Doctor Mike

So if you've got your abs, right?

Or it's subcutaneous abdominal fat, right?

Sure.

And you've got joy in your relationships, and you've got spiritual transcendence, and you've got the way that you serve your community, and you've got how you're dealing with your children.

All these things are different variables in which you're trying to optimize simultaneously.

And that means none of them is just for that.

Because when you go on just one, this is the problem that we have with a lot of sort of influencers.

It's as if you do this one thing, your whole life is going to fall into place.

Wrong.

There's trade-offs in everything.

Everybody knows there's trade-offs in everything.

That's what it comes down to.

You want to do the best you can across five variables or 10 variables or whatever it happens to be.

I talk an awful lot about the elements of the happiest life.

And it's really four dimensions, your faith and your family and your friendship and your work.

And by faith, I mean philosophy too.

And when you're thinking across all those four things, none of them is being exclusively optimized.

You need to be thinking about all four kind of at the same time.

And the balance per se is part of the beauty of having the best life.

Yeah, so it's a problem.