Jonathan Swanson

Do you want to do something else, even if something is done inefficiently?

That's just something you have to accept.

Another kind of framing I have is Elon Musk sometimes talks about teams being the vector sum.

So a company is a vector sum of all the humans involved.

And, you know, it's just a fancy way of saying there's inefficiency because these vectors are not perfectly aligned.

And the only way to get more output is to have a higher tolerance for inefficiency.

And that's just a fundamental rule of the universe is if you're focused on more and more output, there's going to be more and more inefficiency because more humans are involved.

A hundred percent.

Yeah.

You know, how do you, another way of asking this question is how do you measure your life?

Do you measure it by efficiency or do you measure it by how many times you go on a date with your wife or how many times you exercise or how much you spend time doing a hobby?

Those outputs are what you actually care about.

You don't care about the inefficiencies that were involved in creating those outputs.

You just want that good life that you want.

Yeah, this is one of the more counterintuitive things that we discovered as we've coached clients on delegation, which is most people assume that...

powerful people or successful people have all this leverage and that's how they become ambitious.

That's why they have all this ambition.

Or because they have all this money, they can create all this leverage.

But what we see in practice is that people's ambition clearly grows linearly as their leverage grows.

And the reason for this is pretty clear.