Mark Rober

How would you feel?

And that is a good reset of like, why am I worrying about what I'm going to bring to the potluck on Friday and stressing over this in my life?

That is such a small problem compared to what it could be, right?

And I think it's a reset then of like,

When you come home and at the end of the day, I think relationships do matter.

And I think the research bears this out, right?

Happiness is correlated to like the quality of the relationships in your life.

And for me, I find that to be as true as well.

So then it's like, well, then I shouldn't be on my phone when I come home.

And if at work, I'm in this hyper optimization mode and I get stuff done and I have people around me.

When you get home, you need to flip that and you need to not be efficient with your kids.

Like the phone goes down and your goal should be flipped.

I need to be as inefficient as possible.

right?

I'm going to read this book four times.

I'm not going to skip the pages.

I'm going to sit here and play this thing with them.

Your goal when you get home should be as inefficient as you possibly can.

And that will yield the best results for fostering a child that feels like they're being raised in this loving environment, especially with all the distractions we have today.

Yeah, when they're telling that story that's very long-winded and they're going over and over and repeating, like, I want to be like, yeah, yeah, get to the point.