Liv Boeree

But anyway, can I tell the story of the bed?

Go for it.

All right.

So things came to a head when we were all on vacation in Dominican Republic, Tim and his wife, me and Igor.

And we were in the ocean.

And I remember you'd been in the ocean for like an hour, just bobbing in there, becoming it.

And we got talking and we were talking about the book and

You know, you were expressing just like this, you know, just the horror of the situation, basically.

You're like, look, I just, I'm so close, but there's still this and then there's this.

And an idea popped into my head, which is that, you know, poker players often, we will set ourselves like negative bets, you know, like a...

Essentially, if we don't get a job done, then we have to do something we really don't want to do.

So instead of having a carrot, like a really, really big stick.

So I had the idea to ask Tim, okay, what is the worst either organization or individual that you, if you had to, you know, that you would loathe to give a large sum of money to?

And he thought about it for a little while and he gave his answer.

And I was like, all right, what's your net worth?

He said, his net worth.

All right.

10% of your net worth to that thing.

If you don't get the draft, cause I was like, sorry, but just before that, I'd asked him how long, like if you had a gun to your head or to your wife's head and you had to get the book into a state where you could like send off an edit to the, uh, a draft to your editor, how long?

And he's like, oh, I guess like I could get it like 95% good in a month.