Chris Williamson
speaker
81,758 appearances
251 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 2d ago
Chris Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, you have to master the middle.
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The boring, exhausting, soul-crushing middle.
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That's where the winning happens.
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On your own.
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People will only cheer for you as long as you can't beat them at the game they value most.
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Friendly reminder that every person who doubts you is right until they aren't.
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It's a bug, not a feature.
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It's why dealing with uncertainty is such a meta skill.
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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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