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Chris Guillebeau

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195 total appearances

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Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

you know, if you get really good at doing that, then you're going to have more balls coming your way. That's the whole problem with this process of like, I'm just going to become super efficient and I'm going to use all these tools. And now we have AI and, you know, and I like some of the stuff, but like,

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

you know, if you get really good at doing that, then you're going to have more balls coming your way. That's the whole problem with this process of like, I'm just going to become super efficient and I'm going to use all these tools. And now we have AI and, you know, and I like some of the stuff, but like,

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

Just making it your mission to become hyper responsive is kind of like the mission of accumulating wealth. It's good to have money, right? But if your life goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, I think that's not ultimately a very satisfactory goal. So the same thing with being responsive. It's much better big picture to goal to be like, what do I actually want to do with my life?

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

Just making it your mission to become hyper responsive is kind of like the mission of accumulating wealth. It's good to have money, right? But if your life goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, I think that's not ultimately a very satisfactory goal. So the same thing with being responsive. It's much better big picture to goal to be like, what do I actually want to do with my life?

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

Just making it your mission to become hyper responsive is kind of like the mission of accumulating wealth. It's good to have money, right? But if your life goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, I think that's not ultimately a very satisfactory goal. So the same thing with being responsive. It's much better big picture to goal to be like, what do I actually want to do with my life?

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

What is the purpose of my life? How can I then Try to align my day to day with that as much as possible while recognizing that, of course, there are expectations of me and I'm going to need to respond to some of them. But I don't want to start with the goal of like I need to be as responsive as possible because that is ultimately a losing battle. Talk about your idea of the eighth day of the week.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

What is the purpose of my life? How can I then Try to align my day to day with that as much as possible while recognizing that, of course, there are expectations of me and I'm going to need to respond to some of them. But I don't want to start with the goal of like I need to be as responsive as possible because that is ultimately a losing battle. Talk about your idea of the eighth day of the week.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

What is the purpose of my life? How can I then Try to align my day to day with that as much as possible while recognizing that, of course, there are expectations of me and I'm going to need to respond to some of them. But I don't want to start with the goal of like I need to be as responsive as possible because that is ultimately a losing battle. Talk about your idea of the eighth day of the week.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

i have this um this whole other activity about the eighth day of the week like imagine you get an extra day every week so it's not just your perfect ideal day like you experience one time in your life but it's a recurring day and on on this eighth day we can also say like nobody's expecting anything from you like you have responsibilities you know family work otherwise.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

i have this um this whole other activity about the eighth day of the week like imagine you get an extra day every week so it's not just your perfect ideal day like you experience one time in your life but it's a recurring day and on on this eighth day we can also say like nobody's expecting anything from you like you have responsibilities you know family work otherwise.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

i have this um this whole other activity about the eighth day of the week like imagine you get an extra day every week so it's not just your perfect ideal day like you experience one time in your life but it's a recurring day and on on this eighth day we can also say like nobody's expecting anything from you like you have responsibilities you know family work otherwise.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

But on this eighth day, like it's a bonus day, everybody else has kind of gone away. You can do anything you want. I started asking people about this. And the number one thing that they said they would do on their eighth day was catch up. They're like, I feel so behind.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

But on this eighth day, like it's a bonus day, everybody else has kind of gone away. You can do anything you want. I started asking people about this. And the number one thing that they said they would do on their eighth day was catch up. They're like, I feel so behind.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

But on this eighth day, like it's a bonus day, everybody else has kind of gone away. You can do anything you want. I started asking people about this. And the number one thing that they said they would do on their eighth day was catch up. They're like, I feel so behind.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And the thing I want to do most of my life is to catch up on my email or catch up on, you know, whatever these responsibilities are. So you can see how much of a burden it is, you know, how overwhelming it can become. And ultimately, catching up is an elusive goal. So we have to somehow let that go because it's impossible.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And the thing I want to do most of my life is to catch up on my email or catch up on, you know, whatever these responsibilities are. So you can see how much of a burden it is, you know, how overwhelming it can become. And ultimately, catching up is an elusive goal. So we have to somehow let that go because it's impossible.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And the thing I want to do most of my life is to catch up on my email or catch up on, you know, whatever these responsibilities are. So you can see how much of a burden it is, you know, how overwhelming it can become. And ultimately, catching up is an elusive goal. So we have to somehow let that go because it's impossible.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And if we really think, what would we do with that eighth day, then that's where things kind of get interesting. And that's when you realize, this is how I want to spend more of my time.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And if we really think, what would we do with that eighth day, then that's where things kind of get interesting. And that's when you realize, this is how I want to spend more of my time.

Something You Should Know
Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

And if we really think, what would we do with that eighth day, then that's where things kind of get interesting. And that's when you realize, this is how I want to spend more of my time.