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Winston Weinberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1528 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And that is such a big problem.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

That's how you create thrash.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

You create thrash by you get overly stressed about everything.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And then people don't know.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I mean, it's like the boy who cried wolf.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

They don't know what actually matters, what doesn't matter.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And so a lot of what you have to do, I think, as a founder is figure out

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

you know, how do I manage my own stress?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And then how do I explain and diffuse this stress throughout the company in a healthy way?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

How do you take care of yourself?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

It's a good question, and it's a work in progress.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Like, getting enough sleep and working out are the main things for me.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

It's not even close.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

If you wake up right in the morning and you go on a run, I found that that's like incredible because everything else through the rest of the day, you get like a shock basically.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And then the rest of the day, you're like calmer for everything else.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So I think that works super well.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

The other thing too is prioritization.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So a lot of the reason people get stressed is because they're doing too many things and they can't, everything feels like chaos, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

But if you prioritize things correctly...

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I think that you can actually know and have like a very good handle on all of the problems at the company, right?