James Clear

And it sounds ridiculous, right?

It sounds silly.

You're like, obviously he's not gonna get the guy the results that he wants.

But if you take a step back, you realize that he was mastering the art of showing up, right?

He was becoming the type of person that went to the gym four days a week, even if it was only for five minutes.

And this gets us to that deeper truth about habits that you just mentioned, this idea that a habit must be established before it can be improved.

It has to become the standard in your life before you can optimize it and scale it up into something more.

And, you know, I don't know why we do this.

Like we get very all or nothing about our habits.

We're like, we're so focused on finding the perfect business idea or the best workout program or the ideal diet plan that we spend all our time theorizing and researching and looking for a better way.

And instead, if we could just master the art of showing up, even if in the beginning it was less than what you had hoped to do, you're establishing a foothold.

You're building some small progress that you can advance off of.

And it reminds me of Ed Latimore has that great quote where he says, the heaviest weight at the gym is the front door.

And man, there are a lot of things in life that are like that.

You know, like the hardest part is getting started.

The hardest part is establishing the routine, even if it's a lower level baseline than what you ultimately hope to achieve.

But the reality is, if you can't become the type of person who masters the art of showing up, even if it's just for five minutes, then it doesn't matter how good the plan is.

It doesn't matter how great your theory is.

And so I think the two minute rule pushes back on that perfectionist tendency a little bit and just encourages you to master the art of showing up.

Yeah.