Tim Ferriss

But you can give yourself a competitive advantage

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

If you know that in advance, when you hit it, your little engine is enough to get you past that plateau.

So, I just, I think about that a lot, right?

It's like, if people aren't following, why do some people quit diets?

Why do so many people make news resolutions and then by February 1, they're long gone?

Smoke, exhaust in the rear view mirror.

It's like, part of it is, they have these very optimistic, well-intentioned visions of what they're gonna do,

where they go to the gym three times a week, it never gets interrupted.

They never need to make a phone call.

They never get into an argument about who's gonna watch the kids.

And as a result, they don't have any type of safety net on that plan.

Um, so I would say, you know, these are some of the ways

that I think about it.

I know there's a lot there, but.

Yeah, I've struggled with my whole life.

I think I have found certain...

approaches and tools that have helped me to use the double-edged sword without holding the blade as a handle.

Right?

And I expect, here's the other thing, I expect this will always be a challenge.