Eddie Pinero

And what he's found is that very often out in the world, that ratio is flipped.

People are so consumed by the day-to-day that the future takes a back seat to the nuance and the quote-unquote putting out fires of the present moment.

We're spending 80% of our time eating.

Now, like most things, this is not one size fits all.

A, say, frontline manager at a factory is not going to be 80% dreaming and 20% eating.

Their task requirements are different.

But the point remains, it's imperative that we, in some capacity, utilize our resources now to look ahead.

I don't know if I've ever told this story, but I always joke around with my brother about it.

When we were kids in Southern California, we'd have these basically battles on the beach, right?

Where we'd go down to the hard sand right in front of the water, and we'd each build these little walls slash fort type things, maybe 20 feet apart from each other.

This is like emulating World War I type stuff.

And then we'd make cannonballs out of sand and just throw the sand at each other.

So in a way, this is a perfect metaphor because we would always be juggling, on one hand, building the fort that would protect us from the other person.

So dreaming.

And then on the other hand, I mean, those things hurt, right?

We'd have to, in real time, be dodging incoming sand simultaneously to building that wall.

So the eating.

And he's a bit younger than me, so admittedly, this wasn't really fair.

But regardless, he would get so consumed with throwing sand that his wall would be really cheaply made.

At the beginning, I'd be trying to make this really solid base foundation.