Codie Sanchez

You're not researching.

You're just waiting for the right moment.

Oh my gosh, I hear this so often.

It makes me want to die on the inside.

Like when the kids are older, when you have more energy, when this isn't done, when you feel better.

Like motivation is not a prerequisite for action.

Motivation is a byproduct of action.

You don't ever feel like going to the gym.

You just go to the gym because you got to go to the fucking gym if you don't want to be fat.

So the brain only releases the dopamine of momentum once you move.

The brain's like, you don't get this before you do the thing.

So if you're waiting for the feeling to show up before you begin, that's biologically impossible.

It's like, hey, I'm sitting in a car.

Why isn't this thing driving?

I don't know if you know this, if I've told you this before, but I went down to the border to report for the Associated Press a million years ago.

And I know you're like me.

You're like a hard charger.

So I was a hard charging college student.

But I had never been a real journalist.

Like my Spanish wasn't that great.