Tim Ferriss

But I would say that for me,

Realizing that what you do matters a lot more than how you do any one thing is critical.

What do I mean by that?

So, what you do versus how you do.

Seems kind of strange.

In other words, you can get really, really good at having high expectations for things that don't matter very much.

And being perfectionist about little things.

But that doesn't really move the needle for you or other people.

You can spend your whole life focusing on little things.

I think that's gonna become the default for most of humankind in the next few years with AI.

Like, the idea that we're all gonna have this incredible leisure class with tons of free time, complete nonsense.

It's never happened with any technology before.

So, I would say that... there's a book called The 80-20 Principle by Richard Koch, K-O-C-H.

read that it and this comes back to what i mentioned earlier which is you really don't have to get a lot of things right to have an amazing life so i used to over optimize i would attempt to optimize almost everything because i felt like i had the bandwidth to do it maybe i did but

that can make you an insufferable son of a bitch, not just to other people, but to yourself.

Right?

Because if you have unreasonable, unhelpful expectations in environments that you cannot control, interpersonal relationships, your girlfriend or wife or husband or whatever, your kids, you're gonna drive not only yourself, but the people around you completely insane.

So, you know, when I sat down here, you might remember this, there was a little piece of paper stuck in here from a prior guest, serenity prayer.

And I folded it up and I was like, oh, I like the serenity prayer, and I put it in my pocket.

Serenity prayer is stoicism.