Jim Kwik
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I think a dopamine fast, there's all kinds of studies saying that your brain can reset after a few days off of some technology.
I'm a big believer that focus is not something you have, it's something you do.
We hypnotize ourselves by saying, I don't have focus, I don't have motivation, I don't have energy.
I don't have a great memory.
These are not things you have.
They're things you do.
And I think entrepreneurs need to embrace and get in the habit of taking the nouns in their life.
I don't have energy.
I don't have focus and turn them into verbs.
You do focus.
You generate energy.
And then once you turn it into a verb, then there's a process and it gives you your agency back.
And entrepreneurship is all about personal responsibility, right?
You're not putting it off.
To somebody else, you're not blaming, you're not complaining.
It just wastes a lot of time and nobody really cares.
I would say personal responsibility is so very important.
And focus is also muscle, but it's use it or lose it just like our memory.
If you're not working your memory, you're not going to remember things.
But the more you train it, you're like, I don't even have to think about remembering people's names just because I've done it for so long because that muscle is built just like