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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Yeah.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And similarly,
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, I don't think... In some ways, I think I have certain advantages, but I do not have, like, a huge psychological buffer.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Some people have incredible inbuilt, I really think,
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
psychological resilience.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like, they have a lot of margin of safety.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I don't have that, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I do not have the batteries and infinite endurance of some serial entrepreneurs I've seen or professional athletes, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
It's just like they have different, like, Kobe Bryant or, I mean, you could look, Travis Kalanick of Uber or whatever, like, just like different batteries.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
These guys are coming to the table with a different engine.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
But you can give yourself a competitive advantage
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
if you know the track so for me with anything it's like know the track what does that look like what does that mean well kind of apply it knows like it's identifying in advance if you're learning anything doing anything like where am i going to be most likely to quit what are the failure points why do other people quit when do they quit and then if you know in advance like okay it's very likely three months into this that i'm gonna hit like a crisis of meaning and i'm gonna plateau and i'm gonna be tempted to quit
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
If you know that in advance, when you hit it, your little engine is enough to get you past that plateau.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
So, I just, I think about that a lot, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
It's like, if people aren't following, why do some people quit diets?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Why do so many people make news resolutions and then by February 1, they're long gone?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Smoke, exhaust in the rear view mirror.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
It's like, part of it is, they have these very optimistic, well-intentioned visions of what they're gonna do,
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
where they go to the gym three times a week, it never gets interrupted.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
They never need to make a phone call.