Bill Perkins

I'm like, John was like, these real life problems are more mentally stimulating than the natural gas puzzle. I still like the natural gas puzzle, but these are more mentally stimulating, more purposeful, more fulfilling to me.

And so I have to break down brick by brick and show them how they got habituated and how they haven't exercised these other muscles and how they can replace it and realize work is not the unique thing to get the things you're getting out of work. It's actually a bastardization of it. It's minimizing those experience.

And so I have to break down brick by brick and show them how they got habituated and how they haven't exercised these other muscles and how they can replace it and realize work is not the unique thing to get the things you're getting out of work. It's actually a bastardization of it. It's minimizing those experience.

You're not actually getting the most quality time with your coworkers in the working environment. You're actually not getting the most mental exercise. That's not necessarily the best mental exercise for you in the work environment. It's just you know nothing else because you've been stuck in this lab running on this type of wheel.

You're not actually getting the most quality time with your coworkers in the working environment. You're actually not getting the most mental exercise. That's not necessarily the best mental exercise for you in the work environment. It's just you know nothing else because you've been stuck in this lab running on this type of wheel.

It's really hard because people will be extremely, extremely resistant. Change is painful. You get somebody who hasn't worked out forever and you're like, hey, let's go in the gym. We're going to work out. It's like, oh, God, why am I here? I don't like this. You know what I mean? Just to develop the muscle to do the thing, to play the tennis, the filming thing, it's a process.

It's really hard because people will be extremely, extremely resistant. Change is painful. You get somebody who hasn't worked out forever and you're like, hey, let's go in the gym. We're going to work out. It's like, oh, God, why am I here? I don't like this. You know what I mean? Just to develop the muscle to do the thing, to play the tennis, the filming thing, it's a process.

You have to show them the reward that life is rich. It's fat. It's wonderful.

You have to show them the reward that life is rich. It's fat. It's wonderful.

One of the things I took away from the habit books, like Tiny Habits by B.J. Fogg is a great book, is that they're powerful. They're extremely powerful. And so we get habituated in many different ways for good or bad. If you have the snacks in your house and you eat 200 calories a day, in two years, you're like 40 pounds heavier, right? 200 extra calories. How did that happen? How did I forget?

One of the things I took away from the habit books, like Tiny Habits by B.J. Fogg is a great book, is that they're powerful. They're extremely powerful. And so we get habituated in many different ways for good or bad. If you have the snacks in your house and you eat 200 calories a day, in two years, you're like 40 pounds heavier, right? 200 extra calories. How did that happen? How did I forget?

How did my life pass me by? How did I not go on these trips? How did I not have these experiences? How did I not call my mother? How did I not say I love you to these people, even pick up the phone? Because my habits took over. They took over towards this purpose and it just absorbed my life. And so... Outside the book with my friends, I really talk about the good of habits.

How did my life pass me by? How did I not go on these trips? How did I not have these experiences? How did I not call my mother? How did I not say I love you to these people, even pick up the phone? Because my habits took over. They took over towards this purpose and it just absorbed my life. And so... Outside the book with my friends, I really talk about the good of habits.

You can form good habits that keep you healthy, but some of the habits, the consequences of some of our habits to be successful and how it takes away from other things. Has that been a struggle for you? Oh, yes. I wrote that book for me. You know, the first life I wanted to save was my own. Put your life mask on first. I am just as guilty as the next person as being on autopilot.

You can form good habits that keep you healthy, but some of the habits, the consequences of some of our habits to be successful and how it takes away from other things. Has that been a struggle for you? Oh, yes. I wrote that book for me. You know, the first life I wanted to save was my own. Put your life mask on first. I am just as guilty as the next person as being on autopilot.

I constantly have to remind myself that I'm going to die, that life isn't forever. This period ends. These seasons with my daughters and these seasons with my startups and all these things. And I have to think about like, what do I want? How do I balance them? What's optimized? And I don't get it exactly right. But I do it better than if I was just completely on autopilot.

I constantly have to remind myself that I'm going to die, that life isn't forever. This period ends. These seasons with my daughters and these seasons with my startups and all these things. And I have to think about like, what do I want? How do I balance them? What's optimized? And I don't get it exactly right. But I do it better than if I was just completely on autopilot.

And then sometimes I was like, oh shit, I was on autopilot. Why didn't I think about this?

And then sometimes I was like, oh shit, I was on autopilot. Why didn't I think about this?

The first macro thing is the death clock. Right now I have this calendar up and it's 4,000 weeks and you mark off each week. And it's a very visceral representation about life is finite. Not only will you die somewhere around here, but this period is going to end. A lot of times when people go on vacation, knowing that the vacation ends on Friday snaps you up.