but if you're looking for like

[2:26:32] productivity

[2:26:33] um this ain't

[2:26:35] This this ain't it. This ain't it at

[2:26:37] all. I'm sure like the Philip DeFranco

[2:26:39] of the world are going to watch this and

[2:26:40] be like, "Yeah, you know, I'm I'm I'm

[2:26:43] been spending too much time trying to do

[2:26:45] this and I just need to be a little more

[2:26:48] frozen and let it go." You know, maybe

[2:26:50] maybe um but audience over here was not

[2:26:55] not feeling this four years ago. Um,

[2:26:59] anyways, um, I'm not saying I was going

[2:27:03] to make a filler, but I was pretty close

[2:27:05] to the two and a half hour mark, but,

[2:27:07] um, we'll we'll just count it as two and

[2:27:09] a half. Um, I really hope, uh, you guys

[2:27:13] enjoyed this. Um, massive

[2:27:16] 4hour freaking beast. I I probably

[2:27:18] should have went one more, but I thought

[2:27:20] it's like, no, we talked so much during

[2:27:23] the first two in the intro that the rest

[2:27:26] one is just like, yes, no, yes, no.

[2:27:28] We're going to kind of burn through

[2:27:29] those and it's going to be just a little

[2:27:30] bit. We ended up doing uh almost a big

[2:27:32] of a deep dive on this one on multiple

[2:27:35] topics. So, I did do better this morning

[2:27:38] than my first video suppressing a lot of

[2:27:40] my uh my yawns, but talk this much very

[2:27:45] very hard at 5:00 a.m. to not yawn. Um

[2:27:49] so, thank you for joining me for another

[2:27:52] late ass night. Um it is at least quiet

[2:27:54] in the big city. I actually haven't got

[2:27:56] any um actually did not get any sirens

[2:27:59] tonight. So, I'm I'm pretty happy with

[2:28:00] that. Um but um this video will probably

[2:28:04] get uploaded for Monday and Sunday

[2:28:08] proper today. I'll probably get in a

[2:28:11] shorter

[2:28:12] maybe 45 minute video. Uh that should go

[2:28:15] up Tuesday. Um because I'm batching this

[2:28:19] weekend. Sorry, I couldn't help. Uh, but

[2:28:23] but I am I'm going to do a little

[2:28:25] batching. It's it's my goal and I've set

[2:28:27] it as a priority.

[2:28:29] I'm sorry. I'm going to cut off before I

[2:28:32] get myself in trouble. I hope everyone

[2:28:34] enjoys their their night or day or

[2:28:37] whenever you're watching this. And um I

[2:28:40] will see you all later. Take care. Bye.

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