Shane Parrish

But for example, you know, my rule is I work out every day and I've probably missed three in the past year.

So I think, you know, never miss twice.

Well, that's interesting, right?

So let's take working out every day.

I used to work here three days a week, and I found that when I was working here three days a week, that little voice inside my head, and maybe everybody has a different voice, but my voice was like, hey, you had a long day today.

You didn't sleep well last night.

You got a lot on your plate.

Let's take today off.

And you know what?

We'll make up for it.

We'll do extra tomorrow.

We'll pay with interest.

And then tomorrow would come around, and I'd negotiate with myself all over again.

And I was negotiating, and the negotiation was causing me so much

I don't know, not even anxiety, but I wasn't doing the things that I wanted to do because I was like, why?

So I created this automatic rule.

I'm going to sweat every day.

I don't go to the gym every day, but I sweat every day.

And when I wake up, the conversation that I have with myself isn't, am I going to work out today?

It's what does my workout look like today?