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Visakan Veerasamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
576 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And like, but my subconscious protects me from making a costly financial decision like a very costly financial decision, by just putting it off. Like, no, no, let's just keep looking, let's whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And like, but my subconscious protects me from making a costly financial decision like a very costly financial decision, by just putting it off. Like, no, no, let's just keep looking, let's whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the moment I realized that, oh, I actually want to be in a better neighborhood, then it's so easy to fall into, I'm going to go see an agent, I'm going to go look at houses, and everything just flows from there. So yeah, I think a lot of times procrastination is... maybe you don't actually want to do the thing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the moment I realized that, oh, I actually want to be in a better neighborhood, then it's so easy to fall into, I'm going to go see an agent, I'm going to go look at houses, and everything just flows from there. So yeah, I think a lot of times procrastination is... maybe you don't actually want to do the thing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And the moment I realized that, oh, I actually want to be in a better neighborhood, then it's so easy to fall into, I'm going to go see an agent, I'm going to go look at houses, and everything just flows from there. So yeah, I think a lot of times procrastination is... maybe you don't actually want to do the thing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And I think people struggle with like, well, but I need to pay the bill, so I have to have a job. So I have to, which is fair, right? Everyone, most people go through that. But I think a lot of things boils down to like the story you're telling yourself about why you need to do what you're doing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And I think people struggle with like, well, but I need to pay the bill, so I have to have a job. So I have to, which is fair, right? Everyone, most people go through that. But I think a lot of things boils down to like the story you're telling yourself about why you need to do what you're doing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And I think people struggle with like, well, but I need to pay the bill, so I have to have a job. So I have to, which is fair, right? Everyone, most people go through that. But I think a lot of things boils down to like the story you're telling yourself about why you need to do what you're doing.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

I have been helping some friends with these issues recently, and one pattern I keep noticing is people have this taskmaster inside their head that's beating them up over and over again. Like, you should be doing this thing. Why are you not doing it? You're so lazy. You're so whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

I have been helping some friends with these issues recently, and one pattern I keep noticing is people have this taskmaster inside their head that's beating them up over and over again. Like, you should be doing this thing. Why are you not doing it? You're so lazy. You're so whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

I have been helping some friends with these issues recently, and one pattern I keep noticing is people have this taskmaster inside their head that's beating them up over and over again. Like, you should be doing this thing. Why are you not doing it? You're so lazy. You're so whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And it doesn't get to the truth of why you should or should not be doing it, what you are, what you care about, what you're afraid of. And yeah, so when I was talking to my friend, he was trying to spend less time on Twitter. And I'm like, why? And he's like, oh, because I spend so much time on Twitter and Instagram and whatever, and I don't get any work done.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And it doesn't get to the truth of why you should or should not be doing it, what you are, what you care about, what you're afraid of. And yeah, so when I was talking to my friend, he was trying to spend less time on Twitter. And I'm like, why? And he's like, oh, because I spend so much time on Twitter and Instagram and whatever, and I don't get any work done.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And it doesn't get to the truth of why you should or should not be doing it, what you are, what you care about, what you're afraid of. And yeah, so when I was talking to my friend, he was trying to spend less time on Twitter. And I'm like, why? And he's like, oh, because I spend so much time on Twitter and Instagram and whatever, and I don't get any work done.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And so I should spend less time on those things. And I'm like, I don't think that's actually true. You know, like somewhere out there, there's someone else who spends twice as much time on the socials as you, but they're happy because they're achieving their goals, right? So like, why is it that you're focusing on lowering the...

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And so I should spend less time on those things. And I'm like, I don't think that's actually true. You know, like somewhere out there, there's someone else who spends twice as much time on the socials as you, but they're happy because they're achieving their goals, right? So like, why is it that you're focusing on lowering the...

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

And so I should spend less time on those things. And I'm like, I don't think that's actually true. You know, like somewhere out there, there's someone else who spends twice as much time on the socials as you, but they're happy because they're achieving their goals, right? So like, why is it that you're focusing on lowering the...

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

that you think you don't want instead of increasing the thing that you actually do want. And then we talked about that for almost an hour. And we got around to, well, he wants to be doing some research stuff, but he hasn't made a study plan. And his initial plan was, oh, I'm going to read this whole textbook in a week. And that's not possible. It's a thick, dense textbook.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

that you think you don't want instead of increasing the thing that you actually do want. And then we talked about that for almost an hour. And we got around to, well, he wants to be doing some research stuff, but he hasn't made a study plan. And his initial plan was, oh, I'm going to read this whole textbook in a week. And that's not possible. It's a thick, dense textbook.

Modern Wisdom
#862 - Visakan Veerasamy - An Ode To People Who Take Things Seriously

that you think you don't want instead of increasing the thing that you actually do want. And then we talked about that for almost an hour. And we got around to, well, he wants to be doing some research stuff, but he hasn't made a study plan. And his initial plan was, oh, I'm going to read this whole textbook in a week. And that's not possible. It's a thick, dense textbook.