Sahil Bloom

You have this complicated productivity system, but you're not actually creating progress on the things that you were supposed to work on.

And so I pull up the simplest version.

I use Google Calendar.

Go look at my calendar.

From the beginning of the year, one of my core operating beliefs in January of this year was...

Achievement is not going to change my life.

That has sort of been something over the last several years that I've grown to believe that achievements are not going to change my life in any way.

So I need to enjoy the process.

Right.

It's like a pretty common thing we hear.

And.

To me, one of my biggest things I've changed my mind on is that actually some achievements are so profound, you've put so much towards them and worked so hard towards them, that they actually do have the potential to change your life and create an inflection point.

And that...

it implies that they are worth leaning into.

You don't need to sort of bemoan these big achievements or say that like, oh, it's not going to change me.

It's not going to change who I am and what I'm about.

You can actually lean into those things and not feel bad about leaning into them because they may actually be even more impactful than you ever thought they could be.

I did, yeah.

So I think that oftentimes people will get...

focused on a professional mindset when they do this kind of reflection.