Eric Jorgenson

I think the Archimedes quote, give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can move the world.

One totally correct decision can dominate everything.

And Naval is really, he's an elegant thinker.

I think he's really enamored with the idea of where can you flip one domino and everything takes care of itself, which is this incredibly zen business thing.

What's the smallest action I can take to create the biggest result?

Um, it's very different than somebody like Elon or Goggins or whatever, who are just kind of like trying to get the most out of themselves possible.

Um, but I think that's a really interesting approach.

It's a good tool for thought to just be like, yeah, how easy could this be?

Um, he describes himself as lazy, which I don't think he is, but he's like, you know, I just want, I want the greatest reward for my effort.

And I, I don't want to expend effort wastefully.

The real thing is hard work has a limit eventually.

You can't work 100-hour weeks forever.

Hard work is respectable and admired, and yes, we should work hard.

Hard work can only get you a two or three X improvement in what you're doing.

And if you don't learn to improve how you're working or the elegance or improve your leverage, like learn where you can have those hundred X, you know, where one hour of work or 10 hours of work can have a 10 X or a hundred X impact.

Like you're going to be kind of stuck in that two to three X improvement window, no matter what you do.

if you go see a lion on safari, like they're just chilling most of the time, like 30, 45 hours at a time, they're just laying there and sleep in and kind of whatever.

And then when they are both hungry and see prey, they leap into action, like maximum adrenaline, full sprint, unbelievable violence and attack and take down this thing and have an incredible feast.

And then just lay there and sleep again for like 30 hours.

And yeah,