Stephen Kotler

Doesn't feel like work when you love what you do. Feels like play, right? Well, listen, I'll tell you the journey I've been on. It starts with sleep. And a lot of people, they don't get the right sleep.

Doesn't feel like work when you love what you do. Feels like play, right? Well, listen, I'll tell you the journey I've been on. It starts with sleep. And a lot of people, they don't get the right sleep.

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I was just getting to this whole reverse engineer, like the brain's prediction machine.

I was just getting to this whole reverse engineer, like the brain's prediction machine.

One of the things people always ask me is like, how do you accomplish so much in just a little time? And I'm like, it's pretty simple. My most open app on my phone is my calculator. I love math and I love KPIs and I love reverse engineering, whether that's getting to 10% body fat, soon to be 8%, whether that's these massive goals.

One of the things people always ask me is like, how do you accomplish so much in just a little time? And I'm like, it's pretty simple. My most open app on my phone is my calculator. I love math and I love KPIs and I love reverse engineering, whether that's getting to 10% body fat, soon to be 8%, whether that's these massive goals.

Hit a billion in revenue, I need 2,000 technicians to win 500,000 a year. So I got this, what would need to be true for this goal to happen? A smart goal, specific, meaningful, attainable, realistic goal. timely basis. My goals are stretch goals. Everything's a time. But mathematically it's already been done. It's been manifested. It's just, these are the steps.

Hit a billion in revenue, I need 2,000 technicians to win 500,000 a year. So I got this, what would need to be true for this goal to happen? A smart goal, specific, meaningful, attainable, realistic goal. timely basis. My goals are stretch goals. Everything's a time. But mathematically it's already been done. It's been manifested. It's just, these are the steps.

There's a question. I'll never forget this. I was 17 or 18 and I wouldn't work for Cheesecake Factory as a busboy. One of the questions they said is a scenario and there's no right answer. Client comes in, you know, potential customer wants to get sat. You got food that's ready that needs to get delivered to the table. You also got someone asking where the restroom is.

There's a question. I'll never forget this. I was 17 or 18 and I wouldn't work for Cheesecake Factory as a busboy. One of the questions they said is a scenario and there's no right answer. Client comes in, you know, potential customer wants to get sat. You got food that's ready that needs to get delivered to the table. You also got someone asking where the restroom is.

You also realize a server's been double sat. How do you react to that? And really the answer, there's no right answer. It's just, I rely on my team. I do this. It's an order of operations. There's no wrong answer. When people just don't know, they're like, they can't critically think. About a solution.

You also realize a server's been double sat. How do you react to that? And really the answer, there's no right answer. It's just, I rely on my team. I do this. It's an order of operations. There's no wrong answer. When people just don't know, they're like, they can't critically think. About a solution.