Marie Forleo

So it's always been a place of interest for me, a place of study. And I love studying neuroscience and I love studying efficiency and effectiveness and all those beautiful things.

enculturated to believe that if we're not on our phones 24 seven, if we're not constantly engaging and creating content and trying to reach for more, more, more and bigger and bigger and bigger, that somehow we're not hungry enough or we're not driven enough.

And when I really started to understand that I was so addicted to like overwhelm and had put myself in a place of burnout, I started to recognize that I was like, wait a minute, this is like two different worlds, two different paradigms where we're so enculturated to believe that if we're not on our phones 24 seven, if we're not constantly engaging and creating content,

So I started understanding, I was like, it basically came to me this concept of like, there's the world of time stress, which most of the world is caught in. Here's a stat that might blow your mind. Did you know that on average, right now, these days, the average American will now spend the equivalent of 44 years of their life staring at screens? No, I didn't know that. 44 years of our life.

and trying to reach for more, more, more and bigger and bigger and bigger that somehow we're not hungry enough or we're not driven enough. So I started understanding, I was like, it basically came to me this concept of like, there's the world of time stress, which most of the world is caught in. Here's a stat that might blow your mind.

I don't know about you.

But I don't think the purpose of a human life is to spend 44 years or 66 years staring at screens. And just when I started to really do some research into the stats and I started, I actually asked our audience, I sent out this survey. And I just said, hey, I'm investigating this topic.

Did you know that on average, right now these days, the average American will now spend the equivalent of 44 years of their life staring at screens? No, I didn't know that. 44 years of our life. I don't know about you, Mine is like 60 years for sure. But I don't think the purpose of a human life is to spend 44 years or 66 years staring at screens.

I'm curious if you have any struggles around productivity or burnout or getting things done or feeling like no matter how hard you go, it's never enough. And when you're working, you're like, oh God, I really need to rest. But you feel so guilty for taking rest that you don't take a rest.

And just when I started to really do some research into the stats and I started, I actually asked our audience, I sent out this survey. And I just said, hey, I'm investigating this topic. I'm curious if you have any struggles around productivity or burnout or getting things done or feeling like no matter how hard you go, it's never enough.

And then when you take a rest, you're like, oh, I should be working because I have all these other ideas and I need to get ahead. And oh my God, you don't even... The responses, there was like 7,000 in-depth responses in like two days. It was insane.

And when I started to look at those responses, it became so apparent to me that most of the world was caught, trapped in this awful paradigm that I called time stress, where you feel like no matter how hard you go, it's not hard enough, that you can't take a break, that you're lazy if you even want to sit down and rest for like five minutes, that no matter what you do, it's not enough.

And when you're working, you're like, oh God, I really need to rest. But you feel so guilty for taking rest that you don't take a rest. And then when you take a rest, you're like, oh, I should be working because I have all these other ideas and I need to get ahead. And oh my God, you don't even, the responses, there was like 7,000 in-depth responses in like two days. It was insane.

And when I started to look at those responses, it became so apparent to me that most of the world was caught, trapped in this awful paradigm that I called time stress, where you feel like no matter how hard you go, it's not hard enough, that you can't take a break, that you're lazy if you even want to sit down and rest for like five minutes, that no matter what you do, it's not enough, that you're starting to feel some anxiety, some depression, some burnout, and you feel ashamed about that.

That you're starting to feel some anxiety, some depression, some burnout, and you feel ashamed about that. And you feel like that if you take a break or slow down, that everything you've worked so hard for is probably going to fall apart. And that's the world a lot of people are living in. And they're plastering on smiles and saying, oh, but I got it. I got it together. I got it together.

Or they feel like they have to hold it together.

They don't realize that there's this whole other possibility of the paradigm I call being a time genius, which is where you can actually get all the things that you want to get done and then some and not feel that dread and not run yourself into the ground and not do things that are ineffective and not chase these goals or this cultural mandate for more that honestly is sometimes you don't want everything to grow indefinitely.

And you feel like that if you take a break or slow down, that everything you've worked so hard for is probably going to fall apart. And that's the world a lot of people are living in. And they're plastering on smiles and saying, but I got it. I got it together. I got it together. Or they feel like they have to hold it together.

They don't realize that there's this whole other possibility of the paradigm I call being a time genius, which is where you can actually get all the things that you want to get done and then some and not feel that dread and not run yourself into the ground and not do things that are ineffective and not chase these goals or this cultural mandate for more that honestly is sometimes you don't want everything to grow indefinitely.

Think about cancer cells.

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