Tim Ferriss

dispassionately almost as an observer, right?

And it's like, if you hang out with your friends and they've got problems, you're like, man, you can sort out their problems like that, right?

And she's like, why don't you just do this, this and this?

You can see it so easily.

But it's very hard for us to like look at ourselves in the same way, especially with the speed of thought.

So the simple act of freezing it on paper allows you to look at it for what it is.

And nine times out of 10, you look at it, you're like, okay, that's kind of ridiculous.

Or it's not ridiculous.

But once you've put it on paper, I feel like subconsciously there's part of you that's like, I have that written down.

I don't need to remember or think about it.

And whatever that tendency is, and some people more than others, certainly I have a lot of it, to kind of white-knuckle grasp onto a thought so that it becomes this merry-go-round.

Writing it down just allows you to relax your grip and let it go.

And if you can do that for a few hours, I mean, in today's world, if you can single task and focus on one thing for a few hours without notifications, without getting distracted, without looping on some future anxiety or past depression or whatever it might be, if you can do that for a few hours, my God, like in the next few years, especially post

AI, you're going to have such an enormous competitive advantage.

Huge, huge, huge, like, potential advantage.

I grew up on Long Island, so eastern Long Island.

Rat tail and all.

Nice.

I had a rat tail.

I had some terrible haircuts growing up.