Bill Perkins
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Maybe I should take a family trip and unplug and go on safari with them and enjoy my success because that's going to give me a lifetime of memory dividends and discussion points and connections, et cetera. Maybe I'd rather have that time with them now and not have them β And a hospital with me when I'm old and stinking can barely, you know, and seeing me this way.
I want the memories and the time they spend with me doing this and not at the tail end of life. Who knows? I just want people thinking about it. And if you just get off autopilot just a bit and you start thinking about it, you're already optimizing your life. You're already going to have a more fulfilling life.
I want the memories and the time they spend with me doing this and not at the tail end of life. Who knows? I just want people thinking about it. And if you just get off autopilot just a bit and you start thinking about it, you're already optimizing your life. You're already going to have a more fulfilling life.
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till 11, I would- See, I needed a little bit of you and you needed a little bit of me.
This reminds me of, you know, the college paper had this, my senior year, I opened it up and it had the 50 things you need to do before you graduate. And I just had the biggest regret when I read that list.
This reminds me of, you know, the college paper had this, my senior year, I opened it up and it had the 50 things you need to do before you graduate. And I just had the biggest regret when I read that list.
I was just about on my way out. I was like, never going to be able to do this. I'm not going to do this. And some of them were simple, like write an angry letter to newspaper, you know, go skinny dipping at Lake, whatever.
I was just about on my way out. I was like, never going to be able to do this. I'm not going to do this. And some of them were simple, like write an angry letter to newspaper, you know, go skinny dipping at Lake, whatever.
actually did that after i read that there were a lot of things do this college prank do whatever like things that would be fun didn't necessarily cost you money or whatever but like things to do to have a college experience not necessarily do them all and i was like maybe i did three or four and i was like why was i so on autopilot in my way and think about okay you got four years here good good grades good study but like you want to get this out of it you want to do this out of it you want to have this college experience etc we just kind of like
actually did that after i read that there were a lot of things do this college prank do whatever like things that would be fun didn't necessarily cost you money or whatever but like things to do to have a college experience not necessarily do them all and i was like maybe i did three or four and i was like why was i so on autopilot in my way and think about okay you got four years here good good grades good study but like you want to get this out of it you want to do this out of it you want to have this college experience etc we just kind of like
don't really think about things going autopilot so much that we don't think about periods in our life even this year what experiences do i want to have this year with this person, with myself, with my spirituality, with my health, with my travel, my leisure, my job? How am I going to optimize? And how does that fit into the Tetris game of my entire life? Am I doing it right?
don't really think about things going autopilot so much that we don't think about periods in our life even this year what experiences do i want to have this year with this person, with myself, with my spirituality, with my health, with my travel, my leisure, my job? How am I going to optimize? And how does that fit into the Tetris game of my entire life? Am I doing it right?
Maybe this experience that I'm saying goes here actually goes further out in my life. When I was trying to get the book published, one of the publishers said, I do exactly what you're talking about in the book. I really like hiking. She explained she had an injury. And she likes running, but now she does like hiking. And she really likes concert and music.
Maybe this experience that I'm saying goes here actually goes further out in my life. When I was trying to get the book published, one of the publishers said, I do exactly what you're talking about in the book. I really like hiking. She explained she had an injury. And she likes running, but now she does like hiking. And she really likes concert and music.
And she goes on a vacation with a friend every year. They pick what they're going to go do. And there's this very expensive opera that she wants to go see and et cetera. And she said, what I and our friend decided is that the hiking trips and this mountain, et cetera, we're going to pull these forward.
And she goes on a vacation with a friend every year. They pick what they're going to go do. And there's this very expensive opera that she wants to go see and et cetera. And she said, what I and our friend decided is that the hiking trips and this mountain, et cetera, we're going to pull these forward.
And the sitting in operas and these type of trips, the sitting in trips, we're going to push forward.
And the sitting in operas and these type of trips, the sitting in trips, we're going to push forward.
Push into the future. Yeah. So Max and I, it was like, if they get that order wrong, they go all the opera and then they turn around like, holy shit, I can't hike this mountain. And so this fits in every aspect of your life. College, first job, pre-married, married, before kids, kids that are toddlers, not toddlers, that type of thinking is really helpful. And you've been lucky.