Shane Parrish

And if I can do those little things right, and I get these little moments right, I can put more of my energy into what matters.

And I can spend less time sort of fixing these mistakes.

Because if you think about why we're so busy these days, we're stressed, full of anxiety.

And often what we're doing is we're fixing these little ordinary moments, these little lapses that we have in these moments, right?

If you're out at work and a colleague slights you and says something slightly derogatory, well, you're biological.

You're instinctively become territorial.

Your territory is not physical, like maybe it is with a wolf.

But your territory is sort of mental.

It's your perception of yourself.

And then your ego kicks in and your emotion kicks in.

And then you respond.

And when you respond in that moment, you're responding without reasoning.

And the minute you respond without reasoning, you're no better than an animal.

Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.

But after that meeting, now you got to go make amends.

You got to work with this person.

But not only do I have to spend time repairing that relationship, I have to repair the relationship with everybody else in the room because I just demonstrated that I might be difficult to work with, that people have to be careful what they say to me.

They're not going to tell me the truth.

And all of these byproducts and those tend to consume so much of our time.

and go, I'm going to do heroin.