Shane Parrish
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Your friends won't argue with it either.
If your rule is you don't eat dessert, you're not going to eat dessert.
And so another one of like my positive inertia or automatic rules that I have is that I work out every day.
Hmm.
I don't have any days off.
I don't take any days off.
And why?
Because I find it easier to work out seven days a week, 365 days a year than two days a week or three days a week.
Because when I work out two or three days a week, I don't get the consistency.
I don't get the inertia going for me.
And now I start negotiating with myself.
I'm not going to work.
I don't feel like working out.
I can do it tomorrow and still get my three times in this week.
Yes.
And that's what I used to tell myself.
These stories were crazy because it's like, I'll do extra tomorrow.
I don't feel like it today.
Well, if you don't feel like it today, you're not going to feel like it tomorrow.
The contract is done.