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( https://maticrobots.com/sahilbloom ) ​ ******************************************************* How to Avoid Catastrophe: The Normalization of Deviance ******************************************************* On January 27, 1986, NASA leaders convened a teleconference to go through the final approvals for a space shuttle launch the following morning. NASA protocols at the time required each of the shuttle subcontractors to sign off on the launch. This teleconference was intended to be a standard, check-the-box procedure to get that go ahead. But as soon as the call began, a Morton Thiokol mechanical engineer named Roger Boisjoly began to voice his concerns. Six months earlier, in July 1985, Boisjoly had written a memo to his superiors laying out a potential catastrophic failure case following his investigation of one of the solid rocket boosters from an earlier space shuttle flight. His investigation had revealed that a system of two rubber O-rings that formed a seal between two sections of the solid rocket boosters had failed in the prior flight. One ring had failed completely and the other had been damaged. He believed that if the second O-ring had failed, the results would have been catastrophic. His analysis suggested that the cold weather at the time of launch made the rubber hard and inflexible, which increased the risk of damage and failure. The warnings in his original memo were largely ignored, and subsequent attempts to raise the issue for senior management ran into bureaucratic walls. But on the evening of January 27, just 16 hours before the anticipated launch, and with the temperature due to fall below freezing overnight, Roger Boisjoly got his last chance. He presented, in vivid detail, his data and an accounting of the mechanical risk, which had become critical in his eyes due to the forecasted low temperatures for the launch. Initially, Boisjoly's compelling case seemed to be heard. Thiokol's Vice President Joe Kilminster said that he was recommending a "no-go" for launch due to the temperature and associated catastrophic O-ring risk. Unfortunately, the meeting took a sudden turn when NASA leadership pushed back on the recommendation, arguing that the launch had already been delayed five times and that there was no definitive proof of a failure risk. Under pressure, the Morton Thiokol team reconsidered their recommendation and gave the go ahead. At 11:38 am the next morning, with the temperature a record low 36 degrees Fahrenheit, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. Millions of people tuned in live to watch the launch from around the world. Just 73 seconds into its flight, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and disintegrated, tragically killing all seven crew aboard. Roger Boisjoly's fears had proven warranted. The O-rings had burned to ash, leaving a weak seal in the joint that caused a catastrophic chain reaction. Historians frequently reference the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster as one of the most traumatic events burned into the American psyche. A moment that broke the illusion of untouched American technological dominance. In a 1996 book ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/mvupe8z65ru5hq4742qfmhren7o93i3he0lke/6qheh8hlm6pd6whohk/aHR0cHM6Ly9wcmVzcy51Y2hpY2Fnby5lZHUvdWNwL2Jvb2tzL2Jvb2svY2hpY2Fnby9DL2JvMjI3ODE5MjEuaHRtbA== ), sociologist Diane Vaughn coined the term Normalization of Deviance in reference to the event and its run-up. Normalization of Deviance is the process by which unacceptable practices, standards, or behaviors become accepted when they're repeated without immediate negative consequences. In Vaughn's analysis, the Challenger disaster was not a simple byproduct of the poor decision-making on the January 27 teleconference, or any individual's momentary negligence, but of a slow, broad, systemic drift. It was a normalization of deviance. When I first came across this concept, I couldn't help but think that it applies directly to our lives. The most dangerous habits, behaviors, and beliefs are the ones you slip into slowly, day after day: * It's the minor repair you ignore * It's the hard conversation you avoid * It's the white lie you tell to cover up a mistake * It's the missed workout when you don't feel motivated Their damage isn't noticeable in the days. There's no explosion. No catastrophic failure. Nothing. So, you convince yourself they're fine. But each day, with each tiny slip, you reset your own standard to a new, slightly lower baseline. The next day, a slip that might have felt huge a few days earlier feels decidedly ignorable. 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The world will pressure you to stubbornly resist such change. To cling to every belief as though it might be your last. But there's immense power in resisting that pressure. I like to think of it as a software update. The update is never perfect, but it's an improvement upon the older version. It's a reminder that the goal isn't to be right, but to slowly, consistently get closer to the truth. When I'm getting to know people, I often ask them what they've changed their mind on recently. It's an interesting way to go deep in a conversation. A friend recently flipped the question on me. After a bunch of thought and reflection, here's my reply: 7 things I've changed my mind on recently... ---------------------------------------------- 1. You have to squint harder as you get older. ---------------------------------------------- Last week, my mom and I were driving to pick up food when she told me she recently had a profound realization. As she and my dad have gotten older, a lot of the advice they get about feeling happy is related to the past. You’ve had such a great life. You had career success. You raised good kids. You made all these great memories. And so on. But, she pointed out, it's not particularly helpful. Because happiness isn't governed by the past. Thinking about it, I reasoned that it's more a function of: * Gratitude in the present * Excitement for the future And as you get older, you have to squint harder to get that excitement. A lot of the "givens" you've taken for granted are no longer guaranteed. Things like having meaningful work. Your own health. Healthy loved ones. Travel and experiences. All of that is increasingly uncertain with age. So the excitement becomes more difficult to see. It's not as obvious as it once was. My advice (to my parents, myself, and anyone else): Take action to put excitement on the calendar. Big or small. Take up new hobbies. Read your favorite books. Plan the trips. Do the things. And then, squint harder. It's there, you just have to push yourself to see it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. The fastest way to improve your life is to sign up for a physical side quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used to think that life change was all about having a clear set of systems, rules, and goals to guide your life. You establish those, track them, and watch your life improve. But it's much simpler than that: Just sign up for a side quest (preferably a physical one). It could be a race, competition, event. Really anything. Maybe a marathon, Hyrox, long hike, or a weekend rafting trip. Something that scares you just a little bit. Just enough to spark action. Your day becomes more structured with the training for the side quest. You sleep deeper because you're tired from the training. You eat cleaner because your body wants the healthy fuel. You look better from the movement. You feel better from the momentum. Everything falls into alignment around the one small decision to sign up for that event. So, what's your side quest going to be? -------------------------------------------------------- 3. The best conversations happen when you allow silence. -------------------------------------------------------- For most of my life, I was deeply uncomfortable with silence in a conversation. The void would send my insecure brain into overdrive, assuming the other person was thinking all sorts of negative thoughts about me. So, I'd avoid silence at all costs, filling every natural gap or pause with some leap, misdirection, or non sequitur. But the older I get, the more I realize that the pause is often where the real depth starts to form. If you treat conversations like a game of tennis, firing the ball back and forth as quickly and strategically as possible, you never get very far. It's transactional. It turns every conversation into something of a battle. You're facing down an opponent. You vs. them. The best conversations are ventilated. They have space. There's no rush to hit the ball back. They're about a journey, not an outcome. The next time you feel the pressure to fill the silence, resist it. Then watch what the other person does with the space you just gave them. ----------------------------------------------- 4. There's no such thing as the right decision. ----------------------------------------------- I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives obsessing over making the right decision. Caught in an overthinking trap. Second-guessing every single move. Gathering more information. Planning out every step of the path. I've been there. And I've come to believe that it's driven by a single flawed belief: That the decision is what matters. There are good decisions (clear logic, backed by evidence) and bad decisions (made in the heat of emotion, with none), but there are no right decisions. Ultimately, a decision becomes right through the actions that follow it, not the decision itself. In my own life, most of my "wrong" decisions were really just inconsistent follow-through. I made the call, then failed to back it with disciplined daily effort. A decision isn't right or wrong in a vacuum. But it's always easier to blame the decision than to hold yourself to the work that follows. Make a decision, then make it the right one with your actions. ------------------------------------------------- 5. The most underrated relationships bring peace. ------------------------------------------------- Life is filled with chaos. There's really no avoiding it. The storms, big and small, are inevitable. But some people just seem very good at attracting them. In my 20s, I had a higher tolerance for chaos. 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We look out at the world and use what we observe to sketch out a map of how our life is supposed to go. Social media highlight reels tell us how we stack up. What we should be doing. By when. And what we can’t possibly do now. It’s a form of inheritance. Not one we choose, but one we all get. So, we tie ourselves in knots, just like Unfulfilled in Philly. We know what we really want, but we’re too afraid to go all in. Because to go all in is to expose yourself to real failure. To be completely naked. But the harsh truth that Abby so elegantly highlighted is an important one: Time is unforgiving. It doesn’t care about you. It’s moving with or without you. Whether you choose to act…or not. Whether you live the way you want…or not. Time is just going to pass. And over time, it’s the things we don’t do that will haunt us the most. This is more than just conjecture. 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I was reminded of an apocryphal story from colonial India: The British colonists became concerned about the cobra population in Indian cities. So, they decided to institute a policy that offered a bounty for cobra heads. Anyone who turned in a cobra head would be rewarded with compensation. They thought the incentive would lead people to catch and kill the venomous creatures, thereby reducing the threat. But the plan backfired… A group of enterprising individuals spotted a business opportunity: They could breed cobras, chop off their heads, and turn them in to collect the money. Quickly, the British realized what was happening and ended the policy. Realizing they had thousands of now-worthless cobras, the breeders simply released them onto the streets, dramatically increasing the population of cobras in the cities. A policy designed to reduce the cobra population had done the opposite. ​ The Cobra Effect is an example of Goodhart’s Law, which says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. In other words, if a measure of performance becomes a stated goal, humans will tend to optimize for it, regardless of any associated consequences. We often see examples of this in the professional world: * Performance targets tied to new account openings result in a lot of fake account openings. * Managers with clear % employee turnover goals are found to be engaged in hire-to-fire practices. In each case, the well-intended measure became a target, people optimized for it, and unintended consequences followed. The measure ceased to be a good measure. 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You experience real benefits from the new set of measurements in your life. Maybe you sleep better. Maybe you move more. Maybe you eat healthier. Maybe all of the above. But you also find yourself opting out of more social activities. Saying no to spontaneous gatherings. Avoiding things you used to love for fear of the impact on your new measurements. As I often joke with myself when I experience this: You've got a perfect sleep score, but no friends. Great. And it's not just health tracking... I experienced a similar phenomenon when it came to my morning routine. I used to be fanatical about executing it. Cold plunge. Shower. Perfect coffee. Stretch. Breathing. I loved it. It felt great, but all told, it would be an hour before I got started on the things that the routine was supposed to prepare me to do. What's more, if I had a lat night event, unexpected commitment, or chaotic bedtime with my toddler son, I’d get pre-stressed—a weird anticipatory anxiety about not nailing the next morning's routine. The morning routine designed to serve me had started to own me. The most damning version of this phenomenon occurs with the most common measure in life: Money. When money becomes the sole target, unintended consequences abound: You hit another quarterly target but miss another anniversary dinner. You earn your record bonus but fail to make it to your child's recital. You say yes to every work call but can’t find time to reconnect with an old friend. You never leave money on the table but don't think twice about leaving your peace of mind there. You optimize for the one thing but lose sight of everything. ----------------------------- How to Become a Snake Charmer ----------------------------- First off, recognize this isn't some character flaw, lack of discipline, or failure of motivation. It's a normal, abundantly human cognitive flaw. Scientists refer to it as surrogation: The process or tendency where a measure, metric, or proxy replaces the actual, more complex concept, goal, or target. Basically, you lose sight of the real thing the measure was meant to represent and start treating the measure as the thing itself. Snake heads become safer cities. Sleep scores become life improvement. Routine adherence becomes professional growth. Money becomes life success. So, what do you do about it? I've found three practices to be helpful: 1. Remind yourself the measure is not the goal. ----------------------------------------------- Whatever you choose to measure in your life, make sure you separate the measure from the goal. Your sleep score is not the goal. A healthy, thriving life is. Your bank account balance is not the goal. Freedom is. Create a clear separation of the two. On a blank sheet of paper, write down the measure on the left side with an arrow pointing to the goal on the right side. Place it somewhere so that you'll be forced to see it regularly. 2. Name the unintended consequences upfront. -------------------------------------------- “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” - Charlie Munger What are the potential traps hiding in your pursuit of progress against the measure? What would be the signs or indications that you were starting to experience those unintended consequences in your life? On the bottom of the same sheet from the first practice, write them down. 3. Course correct early and often. ---------------------------------- As the famous saying goes, no plan has ever survived first contact with the enemy. Adaptability is the key to life. You don't need to trust in your plan or your intelligence. You need to trust in your ability to adapt on the fly. Create a simple monthly or quarterly check in. Are you seeing any of the unintended consequences materializing in your life? If so, how can you gently course correct to avoid them? The cognitive blindspot is inevitable, but the outcome doesn't have to be. * Separate measure from goal. * Name the unintended consequences. * Course correct when you start to feel them. You don't have to kill the cobras. 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The optimists saw mostly open doors, but even in the closed ones, they saw an opportunity to kick them open along the way. The pattern shows up everywhere: A 2006 meta-analysis by Suzanne Segerstrom and Lise Solberg Nes, which pooled 50 studies and more than 11,000 people, found that optimists consistently confronted stressors. They engaged, rather than avoided, them. They didn’t deny the existence of struggle. They leaned in where pessimists leaned away. The researchers frame it this way: The action follows the positive belief. Put simply, the belief that things will turn encourages the action to make it true. I believe that there are really two types of optimism: * Passive Optimism * Active Optimism Passive Optimism is exclusively about belief. The belief that things will work out. Blind faith. It’s the farmer, wheel stuck in the mud, calling to the heavens for Hercules to come down and get him unstuck, deeply convinced that he would do just that. 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Married. No kids (yet). ​ Something gnawing at me. Parents are lawyers, so it was all I knew. I basically chose the path as a freshman. Majored in the right things, LSATs, law school, clerking, big law. Followed the track. Parents pleased, I make solid money. ​ I should be happy, but I’m not. Can’t help but feel that I’m living someone else’s life. I want to change, but it feels too late. So much invested in this path. Don’t want to fall behind on a new one. ​ What would you do if you were in my shoes? Every single week, I invariably get a handful of emails from readers around the world with a similar general message. Stuck on a path. Living a life they didn’t really choose. Scared it’s too late to make a change. I started to type a reply, but decided it warranted a deeper, more tactical guide. Here’s exactly how I would approach reinvention (at any age or life stage): ----------------------- 1. Reframe the problem. ----------------------- I'll cut straight to it. Too late is a myth. Timelines are arbitrary. You can reinvent yourself whenever you want. You can wake up and choose to live differently. Ultimately, what you're experiencing is a sunk cost problem. By the time you're feeling this way, you've probably invested years into a given path. You've gone to school. Studied for exams. Taken a job in the field. Built skills, a network, and an experience set. All of it around a version of a life that no longer aligns with your vision for your future. When you say it's "too late" to make a change, what you really mean is: "I've invested too much in this path to make a change." That's classic sunk cost thinking. The tendency to continue with an endeavor simply because of the money, time, or energy already invested in it. The first step is to reframe that problem: Would you buy this path today if you didn't already own it? In other words, would you choose this version of your life if it wasn't already yours? If you hadn't spent the preceding years building it? Don't ask this question on a bad day. It's not about jumping ship because something got hard. Ask it on a good day. If the answer is no, then you're ready to take action. ------------------------------------- 2. Identify the two core asymmetries. ------------------------------------- Ok, so now let's assume you're ready to reinvent yourself. Your life, your job, your relationships, your health, your habits, whatever. But that reinvention is scary. I remember when I had reached this point in 2020. I knew I needed a change. I was committed to that change. But I was paralyzed by fear. It felt like I was standing at the edge of a canyon. Looking out at the life I wanted on the other side. But in between where I stood and where I wanted to stand was an unfathomable drop into nothingness. It was something like this: ​ Being the analytical, logical, right-brain thinker that I was, I decided to deconstruct that fear. To try to understand why that leap of faith felt so scary. Why the reinvention I wanted was so daunting. What I came to understand is that it's the result of two asymmetries: * Information Asymmetry: You have perfect information about what your life looks like on your side of the canyon, but almost no information on what your life could look like on the other side. * Evidence Asymmetry: You have clear, robust evidence supporting your ability to live your life on your side of the canyon (pay your bills, etc.), but almost no evidence of your ability to do so on the other side. ​ Those asymmetries are the root cause of your reinvention fear. They are the primary impediment to clear, decisive action. The asymmetries are the problem to be solved. Here's an exercise that helped me: Using a blank sheet or document, split a page into four quadrants. The top half of the page is current life, the bottom half is future life. The left side is information and the right side is evidence. It should look like this: ​ Fill in the top half of the 2x2 matrix with the information and evidence on your current life. What you do. What your days look like. How you make money. How you pay your bills. The basics. Now see what information and evidence you're able to populate into the bottom half. Presumably, not much, hence the fear. On a second sheet, write down the specific actions you could take that would allow you to fill in that bottom half. Things like: * Have 10 casual learning conversations with people who are doing the thing I'm interested in. Or 10 casual learning conversations with people to figure out what I’m potentially interested in. * Go to an industry event (digital or physical) for the space I'm excited about. * Reach out to 10 potential clients for new business idea. * Build landing page for my advisory services offering. * Identify a perfect potential customer and do upfront work to solve a problem for them that will deliver value in a cold outreach. All of those are actions, entirely within your control, that will expand your information or evidence set. They will close the two core asymmetries that block reinvention. ​ ------------------------------------------- 3. Lower the reinvention activation energy. ------------------------------------------- Reinvention is a verb-created phenomenon. You don't experience a reinvention. You reinvent. You don't think your way into a new life. You don't manifest it into reality. You don't dream it. You act it into reality. The prior step sketched out the controllable actions to close the asymmetries. But you'll never do anything about it if you set the bar for action too high. Lower the reinvention activation energy to a ridiculously achievable level. My guidance: Use my 30-for-30 approach to get started. 30 minutes per day for 30 straight days. Every single day for the next 30 days, block 30 minutes on your calendar when you'll sit down, get focused, and work on one of the actions from the prior step. 30 minutes per day for 30 straight days is 900 minutes of accumulated focused effort. You will be blown away by what you can achieve in that amount of time. No single day will feel remotely heroic. And that's precisely the point. Because heroic plans are just premeditated failures. Make it easy and make it obvious. If you do, by the end of the 30 days, you'll feel reinvented without ever having to take that dramatic, terrifying leap. --------------------------------------------- 4. Cut the line on the boats you’re dragging. --------------------------------------------- By this point, you're close. The change is underway. You're living it. But there's one final roadblock that gets in the way. It's best introduced with an old story: A man on a long journey comes upon a river that blocks his path. There's no bridge in sight, so, he gets to work. Chops down a tree, strips the bark, and shapes the wood. After several days of effort, he has a small, sturdy boat. Confident in his craftsmanship, he pushes out into the river and reaches the other side safely. As he prepares to continue his journey, a thought creeps in: What if I face more rivers like this ahead? The boat might be useful again. Instead of leaving it on the riverbank, he ties a rope around it, wraps the other end around his waist, and begins walking, the boat dragging behind him through the dirt and mud. A few hours later, he's exhausted. The boat is heavy. The terrain uneven. Every step feels harder than it should. He looks back, the river is no longer in sight, and realizes that holding onto the boat beyond the river was a mistake. This is, of course, a metaphor. I call it the Boat-Dragging Problem: When you hold on too long, something that helped you can begin to harm you. When it comes to reinvention, there are a variety of “boats” that most of us are dragging without realizing it. They may have helped us once, but now they harm our ability to change. To become who we want to be. The most common boats I see others dragging (or have dragged myself): * People who were conditionally supportive. They were in your corner when it benefitted them. When the way you were living was valuable to their self-interests. But as your path shifts and reshapes, their support dwindles. They tell you to be realistic. They laugh at your ambitions. They subtly belittle your aspirations. * Self-limiting stories about your capabilities. They may have helped keep you focused on the track in the past. They created a sense of paranoia of losing it all that paradoxically fueled your success. But they create a paralyzing fear when change is the clear desire. You aren’t an entrepreneur. You aren’t good with technology or sales. 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But I think that illusion applies well beyond the confines of household items... I've observed this phenomenon in my own interactions with highly ambitious, successful people. I'll often ask what motivates them, why they do the things they do, or how they chose their current pursuits or path. The first reply is typically a general, surface level one—or a PR-ified version that would sound polished in a news article. Something basic about money, impact, or the like. So, I'll dig deeper, asking for more clarity. And that's where it gets uncomfortable. This recently happened with a new acquaintance, who told me his motivation was to make $100 million. It went something like this: * Me: That's awesome. Big goal! Why? * Him: What do you mean, why? * Me: Well, like why $100 million? What does that mean? Why that number? What will that unlock for you? What does that create or signify for you? I saw him start to shift in his seat. He looked around. Cleared his throat. Glanced at his phone. 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I shouldn't be stressed. I should be smiling, loving my work. Every single day. Right? Well, not really. The truth I've come to realize is a more nuanced one: Stress and anxiety are a tax on extreme ambition. Those with extreme ambition are the most prone to feelings of stress and anxiety that accompany the natural non-linearity of progress. Your pre-wired ambition is a double-edged sword: A powerful force for good when channeled in a clear direction toward a meaningful pursuit, but a stress amplifier when progress and momentum are unclear. My new goal isn't to find stress-free work. It's to work on things I find so meaningful that I'm happy to stress over them. --------------------------------------- I just need to gather more information. --------------------------------------- Carl Jung coined the archetype of Puer Aeternus (Latin for the "eternal boy") as an adult who lives in a constant state of boyhood, with a fear of commitment and an obsession with preparation for action that never comes. The modern world has made it easier than ever to fall into the Puer Aeturnus trap. Information gathering has become sport. Research, studying, learning, planning. All of it jammed into neat little dopamine feedback loops that convince you that you're doing something productive and valuable. You're just one piece of information away from the big breakthrough. You'll start the business when your business plan is perfected. You'll meet your partner when you've scrolled through another round of profiles. You'll get that dream job when you have one more degree in hand. I've been there. I was Puer Aeternus. Until I realized that the world wasn't being run by a bunch of geniuses with 47 PhDs and 170 IQs. The world was being run by a bunch of normal people with abnormal bias for action. The opportunity you seek is floating around at all times. But you have to take action to seize it. Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Get your dopamine from action. ----------------------------------- I need to move faster to get ahead. ----------------------------------- The bias for action that I learned to embrace had its own potential poison. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. I tried, but it didn't work. Because when you're moving too fast, you don't have the ability to identify the things that really matter. You spread your action across a million things, which dilutes your impact. Slow down to see what matters. Then sprint to act on those things. In a world obsessed with speed, there is immense value to be unlocked from becoming difficult to rush. Slow down. Create space to think clearly. --------------------------- Uncertainty is a bad thing. --------------------------- I spent most of my life with a deep fear of uncertainty. My life had mostly followed a nice, neat path, so when I'd encounter bits of uncertainty, I'd leap at the chance to avoid it, often committing to a stable, but objectively worse, path. This, I've observed, is an all-too-common theme: You're crawling through the mud. You see a comfortable path out of it. So, you take it. But what you don't realize is that if you had just been willing to sit in the mud a little bit longer, your real breakthrough may have been just ahead. Not because it's magically there, but because the mud changes you. Tolerance for uncertainty is one of the most valuable human traits. It’s easy to show up when the rewards are certain. 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You're way too late." * "Nobody reads books anymore. Traditional publishing is dead. You're too late." In each case, I delayed starting because I assumed they were right. I trusted the wisdom of the crowd over my own. The truth: It's never too late. You can wake up and choose to see things differently. To do things differently. You can change. You can completely reinvent your life. Too late is an internal fantasy. A fear-based coping mechanism. Every single time you think it's too late, it's probably still early. Just start. ------------------------ I'm not capable of that. ------------------------ There's a cognitive distortion called the End of History Illusion, which says that people consistently report changing a lot in the past, but don't expect to change much in the future. Basically, you think the current version of you is the final version. Obviously, you're wrong, but convincing yourself of that fact is a difficult battle. 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He continues, applying the experience directly to the life of a photographer: “Each bus stop represents one year in the life of a photographer…So you have been working for three years…You take those three years of work to the [museum] and the curator asks if you are familiar with the [very similar work of another artist]…Shocked, you realize that what you have been doing for three years others have already done…So you hop off the bus, grab a cab—because life is short—and head straight back to the bus station looking for another [bus].” A few years later, the same thing happens again. You become discouraged that work you’re doing is far from original, so you get off the bus and head back to the station to find a new one. One that will finally bring you that prized originality you seek. But this pattern of behavior overlooks an important reality: The bus lines, which follow identical routes for the first few stops, eventually diverge. “They begin to separate, each number heading off to its own unique destination. Bus 33 suddenly goes north. Bus 19 southwest. For a time maybe 21 and 71 dovetail one another, but soon they split off as well.” Minkkinen concludes that there is one answer to all of this: “Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus.” The Helsinki Bus Station Theory says that the only way to achieve true originality in your work and life is to stay on the bus long enough to allow your unique path to unfold. While originally shared as a mantra for creatives, I find myself applying this concept to every area of life. Your whole life, you’re told to chase originality. To carve your own path. To be different. In your career, relationships, pursuits, and everything in between. This uniqueness is lauded. It’s what you admire in those that you look up to. 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( https://joindeleteme.com/Sahilbloom ) ​ ****************************************** The 2 Types of Knowledge: Real vs. Surface ****************************************** In 1918, German theoretical physicist Max Planck won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of energy quanta. After winning the prize, he went on a tour, giving lectures at universities and institutions around the country on his findings. There’s an apocryphal story from that tour that I first came across while reading the transcript of Charlie Munger’s 2007 commencement speech at USC Law School. Max Planck’s chauffeur, after having heard Planck practice and deliver the talk so many times, had the entire thing memorized. He jokingly asked Planck if he could deliver it at the final lecture. Surprisingly, the physicist agreed. The chauffeur put on a jacket and tie and proceeded to deliver a perfect lecture, word for word, just as Max Planck would have done. 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There’s a big difference between truly knowing something and just sounding smart talking about it. And in the current moment, it’s never been easier to do so… I’ve been thinking a lot about the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on human intelligence. In a widely cited (though not peer reviewed) MIT study ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hpvq3xlh5h2ekprnetnhl5zel/qvh8h7hdmgdrrgblhk/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcnhpdi5vcmcvcGRmLzI1MDYuMDg4NzJ2MQ== ), researchers found that the use of AI tools for writing tasks negatively impacted cognitive function. ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hpvq3xlh5h2ekprnetnhl5zel/qvh8h7hdmgdrrgblhk/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcnhpdi5vcmcvcGRmLzI1MDYuMDg4NzJ2MQ== )​ While the sample size and lack of peer review may not offer definitive proof of anything, my suspicion is that this is the first of many that will show something in a similar vein. In a broad sense, I think most personal AI use cases are about outsourcing something to AI. You previously had to use your brain for that thing, but now you can press a button and have the AI do that thing for you. It’s important to remember: What you outsource will atrophy. Hire a personal chef, you’ll probably lose some of your cooking skills. Hire a money manager, you’ll probably be less in tune with your finances. Hire an analyst, you’ll probably become less proficient with analysis. That’s ok when it’s about outsourcing specific things that are lower leverage. But what about when the outsourcing slowly extends into more generalized thinking? My concern is that as we outsource more and more of our general thinking to these models, all Real Knowledge will atrophy. We will become defined by Surface Knowledge. A species of breadth, but no depth. And the social incentives for breadth are very real: You’re encouraged to have an opinion on everything. We’ve collectively frowned upon those who say “I don’t know” or “I don’t know enough to have a perspective on that” in any social setting. A lot of problems in the world are a second-order effect of people with Surface Knowledge masquerading as people with Real Knowledge: * Policymakers with a flimsy understanding of the underlying issues they build campaigns around. * Financial pundits who don’t seem to understand historical precedents. * Executives who can recite the strategy on a quarterly call but can’t explain the mechanics of how it’ll actually work. But it’s not all doom and gloom for our future. 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What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. More recently, Naval Ravikant built upon this analogy ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hpvq3xlh5h2ekprnetnhl5zel/3ohphkh356377rsrhn/aHR0cHM6Ly9uYXYuYWwvYWk= ): Steve Jobs famously said that a computer is a bicycle for the mind. It lets you travel much faster than walking, certainly in terms of efficiency. But it takes the legs to turn the pedals in the first place. ​ And so now maybe [AI is] a motorcycle for the mind, to stretch the analogy, but you still need someone to ride it, to drive it, to direct it, to hit the accelerator, and to hit the brake. So, perhaps our “legs” will atrophy with this new motorcycle in our lives. Perhaps there are certain areas where Surface Knowledge will reign supreme. But with these new technologies, there’s also a corresponding potential: With less energy needed for the legs, where might we redeploy it to go faster, further, and deeper? That’s the fundamental question facing each one of us today. And really, it’s a choice: Sure, you can choose to outsource every element of your life. Become a Surface Knowledge being and slowly resemble something out of a dystopian future like Wall-E. You can become the chauffeur, confidently reciting the lecture but unable to answer a basic question. Or, you can choose a different way. You can outsource some arenas in order to go deeper in others. You can ride that motorcycle at 100mph into your future. You can become Max Planck, smiling in the back of the room, ready to take on the world. The choice is yours. Choose wisely. Note: I want to write more about my specific, developing strategies for how I’m using AI for depth (and avoiding cognitive atrophy). 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Management Time ------------------ Most people spend the majority of their professional lives here. Typical activities include: * Meetings * Calls * Presentations * Email processing * Team and people management * General coordination It looks (and feels) like productivity. And it matters, because things tend to fall apart without it. But it also has a tendency to expand and consume all of your time. Bleeding into every open space on your calendar. Management Time can quietly shift from real productivity into performative productivity. A focus on movement over progress. 2. Creation Time ---------------- The second most common type of professional time. It's usually what you scramble to jam into the gaps between Management Time blocks. Typical activities include: * Writing * Coding * Building * Designing * Analyzing This is where real progress is unlocked, but it's usually the first thing that gets crowded out, relegated to the thin windows that remain after Management Time. 3. Consumption Time ------------------- The first of two forgotten types of professional time. It's often forgotten because it's about input, not output, so it's easy to cut when the calendar gets tight. Typical activities include: * Reading * Listening * Studying The things you create are a natural byproduct of the things you consume. Your consumption "diet" establishes your creation capacity. Garbage in, garbage out. Quality in, quality out. 4. Ideation Time ---------------- "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal Ideation is the second of two forgotten types of professional time. It's often forgotten because it has no input and no output. It's just thinking. Typical activities include: * Brainstorming * Journaling * Walking * Reflecting Most of us have zero room for stillness in our working lives. We're too busy producing to think. The hard work may create linear progress, but non-linear outcomes are a result of slowing down. The non-obvious idea, the better question, the a-ha moment. All of the 10x opportunities sit on the other side of the stillness you're avoiding. -------------------------- Establishing Your Baseline -------------------------- Before you can improve your balance of professional time, you need to understand your starting point. Here's the simple exercise I built to map my own: For one week, at the end of each day, color-code every block on your calendar according to its dominant type: * Management: Red * Creation: Green * Consumption: Blue * Ideation: Yellow An example illustrative calendar might look like this: ​ At the end of the week, step back and look at the big picture: * What color dominates your calendar? * Are there any real windows for Creation? * What about for Consumption or Ideation? * Is there a clear rhythm to the days or is it randomly scattered? Most people are stunned by how much red they see, and by how little space they have for everything else. With your baseline in hand, here are a few steps to improve it... ------------------------------ 3 Steps for an Optimal Balance ------------------------------ Step 1: Batch Management Time ----------------------------- Parkinson's Law is an idea that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. It was first proposed by British naval historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson in a satirical essay in The Economist in 1955. While originally intended as a humorous critique of bureaucratic inefficiency, the principle rings true: * Have all day to process email, you end up emailing for the entire day. Have 30 minutes to process email, you crank through your entire inbox in a flash. * Have months to complete an assignment, you procrastinate and it takes months. Have two days to complete an assignment, you work efficiently and get it done. Management Time is a clear Parkinson's Law risk. It has a tendency to bleed out and dominate your days. But that same risk can become an opportunity: You can leverage Parkinson's Law to your advantage. Work towards a "batched" Management Time schedule: Create discrete blocks of time each day when you'll handle major Management Time activities, like email, meetings, and general processing. * 1-3 email processing blocks per day * 1-3 call and meeting blocks per day The goal here is to avoid a schedule where Management Time bleeds into every open space on your calendar. We're trying to keep the Management Time windows as discrete as possible to create space for the other types of time. So, an illustrative calendar after adding Management Time blocks might look like this: ​ Note: Your ability to do this will scale with your career progress. If you're early, small batching wins count; if you're senior, you can be more ruthless. Every hour of Management Time you contain will free you up for impactful work that actually moves you forward. Which is where the next step comes in. Step 2: Increase Creation Time ------------------------------ You just freed up space by batching Management Time. This is the primary place where that new space is invested. To do this most effectively, aim to carve out distinct Creation Time windows on your calendar that are aligned to your energy. The energy point is significant: Trying to create at the very end of a long, tiring day may not be particularly conducive to robust, thoughtful output. Conversely, carving out Creation Time blocks in the morning or after a short afternoon walk is more likely to spark meaningful results. Aim to block 1-2 discrete windows per day for Creation Time, ideally during periods when your energy is likely to be high. Continuing to build on the same illustrative calendar, the addition of Creation Time in the early and mid-afternoon might look like this: ​ And once you have the block, protect it. No email, no Slack, no "quick checks" on other things. Creation Time is only as powerful as your ability to protect it from Management Time intrusions. Step 3: Create Space for Consumption & Ideation Time ---------------------------------------------------- Both Consumption and Ideation are non-producing time, which means they're often the hardest to justify when your days get busy. That said, they're both essential for generating the consistent, non-linear outcomes we're all after, so they need to be blocked and protected. Aim to block one discrete short window per day for each of consumption and ideation. 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That's how many laps you have to run around the first lane of a regulation outdoor track to cover the 26.2 miles of a marathon. And, when I arrived at my local high school track last Friday at 4:45am, that was exactly what I planned to do. I wish I had a thoughtful answer to the obvious "um, why?" this opener no doubt sparks in your mind. The truth is that every now and then, I like to remind myself that I've still got that edge—that "dog" inside me. That I can take on something intimidating and get it done. Plus, I talk a lot about discipline, grit, and consistency around here. But my rule is that you can’t talk about it if you’re not going to be about it. If there's one thing you can always trust with me, it's this: If I say something, I’ve got receipts to prove that I live by it. So, there I was, standing alone on the track, in the pre-dawn darkness, with 105.5 laps to go. I hadn't told anyone I was doing it, not even my wife. That was by design. It made it more challenging. No one would know if I quit. Just me against me. A mental and physical battle, just the way I drew it up. I pressed start on my watch and broke into stride for Lap 1. If you've ever taken on a big, scary, ambitious goal, you know how those first few laps felt. It's exciting. You're bubbling with anticipation at the challenge ahead. Motivated. Energized. Enthusiastic. Fresh. But by Lap 8, that starting high had worn off and the reality of the undertaking set in. The inner voice started getting louder: It's cold. Why is my heart rate already 160? Am I running too fast? My legs don't feel great. This is stupid. I shouldn't do this. What if I get hurt? I had 97 laps to go. I was nowhere close to the finish. I wasn't even close to being close to being close to the finish. Just a vast oval expanse of monotony and nothingness ahead. Fortunately, I've researched goal-setting and achievement for many years, and as it turns out, there's real science behind this dark experience. In 1932, a psychologist named Clark Hull designed an experiment ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/75u4z8k69os8h629gmkuzhw4m3m54anh09z20/wnh2hghqp7pqrmi7/aHR0cHM6Ly9wc3ljbmV0LmFwYS5vcmcvcmVjb3JkLzE5MzItMDEzNjItMDAx ) with a group of rats that he placed in a maze with food at the end. He noticed something interesting: The closer they got to the end, the faster they ran. He called it the Goal Gradient Hypothesis. It says that our effort increases as we get closer to achieving a goal. The incentive of the reward grows stronger as we approach it, so we push harder as we near the finish. You've probably experienced this in your own life. You get a burst of energy as the "finish line" comes into view (whether it's in a marathon, a big project at work, or anything in between). That's the Goal Gradient Hypothesis at work. But the hypothesis also explains why the vast middle "valley" of these endeavors is so challenging to navigate. Without the reward of the finish in sight, there is a notable absence of motivation and willpower. This is where I've found you can leverage the science to your advantage... If I were to map my likely motivation during the course of my track marathon, it would look something like this: ​ That's a serious problem. With that pattern, it would be very difficult to stay engaged, keep the pace I was hoping to hit, and finish the race. So, as soon as I felt that Lap 8 valley darkness setting in, I changed the narrative: I'm two miles in. At Mile 5, I've got my first gel. I like that mixed berry one I brought. It has 100mg of caffeine too, so that'll be a nice boost. I'm looking forward to taking that. Hitting Mile 5 became my goal. Sure, I still had the distant marathon goal in mind, but Mile 5 was now the focus with the reward. When I hit Mile 9, the same valley darkness was creeping back in, but again, I reset the focus: I'm nine miles in. At Mile 13, I'm halfway there. That's going to feel so good, because then every step is taking me home. It's just a countdown from there. Hitting the half marathon mark became my goal. It consumed my attention. For the final 13 miles, I just kept creating (and reeling in) micro-goals: At Mile 18, I only had two more miles to get to my final gel. At Mile 21, I only had 20 laps to go, so I focused on getting to 10. At 10 laps to go, the real finish line beckoned and I felt the final surge. The new map of my actual motivation during the course of my track marathon looked like this: ​ The point here is simple: When your mind drifts into the darkness of the enormity of the task ahead, change the narrative. Create a new micro-goal. Something to look forward to. A game within a game. The mantra I repeat in my head: Stay plugged in. Not plugged into the finish 90+ laps away. Because no mind is strong enough to do that. Stay plugged in to the lap ahead of you. Stay plugged in to this straightaway. Stay plugged in to this breath. I did. I finished my track marathon in a final time of 2:56:16. My average pace per mile was 6:42. I didn't stop. I didn't change directions. I didn't take any breaks. It was hard. Mental torture. But I was prepared for it. Every meaningful goal in life follows the same shape as my track marathon. The start is exciting. The end has momentum. But the long, unglamorous middle is where the failure occurs. The business that folds after a few months. The fitness goal that fades by February. The book that falls apart in Chapter 6. The valley of the middle is where goals go to die. The Goal Gradient Hypothesis teaches us why—and gives us the tool to fight back. So, the next time you're staring into the abyss, remember: Stay plugged in. -->Share to X/Twitter! 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I've personally spent thousands of hours wrestling with this exact problem—and I've developed my own ultra-simple approach that works: I call it my ABC Goal System… ------------------------- The Origins of the System ------------------------- The seed of the idea was planted in my head during a conversation with a legendary American marathoner in 2023. I had just started running and was a few days away from my first marathon. When I asked him for advice, he inquired about my time goals for the race. I told him I wanted to run a sub-3 hour marathon (an aggressive target for a brand new runner). His response: “For a marathon, you need three goals: A, B, and C.” What he meant, in the context of the marathon: * A Goal: Your optimal time goal. * B Goal: Your baseline time goal. * C Goal: Your downside time goal (for a first timer, just finish). The idea was simple, but surprisingly powerful: From the start, you focus on the baseline (the “B Goal”). Run the race to achieve it. 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Consistency isn’t about perfect daily performances. It’s about showing up, however imperfectly, and getting it done. A 15-minute walk is infinitely better than sitting on the couch. 15 minutes of deep work is infinitely better than zero. Sending the text is infinitely better than nothing. Anything above zero compounds. To illustrate how this works, let’s use the simple example of daily exercise. Say I want to build consistency around an exercise habit, but I’ve been struggling to make it happen. So, I create three goals: * A Goal: 60 minutes in the gym. * B Goal: 30 minutes of movement (gym, bike, walk, etc.) * C Goal: 15 minute walk. Note: The C Goal should feel almost embarrassingly easy to achieve. Trust me, that’s the point. My baseline is always 30 minutes of movement. But if I slept great and feel ready, I hit that A Goal of 60 minutes in the gym. Alternatively, if my kid kept me up all night, I’m a bit under the weather, or I’m traveling, I hit that C Goal of a 15 minute walk. 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The findings were fascinating: The superior candidate with the coffee blunder was rated the most likable of the four. The average candidate with the coffee blunder was rated the least likable. The staged blunder had helped the competent person and hurt the mediocre one. The researchers coined the term Pratfall Effect—theatrical slang for a sudden fall on the buttocks—to characterize a counterintuitive truth: Competent people become more likable when they reveal small, harmless flaws. They offered a simple explanation ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/mvupe8z65ru5hq6904oamhrx5pgmeh3he0lke/e0hph7h7gq2n9wb8/aHR0cHM6Ly9zY2lzcGFjZS5jb20vcGRmL3RoZS1lZmZlY3Qtb2YtYS1wcmF0ZmFsbC1vbi1pbmNyZWFzaW5nLWludGVycGVyc29uYWwtMjNnN3lsczEwZi5wZGY= ): "A superior person may be viewed as superhuman and, therefore, distant; a blunder tends to humanize him and, consequently, increases his attractiveness." Now, that line was written in 1966, but it feels particularly relevant for the current cultural moment. I assume I'm not alone in this experience, but my feed and inbox feels increasingly dominated by AI-generated content. It's clean. Technically perfect. It's also hollow. Like a sort-of grayscale version of perfection. It lacks depth, texture, and humanity. The "AI slop" of the present moment isn't riddled with mistakes. It's actually the opposite. It's devoid of the mistakes that make it feel real. For most of human history, polish was the signal of competence. Polished work was how anyone could indicate they were credible. But now, polish is free. Anyone can produce something that appears flawless in mere seconds, even if they don't have the earned competency behind it. Accordingly, polish has, in some sense, lost its value as a signal. The new signal is texture. Texture is the mark of a human being who actually showed up, sat down, and did the work. The imperfection is your proof of humanity. But it's important to remember something here from the study itself: The Pratfall Effect didn't work for everyone. The mediocre candidate who spilled the coffee became the least likable of the entire group. The same blunder that humanized the competent candidate had hampered the average one. The lesson: Competence first, pratfall later. The company's successful "ugly ad" works because the product is genuinely valuable. The leader's admission of an error builds trust because most of their calls have been correct. The writer's typo creates connection because their work is so powerful. Imagine a master carpenter creating a beautiful wooden table. He cuts the enormous block from a beautiful tree. Shapes it through meticulous effort. Sands away the knots. But he doesn't apply a finish. He doesn't smooth every edge. The natural grain gives the table character. Proof of life. Your task ahead is no different. Work hard to earn your competence. Build an irrefutable base of understanding and credibility. Then resist the temptation to smooth every edge. I try to stick to three core principles: 1. Earn your competence. ------------------------ You can't skip the work. Build competence. Create evidence. Through reps. Stacked days over a long period of time. There are no shortcuts here. Quiet progress creates loud results. 2. Don't sand all the texture away. ----------------------------------- Once you've earned the competence, allow your humanity to shine through the cracks. Hit send on the unpolished post if it feels right. Turn your phone on and press record without doing five practice takes. Fire off the quick memo to the team at the end of the week. The texture is the way. 3. Never over-engineer a spill. ------------------------------- Fake, engineered coffee spills are easily spotted. People see through them much more often than you think. The whole point is that the humanity is real. 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I began reflecting on what I've learned through the five years of writing The Curiosity Chronicle and quickly realized that all of it applies well-beyond the bounds of creative pursuits and into any meaningful endeavor in life. I hope these life learnings help you turn your tiny leap of faith into something beautiful... -------------- 1. Start ugly. -------------- My favorite quote is from the ancient poet Rumi: "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." It's a reminder that you can't plan your way into clarity. You have to act your way into it. When I sat down to write my first newsletter, I was lost. I was 30 years old, living far from my family, with no idea what I was doing with my life. It's easy to look back and wind some impressive narrative on how I got from there to here, but that would do a disservice to the lived reality. There was no strategy. No path. No vision. But the good news? You don't need one. You just need to start. Because anything beautiful in this world started out ugly. And the only people who create beautiful things are those willing to do the ugly version first. You won't be able to see the beautiful version yet. You won't even know what it could become. You just need to supply enough faith to get started. Just start. Ugly. ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/92ulxnq6dpcnh6vqp74u9hzq9rz8kiwhgvoxg/wnh2hghqpw2n8ni7/aHR0cHM6Ly9zYWhpbGJsb29tLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9wL3RoZS1jdXJpb3NpdHktY2hyb25pY2xlcw== )my ugly version, episode 1​ ​ --------------------------------------------------- 2. Violent consistency is the only path to quality. --------------------------------------------------- I recently came across a story in Art & Fear ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/92ulxnq6dpcnh6vqp74u9hzq9rz8kiwhgvoxg/08hwh9h25d6vqrul/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9leGVjL29iaWRvcy9BU0lOLzA5NjE0NTQ3MzM= ) that I love: A ceramics teacher split a class into two groups. One would be graded on the quantity of their output, the other would be graded on the quality of their output. On the final day, the first group would have their total output of pots weighed, while the second group would have one pot judged. When grading day arrived, something fascinating happened: "The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." Quantity is a necessary precursor to quality. You cannot create once and hope for it to be perfect. You have to create a lot. Every single day. I think of it as violent consistency. In the five years since I started this newsletter, I haven't missed a single issue. Two sends per week, every single week, for five years. I was violently consistent for a long time—and quality followed that consistency. It's not going to be pretty. It's not going to draw oohs and aahs from the crowd. Because it looks messy in the days. It's getting out of bed when you don't want to. It's sitting down at your desk when you're tired. It's pounding your head into a wall one more time. It's ugly. It's unimpressive. But it works. Quality is a byproduct of quantity. Violent consistency. That's the real recipe. ------------------------------------------------- 3. Think in decades (even while you act in days). ------------------------------------------------- Here's the trap nobody warns you about: Violent consistency can quietly betray you. Daily discipline without long-term direction is dangerous. You get so focused on moving that you stop asking what you're moving toward. You chase good instead of right. You optimize for the days and forget the decades. And slowly, without realizing it, you drift away from what you were actually trying to build. There's a question I started asking myself early on: How would you approach what you're doing right now if you knew you'd be doing it for the next ten years? The question helps you avoid the short-term traps that plague every endeavor. Chasing trends at the expense of authenticity. Chasing value extraction at the expense of value creation. Chasing monetization at the expense of energy and passion. Every time I felt myself pulled into the short-term game, I reset my focus to the long-term one. The question can be applied to every area of life: How would you approach this relationship if you knew you'd be in it for the next ten years? You certainly wouldn't approach it as a transaction, with your hand out, looking to extract value. How would you approach this workout if you knew you'd be training for the next ten years? You certainly wouldn't push yourself to injury chasing a single session. How would you approach this work if you knew you'd be doing it for the next ten years? You certainly wouldn't cut corners to hit an arbitrary quarterly result. Think long. Act now. ----------------------------------------------------------- 4. Trust is the atomic variable of all meaningful pursuits. ----------------------------------------------------------- The world wants you to focus on the wrong thing. When I first started writing, I remember being drawn by the vanity metrics that everyone seems to tout on social media. Views, likes, reshares, etc. The problem with these metrics is that they are often misaligned with the most important thing: Trust. Everything is built on top of trust. Fifty years ago. trust was centralized. Companies like P&G and Sears, Roebuck & Co had an iron grip on the airwaves. They dominated advertising across radio, television, magazines, and newspapers. They built trust—and commerce was layered on top of that trust. Now, fast forward to today. Trust is rapidly decentralizing. You can build a trust node through the things you put out into the world—and commerce can be layered on top of that. Trust is the atomic variable. Without it, you have nothing. With it, the rest takes care of itself. But trust isn't built through views, likes, and reshares. It's built through value. Consistently creating value for people. With authenticity. With real connection. With unscalable actions. It's harder to build, but you know it when you see it. ------------------------------- 5. The world is permissionless. ------------------------------- I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives waiting for permission from some invisible arbiter that doesn't even exist. Misery loves those who wait. Those who look around waiting for someone to come tap them in. To give them permission to do the things they want to do. I spent most of my life waiting for permission. Permission to live differently. 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But at this stage, the students were split into two groups: * The first group was told that the decision was final. Whichever print they selected was their print and they couldn’t change their mind. * The second group was told that the decision was reversible. They could change their mind and swap prints in the next few days. In the days that followed, the two groups of students were asked how satisfied they were with their selection, both during the swap window and after it had passed. The findings were counterintuitive: The final decision group had significantly higher satisfaction with their choice than the reversible group—and the gap persisted 11+ days later, long after the swap window had expired. The researchers concluded that the brain functions differently with final decisions versus reversible ones. After a final decision, your mind goes to work on supporting your decision, surfacing positives on the chosen path and negatives on the rejected one. They called this a psychological immune system: A mechanism that silently works to maintain your emotional well-being. But in the case of reversible decisions, the psychological immune system doesn’t seem to activate. Your mind remains alert to the alternatives, surfacing negatives on the chosen path and positives on the rejected one. The most damning finding came in a follow-up, when the researchers asked the students which condition—final or reversible—they would prefer to be in. The overwhelming majority chose the reversible path. They wanted the option to change their mind, even though that option was the very thing making them unhappy. The insight: We systematically choose the conditions that make us less happy because we mistake optionality for freedom. This study isn't just about photographs. It's about your life. It's a small, controlled version of a psychological and cultural moment most of us are living through every single day. In the pre-social media age, your sphere of awareness was small. The partners, jobs, comparison set, and general information you could see was effectively confined to what was within your immediate vicinity. Now, the devices and apps that consume every hour of your days have shattered the boundaries of that sphere. It's grown exponentially, with no real natural limit. The pool of potential partners is everyone on the dating apps. The pool of potential jobs and careers is every posting on LinkedIn. The pool of potential health protocols is infinite. The pool of potential comparisons is everyone on Instagram. Optionality is at an all-time high, both in terms of quantity and accessibility. But here’s the twist: The reversibility baked into every path was sold to us as a feature. It’s actually a bug. I’ve started calling it the Eject Button Mentality. Here’s how it works: Every meaningful thing you take on in life has a honeymoon period. It’s the early window where everything feels easy. Progress comes quickly. You’re in sync. Flow. You feel it in new romantic relationships, friendships, projects, jobs, health pursuits, literally everything. But after a little while, the honeymoon inevitably ends. In your relationships, it might be when that first hard conversation appears. In your work, it might be when the progress slows and the learning curve flattens. In your health, it might be when the effort that felt exciting suddenly feels boring. And when that happens, in a world where you’ve been wired to focus on optionality, you already have your finger hovering, ready to press the eject button. Here’s the thing most people miss: The moment the honeymoon ends isn’t a definitive signal that you chose wrong. It’s a signal that the real work, and the real reward, is just getting started. A few decades ago, that was well understood. But now, the eject button beckons. The mistake isn’t leaving. The mistake is in misreading the difficulty. Difficulty isn’t a sign you chose wrong. It’s the cost of entry for the thing you want. Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something you don’t want to do. And the cruel twist: Even if you don’t press the eject button, the awareness that you could is enough to poison the staying. Remember the Harvard study: The simple knowledge that you could swap was enough to lower satisfaction, regardless of which photo you picked. The danger of the eject button isn’t really about leaving. It’s about never fully arriving in the first place. Now, this isn’t about gritting your teeth and blindly staying in every bad situation. Sometimes the right call is to eject. Sometimes the relationship is wrong, the job is toxic, the program is broken. 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Would you be happy to have your neighbors, family, friends, and children read about the decision you made? If not, don't make it. ------------- The Duck Test ------------- "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. You can determine a lot about a person by observing their habitual actions. Trust actions over stated intentions. ----------------- The Feynman Razor ----------------- If you can't explain it to a 5-year-old, you don't really understand it. Complexity and jargon are often used to mask a lack of deep understanding. If someone uses a lot of either to explain something to you, they probably don't understand it. ------------------- The Pygmalion Razor ------------------- When choosing who to spend time with, default to people who have high expectations for you. 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The person who can sit alone with their thoughts has a permanent edge over the one who can't. -------------- The Luck Razor -------------- When choosing between two paths, always choose the path that has the larger luck surface area. Most of what we call "luck" is the macro result of thousands of micro actions. Your daily habits put you in a position where “luck” is more likely to strike. It’s hard to get lucky watching TV at home. It’s easy to get lucky when you’re creating motion, meeting people, engaging, and learning. Sahil Note: Luck has been a personal obsession of mine for over a decade. So much so that it's the topic of my second book with Penguin Random House. Still a ways off, but I'll have a lot more to say on this one. ------------- Occam's Razor ------------- When weighing alternative explanations, the one with the fewest necessary assumptions is usually the right one. Put simply, the simplest explanation is often the best one. If you have to believe a complex, intertwined series of assumptions in order to reach one specific conclusion, always ask whether there's a simple alternative that fits. Simple is beautiful. -------------- The 80-10 Test -------------- Make decisions that both your 80-year-old and 10-year-old self would be proud of. Your 80-year-old self would have you prioritize the long-term compounding of the actions you take today. Your 10-year-old self would remind you to have a little bit of fun along the way. The recipe for a productive, joy-filled life. ------------------ The Braggers Razor ------------------ "The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room." - Denzel Washington, American Gangster Successful people rarely feel the need to brag about their success. If someone regularly brags about their income, wealth, or success, it's fair to assume the reality is a small fraction of what they claim. Conversely, if someone consistently underplays their success, it's fair to assume the reality is a multiple of what they claim. --------------- The Thrive Rule --------------- Investor Josh Kushner once wrote, "The goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home." Deceptively simple, but cuts through almost every career and life decision. Most people optimize one side at the expense of the other. Optimize for both. Refuse the false tradeoff. ------------------ The Optimist Razor ------------------ Spend more time around optimists. Pessimists see the closed doors. Optimists see the open doors. And probably kick down a few closed doors along the way. Pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich. ----------------------- The Smart Friends Razor ----------------------- "What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." - Chris Dixon If your smartest friends are all interested in something, it’s worth paying attention to. If that something seems crazy or weird, it's worth paying a lot of attention to. Sahil Note: My personal rule is that when three smart friends bring something up independently, I make a small investment in the area. Just enough to make me pay attention. The asymmetric upside of being early is worth the small cost of being wrong. ----------------- The Opinion Razor ----------------- "I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do." - Charlie Munger Learn to treat opinions as earned, not owed. It's perfectly reasonable to have no opinion on something that you haven't done the work to understand. Normalize "I don't know enough to have a view" as a sign of strength, not weakness. ---------------------------- The Regret Minimization Test ---------------------------- "I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'Now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.'" - Jeff Bezos Your goal is to minimize the number of regrets you have in life. When faced with a difficult decision, project yourself into the future, look back on the decision, and ask yourself which path minimizes the odds of regret. Choose accordingly. -------------- Hanlon's Razor -------------- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In assessing someone's actions, do not assume negative intent if there's a viable alternative explanation, such as different beliefs, lack of intelligence, incompetence, or ignorance. Applies to politics, relationships, and general online discourse... Most people aren't out to get you. They just aren't thinking about you at all. -------------- The Room Razor -------------- If you have a choice between entering two rooms, choose the one where you're more likely to be the dumbest person in the room. Once you're in the room, talk less and listen more. Bad for your ego. Extraordinary for your growth. --------------- Hitchens' Razor --------------- Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. The burden of proof is always on the person making the claim. You don't have to disprove something that lacks evidentiary substance to begin with. Closely related to Sagan's Standard (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence) and Newton's Flaming Laser Sword (if something can't be settled by reasonable experiment or observation, it's not worth debating). ------------------------- The New Opportunity Razor ------------------------- When assessing a new opportunity, ask yourself two questions: * Do I like the winning version of this thing? * Am I willing to do the losing version of this thing for a long time? The first question asks whether you actually want the view from the summit. The second question asks whether you're willing to embrace the mud in order to get there. The best opportunities for your life pass this test. You’ll love the summit and the mud. ---------------- The Tonight Test ---------------- If you're invited to something weeks or months in the future, ask yourself whether you'd want to do it tonight. Humans are notoriously bad at predicting their future bandwidth. 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Whenever I find myself leaping for certainty, falling into one of the three traps, I ask myself: * What are you trying to escape by answering this right now? The rush for certainty is often just a rush away from your fear of uncertainty. * What might arrive if you sat with this for one more day? Sometimes the greatest breakthroughs come from just sitting in the discomfort a little bit longer. * What would change if you stopped trying to figure this out? You don’t have to figure everything out. Some things aren’t meant to be figured. It’s perfectly reasonable to let things remain a mystery. With all of these, I try to remind myself of an important truth: The one who can embrace the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win. 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To my dearest son Roman, Today, I want to tell you three stories about your life. The first story is about struggle. ---------------------------------- You don't know this, but your mother and I weren't sure we would be able to have you. We struggled, for two years, to bring you into this world. It was a quiet, lonely, painful period. It came at a time in my life when I really wasn't sure what the path looked like. By early 2021, I had made the decision to leave my investing job so that we could move back east to live closer to our families. I figured I'd be able to get a new job in the industry closer to home. But after a string of rejections and failed interviews, I woke up one morning with a terrible feeling of dread. I'd made a mistake. I'd taken the leap from a good path, but now, I saw nothing but emptiness before me. Between my career, our move, and our failed attempts to bring a new life into the world, there was so much uncertainty. Just a complete lack of clarity. In the darkness of that moment, I remembered a lesson from an old baseball coach. When you'd find yourself in a tough spot in a game, he'd always call out a simple saying: “You’re one pitch away!” So, I focused on the next pitch. I kept waking up. Showing up. Doing something. The wall broke through. Clarity came shining through. We made the move to the east coast. I defined a new path. And most importantly, two weeks after getting into our new home, we found out that your Mama was pregnant with you, our son. When I reflect on those dark months, I'm grateful for them. Because they taught me that the most meaningful things in life exist on the other side of some painful struggle. That's precisely what makes them so meaningful in the end. You know what you had to endure to bring them to life. In our case, quite literally. Don't shy away from the struggle. Don't try to avoid it. Lean into it. The struggle of the dark amplifies the joy of the light. The second story is about success. ---------------------------------- Most of my life, I measured success the way the world told me to. Money. Achievement. Status. Fancy things. Whatever. It was a default definition that was never my own, but I chased it nonetheless. All the while convincing myself that my fulfillment, my feeling of enoughness was on the other side of some thing. I'd get those things and wonder why I never felt successful. It all came together during a single moment on my book tour. My Dad, your grandfather, sat in the front row at all of the events. At one event, he was asked how he felt seeing me up on stage. His response: "I'm proud that he's becoming the man he wants to be." The power in those words stopped me in my tracks. Not the man that he wants me to be, but the man that I want to be. This was the moment I learned a truth: Real success isn't being the person someone else thinks you should be. Real success is becoming the person you want to be. That path is yours. It won't always be well lit. But you won't walk it alone. My father believed in me before I believed in myself. That belief silently gave me permission to become the person I wanted to be. It's the greatest gift I have ever received—and one I promise I'll pass down to you. There's an old African proverb I love: "Walk like you have 4,000 ancestors behind you." Stand tall, Roman. You have an army at your back. The last story is about love. ----------------------------- For the first 31 years of my life, I didn't really know what that word meant. I thought I did. I mean, I loved people. First, my parents and my sister, then my best friends, and eventually, my wife. And I felt loved by them. But the day you were born, I realized how little I really understood about that word. It was like the love I knew was a black and white movie from the past. And suddenly, an explosion of color entered the frame. Rich. Deep. Textured. Something so pure. So vibrant. So, different. 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An observation about the most impressive, magnetic people I've been around: They never speak badly about people who aren't there. They never use underhanded or discrediting comments. They glow about them, or they say nothing. If everyone is speaking negatively about someone, it's perfectly reasonable to opt out and say nothing. It shifts the entire power balance of the conversation in your favor. It shows a level of stoic awareness and calm that stands out. We all silently catalogue how others speak about people who aren't in the room, because we know that we may be the topic of that conversation as soon as we leave. Those who default to praise command the room and silently set a standard of safety that everyone else can feed off of. ------------------------------------------ Be the most interested person in the room. ------------------------------------------ Everyone tries to be the most interesting person in the room. The most compelling stories. The funniest lines. The most impressive credentials. The most names dropped. Don't be everyone. It backfires. It feels painfully forced. It reads as insecure. Instead, focus on being interested, not interesting. Turn outward, not inward. Take a genuine interest in others. Not as a means to an end, but because you actually want to learn about who they are as a person, beneath the surface. When you open up to people, they can feel it. They reciprocate and open up to you. So, how do you actually do this? Be visibly happy to see people. Smile at people. Say "great to see you" as a default introduction (it also avoids making a "nice to meet you" mistake where you've already met the person but forgot!). Ask high-quality questions. What are you most excited about right now? What's creating the most energy in your life at the moment? What's lighting you up outside of work? All of these questions invite the other person to talk about something they're excited about. Focus on doorknobs, not stoplights. Stoplight questions invite a simple response that cuts off momentum. Doorknobs invite the person to walk through and tell a story. Where did you get married? is a stoplight. How did you choose your wedding location? is the same question, but framed as a doorknob. It creates conversational momentum that you can feed off of. Ask follow-up questions. Be glowing about what other people are doing. Not fake or disingenuous, but genuinely excited about what they're excited about. Lighting up for others makes them light up for you. Being interested is how you become interesting. ---------------------------------- Actually listen when people speak. ---------------------------------- While this sounds obvious, it's the rarest thing. Think about how many times you've had these two experiences: * You're in a conversation with someone and you can see them glancing around the room. Their eyes are darting around, unfocused, searching for something better to do or someone else to talk to. You start losing confidence in yourself because they clearly aren't interested in you. * You're in a conversation with someone, they're speaking, and you're just thinking about your next response. You're not hearing them, you're just waiting for them to finish so you can say your next line. In both of these situations, the listener is exhibiting anti-magnetic behavior. Inverting them, you unlock the recipe for real listening. Don't be a conversational narcissist. When someone else is talking give them the full spotlight of the moment. Really listen to what they're saying. Hear it. Understand it. Contextualize it. Never look around the room while the other person is speaking. Look at them. Make them feel like the only person in the room. In a world full of half-listeners, full attention is the rarest gift you can give. --------------------- Don't complain, ever. --------------------- Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. As a rule: If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power. -------------------------------------- Give honest, full-hearted compliments. -------------------------------------- Easily overlooked and massively underrated. If you think something nice about someone, tell them. No matter how small or inconsequential. If I like someone's jacket, boots, or shirt, I tell them. If I thought they articulated something well, I tell them. If I appreciate something about them, I tell them. It can feel a bit embarrassing, but that's ok. Be unapologetic in your appreciation for the people around you. Almost no one will take offense to a true, well-intentioned compliment grounded in reality. This should generally stop short of feeling like flattery. Flattery is a fake compliment wielded for an angle. The full-hearted version is grounded in truth and honesty. And when it comes to deeper admiration: Be specific, not general. It's not particularly impactful to tell a CEO that you admire their work as a CEO. They hear that all day. It's generic. Mention your appreciation for a niche philanthropic cause they care about. A small personal detail about them. Show care for them as a human, separate from the identity the world knows. People remember being seen for who they are far longer than being praised for what they do. ------------------------ Take yourself seriously. ------------------------ This is a subtle but important lesson from my grandmother: You can't expect other people to be drawn to you if you aren't drawn to yourself. Do the little things to show up as the best version of yourself. Move your body daily. Eat real foods. Get good sleep. Buy a few outfits that fit. Maintain good hygiene rituals. 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An opportunity to see how I stacked up against kids from all around the state. When the results came out, the coaches called my house. They were taking 16 players for the team...and I was the 17th on the list. (Note: I later found out that this is what they say to everyone who doesn’t make the team, but the “just missed” feeling made the sting even worse.) I was devastated. It was my first real experience with failure. Something I wanted, worked towards, and came up short. I went into my room, sat on my bed, and cried. A few minutes later, my dad walked in. He sat down on the bed next to me. After a few minutes of silence, he offered a few words: “I know you’re upset. I understand. It sucks. But here are the three things the coaches said you needed to work on. Let’s go out every day this summer and work on them. Together.” And we did. I’d patiently wait for him to get home from work, holding our gloves, a bucket of balls, and a bat. He took me to the local field damn near every single day that summer. I’m sure there were days when he didn’t want to. When he was exhausted from work or travel, but it never showed. And I came back the next year a completely different player. Years later, when I got a scholarship to play baseball at Stanford, I still thought back to that one summer as the turning point. But it was more than the practice that was the real turning point. It was what my dad said in those moments as we sat on my bed, with tears streaming down my face—and how he followed through on it every day that followed. He had two options when he walked into my room and sat next to me. * Option 1: Tell me the coaches were idiots. I was the best player. They had made a mistake. They didn’t know what they were doing. * Option 2: Acknowledge the pain. Tell the truth about the opportunity in the failure. And be there to support the work to meet that opportunity. Honestly, in that moment, I probably wanted Option 1. It would have made me feel better. It would have told me that the world was the problem. That an external thing was to blame. That I was great. Option 2 was the tough pill to swallow. But also the right one. What my dad gave me in that room that day—and on the field every day that followed—was a foundational principle that I’ve never been able to forget. One that I’ve come to believe sits at the core of every strong relationship in life. I call it the High Shoulders Theory… --------------------------------------- The Two Pillars of Strong Relationships --------------------------------------- I believe that the strongest relationships in life stand on two pillars: * The first is high expectations. The belief that the other person is capable of excellence. That their potential is only limited by their own views. The willingness to tell the truth about that opportunity and the work required to meet it. * The second is high support. The ability and willingness to provide the love, support, and engagement to help the other person meet those high expectations. A lot of relationships fall short of this standard. They hit one pillar, but miss on the other. You might imagine a 2x2 matrix with expectations on the X-axis (from low to high) and support on the Y-axis (from low to high): ​ In the bottom-left quadrant, you have low expectations and low support. This is the dead zone. The drift. No one holding a standard. No one walking the path. In the top-left quadrant, low expectations and high support. These relationships provide comfort, but no growth. They don’t challenge you. They don’t push you. They don’t lift you. You feel loved, but you slowly erode in your belief of your true potential. In the bottom-right quadrant, high expectations and low support. These relationships may spark short-term growth, but they breed long-term resentment. The pressure builds. It’s the boss who demands more but never shows up in your corner. The parent who pushes but isn’t there in the moment of need. The friend who tells you to take the leap but disappears when you’re in the darkness. You may learn to perform, but you struggle to truly, durably grow. In the top-right quadrant, you have your most meaningful relationships. Those people who combine high expectations and high support. Someone who tells you the truth about who you could become, and then walks that path alongside you. These are the people who change your life. The most powerful relationships are almost always in the top-right corner of that top-right quadrant. ----------------------- The Shoulders of Giants ----------------------- Sir Isaac Newton famously said: “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” It’s a beautiful line, but I think it leaves out the part that matters most. The giants had to bend down. They had to choose to provide energy to lift him. Their shoulders had to be high enough to see far from, but also be offered with energy and enthusiasm. That’s the basis of my High Shoulders Theory of relationships: The people who change your life have high shoulders. They can see the truth of your capability and potential. They believe you’re capable of realizing it. And they’re willing to lift you up onto their shoulders so you can. High expectations and high support. That’s exactly what my dad did the night I didn’t make that all-star team. He didn’t lower his shoulders to the level of my disappointment. He didn’t tell me the high heights didn’t matter. He told me that I was capable of the climb—and then he gifted me with his attention and energy to help complete it. I think about this constantly now. It’s easy to drift into the realm of low expectations or low support. It’s easy to tell people only what they want to hear. 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And so it was that a 17-foot block of (nearly) untouched marble came to rest in an open courtyard in Florence. A year passed. Then five. Then ten. Then twenty. That is, until 1501, a full 37 years since the original commission and 26 years since it had last been touched, when the committee gave the long-rejected slab of marble to a 26-year-old artist, offering him the job and two years to complete it. His name was Michelangelo. The sculpture, as you’ve probably now guessed, was David. ​ The story of how the commission came to him is an interesting one, but it’s the story of how he brought it to life that carries a deep, science-backed lesson I’ve never been able to forget. ------------------------ Freeing the Angel Within ------------------------ Michelangelo inherited something of a disaster. Two separate sculptors had rejected the project. The marble was brittle, narrow, and weathered from the 25 years of exposure to the elements. But despite all of this, he saw something others had missed. He had a vision for what the big, unhewn block could become. So, he began chipping away, little by little, to reveal a truth that only he could see. And on September 8, 1504, that truth was revealed to the world. The colossal statue of David was immediately lauded as a masterpiece. In a quote widely attributed to Michelangelo, the artist described his process, saying: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Centuries later, Michelangelo’s process—seeing the ideal form hidden in the raw stone and chipping away to reveal it—inspired a group of psychologists to ask a fascinating question: What if our deepest relationships work the same way? 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Most importantly, they determined that it was not conscious: Your partner doesn’t sit down and create a personal mandate to help you make this transformation. Rather, they just naturally create conditions that help promote the growth and development you’re focused on. For example, they don’t say, “I’m going to help make you become a disciplined go-getter.” Instead, they might do things like: * Tackle some household duties to protect your morning workout time. * Pick up an extra shift to encourage you to take the professional leap. * Treat you like the person you’re becoming rather than the person you’ve been. This creates a virtuous cycle in the relationship, where both individuals are sculpting each other through supportive actions, not words. It is perhaps no surprise that the effect can also work in reverse. 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It sparked a deep dialogue and clearly resonated with the group—so I want to share it with all of you today. --------------------- The Two Question Test --------------------- In a general sense, I think there are two phases of your professional life: * Phase 1: The “Yes” Phase. You want to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way. Saying yes exposes you to new things. You learn and grow at an accelerated rate. You figure things out. You try a lot of things until you find your thing. * Phase 2: The “No” Phase. You want to say no to most things. Once you’ve identified your primary energy creators (your things), saying no allows you to focus your energy and attention on those few things that really matter. It allows you to go deep. To mine the gold. You know you've entered Phase 2 when you have clarity on the few things that genuinely energize you. The main challenge shifts from finding opportunities to filtering for the right ones that will compound most meaningfully in your life. But navigating this new terrain requires an entirely different operating system. So, you can thrive in Phase 1 but suddenly find yourself overwhelmed and stagnant in Phase 2. A lot of people become patterned to say yes to too many things. They chase every new opportunity and end up stretched thin—an inch deep and a mile wide. That challenge is further amplified by the fact that opportunity accelerates with success. As you progress in Phase 1, you actually have more opportunities coming your way, and you keep chasing all of them, slowly digging yourself into a deeper hole. I experienced this struggle painfully in my early 30s. I spent my 20s saying yes to everything—a successful Phase 1—but even as my view on my primary energy creators developed, I failed in my transition into Phase 2. I chased after a bunch of shiny objects. Business ideas, media opportunities, networking events, and everything in between. It left me drained and a bit discouraged, as most of the opportunities failed due to the lack of energy that I had to put toward them. The truth was that I didn’t really care about any of them. I didn’t have true energy for them. I just liked the idea of them. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: If you’re half in, you’re actually all out. Even 90% in gets you nowhere. There’s something magical in that last little bit, simply because so few are willing to do it. That’s where you unlock new levels to the game. And it doesn’t take talent, just courage to be all-in. So, to fix this struggle, I wanted to develop a simple test for deciding when to take on (or pass on) new opportunities. A “razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. I call this test my New Opportunity Razor… Here are the two questions to assess any new opportunity: * Do I like the winning version of this thing? * Am I willing to do the losing version of this thing for a long time? Let me walk through each one to explain how it works: 1. Do I like the winning version of this thing? ----------------------------------------------- Imagine yourself five years in the future. This new thing you’ve taken on is crushing it. You’re up there with the best at it. Do you like what that looks like as it relates to your life, time, and energy? In other words, if you make it to the top, are you going to like the view from the summit? This is a critical first step, because too often in life we climb a mountain for years, get to the top, and realize that we never really wanted the view in the first place. If you don’t like the life of the person in the corner office, you may want to think about that before you sacrifice 20 years grinding away to get it (or figure out how you’re going to do it differently, at least). If the answer is no, stop here and say no to the opportunity. If the answer is yes, proceed to the second question… 2. Am I willing to do the losing version of this thing for a long time? ----------------------------------------------------------------- To earn anything meaningful in life, it’s going to take a long, long time. Probably much longer than even your most optimistic initial assumptions. An American computer scientist named Douglas Hofstadter once coined the self-referential adage, Hofstadter’s Law, which states: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.” So, knowing this, do you have energy to do the losing, bad, ugly version of this thing for a long time in order to earn the winning version that you like? You may dive into something because of the appeal of the summit, but you’ll never make it there if you don’t embrace the mud you have to crawl through on the climb. The people who have reached those summits have one common trait: They loved the mud. They obsessed over the details. They had real energy for it. When asked about how he had sustained his high level play for so long, tennis legend Novak Djokovic had a simple response: "I can carry on playing at this level because I like hitting the tennis ball." The summit is the grand slam championships. Standing on center court, holding the trophy high in the air. Everyone likes that version. But the way you earn it is through thousands upon thousands of hours of hitting the ball. In the cold. In the dark. In the rain. When nobody’s watching. When nobody’s cheering. When nobody cares. 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( https://joindeleteme.com/Sahilbloom ) ​ ************************* The Real Price of Success ************************* My entire life changed when I realized that I would never want to trade lives with the people I read books about. Allow me to explain with a story about the richest man who ever lived... In the early 1500s, an enterprising German financier named Jakob Fugger rose to prominence on the European continent. ​ From humble beginnings as the tenth of eleven children, he had risen through the ranks of his family's burgeoning trading firm, leveraging a rare combination of a healthy risk appetite and a keen eye for an attractive deal to accumulate immense influence and power. His dealings went far beyond the boardroom. He financed emperors, bankrolled wars, held a near-monopoly on European copper, and owned silver mines all across the continent. He personally funded the election of the Holy Roman Emperor and was the financial backer behind Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. His loan to Pope Leo X to finance the building of St. Peter’s Basilica unknowingly sparked a ground-shaking chain of events when its repayment required a massive sale of indulgences (a kind of sin-forgiveness ticket) that drew the ire of a man named Martin Luther who would lead the Protestant Reformation. Jakob Fugger’s money—and, by extension, his influence—dramatically influenced the course of world history. By the time of his death, he had an estimated fortune equal to $400 billion in today's money. His success was extraordinary, and by any objective financial measure, Jakob Fugger won the game, but there's more to this story than meets the eye. In his comprehensive book on Fugger, appropriately titled The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, author Greg Steinmetz wrote: "He had few friends, only business associates. His only child was illegitimate. His nephews, to whom he relinquished his empire, disappointed him. While on his deathbed, with no one at his side other than paid assistants, his wife was with her lover. But he succeeded on his own terms. His objective was neither comfort nor happiness. It was to stack up money until the end." His thirst for financial success was absolute. The relentless pursuit enabled him to achieve unprecedented things in that domain. But whenever I read these stories, I'm always left to wonder: What was the real price of that success? ------------------------- List Price vs. Real Price ------------------------- Our lives are shaped by two factors: * The things we want. * The price we have to pay to get those things. But the truth is that most of us spend all of our time on the former and very little on the latter. We think about all the things we want, but very rarely consider the price to get those things. In truth, life is a little bit like a superstore. You walk in and there's an infinite variety of things in front of you. And just like in a store, every single item has a price tag. There's a price to pay for anything you want to achieve in life. The key difference between life and the superstore is that in life, the price tag can lie. There's the List Price you see and the Real Price you don't: The List Price is the surface level price you pay for the thing you want. It's the obvious. The effort, hard work, discipline, and energy required to buy or earn that thing. The Real Price is beneath the surface. It's hidden. Indirect. Often paid in the form of tradeoffs, opportunity cost, and regrets. It's all the things you said no to by saying yes to this one thing. If there's one thing I've come to understand, it's this: A lot of things in life look like a great deal on the List Price, but feel like a ripoff on the Real Price. ------------------------------- A Few Questions To Ask Yourself ------------------------------- So, what do we do with this information? Well, I can tell you what I'm doing, which is asking better questions about the things I want before I take them on. The questions are focused on helping me deeply consider the Real Price before I've had to pay it. Here are the questions I'm focusing on (which you can steal): 1. What am I saying no to by saying yes to this? ------------------------------------------------ Every yes carries an invisible no. That promotion you're chasing means less time for your health or hobbies. That new business venture means less time for your family or sleep. It's easy to name the thing you get; it's harder to name the thing you're implicitly giving up. I was recently offered an interesting opportunity with a meaningful financial reward. It seemed compelling on the surface. But it would have meant saying no to a lot of spring and summer evenings with my son while I was on the road chasing the new opportunity. The Real Price was more expensive than what I was willing to pay. 2. Are the most painful tradeoffs seasonal or permanent? -------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes you may face a painfully high Real Price, but one that's seasonal, rather than permanent. In other words, it has an expiration date. You know you'll have to make a lot of painful tradeoffs, but for a defined window of time. These seasonal tradeoffs are common in your early career years as you build your professional and financial compounding engine. It may make sense to take on that challenging new role that'll necessitate a lot of late nights and travel if there's a clear end date and a significant benefit to your family and stability. But beware the trap of seasonal tradeoffs that become permanent when the action itself becomes a part of your identity. Too many people dive into the late nights thinking it'll be a season, but then find themselves enmeshed in the identity of a person who always works late. 3. Would I trade lives with the person who has the thing I want? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the question that brings it all together for me (and comes full circle to the opening line of this piece). It's not do I want what they have? It's would I want their whole life to get it? Jakob Fugger had $400 billion, was the richest man in the world, but died alone. That's the problem with comparison. It's easy to compare on a single plane but lose sight of the full, three-dimensional picture. If you wouldn't want the 3D version, you shouldn't chase their path towards the 2D one. ------------------------------- The Price You're Willing to Pay ------------------------------- I spent the first 30 years of my life thinking that I had to build something enormous, be extraordinarily rich or famous, or have some large buildings named after me. But while the world certainly needs some people to continue thinking like that, as I've gotten older, I've realized that the Real Price of those things is not one that I'm willing to pay (at least not in this season of my life). Because I feel the richest when I'm able to take my son to the carousel at 1pm on a Tuesday. And that's just not something I'm willing to give up. 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I set a calendar reminder to re-read this every single year: I visited Matthew, the owner of Lucy’s Flour Shop a little while back. As I nibbled on an enormous chocolate chip cookie I began to tell him a story. ​ A few years back on a bitterly cold December evening, there was a visitation at the funeral home across the street from his bakery. ​ The people, bundled up in coats, scarves, and blankets were lined up around the building waiting to hug the family of the deceased. ​ Seemingly out of nowhere, a man showed up and began giving away hot coffee to the people outside. People who entered the funeral home with coffee in their hands whispered of a mysterious man handing out free coffee, and how much they appreciated it. ​ I looked at Matthew and said, "I have a suspicion that you were that man. Is that right?" ​ Matthew very humbly replied, "Yes, I felt so bad for them and wanted to do something, but all I could do was make coffee, so I made coffee." ​ I responded that he blessed so many people that night by helping them warm up and by showing there’s good in the world. He added a positive note to a devastating situation. ​ I paused, then added, “That visitation was for my sixteen-year-old son. Thank you for being so kind.” ​ That conversation has stuck in my head since then:​ ​ "All I could do was make coffee, so I made coffee." I want you to read that final line again... "All I could do was make coffee, so I made coffee." You can imagine Matthew, standing in his shop, looking out at the line of people standing in the cold on that December evening. In that moment, I'm sure he felt rather helpless, even paralyzed. He wanted to do something to help, but the imperfection of his options weighed on him. He couldn't change the weather. He couldn't reverse their loss. He couldn't take away their sadness or suffering. All he could do was make coffee, so he made coffee. ----------------------------------- The Most Important Decision in Life ----------------------------------- Every single day, we face our own version of this situation. Different circumstances, yes, but the same general experience: We feel stuck. Completely frozen. Not because of the lack of options, but because none of the options are perfect. None of the options feel big enough. None will solve the entire problem or fix the entire issue. So, most of the time, we do nothing. But nothing is the one option that's guaranteed to change nothing. Since starting this newsletter five years ago, I've shared over 500 pieces and 1,000,000 words. If I could synthesize the lessons down to one single statement, it would be the following: Do the thing. Take the action. Just start. Show up. Make the move. Walk the path. Because the change you want to see doesn't happen unless you create it. 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You're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. It's the fear of the judgment. The fear of the embarrassment. The fear of the scrutiny. The fear of the whispers. The fear of the silence. The fear of what they might say or what they might think. This type of fear has a damning impact on your life: * You don't take the leap to start that new business * You don't hit send on the content you created * You shy away from sharing your new ideas in the meeting * You wait to start until you have the perfect plan * You don't tell the story your energy is calling you to tell * You do the things that will impress others, rather than the things that you actually want to do Every single one of these things represents a road not taken simply because of the crippling fear of an audience that doesn't even exist. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them in the first place. Fearing a spotlight that was never even on. Here are three ways we can all fight back: 1. Climb The "So What?" Ladder ------------------------------ When you feel the spotlight holding you back, trace the fear all the way to the end. I call it climbing the "So What?" Ladder: I might stumble over my words in my presentation. ​ So what? ​ People might think I'm unprepared. ​ But you are prepared. So what? ​ Well, they might think I'm an imposter. ​ But you're credible. So what? ​ They might not hire me again. ​ There are more opportunities. So what? ​ That's it. Life goes on. Your family still loves you. You're fine. The Stoic philosopher Seneca once wrote, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." The idea with the "So What?" Ladder is to uncover the fact that the worst case isn't nearly as bad as we think. If you've done the work, if you've shown up, you're ready. 2. 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I try to limit myself to one “most important thing” for each of my professional, personal, and health spheres. It’s the compass—establishing your direction as you climb. This may have changed or shifted since you conducted your new year planning work, so make sure to reassess what it should be. 2. What daily systems align with my most important thing? --------------------------------------------------------- If the most important thing is your compass, your daily systems are your feet. If your feet aren’t moving you in the direction your compass is pointing, you’re never going to get there. Reset your systems from scratch here: What are the 2-3 daily systems that would move you in the direction of your most important thing in each area of life? Are you doing those things? 3. What is creating drag on my progress right now? -------------------------------------------------- There are things in your life that hold you back—I call them Boat Anchors. Boat anchors are people, attitudes, environments, or behaviors that hold you back from your potential. You're trying to push at full power, but they literally create a "drag" on your progress. Review the quality of these elements in your life. Are there things that are creating unnecessary drag? -------------- Step 3: Adjust -------------- Finish with three questions to make the necessary adjustments: Note that each of these questions is action-oriented. This step should be focused on the specific actions you're going to take in the quarter ahead. 1. How will I prioritize energy creators and minimize energy drainers? ----------------------------------------------------------------- You identified your energy creators and energy drainers in Step 1. How can you improve your ratio of creators-to-drainers in the quarter ahead? Brainstorm ways to slowly manage, delegate, or delete the energy drainers. You might consider more aggressive time blocking of these activities, automating with technology systems, or creating new rules to eliminate certain types of activities from your life (e.g. no "get to know you" phone calls). Use the newly free time to schedule more windows for energy creators. 2. How will I improve my systems alignment? ------------------------------------------- You identified your most important thing and the necessary daily systems in Step 2. What changes need to be made to the structure of your days to dedicate appropriate time and energy to create the desired progress? In my experience, time blocking your calendar with specific windows for the critical daily systems is the only way I execute them consistently. There’s a saying I love: Don’t tell me your priorities, show me your calendar. It’s very true—and we would all benefit from holding our feet to the fire in this regard. 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His form is exactly the same as had been between meters 25 and 50. ​ Whereas everyone else starts to push to the end, trying—"Gonna try a little extra harder!"—and he said their face would scrunch up, their jaw would tighten, their fists would start to clench. ​ Whereas Carl Lewis stayed exactly the same and then he would just breeze past them. ​ So that’s where he invented the 85 percent rule... ​ If you tell most of A-type athletes to run at their 85% capacity, they will run faster than if you tell them to run at 100%, because it’s more about relaxation, and form, and optimizing the muscles in the right way. The 85% Rule says that you can achieve more by pushing less. Carl Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals with this strategy. And as it turns out, the general principle here is one that has been recognized throughout history. An old Zen parable offers a similar lesson: A martial arts student asks the master how long it will take to achieve mastery. ​ The teacher replies, "10 years." ​ The impatient student responds, "I want to master it faster than that. I'll work harder. I'll practice harder. How long will it take then?" ​ The teacher smiles and answers, "20 years." Both of these accounts bring to life a concept called the Law of Reversed Effort, first coined by author Aldous Huxley, who wrote: "The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed." It's easy to find examples from your own life where this concept rings true: * When you press to try to complete a creative task, you become less creative. * When you actively push to try to find the perfect partner, you rarely find that person. * When you try to force yourself to fall asleep, you stare at the ceiling awake. Paradoxically, in most areas of life, 100% intensity leads to inferior results. 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I will always remember to be there during the Magic Years. -------------------------------------------- 3. Not spending enough time with my parents. -------------------------------------------- "You're going to see your parents 15 more times before they die." In 2021, those simple words from an old friend changed my life. Within 45 days, my wife and I took a dramatic action. We uprooted our life in California and moved back to the East Coast with the goal of living within driving distance of both sets of parents. This past fall, we took another step, moving from New York to Boston, back to the old stomping grounds to be even closer. I'm writing this on Friday evening. My parents are coming over to hang out shortly. They'll play with my son. We'll have dinner. I'll sauna with my dad. I wish someone had told me sooner: Nothing improves quality of life more than proximity to people you love. It’s worth more than any job will ever pay you. I will prioritize time with my parents during our remaining years. ------------------------------------------- 4. Not having the courage to take the leap. ------------------------------------------- Nobody tells you this: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things. I will give myself permission to do the thing. ------------------------------------ 5. Not taking on challenging quests. ------------------------------------ A human needs a quest. The least happy people I know are those who lack challenging quests in their lives. It's tempting to pursue ease, but one thing I've come to learn: The easy life can quickly start to feel like the meaningless life. There's nothing better than hard-earned progress. The struggle. The pain. The grit. The resilience. And then, the breakthrough. The knowledge that you paid the cost of entry to achieve the growth you went after. Hard, meaningful quests are good for the soul. It can be personal or professional. Learn a new skill. Start a side business. Travel to a new place with no plans. Take on a difficult physical endeavor. Just do something hard. I will always take on new challenges. ------------------------------------------------ 6. Allowing meaningful relationships to atrophy. ------------------------------------------------ The Harvard Study of Adult Development followed the lives of ~2,000 people over the course of 85 years. Its most powerful finding: The single most important predictor of physical health at age 80 was relationship satisfaction at age 50. And yet, relationships are the first thing we drop the ball on when life gets busy. You forget to send the text. The annual trip with old friends quietly dies. The coffee date with your sibling gets pushed to "next month" for six months straight. But it's an avoidable fate: Invest in your relationships daily. Let your people know you appreciate them. And be there during the tough times just as much as the good ones. Everyone shows up to celebrate the wins. When times are warm and sunny, you'll never be short on company. But very few people show up in the dark. When someone you love is struggling, show up. 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It was early, and the first glimmers of the spring sun were starting to slip through our bedroom window.​​ I looked down at my son, whose eyes were closed, a small, perfectly content smile on his lips.​ In that moment, I had a profound sensation: I had arrived, but for the first time in my life, there was nothing more that I wanted.​​ This was enough.​​ As ambitious people, we spend most of our lives playing a game: Everything we do is in anticipation of a future. When it comes, we just reset to the next one. When I get [X], then I'll be happy: * "When I make partner..." * "When I get that house..." * "When I find that person..." * "When I hit that goal..." It’s natural, but it’s a dangerous game. One that you will lose eventually. We waste a lot of energy on past and future when present is all that’s guaranteed. We push for more, but really, we need to find our version of enough. 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He spent years agitating for change, to no avail, and was eventually committed to an insane asylum, where he was beaten by guards and died of septic shock at just 47 years old. The evidence had been overwhelming. The results had been undeniable. And yet, none of that mattered. The Semmelweis Reflex is the aptly-named human tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts one’s established beliefs or norms. Why does this happen? Why do smart, accomplished people reject the very evidence that could help them? There’s an old Zen parable that offers an answer: A professor came to visit an old Zen master to seek advice. ​ "I have come to ask you to teach me about Zen," the professor said. ​ As the master began to teach, the professor repeatedly interrupted him to share his own opinions, knowledge, and stories. ​ The master suggested that the two should take a break to have tea. ​ The master poured the professor a cup. 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( https://joindeleteme.com/Sahilbloom ) ​ ********************************************* Dear Parker: A Letter to a 17-Year-Old Reader ********************************************* Last week, I got an email from a reader that stopped me in my tracks: Dear Mr. Bloom, ​ My name is Parker and I am 17. I am reaching out because I would like some advice. ​ I have had a goal and dream since I can remember, being rich and owning some sort of business but I do not know where to start. I don't want to be rich for the wrong reasons. I want to use my money as freedom for myself and to use it as a way to help others. My goal is to make 1 million by the time I am 20. ​ I was wondering if I could have some mentorship on how I could achieve this goal. I come from a poor family so money is hard for us but I will do whatever it takes to achieve this no matter what. ​ I hope this finds you well, thank you for your time. I wrote back quickly, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Parker deserved more than a quick email. Because I know there are a lot of Parkers out there. Perhaps the specific situation varies, but the general one is the same: Big dreams, hunger, and motivation. A desire for financial security and success. And no idea where to start. In fact, I'd bet we all see a little bit of ourselves in Parker. I know I do. So, I sat down for a day to properly answer his question: What would I tell him? What advice would I give? What tactical playbook would I provide? This is my open letter to Parker—and to anyone out there with big dreams and no idea where to start... Dear Parker, I'll cut straight to it. Three things I want to say upfront: * I'm going to avoid any fluff. This is the action plan. This is exactly what I would do if I were in your shoes today. The playbook I'd follow, knowing what I know now. No bullshit. No noise. * I'm not going to tell you this is going to be easy. Anyone that sells you the "easy way" is scamming you. Nothing worth having in life is easy. But that's the fun of it. The hard-earned win is the best feeling in the world. * If you do follow this, your life is going to look completely different in one year. Ok, with those out of the way... You said your goal is to make $1 million by the time you're 20 (in ~2-3 years). That's the wrong goal. That's just an arbitrary number by an even more arbitrary deadline. The goal isn't a number or a date. The goal is to build a machine that generates wealth forever. The machine is what allows you to break free. It's what allows you to achieve your dreams. It’s what allows you to take care of your people and give back to the world. This is how you go build your wealth machine: Note: Follow this in sequential order. The order matters. --------------- Gear 1: Mindset --------------- ​ Don’t roll your eyes at this. It’s important. And it all begins here. Ultimately, your success requires one thing: Agency. The belief in your ability to take an action to create a desired outcome. When you have agency, you’re never out of the fight. And without agency, you’re never really in it. You get stuck. Blame outside forces for your situation. Allow life to happen to you. But I don’t believe in whimsical mindset changes. I’m not going to tell you to look in the mirror and tell yourself that you’re great. If you want to do that, fine, but let’s make this more tangible. Here’s your action: For the next 30 days, every single day, wake up at 5am and work out for at least 30 minutes. It doesn’t matter what the workout looks like. I don’t care if you go to a gym, go outside for a run, or do pushups and squats on your bedroom floor. Because this isn’t about the workout. It’s about creating Proof of Agency. By the end of 30 days, you’ll completely rewire your brain. Scientists call it neuroplasticity. Your brain physically changes in structure and function through action and experience. The action of waking up early and working out every single day for a month will create evidence that you have the power to take an action and achieve a desired outcome. You’ll see yourself differently. You’ll reorganize your life around this new priority. You’ll eat healthier, go to sleep earlier, and narrow your focus. It creates Proof of Agency. That has ripple effects into every area of life. And it drives the next stage of your machine… -------------- Gear 2: Skills -------------- ​ Here's a harsh truth: No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool. That's not the way the world works. Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created. Whether you’re working in a traditional role as an employee or trying to make it as an entrepreneur, the formula is the same: You create value by using your skills to solve other people’s problems. So, tactically, how do you go about this: First, map your current skills. On a blank sheet of paper, write down your existing professional skillset. What can you currently offer in the market at a moderate or high competency level? If you don’t know where to start, play my game of 3s: * What are 3 things friends ask you to help them with? * What are 3 things you seem to do better than your friends? * What are 3 things you’d do for free? This will help you figure out your starting inventory to build from. Next, map the problems you can solve with those current skills. Spend a week logging the friction points (i.e. problems) all around you. Open your eyes and ears. Observe. Ask people what’s holding them back in business or life. Talk to strangers at your local businesses. Send cold DMs and emails. Which of these problems might you be able to solve with your current skills? Maybe you’re pretty good with video editing and you notice a few local businesses have zero social media presence. That’s a problem that you can solve with your skill. Maybe you’re pretty good with AI tools and you talk to a CEO who has no idea how much time they’re wasting by not implementing a few simple automations. That’s a problem that you can solve with your skill. Then, map out the bigger problems you could solve with a larger skill stack. This is where it starts to get interesting. As you start to create value, reinvest your free time, energy, and money to stack skills that compound the value you can create. Providing direct AI consulting to a single CEO is nice, but if you stack design and sales skills, you may be able to provide that AI consulting service to larger enterprises. Stack coding and storytelling skills and you may be able to scale it across multiple enterprises. The $1,000 per month individual client suddenly becomes several $100,000 per year enterprise level contracts. This part is iterative. Continue to identify new and bigger problems, more scalable ways to solve them, and the skills you need to build to do that. Keep stacking skills. Learn is much more important than earn in the early days. Build your potential energy, don’t worry about the kinetic just yet. This is not going to be fun (at least not in a traditional sense). You’re going to be giving up most of your free/leisure time in order to build marketable skills. But the rewards of that sacrifice will be significant. P.S. If you're reading this and thinking it only applies to entrepreneurs, it doesn't. The employee who stacks skills and solves bigger problems is the one who gets promoted faster, gets poached by headhunters, and has leverage in every negotiation. The formula is the same whether you're building a company or building a career inside one. --------------- Gear 3: Network --------------- ​ This is why skills come before network: Your skills become networking magnets. Most people get this backwards. They read about the importance of networking. Maybe someone told them that your network is the key to making money. The truth is that you can’t build a powerful network if you have nothing of value to provide. You don't build a network by gathering business cards or handing out a fancy resume. You build a network by being valuable. So, start building in public. Open an X account. Create a LinkedIn. Start a YouTube or Instagram account. The people you want to meet are watching for people who are doing. Share your skill-building and value-creating journey. Then start constructing a powerful network to accelerate your path. I think there are three important areas in a network: * Peers: This is your core circle. Proximity to a circle of doers is the most meaningful life accelerant you can find. And if you want to find that circle, you need to be one yourself. * Mentors: These are people 5-10 years ahead of where you are today. To get access, solve a small problem for them without asking permission. Identify a problem they’re facing, use your skills to solve it, provide that solution. Once you’ve unlocked access, shadow them, work for them (for free if needed), learn from them. * Students: These are people a few years behind you. Pay it forward by carving out a little bit of space to share what you learn. This is important. Everything you give will be returned to you tenfold. Plus, the teaching will help cement your learnings. The circle you build in the next 5 years will shape the next 50. With the first three gears cranking, we come to the final piece of the machine… ------------- Gear 4: Money ------------- ​ There are three basic levers when it comes to money: * Income: Cash inflows * Expenses: Cash outflows * Investments: Long-term compounding assets If your goal is to achieve financial security and independence, you need to understand how to manipulate these levers to your advantage. First, grow your income by leveraging your skills and network. MAKE IT. You’ve already done the hard work here. Leverage the skills and network you’ve built to make money. You’ll scale your income as you stack skills and solve bigger problems. Next, manage your expenses by living well below your means. SAVE IT. This is the hardest part for any young person as they start to earn more income. Most people will match every increase in income with a corresponding increase in spending. * Get a pay raise? Move into a nicer place. * Land a new client? This calls for a new car. * Launch a new business? Time for a fancy watch. That’s the behavior that keeps you stuck forever. I know people who live paycheck-to-paycheck while making seven figures, simply because they’ve allowed their lifestyle to expand faster than their earnings. If you want to break free, you need to live differently. You should aim to bank at least 50% of every income increase. Even better, bank the entire thing for a few years. Keep your lifestyle stable while you build a foundation. Create some rules to help you stick to it. I use a 24-hour-rule with larger purchases. 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( https://heylemon.ai/?utm_source=sbloom ) ​ ************************************************ The Motivation Triangle: The Science of Progress ************************************************ In 1957, a Johns Hopkins professor named Dr. Curt Richter conducted an infamous experiment (of deeply troubling ethics) using a group of rats. The researchers placed 12 domesticated rats into jars of water. 3 of the 12 gave up quickly, while the other 9 swam for days before giving up. They conducted a similar experiment with a group of wild rats, known for their strong swimming skills. Surprisingly, all 34 wild rats died within minutes of being placed in the water. Dr. Richter wanted to understand why the wild rats had given up so quickly while some of the domesticated rats had fought for days. So, he designed a third test: He placed another group of wild rats into the water, but just before they were expected to succumb, he picked them up, held them briefly, and then placed them back in. 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It all began at my Think Week ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hp2703kt6i2d66p0kinhl5zel/x0hph6heomx28ns5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci90aGUtdGhpbmstd2Vlay1wbGF5Ym9vay1hLXN0ZXAtYnktc3RlcC1ndWlkZQ== ) retreat in January, when I pondered a single question: If you were the main character in a movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you to do right now? The answer, in this case, felt blindingly obvious: Get off the damn phone. I realized that everything I wanted to achieve in my personal and professional life seemed like a natural downstream consequence of spending less time on my phone: * More connected relationships with my wife, son, and family. * Deep, higher quality output on my most important projects. * Improved balance and day-to-day happiness. So, I decided to do something about it. I created a plan to break my phone addiction in 30 days—and I wrote about that plan in this newsletter. Thousands of you replied with positive responses, many declaring an intention or desire to do the same. But plans are nothing without execution. The world is filled with half-kept promises and unfulfilled intentions. You get the cheap dopamine hit from declaring your plan publicly—and then do precisely nothing to follow through on it. So, in the interest of full transparency, today, I'm proud to share the receipts: * The results of the phone addiction intervention * The tangible impact and ripple effects in my life * The specific tactics that worked (that you can steal and apply today) Let's dive into it... ----------- The Results ----------- The before-and-after of my phone use data tells the entire story: * Screen Time was down ~70% * Pickups were down ~50% ​ Those numbers are even more striking when you aggregate them across a month or a year. At the "after" levels, I get back ~134 hours each month. That's nearly 6 days of awake hours that are no longer spent looking at my phone. Play that out over a year and you get ~1,635 hours. That's 68 days of life reclaimed from a single behavior change. My mind is blown... --------------- The Life Impact --------------- I'm not going to sugarcoat it at all: This was the single most powerful behavior change I've ever made in terms of the tangible impact and ripple effects on my life. That is not an exaggeration. I'll break it down across three major areas: Family & Relationships ---------------------- I didn't tell my extended family that I was making this change. Only my wife knew. But within two weeks, I had received multiple comments from family members—including my mom and in-laws—about my perceived presence, happiness, and lower stress levels. In each case, they assumed that something was going well in my work or life. And in each case, I informed them that it was much simpler than that: I just didn't have my phone on me! My wife said she noticed an immediate impact in how attentive I was being with her. My time with my son felt much more engaged and vibrant. I was more present, less stressed, and able to connect on an entirely different level. In short, I showed up more aligned with how my ideal self would. Work ---- My capacity for deep work expanded significantly from simply placing my phone in another room or a lock box. Reviewing the research, this isn't surprising: There is clear scientific evidence ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hp2703kt6i2d66p0kinhl5zel/e0hph7h76z5v97c8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuam91cm5hbHMudWNoaWNhZ28uZWR1L2RvaS8xMC4xMDg2LzY5MTQ2Mg== ) that even having your phone in your pocket or on your desk reduces your cognitive capacity. Source: UChicago Study ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hp2703kt6i2d66p0kinhl5zel/e0hph7h76z5v97c8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuam91cm5hbHMudWNoaWNhZ28uZWR1L2RvaS8xMC4xMDg2LzY5MTQ2Mg== )​ I got more done, faster, at a higher quality bar. It was like the holy trinity of productivity improvement, with no fancy productivity tool required. Overall Happiness ----------------- I felt happier and less stressed immediately upon making the change. I believe the two biggest drivers of this were: * Improved Compartmentalization: When I was on my phone, it was for a clear, value-add purpose. When I was off my phone, I was focused on the work or people in front of me. The clear lines replaced the blurred ones from my life prior to the intervention. * Less Exposure to Negativity: The size of my platform exposes me to a lot of direct negativity on social media (and occasionally via rude emails). Also, the more time you spend on social media, the darker your perception of reality becomes ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu6lmokrgt6hp2703kt6i2d66p0kinhl5zel/owhkhqhwpe593ohv/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci9haS1uZWdhdGl2aXR5LWJpYXMtd2h5LXlvdS1vbmx5LWhlYXItYWJvdXQtYWktZG9vbQ== ). Reduced time on social media meant reduced exposure to all forms of negativity. So, just keeping score... This was a single, zero cost behavior change that had the net effect of: * Improving my relationships * Improving my work * Improving my happiness To be completely transparent, just a few days in, the only negative thought I had related to the intervention was simple: Why didn't I do this sooner? -------------------- The Specific Tactics -------------------- Ok, hopefully I've convinced you that this is something you can and should do. Now for the guide on how to do it. Please share and steal this. I tried a bunch of things as part of this phone addiction intervention. Here's exactly what worked: 1. Grayscale Mode ----------------- Put your phone on Grayscale Mode for the entire day. Grayscale Mode removes the colors to make your phone immediately less appealing and addicting. ​ It takes 30 seconds to set up. 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I called them No-Phone Zones: * Downstairs (kitchen, living room, basement, playroom) * Creative flow time (mornings from ~5-8am) * Family flow time (evenings from ~5-7pm) * Family gatherings During these windows, my phone would be in a lock box or in a drawer in my office. If we were out at a family gathering, I would leave it in the car or in my wife's bag where I couldn't feel it. Specifically listing out these No-Phone Zones had the benefit of making it a clear rule that I could cement in my mind. Create your list of No-Phone Zones. Write it down if you need to. 3. Strategic Friction --------------------- Even with the Grayscale Mode and No-Phone Zones, my phone addiction intervention would have been difficult to execute without this final piece of the puzzle. Motivation and discipline are never enough when you're trying to crack a deeply entrenched behavior. 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If I wanted to overuse them, I'd have to keep approving more time, which felt like letting myself down when I did it. Breaking the addiction is going to be difficult at first. Create strategic friction that helps you stick to the change. Make it difficult to make a bad choice. ---------------------------- Why Didn't I Do This Sooner? ---------------------------- I should mention that there were a few things that gave me trouble (or that didn't really stick): * Digital Sabbath: I attempted to do a full no phone day once per week. It was logistically very challenging given it tended to coincide with a family outing when I needed my phone for a variety of reasons (safety, photos, etc.). I’ll continue to experiment with this, but found the Digital Sabbath largely unnecessary when my daily use was down to a much lower baseline level. * Travel Days: Some of the worst setbacks were during my travel days to and from various speaking engagements. Stuck in airports during delays, sitting in Ubers, etc. My default setting to grab the phone was really highlighted during these periods. * Overcorrection Stress: This was an interesting one. I started to feel a pang of stress when I'd need to use my phone, knowing that I was trying to reduce my screen time. The metric of screen time became a minor obsession, so even legitimate uses (like booking an alternative flight during a bad delay) felt painful. It was bizarre, but worth noting as something you might experience if you're wired like me. * Gym Sessions: I'm still working on how to reduce my phone usage during my workouts. I tend to check my phone in between sets during my rest intervals. Taken all together, I really meant what I wrote earlier in the piece: Why didn't I do this sooner? I was correct in my belief that everything I wanted to improve in my life was downstream from spending less time on my phone. I've seen it. I've felt the impact. Now I just want to compound it. 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The stock market actually dropped as the piece made the rounds. Then, it was Block CEO Jack Dorsey announcing a 40% layoff at his company, from 10,000 to 6,000, citing the new way people were working with AI. His move sent the stock ripping 20% higher. Every commentator was quick to grab hold of his statement and actions as the start of an AI Doom Ripple through the economy. Weighing in on his announcement with a hard, pessimistic take became the trending behavior of the day. If you wanted to find a positive, optimistic counter to these narratives (which I did!), you had to put in sincere effort. Finding a negative, pessimistic take was as easy as refreshing your feed. The extraordinary virality of the AI Doom narrative is notable. It spreads rapidly to every corner of the internet. It's shared, talked about, and clicked on, millions upon millions of times. And as it turns out, cognitive science shows us why... ------------------------ The Negativity Doom Loop ------------------------ A 2023 study ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxqx4qki5i6w06266clhozd5o/kkhmh6hnr0ownmcl/aHR0cHM6Ly9wdWJtZWQubmNiaS5ubG0ubmloLmdvdi8zNjkyODc4MC8= ) of 105,000 headlines and 370 million impressions found that negative words drive consumption. ​ Quoting the research: "For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%" I want to stop here to reinforce this finding. This is critical to understand because it creates a fundamental self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to the information you see and consume. I might call this the Negativity Doom Loop: ​ Negative content is what gets more clicks and shares, which drive the economic machine of online media. What makes this loop so damning in the social media age is that the "market" of content creators responds to what they see working. They want the money (or at least the dopamine rush) of the clicks and shares that others are getting! So, you get a mad dash into the creation of negative content: ​ The point I'm trying to reinforce here is simple, but important: The incentives skew the content towards the negative. If you think about the content you consume as your information diet, it's easy to see how a diet based on this skewed content would not be a healthy one. Your view of reality would be warped. One of my favorite memes captures this better than I ever could: ​ So, yes, I feel like I need to say something about AI... And this may not be popular... I'm optimistic about the future. ----------------------- Towards A Balanced View ----------------------- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald has a quote I often come back to: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." That is what I believe is required in this moment with respect to AI. Two things can be true at once: * AI can be a disruptive, ground-shaking force, AND * Humans can thrive through it. Throughout history, there were profound technological innovations that created short-term instability and long-term progress. And if there's one truth, it's that it's often hard to see the progress when you're caught in the wave of instability. But a few things make me much more optimistic than the prevailing narrative: 1. The existence of a technology is very different than the widespread adoption of that technology. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Just because something exists, does not mean it has penetrated every nook and cranny of society. The real economy is filled with complexities and bottlenecks, and AI has its own (compute/electricity). The prior point is not to say that it's never coming, but that we have more time to build and adapt for a future with it than the doomsday scenarios would have you believe. 2. Productivity gains reduce costs and spark new demand. -------------------------------------------------------- A recent piece from Citadel ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxqx4qki5i6w06266clhozd5o/9qhzhnhd0vewdra9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2l0YWRlbHNlY3VyaXRpZXMuY29tL25ld3MtYW5kLWluc2lnaHRzLzIwMjYtZ2xvYmFsLWludGVsbGlnZW5jZS1jcmlzaXMv ) referenced a 1930 prediction by John Maynard Keynes that by the early 21st century, productivity growth would lead to a 15-hour workweek. They wrote: "He was directionally correct about productivity growth, but profoundly wrong about labor market implications. Rather than working dramatically less, societies consumed dramatically more. Why? Because rising productivity lowered costs and expanded the consumption frontier...History suggests productivity gains do not automatically translate into labor withdrawal or demand collapse as they alter the composition of demand, expand real incomes and generate new industries." In other words, the new productivity unlocked by AI could be an incredible positive, not the crippling negative that the doom narrative suggests. 3. The curious mind will thrive. -------------------------------- Referencing a famous Steve Jobs quote that called computers a "bicycle for the mind," Naval Ravikant called AI a "motorcycle for the mind." There's a unique opportunity for those who learn to ride that motorcycle. The curious, engaged mind will learn how to visit wonderful new places with it. You can spin up a business-of-one, pursue an idea, create value, and do things faster than ever before. The walls of credentialism are collapsing. The opportunity playing field is evening. Value created will be the only credential that will count. I think we may be entering the best time in history for the curious mind. And given this newsletter is called The Curiosity Chronicle, I'm bullish on the future for all of you, my curious readers! --------------------- The Value of Optimism --------------------- Pessimists sound smart. Optimists get rich (in ways including, but not limited to, money). In a recent study ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxqx4qki5i6w06266clhozd5o/wnh2hghqn2l7q0h7/aHR0cHM6Ly9wdWJtZWQubmNiaS5ubG0ubmloLmdvdi8zMTQ1MTYzNS8= ), researchers found optimism is actually linked to a longer lifespan. ​ So, let's all strive to be a bit more optimistic. Not blindly, but thoughtfully. By becoming aware of the overwhelming bias towards negativity. By making a concerted effort to balance your information diet. By holding two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time, and still retaining the ability to function. I don't think there is any denying that the coming few decades will have periods of uncertainty. Jobs that felt safe may no longer be. Career paths we planned for will get shaken up. To paraphrase Mark Twain, a lot of things we know for sure probably just ain't so. But despite all of that, you'll make it through. Recall my recent piece ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxqx4qki5i6w06266clhozd5o/m2h7h5h3v6l5mqbm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci90aGUtZW5kLW9mLWhpc3RvcnktaWxsdXNpb24jOn46dGV4dD1UaGUlMjBtaXN0YWtlJTIweW91LGp1c3QlMjB0aGUlMjBiZWdpbm5pbmcu ) on the End of History Illusion, which is the psychological phenomenon that we underestimate our ability to change in the future: I wrote: The mistake you make is in assuming that the uncertainty ahead will ask today's version of you to shoulder tomorrow's challenges. ​ It doesn't. ​ The external uncertainty is a catalyst for internal change. You are not a fixed entity. 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The best things in life come from allowing compounding to work its magic. Growth happens gradually, then suddenly. Slowly, then all at once. ------------------------ The Intelligence Paradox ------------------------ Intelligence can lead to stupidity. Highly intelligent people are more likely to fall victim to overthinking, overplanning, or overanalyzing. They create complexity rather than doing the boring, easy, obvious thing that works. Never let your head outsmart your common sense. ------------------ The Effort Paradox ------------------ Effortless, elegant performances are simply the result of a large volume of effortful, gritty practice. You have to put in more effort to make something appear effortless. Small things become big things. ----------------------- The Hard Things Paradox ----------------------- Doing hard things makes life easier. When you take on voluntary struggle, you're better prepared for the involuntary struggle that inevitably enters your world. Hard now, easy later. Easy now, hard later. The choice is yours. ------------------- The Mastery Paradox ------------------- There's a Zen parable I love: A martial arts student asks the master how long it will take to achieve mastery. ​ The teacher replies, "10 years." ​ The impatient student responds, "I want to master it faster than that. I'll work harder. I'll practice harder. How long will it take then?" ​ The teacher smiles and answers, "20 years." Author Aldous Huxley once wrote, "The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed." The more you press, the slower your progress. Balanced effort creates profound results. ---------------------- The Persuasion Paradox ---------------------- Have you ever noticed that the most argumentative people rarely persuade anyone of anything? Persuasive people don't argue. They observe. They listen. They ask thoughtful questions. Argue less to persuade more. Persuasion is an art that requires a paintbrush, not a sledgehammer. ------------------- The Failure Paradox ------------------- You have to fail more to succeed more. Our most transformative moments of growth come from our hardest moments of failure. Don't fear failure. Learn to fail smart and fast. Never fail the same way twice. Always put yourself in the arena. ------------------ The Icarus Paradox ------------------ In a tale from Greek mythology, Icarus used wings crafted from wax and feathers to take off in flight and escape the island of Crete. He became emboldened by his early success, ignored his father's warnings, and flew too close to the sun, which melted the wings and sent Icarus falling to his death. You may achieve early success with one thing, but overconfidence from that success can blind you to coming disruption. 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Every successful investor and builder has stories of the invaluable lessons from a terrible loss in their career. Sometimes you have to pay to learn. Always put skin in the game. ------------------------ The Social Media Paradox ------------------------ More connectedness makes us less connected. Social media has created more connectedness than ever before, but we feel less connected to those right in front of us. Disconnect to reconnect. ------------------------ The Productivity Paradox ------------------------ Work longer, get less done. Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. Give yourself eight hours to do something, it'll take eight hours. Give yourself one hour, you'll finish it in one. Stop grazing on low value work. Work like a lion instead. Sprint. Rest. Repeat. --------------------- The Shrinking Paradox --------------------- You may need to shrink before you can grow. Growth is never linear. To reach the higher summit, you may need to climb down from the current one. Normalize short-term subtraction that creates long-term addition. One step back, two steps forward is a recipe for success. ----------------------- The Opportunity Paradox ----------------------- Take on less to accomplish more. Success doesn't come from saying yes to everything that comes your way. It comes from saying no to the things that don't matter so that you have space for the things that do. Every yes is a no to something else. Your time is finite. Protect it. ---------------- The Fear Paradox ---------------- The thing you fear the most is often the thing you most need to do. Fears, when avoided, become limiters. The most successful people run toward what scares them. They treat fear as a magnet for their energy. The growth you seek is hidden in the fears you avoid. ------------------- The Boredom Paradox ------------------- Boredom sparks creativity. Your most interesting, captivating ideas come during periods of boredom. On a walk. In the shower. In the car. You're bored, your mind wanders, your thoughts mingle, and creative insight strikes. Make time to be bored. ------------------- The Solomon Paradox ------------------- King Solomon was known as the wisest man who ever lived. But unfortunately, that legendary wisdom did not extend to his own life. He had 700 wives, 300 concubines, a growing obsession with wealth, and a kingdom that collapsed within a generation of his death. King Solomon was great at giving advice, but bad at taking his own. We tend to reason more wisely about others’ problems than ours. We see our friends' situations with perfect clarity, but our own through a fog of emotion, ego, and fear. The wisdom you offer others is inside you. Always ask yourself, "What would I tell my best friend to do?" Then, take your own advice. ----------------- The Speed Paradox ----------------- You have to slow down to speed up. Slowing down allows you to restore your energy. You notice things you previously missed. You're more deliberate with your actions. You focus on the points of highest leverage. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. -------------------- The Beginner Paradox -------------------- You have to start weak to end strong. The most successful people I know love the feeling of being an embarrassing beginner. They thrive on the newness. They love diving into something with child-like curiosity. It's a positive signal. Every master started out as a novice. Embrace that embarrassment of being a beginner. It's the cost of entry to the life you want. ------------------- The Looking Paradox ------------------- Stop looking to find what you're looking for. Ever notice that when you're looking for something, you rarely find it? Stop looking. What you're looking for may find you. 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He famously preached to his students, "Man muss immer umkehren." Translation: Invert, always invert. As it turns out, this idea echoes across history, showing up in a variety of places before and after Jacobi: * In medicine, the first rule drilled into every young doctor is an inversion: First, do no harm. * In art, Michelangelo was once asked how he carved the statue of David. He's rumored to have replied that he simply removed everything that wasn't David. * In investing, Warren Buffett said that he built his incredible track record on two simple rules: (1) Don't lose money, and (2) Don't forget Rule 1. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's late business partner, distilled it even further: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there." Different fields. Different centuries. Same insight. There's a name for this principle: Via Negativa. The negative path. The path of removal. It finds its origins in ancient theological and philosophical practices, as a way of describing God by describing what God is not. But the application is universal: To get closer to your truth, remove what doesn't belong. To achieve your goals and create your vision for the future, avoid what holds you back. Today, I'd like to tell you about a practical tool for doing just that... I call it my Anti-To-Do List. We all know the To-Do List. That staple of modern productivity. The daily guide for where to direct your attention. But it only governs one side of the equation. It tells you what to focus on, but nothing about what to avoid. It's like staring at your feet while you go for a walk. You'll certainly walk somewhere, but when you eventually look up, you may realize somewhere was never really the goal. The Anti-To-Do List is your Via Negativa tool for life: It's a simple list of behaviors, habits, mindsets, self-limiting beliefs, or patterns that you want to avoid. The things you don't want to do. They are anti-to-dos. Not because they're catastrophic, per se, but because they slowly hold you back from operating at full power. They silently pull you away from the life you want and deserve. A few specifics of how to think about this list: * Create a physical Anti-To-Do List that sits in front of you in the same way your To-Do List does. A huge part of the effectiveness of this tool is that it serves as a constant reminder when you see it. * Keep just ~3-5 items on the list at any time. More than that and it becomes challenging to manage. * Use "Do not [XXX]" as the syntax for each item on the list. * The list is dynamic. Similar to your To-Do List, it should evolve over periods of time. But some items will be more persistent, as they require longer periods of focus to cement the avoidance in your wiring. * The goal is to "graduate" items after extended periods of 100% compliance. If there was an issue plaguing you that you wanted to fix (like scrolling TikTok instead of being present with your friends), you'd have that at the top of your Anti-To-Do List until it was clear that your behavior had changed and cemented. Then you could move it down the list or remove it altogether. Replace "graduated" items with new friction points to work on. To bring this to life and help you create your own, here are some of the items that are on my current Anti-To-Do List (or have been in the past): P.S. I created a simple web-based Anti-To-Do List Tracker ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkupv02qx5u5hlr4er5i8i8e29xdvfmh258w2/kkhmh6hnrm755zcl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vYW50aS10by1kby1saXN0 ) that you can use to get started. You can find the tool here ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkupv02qx5u5hlr4er5i8i8e29xdvfmh258w2/kkhmh6hnrm755zcl/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vYW50aS10by1kby1saXN0 ). Please feel free to share it! -------------------------- My Current Anti-To-Do List -------------------------- 1. Do not use your phone around your family. -------------------------------------------- A few weeks ago, I wrote about my realization that everything I want to improve in life is downstream from spending less time on my phone ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkupv02qx5u5hlr4er5i8i8e29xdvfmh258w2/58hvh7hgq7ennqf6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci9ob3ctaW0tYnJlYWtpbmctbXktcGhvbmUtYWRkaWN0aW9uLWluLTMwLWRheXM= ). I also shared my plan to cut my phone addiction. That plan is working wonders in my life (more to come on that), but a big part of sticking to it long-term is having that "No phone with fam" note in front of me daily. 2. Do not be an ostrich. ------------------------ There's something called the Ostrich Effect, which is named after the animal's tendency to bury its head in the sand to avoid danger. Humans are much the same when we encounter new information or evidence that challenges our pre-existing beliefs. In a rapidly changing and uncertain world like the present, your beliefs are constantly being challenged. I refuse to be an ostrich. I want to update my thinking when high quality new evidence comes to light. P.S. This is part of Bayesian Thinking, a structured approach to updating beliefs. I'll write a piece on it soon. Reply YES to this email if you're interested! 3. Do not jump at shiny objects. -------------------------------- In the past, I've been a frequent victim of shiny object syndrome. I get excited about new things and spread my attention thin. Right now, I'm at a moment in my life where I have incredible clarity around my focus areas. I'm seeing it start to compound ferociously. The best way for me to screw that up would be to jump at the hundreds of shiny objects that get thrown into my orbit on a weekly basis. 4. Do not confuse simulating with doing. ---------------------------------------- A recent observation: There are a lot of ways in which we simulate something rather than doing it. You can simulate productivity by creating a million dashboards and fancy automations, but it's very different than actually being productive. You can simulate presence by being in a room, but it's very different from truly being present and opening your mind to the people you're with. You can simulate progress by gathering information, reading, seeking advice, and watching videos, but it's very different from actually doing something. I want to be a doer, not a simulator. A photo of my current Anti-To-Do List on my desk ------------------------------- My Former Anti-To-Do List Items ------------------------------- Do not engage in energy draining communication. ----------------------------------------------- The "pick your brain" and "get to know you" zooms and phone calls are where my energy goes to die. If there's not a clear purpose and action associated with a call or videoconference, I don't do it. I've never built a meaningful relationship over calls or zoom meetings, so I default to in person interaction. Do not complain about anything. ------------------------------- If the thing is within your control, then go do something about it. If the thing is out of your control, then it's just a waste of energy to complain about it. Do not assume improvement. -------------------------- You can't improve what you don't track. I've fallen into this trap on several occasions. Going to the gym, but never tracking anything I was doing. Thinking about saving money, but never tracking a budget or spending. The moment you start tracking things is the moment you start improving. P.S. On gym tracking, I use a pen and paper (old school!). On the money tracking, I use Origin ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkupv02qx5u5hlr4er5i8i8e29xdvfmh258w2/25h2hoh36d5889h3/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAudXNlb3JpZ2luLmNvbS9zaWduLXVwL2R0Yz9wdWxzZV9jcD1zYWhpbGJsb29tJnB1bHNlX21kPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImcHVsc2Vfc2M9aW5mbHVlbmNlciZwdWxzZV90bT1haV9hZHZpc29yJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zYWhpbGJsb29tJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWluZmx1ZW5jZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09YWlfYWR2aXNvcg== ). It's the best tool I've used (and $1 for the first year). I invested because I loved it. Do not say yes to things assuming more time for them in future. --------------------------------------------------------------- The "Yes, Damn!" Effect says that we systematically overestimate the amount of free time we will have in the future. We say yes to future things under the assumption that we will have more time for them, but when that future date arrives, we regret it. You won't have more time in the future. If you wouldn't want to do the thing tomorrow, don't say yes to doing it a month from now. Do not hit the snooze button. ----------------------------- It's not about sleep, it's about stacking evidence that you are in control. Do not graze on low-value tasks. -------------------------------- Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. When you don't set fixed windows for managing low-value tasks (like email), you end up "grazing" on them (spending all day doing them slowly and inefficiently). Create short, discrete windows for processing low importance tasks. Leverage AI to automate these tasks as much as possible so you can ascend to higher modes of thinking and work. -------------------- Your Anti-To-Do List -------------------- Ok, now it's your turn to put this tool into action. Here's how to create yours in the next 10 minutes: * Audit your key domains: Think about your work, health, relationships, and personal development. 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After you order, email me your receipt so I can mark it as a friend on my end and share some personal routine tips. ​ ********************************************************* The Noise Bottleneck: The Subtle Trap of More Information ********************************************************* This is one of my favorites: "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs." - Derek Sivers Humor aside, it's a critical idea for modern life: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. 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Taleb differentiates between two types of information: * Signal: The meaningful, relevant information or data you want to detect. * Noise: The unwanted, random, or irrelevant interference that obscures that information. Taleb's core argument is that as you increase the frequency of observation (i.e. consume more data), you dramatically increase the relative proportion of noise. Signal tends to be persistent and slow moving, while noise is constant and random. The signal won’t move much in more frequent observations, but you’ll capture a lot more noise. In his example, if you look at any piece of data on different time intervals, you will experience a very different ratio of signal to noise: * Yearly Observation: 50% signal, 50% noise * Daily Observation: 5% signal, 95% noise * Hourly Observation: 0.5% signal, 99.5% noise He concludes that more data creates what he calls a Noise Bottleneck: "This is hard to accept in the age of the internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on..." You think you know more, but you actually know less. This is a particularly damning problem in a social media era where it’s easy to plug into the 24/7 IV drip of information that’s just noise masquerading as signal. You know that person who watches the news for 10 hours a day but somehow seems to understand less about the world? That's the Noise Bottleneck in action. Or maybe you know the person who tracks 50 variables to make investing decisions but somehow underperforms a simple index fund? That's the Noise Bottleneck. Or maybe you're friends with a guy who meticulously tracks 800 nodes on his personal productivity system, but can't seem to get anything done? That's the Noise Bottleneck. But as is typically the case with ideas I share in this newsletter, I think the concept of a Noise Bottleneck applies well beyond the realm of data consumption or information gathering... I'm particularly interested in two adjacent applications: 1. The Creator Application -------------------------- As a purveyor of ideas, I think the Noise Bottleneck provides a helpful lens through which to evaluate and establish a bar for what I share. If a person were to consume 20% of the content I share, how knowledgeable would they be about the topics I care about? If that same person were to now consume 80% of the content I share, would they be more knowledgeable or less knowledgeable? In other words, am I creating a Noise Bottleneck with the incremental ideas, or am I maintaining a high signal bar? I think this is a useful lens to consider whether or not you're a creator in the common sense of the word. We are all creators in one way, shape, or form. As a leader in your family, company, or community, you are a purveyor of ideas. Do those who "follow you" gain or lose from consuming progressively more of those ideas? 2. The Work Application ----------------------- As a professional, I think the Noise Bottleneck provides a helpful lens through which to consider your focus. If I were to work 50% as much as I do today, how much would I earn relative to my current level? Think about that question deeply. It's tempting to come to a quick conclusion that you'd earn much less, but for most of us, we'd find ways to be hyper-productive during those working hours. We'd uncover efficiencies. We'd unlock new ways of working. We'd focus on the few things that really deliver results. So, in some sense, you're suffering from a Noise Bottleneck when it comes to your own work. You're working more, but you're actually less productive. Use the insights from that question analysis to think about ways you can make improvements today. Focus on the few things that really matter. Use the tools that are at your disposal. 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Hearing the plea, the young king had all the evidence he needed: "Give [this] woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother." He knew that only the real mother would cry out in agony at the thought of the baby being harmed. The young king was named King Solomon, and this story, told in the Old Testament (1 Kings 3), gave birth to a legend. King Solomon was known all the world around for his wisdom. In fact, that wisdom was said to have been bestowed by God himself. In a dream, God appeared and granted him a single request. Rather than ask for wealth, health, power, or victory over his enemies, King Solomon replied: "Give me an understanding heart so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong" That request was granted—and King Solomon's reputation as the wisest man who ever lived was born. But unfortunately, that legendary wisdom and discernment regarding the affairs of others did not extend to his own life. King Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, a growing obsession with wealth, and a kingdom that collapsed within a generation of his death. In short, King Solomon was great at giving advice, but bad at taking his own. And to be fair, he was not alone... ----------------- Solomon's Paradox ----------------- As it turns out, this is a science-backed human phenomenon. In 2014, a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo ran a series of experiments ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/75u4z8k69os8h6qd7z0tniwrrmr66bnh09z20/9qhzhnhd020z95t9/aHR0cHM6Ly9wdWJtZWQubmNiaS5ubG0ubmloLmdvdi8yNDkxNjA4NC8= ) in which participants were asked to reflect on a conflict in their own romantic relationship or a conflict in someone else's relationship. Participants were evaluated on markers of "wise reasoning," including: * Intellectual humility * Perspective-taking * Considering uncertainty * Searching for compromise The psychologists wanted to answer a single question: Are people wiser when reflecting on other people's problems compared with their own? The answer was a resounding yes. When it was someone else's conflict, participants were balanced, reflective, and nuanced. When it was their own, they showed more bias, less humility, more defensiveness, and less capacity to consider alternative viewpoints. Pointing back to the story of King Solomon, the researchers named their finding Solomon's Paradox: The tendency to reason more wisely about others’ problems than our own. Ever wonder why you're able to provide clear, rational advice to others, but struggle to provide that same quality to yourself? You are a victim of Solomon's Paradox. Here's how to escape it: ------------------------------- How to Escape Solomon's Paradox ------------------------------- Step 1: Practice Self-Distancing -------------------------------- The primary driver of Solomon's Paradox is proximity. You're too close to your problems. Your emotional connection to a situation clouds your better judgment. You try to protect your own ego. It makes you irrational. Biased. Defensive. Self-distancing is the practice of creating space from the situation. I think of self-distancing in two broad categories: * Psychological: Creating psychological separation from the situation. * Physical: Creating physical separation from the situation. Psychological Self-Distancing can include: * Third-person self-talk. Refer to yourself by name ("What should Sahil do?" rather than "What should I do?"). * Forced zoom out. Imagine yourself in the future, looking back on the present moment. * Slow, meditative breathing. A few slow, deep breaths can pull you back to center. Physical Self-Distancing can include: * Change of scenery. Get out of the physical space where the situation is happening. * Active rest. Go for a short walk or drive to shift your perspective and clear your head. Self-distancing is shown to reduce emotional connection to a situation, lower the threat to your ego, expand your cognitive flexibility, and increase integrative thinking. Once you've created that space, you can move to the next step. ​ Step 2: Have a Self-Coaching Session ------------------------------------ Imagine you had immediate access to a world class coach with a perfect, deep understanding of your life and context. Well, it turns out, you do. That's you. So, have a coaching session with yourself. I use email—an email chain with myself—but any tool will work. Pretend you're a third party coach and look at your current situation or struggle from that new vantage point. To give you a deeper view of what this might look like, here's one such coaching conversation as I was wrestling with imposter syndrome surrounding my 2025 book launch: ​ A few key lines that really helped: * "Let's deconstruct this a bit. What specifically is causing the fear?" This forced me to articulate the fear, break it down into real component parts, to understand its roots. * "Most importantly, it means you CARE. It means you're doing something meaningful to you." This reminded me that the fear is grounded in something positive. * "Look back on your life and remember that every single transformation you've gone through has come on the other side of a brief, intense confrontation with this exact feeling." This reminded me that my track record for getting through this is good, and that transformation follows. If you're going to do one of these coaching sessions, a few prompts that help: * Deconstruct: Ask yourself to deconstruct the fear or feeling. * Zoom Out: Ask yourself to zoom out and see the bigger picture. * Question Assumptions: Ask yourself whether the stories and assumptions are true, or if they're just embedded from perpetual use. A coaching session with yourself may sound crazy. Trust me, it works. -------------------------- Asking The Right Questions -------------------------- King Solomon had the wisdom to solve everyone's problems but his own... Unfortunately, this wasn't an isolated issue, but a human one. Most of us are the same. We see our friends' situations with perfect clarity, but our own through a fog of emotion, ego, and fear. But here's the real truth: The wisdom you offer others is inside you. You just need to create the space to access and act upon it in your own life. So, maybe escaping Solomon's Paradox is as simple as this: The next time you face a struggle, don't ask, "What should I do?" Ask, "What would I tell my best friend to do?" Then, take your own advice. You already have the answers. 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Unfortunately, the importance of space has been forgotten in a modern world where busyness is the standard. And without space, you get stuck. Trapped in a fixed loop of inputs and outputs, the 1-to-1 trades that keep you on the life treadmill. You become a rocking horse, always moving, but never getting anywhere. Today, I’d like to share a detailed playbook for a space-creating ritual that changed my life. Here’s a step-by-step guide for running your own Think Week (or Day): P.S. 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Most people can find 1-2 hours to carve out from their schedule, but it’s more difficult to plan 2-4 days if you have a family, work commitments, etc. ------------------------- Step 2: Create Your Rules ------------------------- No matter what format you choose, establish a few clear rules to govern the experience. The three general rules I’ve established for my Think Weeks (or Days): * Limited technology. It’s important to disconnect from the constant stimulus. If you need some level of connectivity, structure it into discrete windows and leave the items in a separate room outside of those. * Use analog tools. I use a notebook and pen as my primary instruments and also love having a large whiteboard or sticky sheets to have more physical space to flesh out the bigger topics. * Avoid disruptions. No scheduled meetings, phone calls, or interruptions that will break your flow state. My rules are a simple reflection of what has made my experiences most valuable in the past, but you can add, edit, or adapt them as you see fit. Just make sure you stick to the rules you create! ---------------------------- Step 3: Build Your Structure ---------------------------- Once you have a format, build out a structure for the experience. In general, I like to split into Professional and Personal segments. Then, based on the format length, you build out an outline for the experience. A few proposed structures might look like this: Think Day (Condensed) --------------------- I would structure the experience as follows: * 8-8:45am: Professional Focus Session * 8:45-9:30am: Personal Focus Session * 9:30-10am: Final Reflection Session The Professional and Personal Focus Sessions will be working through thinking prompts with a professional or personal lens. The Final Reflection Session is an opportunity to consolidate your insights and create an action plan around the next steps. Think Day (Full) ---------------- I would structure the day as follows: * 8-10am: Professional Focus Session * 10-10:30am: Break/Walk * 10:30-12:30pm: Personal Focus Session * 12:30-1:30: Break/Walk * 1:30-3:30pm: Open Focus Session * 3:30-4pm: Break/Walk * 4-5pm: Final Reflection Session The Professional, Personal, and Reflection Sessions are the same as in the Condensed Think Day. The Open Focus Session is intended to provide an open window to go deeper on specific pain points or insights that have been uncovered in the earlier sessions. Note: Don’t skip the breaks/walks! The science ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxm3g8eh5i6ww0wggalhozd5o/58hvh7hgqvvdmea6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci90aGUtYXJjaGltZWRlcy1wcmluY2lwbGUtdGhlLXNjaWVuY2Utb2Ytc3VkZGVuLWluc2lnaHQ= ) supports the idea that active rest helps unlock breakthroughs. They are placed strategically throughout the day to activate this process. Think Week (3 Day) ------------------ I would split the multi-day experience as follows: * Day 1: Professional Focus * Day 2: Personal Focus * Day 3: Open Focus My rough agenda for each day would look like this: * 5-8am: Morning Routine, Fitness, Breakfast * 8-10am: Focus Session 1 * 10-10:30am: Break/Walk * 10:30-12:30pm: Focus Session 2 * 12:30-1:30: Break/Walk * 1:30-3:30pm: Focus Session 3 * 3:30-4pm: Break/Walk * 4-5pm: Final Reflection Session * 5-8pm: Dinner, Evening Routine, Sleep With a full day for each major life area, plus an open day, you’ll be able to create breakout sessions on specific sub-areas. For example, on the Professional Focus day, you might do specific Focus Sessions on each major business segment or opportunity. On the Personal Focus day, you might do specific Focus Sessions on each of the relationships, physical health, and mental health. Given the multi-day nature of the Think Week, I recommend ventilating the agenda with open, spacious pockets for movement, breaks, and meals. It will keep you fresh and make the entire experience feel energizing, rather than exhausting. Note: You can run a Think Week or Full Think Day in a group setting with your co-founders, team, partner, or family. I’ve done so with great results. If you’re going to do this, my recommendation would be to keep the Focus Sessions individual and come together for collaborative reflection sessions built out around meals. This will provide an opportunity to share your insights, ask each other questions, and reflect without interfering with the core individual thinking time. --------------------------- Step 4: Select Your Prompts --------------------------- With your format, rules, and structure in hand, you can plan the prompts that will guide your sessions. I think of the prompts as being split across two broad categories: * Wings: Zoom out. Create a new perspective. Think bigger. Reframe. * Boots: Zoom in. Create a new plan. Action-oriented. Tactical. For each Focus Session, I like to spend the bulk of my time with the Wings and then finish with the Boots. The Wings are essential for uncovering fresh perspectives and insights that the Boots will build new actions upon. The most effective approach (in my experience) is to start with a blank page in your notebook and write the prompt at the top. Give yourself the space to ask the question over and over again in your mind. Don't apply pressure to immediately have the answer. Stew on it. Wrestle with it. Turn it over. As you start to have thoughts, write them down as a stream of consciousness. Again, avoid the tendency to have a clear answer or structure to your response. Just write. It will feel uncomfortable at first—and that's the point. That discomfort is the cost of entry for the breakthrough. Here are 15 of my favorite prompts (split by category): Wings ----- If I were the main character in a movie of my life, what would the audience be screaming at me to do right now? ----------------------------------------------------------------- We've all had that experience of watching a movie or TV show and just wanting to jump through the screen, grab the main character, and shake some sense into them. You are that main character in the movie of your life, and there is something the audience would be screaming at you right now. So, what is it? What is that thing that is so blindingly obvious from the outside looking in, that you are either choosing to ignore, or have yet to create enough perspective to see? If someone were to observe me for a week, what would they say my priorities are? ----------------------------------------------------------------- There are two types of priorities in life: * The priorities we say we have. * The priorities are actions show we have. There's often a big gap between the two. Your life improves alongside your ability to close the gap. If someone were to observe me for a week, how serious would they say I am about my goals? ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is a close relative of the priorities question. Are you taking the pursuit of your goals as seriously as you think? It's easy to convince yourself that you're doing what's necessary, but would that third-party observer say? What lie have I repeated to myself so many times that it feels like truth? ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Illusory Truth Effect is the tendency to believe false information after consistent, repeated exposures. In other words, if you are told a lie over and over again, it takes root in your mind as a truth. Observe your internal dialogue: What lie have you been repeating to yourself? About your capabilities. About your worth. About your growth. Recognize it, then fight back. If I knew I would die in 10 years, what would I do today? --------------------------------------------------------- You've heard the shorter-term version of this question (if today were my last day...), but I find it minimally impactful, as the answer usually involves seismic, dramatic change. If today were my last day, I wouldn't do any of this, I'd probably just sit around hugging my family! The time horizon that works: 10 years. 10 years is long enough that you still have a lot of time left, but short enough that it's very quantifiable. What changes would you make if you knew you wouldn't be around after 2036? What big thing would you finally pursue? What fears would melt away? What new fears would appear? Who would you remove from your life? Who would you spend more time with? Do I actually want the successful version of this? -------------------------------------------------- A lot of people spend their entire lives climbing a mountain, only to reach the top and realize they don't like the view. What does the summit of your current mountain actually look like? Do the people who have reached it have lives that you actually want? If not, you may want to course correct sooner rather than later. In what ways am I creating the situation that I don't want? ----------------------------------------------------------- Humans have a set of pre-wired defense mechanisms to protect our ego from damage. When we face a negative situation, our bias is to look outward for the external causes of that negativity. This question forces you to look inward: Are your actions, mindsets, or patterns contributing to the negative situation? What would I attempt if I knew I couldn't fail? ----------------------------------------------- We all have that one thing in our lives: * That one thing we've always wanted to do. * That one risk we've always wanted to take. * That one person we've always wanted to talk to. * That one goal we've always wanted to set. Unfortunately, a paralyzing fear of failure stands in our way, so most will never go do it. But what's stopping you from attempting that thing? Is the failure really that costly? Is it really that irreversible? Usually, it's not as scary as you think. How would the different people in your life describe you? --------------------------------------------------------- There are two versions of you: * Aspirational: How you want to think, act, and behave on a daily basis. How you want to show up in the world. * Actual: How you actually think, act, and behave on a daily basis. How you actually do show up in the world. There will always be a gap—and that's a good thing. It means you have room to grow. But in a simple sense, the goal is to have the two be the same. How would the people in your various spheres of life (family, friends, colleagues, etc.) describe you? How do those descriptions align with what you would want them to say? Boots ----- What is the pebble in my shoe? ------------------------------ Muhammad Ali once said, "It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe." The mountain is the big, obvious obstacle that stands before you. The pebble is the small, silent enemy that holds you back: * The fixed mindset you maintain * The bad habit you refuse to break * The self-limiting story you tell yourself * The negative people you allow to drain your energy A pebble may not seem like a big deal—but walk 10 miles with it in your shoe and you'll see and feel the impact of a tiny issue amplified by distance and time. So, what's your pebble? Remember: You can't conquer your mountain until you remove your pebble. If everything were to stay the same, what one change would create the greatest impact? ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you could only change a single variable in your life, which one would have the greatest impact? The forced constraint is helpful in identifying the atomic variable—the one change with ripple effects into every other area. This prompt helped me identify a change I needed to make around my phone addiction ( https://a01c829f.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p6v7ivhxm3g8eh5i6ww0wggalhozd5o/qvh8h7hdz77md7il/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci9ob3ctaW0tYnJlYWtpbmctbXktcGhvbmUtYWRkaWN0aW9uLWluLTMwLWRheXM= ). That realization is already having enormous positive ripple effects into my personal and professional life after just two weeks. How can I bring the after into the before? ------------------------------------------ Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 hard workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of focused work, or 100 hard conversations. Self-improvement is a byproduct of taking actions that feel painful now, but good later. The most disciplined people in the world consistently pull that feeling of the after into the before. How can you do the same to improve your actions today? If I were to repeat my current day for 100 days, would my life be better or worse? ----------------------------------------------------------------- What changes need to be made to the days for you to achieve the life you want in the years and decades? How would your actions from a typical day compound in your life? Would they be driving you forward in the direction of your goals and vision? Would they be steering you off course? What are the Boat Anchors in my life? ------------------------------------- Boat Anchors are the people, mindsets, and actions that hold you back from your potential. They create a drag on your life. They include: * People who belittle, put down, or diminish your accomplishments. Who laugh at your ambition and tell you to be more realistic. Who harm the quality of your environment through negativity and pessimism. * Self-limiting beliefs, stories, and mindsets. * Bad habits that cut into your growth. Identify the Boat Anchors that exist in your life so you can mitigate their impact. Am I allowing more information to get in the way of more action? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. We tell ourselves we can't make that habit change or life move because we need to gather more information before we do. But it's just an excuse to hide behind. Do you really need more information, or do you need to take more action on the information you already have? Get your dopamine from action. ------------------------------- Step 5: Execute Your Experience ------------------------------- With your prompts selected, you're ready to begin. Before you start, set your intention with a single question: If this were to be a 10/10 experience, what would I be walking away with? A few final notes and words of advice for the experience: * Resist the urge to force anything. When you hit a wall (which you will), just sit with it. I've found that the biggest breakthroughs often come after sitting with the discomfort just a little bit longer. * If you need a break, go for a walk (but don't use your phone). Walking breaks will add to the experience. * Writing out your thoughts will help you cut through the noise. Don't feel the need for the writing to look polished. This isn't for anyone else to see. It's for you to feel. At the end of the Think Week (or Day), consolidate your insights and learnings into a single one-pager in your notebook. What were the 3-5 core takeaways? The process of forcing this distillation is powerful. Don't skip it. Take a photo of the page (and any of the essential underlying material) and email to yourself for posterity and record-keeping purposes. Note: If you're a power AI user, you can upload the photos into your favorite AI tool to provide it with context that may be helpful as you execute on the changes in the days and weeks ahead. I do not advocate for using AI during the experience itself, as I believe the value comes from the individual, often uncomfortable, alone time in your head. ------------------------ Your Think Week Playbook ------------------------ The Think Week is a transformative experience. It doesn't require any special talent or intelligence—just a willingness to create the space for the transformation to occur. 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By only mapping the bullet holes on planes that were damaged and able to return, they were systematically omitting data on a critical, unseen subset: Planes that were damaged and unable to return. This was important in considering where to add reinforcement: * The seen planes had incurred damage that was survivable. * The unseen planes had incurred damage that was not. With this simple, yet profound, insight, Abraham Wald reached the contrarian conclusion that reinforcement armor should be added to the unharmed regions of the returning planes. The unharmed regions were the most vulnerable, he reasoned. This was where the fatal damage was incurred—where bullets caused planes to never make it home. ​ Accepting his conclusion, the military reinforced the engine and other vulnerable parts of its planes, significantly improving the safety of their crews during combat and likely saving thousands of lives. Abraham Wald had identified a cognitive bias called Survivorship Bias. And his warning on its dangers extends into every area of your life... -------------------------------- The Perils of Studying Survivors -------------------------------- Survivorship Bias is the error that results from systematically focusing on survivors (successes) and ignoring casualties (failures). It distorts your understanding of the world by causing you to miss the true base rates of success—the actual probability of success. You can find examples of Survivorship Bias everywhere you look: * Books on the common traits of successful people fail to consider all of the unsuccessful people that had those same traits. * Studies on the cultural strategies of the most successful companies ignore the companies that followed those same strategies and fell apart. * Applause for the entrepreneur who takes out a second mortgage and wins big fails to consider the long list of entrepreneurs who did the same and lost everything. * Celebration of the "college dropout" success stories ignores the casualties of the same decision. When you only draw data from the most easily visible sample (the survivors), you have a biased sample that is not representative of reality. And if your sample is not an accurate representation of reality, you may talk yourself into a poorly informed decision that leads you into peril. 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The goal is to fill out the other three quadrants with information and data to form a more balanced, accurate representation of reality. Let's look at a simple example: Evaluating the decision to drop out of college to start a company. ​ It's very easy to only consider the seen evidence in this example. The list of famous entrepreneurs who dropped out to start their company is an impressive one, including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell. But focusing exclusively on these survivors misses a lot of unseen evidence. * No Action, Win: Those who got their college degree and succeeded on an extraordinary level. This list includes Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. * Action, Lose: Those who dropped out and failed. While hard to find specific names, there are many such cases, and the data on the earnings impact of college degrees is positive. * No Action, Lose: Those who got their college degree and failed. 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The inbound plane hadn’t left yet and was in a series of rolling delays. (Every frequent flyer knows what it means when you start seeing the delays stacking on top of each other…) I was gutted that I wouldn’t be home for dinner with my wife and son. My reality had fallen well below my (admittedly high) expectation. Just as the model predicted, my happiness plummeted. My expectations also reset to a much lower level: I resigned myself to the fact that I probably wouldn’t make it home until the following evening. And then, unexpectedly, an alternative flight emerged. Despite the inbound flight experiencing similar rolling delays, it wasn’t cancelled. I moved quickly, snuck through on standby, and made it home at midnight—well after my wife and son were asleep, but home nonetheless. As I sat in the kitchen eating a reheated dinner alone, I realized I had the biggest, most genuine smile on my face. Maybe low expectations really are the key to life, I thought to myself. But then I paused. 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I recently spoke ( https://a01c829f.click.kit-mail6.com/0vu59kpgv2i9h9n8wvzc0ivze4k55hnhn6pvn/m2h7h5h325x6z0um/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vc3BlYWtpbmc= ) at events for Google, Meta, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, YPO, and more. If you’re interested in having me speak at your event in 2026, please submit more information here. -->Book Sahil For Speaking Event ( https://a01c829f.click.kit-mail6.com/0vu59kpgv2i9h9n8wvzc0ivze4k55hnhn6pvn/dpheh0hed6x9nmam/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vaW5xdWlyaWVz ) Book Sahil For Speaking Event ( https://www.sahilbloom.com/inquiries ) ---------------------- This Week at a Glance: ---------------------- * Monday: The Archimedes Principle: The Science of Sudden Insight * Wednesday: 9 Reflections From My "Think Week" Retreat * Friday: The Pygmalion Effect: How Expectations Create Outcomes --------------------- Wisdom Worth Sharing: --------------------- A lesson I wish I learned earlier: Clarity isn’t found in thinking. It’s found in doing. This is why there are so many smart people that never accomplish anything. The world belongs to the people who never let thinking get in the way of doing. Move. Fail. Adapt. Repeat. (share to x/twitter! 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After wrestling with a difficult problem through intense effort, the answer he was seeking surfaced during an inactive moment in the bath. That pattern is no accident: Disciplined, structured work followed by unstructured, undirected thought is where breakthroughs are born. The brain is not silent at rest. It is actively connecting thoughts and experiences, linking distant ideas, and surfacing new connections. The lesson: Work hard, then create space for the work to breathe. Your next insight may already be there, waiting patiently for you to stop crowding it out. 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But slowly, he begins to treat it as though it were alive. He dresses it. Gives it gifts. Talks to it. Imagines conversations with it. Eventually, he falls in love with it. One evening, returning from a festival honoring the gods, Pygmalion kisses the statue, feels the ivory soften, and the statue comes to life. (Please briefly set aside the surface weirdness of the tale and continue reading…) The story of Pygmalion represented the power of belief to shape reality. But it didn’t enter the mainstream lexicon until 1968, when a psychologist named Robert Rosenthal used it to name an effect from his most recent study. 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The researchers concluded that the results were caused by subconscious micro-behaviors by the teachers towards the randomly selected students that quietly signaled belief: * More eye contact * More patience after mistakes * More opportunities to answer * More detailed feedback The micro-behaviors quietly made the children feel capable. This capability became a part of their identity that compounded over the year in their results. Rosenthal wrote: “When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.” Drawing upon Ovid’s tale, Rosenthal coined the phrase Pygmalion Effect to refer to the impact of belief and expectations in shaping outcomes. We rise (or fall) to the level of expectations that others have for us: * Those who have high expectations placed on them are more likely to internalize these expectations and improve their performance accordingly. * Those who have low expectations placed on them are more likely to internalize these expectations and weaken their performance accordingly. As a leader, remember that a simple, positive vocalization can provide a free push in the right direction. This applies to leadership at home just as much as it does in the workplace. And as a human, if there’s one sticky takeaway from today, it’s this… The people you surround yourself with determine your outcomes: * If you surround yourself with people who believe you are capable of more, who encourage you to think bigger, to dream, you will rise to the level of those expectations. * If you surround yourself with people who belittle you, who laugh at your ambitions, who tell you to be realistic, you will fall to the level of those expectations. What better reason do you need to choose wisely when it comes to the people you allow into your life? The Pygmalion Effect proves it: Your circle creates your reality. Choose wisely. -->Share to X/Twitter! 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My point here is this: It's ok to lean into things that seem wrong to others if they feel right to you. ------------------------------------------ 3. You find your quest by solving puzzles. ------------------------------------------ Everyone needs a quest. But quests don’t just appear magically before you. The reality is that you uncover quests through taking action. You can’t plan your way into your quest. You have to act your way into it. And that action often looks like working through a bunch of hard problems. I’ve found a simple reframe around this that I love: Puzzles > Problems Problems feel daunting. But puzzles are fun. They’re engaging. They’re exciting. Look in front of you. Identify a puzzle that seems interesting. Solve it. If you solve enough interesting puzzles, your quest will reveal itself in due time. ------------------------------- 4. Stop making unforced errors. ------------------------------- The worst mistakes in life are the ones that are entirely self-inflicted—and the truth is that most mistakes are. They’re unforced errors. The forces conspiring against you are very real: Social media feeds convince you that you’re falling behind or living a mediocre existence compared to everyone around you. A barrage of ads convince you that you’re one purchase away from living the life you deserve. Algorithms tell you that you’re not enough. All of this pushes you silently, subconsciously towards the cliff… But it’s important to remember that no one is forcing you to do anything in life. No matter what the influences look like, you are still in control of your actions. You don’t have to take that financially stressful vacation. You don’t have to overextend yourself to buy that fancy thing. You don’t have to live above your means. You don’t have to take actions that are out of alignment with your values. 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It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth. And you can’t do that if you’re dogmatic about your beliefs. ------------------------------------------------ 6. Whenever you feel stuck, reclaim your agency. ------------------------------------------------ The next time you feel stuck, think about one tiny action that would reassert your control over your life. For me, the simplest version of this is with my calendar: I’ll add structure to my days. I map out what I’m going to do for an entire day in 30 minute increments. It doesn’t have to be the “right” stuff. It just needs to be something. Then, I’ll stick to it for a full day. It immediately creates a feeling of control. It builds momentum. You’ve reclaimed your agency. -------------------------------------------------- 7. Get the rocket ready before you light the fuse. -------------------------------------------------- Small issues on the ground become big issues in the air. Make sure your rocket is in sound working condition on the ground before you start the launch countdown. That means taking care of the basics in your life. Sleep 7+ hours per night. Eat whole, unprocessed foods. Move your body for 30 minutes per day. Connect with someone you love on a daily basis. Clear your mind. If you take care of the basics, you’ll be ready for the crazy forces that a “launch” places you under. ---------------------------------------------------- 8. Having fun is a legitimate competitive advantage. ---------------------------------------------------- When you’re having fun, you’re more likely to give your full attention and energy to something. You’re more likely to do it for a long time. You’re more likely to be willing to do the boring basics that most people skip. Lean into the things that feel fun. It’s the clearest edge you can find. ----------------------------------------- 9. 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But of all his discoveries, one moment stands out among the rest—not because of what he discovered, but how he discovered it. The ruler of Syracuse commissioned the creation of a gold crown properly befitting his standing. But after it was delivered, suspicion arose that the goldsmith may have mixed silver into the crown to cut his costs in its creation. The ruler brought the problem to Archimedes, who faced a difficult question: How do you verify the purity of the crown without melting or damaging it? He stewed over the problem day and night, turning it over again and again. One day, growing frustrated with his lack of progress, he decided to take a bath to calm his mind. When he stepped into the bath, he noticed that some water overflowed over the edges. Suddenly, it hit him. “Eureka!” He exclaimed, leaping from the bath and running half-naked through the streets to his workshop. 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The insight is about more than technology—it’s about how humans misjudge progress. We anchor on what’s visible. We think linearly. We expect immediate results. But most of life works exponentially. Today’s actions quietly stack beneath the surface for days, months, years—then suddenly, they appear. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, growth happens gradually, then suddenly. On Monday, I explored how Amara’s Law shows up in your habits, decisions, and life, and how learning to see the invisible compounding beneath the surface can completely change your perspective. 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They passed two women, one of whom whispered to the other, "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor son trudge along." ​ So the man took his boy up with him on the donkey. A crowd of onlookers yelled, "Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that donkey?" ​ So the man and boy got off and carried the donkey on their shoulders. As they crossed a bridge, it kicked loose, fell over the side, and drowned. ​ "That will teach you," said an old man who had quietly followed them from the beginning of the journey. ​ "Please all, and you will please none." I love this one, probably because I’ve felt the pain of that lesson far too many times. My life improved dramatically when I stopped sacrificing myself in an effort to meet the narratives that other people had about me. As it turns out, this was more than anecdotal—it’s grounded in real science. In 1985, psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan released Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior, a book that introduced a concept they called Self-Determination Theory. Self-Determination Theory argues that human thriving occurs when three basic conditions are met: * Autonomy: Feeling in control of one’s own behavior and goals. * Competence: Feeling effective and capable. * Relatedness: Feeling connected to others. In the fable, the loss of these three conditions is systematic. Autonomy deteriorated each time they altered their behavior to assuage a passerby. Competence was questioned each time they heard a complaint from the crowd. Relatedness crumbled when they were forced to perform in order to fit in. By the time the donkey falls into the river, the man and boy had already surrendered their self-direction. This offers a useful framing for your own experience and life: Where are you surrendering your self-direction to the noise from the crowd? 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Side Note: Even writing this out makes me cringe at its nonsense, but alas, the human capacity to rationalize behavior counter to our goals is unparalleled. My personal turning point happened a few days ago, during a deep solo reflection session, when I asked one of my favorite questions: If you were the main character in a movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you to do right now? The answer felt blindingly obvious: Get off the damn phone. Everything I want to achieve in my personal and professional life feels like a natural downstream consequence of spending less time on my phone: * More connected relationships with my wife, son, and family. * Deep, high quality output on my most important projects. 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I’ll have my phone on Grayscale Mode at all times other than when I’m posting content (which requires a visual check). ------------------------------ Step 3: Take a Digital Sabbath ------------------------------ I’m going to declare Saturday as a digital sabbath. My rules for the day: * No social media apps from sunrise to sundown. We’ll schedule any necessary posting in advance or manage it with the team. * Phone usage limited to phone calls or messages for specific purposes (e.g. coordinating a get together, etc.). * Phone in lockbox if at home. This will serve as a healthy weekly reset to the system. Note: I could certainly make this more stringent, but I’ll start here and turn up the dial to the extent it doesn’t accomplish the desired reset effect. ----------------- The 30-Day Sprint ----------------- The net effect of the three actions should be a dramatic reduction in my phone time vs. my baseline. 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Researchers found that ambivalent relationships—those that are sometimes supportive and sometimes demeaning—created higher blood pressure, higher anxiety, and higher heart rate reactivity, even when the interaction in the moment was positive. On Monday, I shared an exercise from my book designed to help you spot these dynamics and choose your people more deliberately. (read the full piece here ( https://click.kit-mail6.com/38ugdmeo34skh2xz5m4azi4qd8onns7h4veo4/48hvhehmw97xg3bx/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci90aGUtaGlkZGVuLWNvc3Qtb2YtYW1iaXZhbGVudC1yZWxhdGlvbnNoaXBz )) ------------------------------------------------- Wednesday: The Real AI Risk Nobody Told You About ------------------------------------------------- Most conversations about AI focus on two things: how fast it’s moving, and how much leverage it gives you. Both matter. But the most important conversation is the one almost no one is having: how to protect your humanity in an AI world. As AI gets better at thinking, writing, deciding, and optimizing on our behalf, the real risk isn’t ignorance, but atrophy. In Wednesday’s piece, I shared four principles I’m using to fight back—clear boundaries for what I refuse to outsource, and a blueprint for staying cognitively, emotionally, and creatively alive as the machines get smarter. (read the full piece here ( https://click.kit-mail6.com/38ugdmeo34skh2xz5m4azi4qd8onns7h4veo4/reh8hohmk7o6n9u2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FoaWxibG9vbS5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlci90aGUtcmVhbC1haS1yaXNrLW5vYm9keS10b2xkLXlvdS1hYm91dA== )) ----------------------------------- Friday: The End of History Illusion ----------------------------------- In 2013, a group of Harvard researchers uncovered a powerful cognitive bias they called the End of History Illusion. Across every age group, people believed they had changed a lot in the past—but expected to change very little in the future. 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We're entering an Era of Uncertainty. To quote Pliny the Elder, "The only certainty is that nothing is certain." In her brilliant new book, The Other Side of Change ( https://click.kit-mail6.com/38ugdmeo34skh2xzoz4fzi4qd8onns7h4veo4/z2hghnhe57950lup/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9PdGhlci1TaWRlLUNoYW5nZS1CZWNvbWUtTWFrZXMvZHAvMDU5MzcxMzY4MA== ), cognitive scientist Maya Shankar writes: "The unique stresses and demands of being thrust into a new reality can uncover unexpected—and sometimes astonishing—insights about ourselves and the world around us. These insights, coupled with the experience of the change itself, can transform us in extraordinary ways." She continues: "When we're daunted at the outset of a change, there is some comfort in knowing that the person who will undergo the full experience will be different from the person we are in this very moment. We will become new people on the other side of change, in ways we are capable of shaping." This is the key to avoiding the End of History Illusion. The mistake you make is in assuming that the uncertainty ahead will ask today's version of you to shoulder tomorrow's challenges. It doesn't. The external uncertainty is a catalyst for internal change. You are not a fixed entity. You are not done becoming. New experiences reshape your perspectives. New challenges forge new skills. New chapters create new values. You aren't the same person today that you were a year ago—and you won't be the same person a year from now that you are today. And when you recognize your growth is continuous, you stop viewing uncertainty as something to avoid and start viewing it as something to embrace. This is not the end of history. This is just the beginning. Believe it. -->Share to X/Twitter! 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But there’s a third conversation almost no one is having: One about protecting your own humanity. Specifically: How do you thrive as a human in an AI world? This is, I would argue, the most important conversation—because it points to the real AI risk nobody told you about. As AI gets exponentially better at thinking, writing, deciding, and optimizing on our behalf, most people will jump at every opportunity to outsource things to it. This is natural, but it’s important to remember that what you outsource won’t remain the same. It will atrophy. Hire a personal chef, you’ll probably lose some of your cooking skills. Hire a money manager, you’ll probably be less in tune with your finances. Hire an analyst, you’ll probably become less proficient with analysis. That’s fine when you’re outsourcing specific, lower-leverage tasks, but it can become irreversibly damaging when the outsourcing slowly spreads into the deeper functions of your mind. 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They found that participants who relied on AI assistance exhibited lower overall neural engagement, weaker memory recall, and reduced ownership of their own writing compared with those working unaided or with just a search engine. ​ But let’s be clear: The solution isn’t to reject AI. That would be impractical (and misguided). AI is an extraordinary tool. Used well, it can expand what’s possible, remove unnecessary friction, and create real leverage. The problem arises when optimization becomes the only goal. Thriving in an AI world isn’t about outsourcing as much as you can. It’s about drawing clear boundaries around what you refuse to outsource. Because the most important parts of a human life aren’t meant to be delegated. Your future will be defined not by what you can get AI to do for you, but by what you refuse to let it. To make this more actionable, here’s the blueprint I’m following… 4 principles (and clear rules) to protect myself from AI Brain: ---------------------------------------- Principle 1: Embrace First-Pass Thinking ---------------------------------------- First-pass thinking is hard. It’s the painful, cognitively demanding phase where you wrestle with an idea before it has any form or function. This is where your thoughts collide. Where false starts are the norm. Where unexpected connections emerge. AI allows you to opt-out of first-pass thinking. You save time, but bypass the work that kept you sharp. Protecting first-pass thinking means leaning into the struggle. My rules for embracing first pass thinking: * I think before I prompt. I clarify the problem, my perspective, and what I actually believe before asking a machine to weigh in. * I write before I refine. I force myself to produce a bad first draft before touching any tools. * I decide before I optimize. I form an initial core judgement by myself, then use tools to pressure-test or improve it. First-pass thinking is how you maintain originality. It’s how you assert your distinctiveness in a world of increasing sameness. ---------------------------------------- Principle 2: Preserve Cognitive Friction ---------------------------------------- First-pass thinking is a pure example of what I call cognitive friction. This is the mental resistance you feel when your brain is placed in a challenging setting. It’s the discomfort of not knowing the answer yet. The strain of holding multiple ideas in your head at once. The effort required to work through something without immediate clarity or closure. Cognitive friction is a necessary precursor to cognitive growth and vitality. Preserving it means resisting the urge to eliminate every moment of discomfort. My rules for preserving cognitive friction: * I allow boredom to exist. I don’t reflexively fill empty moments with stimulation or answers. * I seek out solitude. If necessary, I schedule it into my life. Sitting in silence, walking without technology, being alone with my thoughts. * I sit with problems longer than feels efficient. I allow ideas to remain unresolved in my mind before reaching for tools to close the loop. * I slow down my thinking. Especially with writing, brainstorming, and decisions that compound over time. Cognitive friction is not an obstacle to be avoided. It’s a gift. Be grateful for what it creates within you. -------------------------------- Principle 3: Do Less, But Deeper -------------------------------- AI dramatically lowers the cost of starting. New ideas. New apps. New projects. New directions. All suddenly cheap, fast, and frictionless. In a world where you can do anything, most people will try to do everything. The problem, of course, is that you aren’t “paid” for doing hundreds of things poorly…you’re paid for doing one thing beautifully. As Bruce Lee once said: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Last week, my timeline was inundated with Claude Code vibe coding. I got at least ten messages from people suggesting different apps or ideas I could create and launch. My response to one such inquiry from a close friend is representative of my overall perspective: “I feel like in a world where you can build anything, choosing to not build is the harder thing…Bullish slowing down and doing one thing extremely well, always.” ​ The worst distractions in the world are the ones masquerading as good opportunities. In a world that seduces you with tools to do hundreds of things at a surface level, the ultimate human rebellion is to do one thing at a deeper level. Breadth is easy. Depth is hard. My rules for doing less, but deeper: * I identify the 2-3 most important things. Focus compounds. * I say no to most ideas. Especially the ones that seem good but don’t fit the core of what I’m trying to do. * I measure quality, not quantity. Power laws run the world. One kick, not 10,000. In an AI world where breadth is easily available to everyone, depth is the one thing that is truly still earned. --------------------------------- Principle 4: Do More Human Things --------------------------------- My strongest belief is that as more of our lives become dominated by interactions with technology, the pendulum will swing toward valuing what is uniquely human. These things cannot be outsourced. They require presence. Effort. Vulnerability. Time. They’re grounded in a human reality. Your body. Your relationships. Your senses. Many of the capacities most threatened by AI—deep thinking, judgement, empathy, resilience, meaning—are strengthened through real world, human things. 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They categorized relationships into three buckets: * Supportive: Consistently positive * Demeaning: Consistently negative * Ambivalent: Sometimes supportive, sometimes demeaning The researchers specifically wanted to look at the impact of ambivalent relationships on wellbeing. 104 healthy young adults were asked to bring a friend to the lab and characterize the relationship as either supportive or ambivalent. Each participant had to deliver an impromptu speech in front of the group (a high pressure task designed to trigger a stress response) and receive feedback from the friend they brought. The friend's feedback on the speech was randomly assigned by the researchers as positive, negative, ambivalent, or ambiguous. The participants had a series of cardiovascular measurements taken before, during, and after the speech—including heart rate and blood pressure. The findings were fascinating: The participants who had self-identified the relationship with the friend as ambivalent had higher blood pressure response, higher anxiety, and higher heart rate reactivity. Most importantly, that effect remained even when the ambivalent friend gave positive feedback. In other words, the ambivalent nature of the relationship was creating a negative physical response, independent of the treatment in the moment. Here's the critical lesson most of us miss: Your body and nervous system are anticipatory. When a relationship is unpredictable—sometimes good, sometimes bad—your physical systems never stand down. They stay alert. On edge. Guarded. The constant, low-grade vigilance takes its toll over a long time horizon. 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You can reinvent yourself today, tomorrow, and as many times as you need to create the life you want. -------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Tolerance for uncertainty is the most valuable human trait. -------------------------------------------------------------- It’s easy to show up when the path is clear. It’s hard to show up when it’s anything but. The most dangerous person in the world is the one who shows up every single day even when the rewards are uncertain. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win. --------------------------------------------- 3. Energy is the most attractive human trait. --------------------------------------------- Not looks, wealth, or status. Energy. Walk into rooms with genuine enthusiasm, curiosity, and interest. You'll become a magnet for the highest quality people. Energy is contagious. Spread the kind you’d want to catch. ---------------- 4. Nobody cares. ---------------- My entire life changed when I realized nobody cares. When you’re winning, nobody cares. When you’re losing, nobody cares. It doesn’t mean nobody loves you, it just means nobody cares about your life as much as you do. That thing you’ve always wanted to do? Nobody cares. So, go do it. ---------------------------------------- 5. Always get your dopamine from action. ---------------------------------------- Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. The real goal is to have a razor-thin gap between information and action. Your entire life will change when you stop gathering information and start acting on the information you already have. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Your professional success is proportional to your ability to figure it out. ----------------------------------------------------------------- You’ll constantly be handed tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask the key questions. Get it done. If you do that, people will fight over you. ----------------------------------------- 7. Never let your head outsmart your gut. ----------------------------------------- My grandfather once told me: The worst decisions in life are made when you allow your head to talk you into something when your gut already said no. It took me a lot of painful experiences to realize just how true it really is. Your gut is earned intuition—a refined, elevated biological protection mechanism. My rule: If your gut says no, the answer is no. --------------------------------- 8. Showing up is the key to life. --------------------------------- Show up when it’s hard. Show up when it’s messy. Show up when no one’s watching. Show up when you don't feel like it. Just show up. You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up. -------------------------------------------------- 9. Fear comes from inexperience, not incapability. -------------------------------------------------- You're afraid because you haven't done it yet, not because you can't do it. Inexperience is the problem to be solved—and it's only solved through having the courage to act in the face of it. ------------------------------------- 10. Learn to work without validation. ------------------------------------- Quiet progress creates loud results. Write when nobody’s reading. Build when nobody’s watching. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent. Just desire. Just care. Those willing to work in the dark will eventually shine in the light. ---------------------------------- 11. Anything above zero compounds. ---------------------------------- Ambitious people allow optimal to get in the way of beneficial. The truth is that showing up consistently matters more than showing up perfectly. Small things become big things. ----------------------------------- 12. Take pride in finishing things. ----------------------------------- The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, half-pursued passions, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By stepping into the arena. By doing what you said you’d do. Anyone can start, but few have the doggedness to finish. ------------------------------------------------------- 13. Life improves when you embrace your inner extremes. ------------------------------------------------------- My entire life changed when I made peace with the paradoxes living inside me. Deeply emotional in peace, deeply rational in war. Creative wandering at times, rigid structure at others. Quiet writer, aggressive lifter. Extroverted introvert. You’re taught to avoid extremes, but leaning into them is how you find your flow. -------------------------------------------------------- 14. The most important things take a long time to build. -------------------------------------------------------- The worst mistakes in life are made when you try to do fast what’s meant to be done slow. Real, durable things take a long time to build. Careers. Businesses. Relationships. Health. There are no hacks or shortcuts—and chasing them leads you into peril. The long way is the right way. --------------------------------- 15. Be unapologetically yourself. --------------------------------- When you edit your personality, you attract relationships that need constant maintenance. Stop filtering who you are to be liked. The right ones will stick. The wrong ones will walk. That’s a blessing, whether you realize it or not. ------------------------------ 16. Do what most people avoid. ------------------------------ Wake up early. Focus deeply. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Read old books. Be present. Have difficult conversations. The recipe for a good life is found by running towards what most people run from. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same plateau in every pursuit. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world won’t change. -------------------------------------- 18. Your standards decide your future. -------------------------------------- Every time you let something slide just this once, you train yourself to accept less than what you deserve. That's how principles slip. That’s how goals erode. That’s how a vision deteriorates. Set your standards, then hold the line. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard. ---------------------------------------------------- 19. Choose a partner you actually like being around. ---------------------------------------------------- I'm convinced that 99% of a successful marriage is just genuinely enjoying each other’s company. People make these long lists of values and traits they want to find in a partner, but so much of life just comes down to being kind and pleasant to be around. And if you’re going to make a long list of values and traits you want to find in another, make sure you’re embodying them yourself. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 20. If you want people to believe in you, start carrying yourself like someone worth believing in. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do the old fashioned things well. Stand tall. Move deliberately. Make eye contact. Take care of your body and mind. Listen. Speak with intention. If you do that, you’ll start believing in yourself, and the world will have no choice but to follow suit. --------------- 21. Don’t wait. --------------- Just start. Take that crazy leap of faith. Say the words now. Tell people you love them. Apologize when you should. Forgive. Everything in life has an expiration date. Opportunities don’t wait until you’re ready. Miss them now and you miss them forever. ---------------------------------------------- 22. Confidence isn’t about knowing you’ll win. ---------------------------------------------- Confidence is about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final. ---------------------------------------- 23. Stress and anxiety feed on idleness. ---------------------------------------- You feel stressed and anxious because you’re not doing anything. When you take action, you starve them of the oxygen they need to survive. The answer is found in the action. --------------------------------------- 24. Working out will rewire your brain. --------------------------------------- There’s no such thing as a loser who wakes up at 5am and works out. It creates evidence that you have the power to take an action and achieve a desired outcome. That you have agency over your own journey. That you are at the wheel. That has ripple effects into every area of life. ------------------------ 25. Energy fuels growth. ------------------------ Give your energy to stress, complaints, and negative people, they will grow. Give your energy to ambitions, gratitude, and positive people, they will grow. Choose wisely. --------------------------------- 26. Nobody is thinking about you. --------------------------------- You aren’t afraid of failure. You’re afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. Well, guess what? Nobody is thinking about you. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. So, go do the damn thing. ---------------------------------- 27. You have to know when to stop. ---------------------------------- Stop arguing with people who don’t listen. Stop chasing people who run away. Stop forcing relationships that drain you. Stop grinding on things that don’t matter. Stop saying yes when you mean no. Stopping isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom. ------------------------------------ 28. Do hard things every single day. ------------------------------------ There’s nothing better than a hard-earned win. Nothing. The pain. The struggle. The resilience. The grit. And then, the reward. The thrill of knowing that you paid the cost of entry for the thing you wanted to achieve. Hard things are good for the soul. ---------------------------------------------- 29. Reliability is more important than talent. ---------------------------------------------- My grandfather once said: You’ll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary. He was right. You can get pretty damn far in life by just being someone people can count on to do the work. Stop overcomplicating success. Say what you’ll do. Do it. Repeat. ---------------------------------- 30. Don’t complain about anything. ---------------------------------- If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power. -------------------------------------------------------------- 31. Emotional control is the ultimate sign of personal growth. -------------------------------------------------------------- The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life. --------------------------- 32. You can just do things. --------------------------- We live in a permissionless world. In 2025, I published a New York Times bestselling book and launched a natural skincare business. Nobody told me I could do that. I just wanted to do it. So, I did it. Technology has cracked the walls of credentialism. Opportunity is more freely accessible than ever before. You don’t need a stamp of approval. You just need to create things of value. You just need to go do things. ------------------------------ 33. You’re going to miss this. ------------------------------ Every single thing you do today is something that your 90-year-old self will wish they could go back and do. Slow down. The good old days are happening right now. --------------------------------- 34. Nobody is coming to save you. --------------------------------- Nobody will fix your problems. Nobody will change your mindsets. Nobody will set your boundaries. Nobody will hand you the things you want in life. It's just you. It's all on you. You are in control. There’s a power in that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 35. You're one year of focus away from people calling you lucky. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. Your entire life can change in one year. One year of focused, daily effort. One year of showing up with intention and clarity. The transformation won't be easy, but it is possible. And once you do it, everyone will call you lucky. ------------------------- Cheers to the Year Ahead! ------------------------- When I was 25, I thought 35 was very old. Now that I am 35, I have to admit, I feel young—like I’m just getting started. Who knows if that’s true, but either way, I’m ready. 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As I consumed a steady diet of highlight reels on LinkedIn and social media, I became fixated with being on track. I watched as people my age (or younger) raised massive funding rounds, landed prestigious titles, announced promotions (they were always "humbled and honored" to do so), and built impressive companies. I needed to get the external markers that would prove I was doing life correctly. To others, sure, but maybe more importantly, to myself. One such marker was the infamous Forbes 30 Under 30 list. It's embarrassing to admit, but I was obsessed with getting on that. I told myself it didn't matter. That it was superficial. That it was a pay-for-play. But privately, I longed for the stamp of approval. The evidence that I was worthy. That I was impressive. That I hadn't fallen behind. That I was on track. I assumed the timelines I was chasing were correct—and that I was the thing that was broken. If I felt behind, it must be because I wasn't working hard enough. 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You're all familiar with the idea of New Year's Resolutions: Specific actions or behaviors you commit to for the coming year. I've never been a fan. The notion that you can choose the perfect resolution on January 1 and have it continue to be relevant throughout an entire year has always struck me as wishful thinking. I prefer to set New Year's Intentions: Big picture, open-ended ideas and mindsets that I want to focus on. The intentions set your general direction. They establish a true north. Here are the 6 intentions I'm setting for 2026... ---------------------------------- 1. Make peace with being disliked. ---------------------------------- I want to get more comfortable with being disliked. Not because I want to provoke people. Not because I want to be contrarian for sport. Not because I want to be disliked. But because I want to accept a simple truth: No matter what you do, some people won’t like it. They won’t like your decisions. They won’t like your priorities. They won’t like your values. They won’t like the way you show up, the path you choose, or the way you walk it. I spent the last 34 years of my life trying to avoid that reality—and honestly, it was exhausting. Even worse, it quietly pulled me away from being myself. Making peace with being disliked means choosing whose opinions actually matter. It means narrowing the circle to the few people you deeply respect, trust, and love—and letting the rest fall where they may. It means doing the work you believe in. Living the life that feels aligned to you. Resisting the temptation to edit yourself just to be more palatable to the world. In 2026, I will make peace with being disliked. ----------------------------- 2. Chop wood and carry water. ----------------------------- I want to stay true to the boring basics. There’s an old Zen saying that I think about often: “What do you do before enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water. What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water.” As you start to experience success, notoriety, and achievement, it’s easy to lose sight of the work that got you those things in the first place. It’s easy to get distracted by results. By recognition. By the illusion that success somehow exempts you from the basics. It doesn’t. The outcomes may change. The titles may change. The scale may change. But the work doesn’t. Chopping wood and carrying water means showing up when no one is watching. Doing the boring work well. Being reliable. Executing consistently. Returning to fundamentals even when you think you’re above them. Especially then. In 2026, I will chop wood and carry water. ---------------------------------- 3. Fall in love with the final 5%. ---------------------------------- I want to take things all the way to the finish. The last stretch is where most people ease up. Where the dopamine of early results wears off. Where the incentives fade. Where corners get cut. Where the allure of good enough quietly replaces the expectation of excellent. It’s also where extraordinary outcomes are created—simply because so few people are willing to see it all the way through. The final 5% is about unreasonable care. Unreasonable attention to detail. The willingness to keep going when it would be much easier, and seemingly more rational, to stop and settle. Most things in life don’t fail because of lack of effort at the beginning. They fail because of lack of care at the end. You’re always building your own house—and the final touches are the ones you live with the longest. Falling in love with the final 5% means seeing things all the way through. It means leaning in when it’s uncomfortable. It means finishing with the same intensity you started with. In 2026, I will fall in love with the final 5%. -------------------------------------- 4. Embrace your most selfish pursuits. -------------------------------------- I want to reframe selfishness. Selfish is usually viewed as a character flaw. As something to correct. As evidence of an inward focus or a disregard for others. But I’ve come to believe the opposite is often true. The most meaningful things I’ve done professionally have been a direct result of following one simple rule: Create what I want to consume. Go build what you wish existed. Play games you actually want to play. Work on things you care about, with people you care about. This kind of selfishness isn’t about taking from others. It’s about grounding yourself in the work that feels intrinsically rewarding rather than externally validating. And interestingly, when you create from a place of selfishness, the results are of greater value to the world. Selfish work is an act of selflessness. In 2026, I will embrace the most selfish pursuits. --------------------------- 5. Leave room for surprise. --------------------------- I want to create space for serendipity. I thrive on structure. I derive happiness from growth. From improvement. I’m a routine guy, through and through. A creature of habit. This demeanor has created extraordinary value in my life. But it also leaves very little space for life to do what life does best. Some of the most meaningful moments are impossible to plan. They weren’t structured. They weren’t on the calendar. They arrived through chaos. Chance. Detours. Decisions that didn’t make sense then (or now). If every moment of your life is planned, there’s no room for that to enter. Leaving room for surprise means loosening the grip just a bit. Letting go of the need to control every variable. Allowing curiosity, randomness, and unexpected opportunities to find their way in. Trusting that some things simply cannot be engineered in advance. In 2026, I will leave room for surprise. --------------------------------- 6. Find joy in the little things. --------------------------------- I want to embrace the small. 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