Chris Williamson
speaker
159 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Chris Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And to be honest, it's one that I really suck at.
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I'm very, very not good at dealing with uncertainty.
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My required line of assurance in order for me to commit to a decision is uncertainty.
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incredibly high which is why i've basically never failed at anything that i've done all of the stuff that i've done a string of incredibly slow but very reliable successes is just because my required number of uh sort of justification points is very high and you know in retrospect it might look like it was a risk it's like dude i took so long to fucking make this decision on the
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On the friend point, it's a painful realization that the small number of good friends want you to win in case you take them with you.
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And the large number of bad friends are scared of you winning in case you leave them behind.
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so i didn't even know that that was right i thought it was like happy birthday i thought he was just gifted to humanity when when we started so
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I think Type A people have a Type B problem, and Type B people have a Type A problem.
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Insecure overachievers need to learn how to chill out and relax, and lazy people need to learn how to work harder and be disciplined.
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Given that you subscribe to me, I'm going to guess you're probably Type A, some version of a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity, as Andrew Wilkinson says.
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Here's the thing you may have already realized.
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Type A people with a Type B problem get very little sympathy because a miserable but outwardly successful person always appears to be in a much more preferential position than the content being lazy but on the verge of being bankrupt person.
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The problems of opportunity will always get less sympathy than ones of scarcity.
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One feels like a choice, the other like a limitation.
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I need someone to teach me how to be disciplined and work harder feels noble and upward-aiming and charitable.
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I need someone to teach me how to switch off and relax feels dopaminergic and addicted and transactional and opulent.
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Every underdog movie ever has a training montage of someone working their life out by working harder.
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None included a guy learning how to log out of Slack at 6pm or finally enjoy a beach holiday.
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Type B problems are just as tough as Type A ones, but they require a much less sexy solution, peace, one that you can't achieve by just working harder.
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consistently that builds your capacity to do something, that fosters the skill development and growth that you want.
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