André Duqum

I love how you brought it back to the discomfort is the motivating force that puts us in a direction where it's like, it's like unconsciousness.

You know, I think of life as like time and energy because a certain amount of time and energy and what we're doing with our attention at any given moment is what we're doing with that time and energy.

And for me, it's like a really painful realization when you think that you might be living your life unconsciously, not in the way that you intend to, you know?

Yeah, and just an important highlight there from what you said is like to be distracted, you have to know what you're being distracted from.

Yes, exactly.

And so I'd love for you to elaborate a bit on that because unless you have a plan, unless you know what it is you actually value and want, then you're just swimming in a sea of pleasure seeking.

You don't have really a North Star in which you don't want to be distracted from.

No, it's such a good reminder.

I wonder how many people listening have lived life, lived a single day completely intentionally consciously.

It sounds like, I mean, I think it'd be very hard to at least at not one point in the day get pulled into, you know, some sort of a distraction.

But was there a moment when you really realized that there was a lot of potential on offer for you that you were not accessing because of how distracted you were?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you refer to how like a lot of us know those kind of big overarching goals.

Not all of us, but many of us are kind of know what we essentially want from life.

But we suck at reverse engineering and actually making a plan for it that we can actually stick to and follow through on.

Any other thoughts or advice there?

I mean, in terms of time blocking, that's that you already mentioned.

Yeah.