Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Yeah, this gives you a little extra. Well, I saw a tweet from a Twitter account called the rabbit hole. They showed that white liberals have the worst mental health, at least as judged by people who went to try to get help. Now, what do you suppose that would be? What do you think would cause that? What would possibly cause the white liberals to have the worst mental health?
What would it be some possible hypotheses? I don't know. I can't think of anything. Can you? Can't think of a thing. Well, let's speculate, though. There are some differences. Liberal whites believe the news. Would you agree? Liberal whites are most likely to believe the news. Imagine how chilling that would be. I assume it's my livestream. You know not to believe the news.
Is there anybody here who is willing to say they believe the news? Go. Anybody? Just one person. We got a yes. Somebody said yes. They believe the news over on YouTube. Well, I wouldn't admit it. I mean, it's fine to believe whatever you want, but just my advice, I wouldn't admit that you believe the news. In 2023, that's not really a good look. Um,
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Chapter 2: How does the conversation shift towards mental health among liberals?
Most creative people will tell you something similar. There's a time of day that works best for creative work and other times do not work at all. The same holds for exercise. I have the right energy for exercise about noon each day. So that's when I do it. And I assume I get better outcomes compared to the exercising when I'm at low energy.
The secret to managing energy as opposed to time is to gain as much control as you can over your own schedule. If you have a boss, you might not have options about when you do what. If you have a spouse or family or pet or other obligation, those two can force you out of the more productive and happy energy management mode into time management mode.
That's why I say you should favor life choices that give you schedule flexibility. For example, if you get two job offers that seem equivalent, but one gives you more schedule freedom, take the freedom. Likewise with relationships, if you are equally attracted to two people and need to choose, consider picking the one who gives you the most schedule freedom.
Freedom is a good tiebreaker for decisions with unpredictable outcomes. The other good tiebreaker is how much you will learn in one situation versus the other. When you manage energy instead of time, you might not get around to all the tasks you need to get done. The solution to that? Don't do those tasks. At least not today.
If that sounds irresponsible, think of all the things that ever went wrong because you didn't get something done that was at the bottom 20% of your priorities. I'll do that exercise too right now. And if either of us thinks of even one example, I'll be amazed. Okay, begin. I'm done. I got nothing. Neither did you, I'm guessing.
The least important 20% of your tasks are unlikely to have made a difference in your life. Let them go. It's hard at first, but you get used to it. There might be some blowback when certain tasks get postponed, but you can more than make up for that by being able to do your creative and important work when your energy is best.
The time versus energy trade-off is embedded in most of your decisions, but perhaps you never thought of it that way. For example, Your diet and fitness systems might take extra time out of your day, but you get that back in healthy energy. Or perhaps you're lucky enough to have two potential romantic partners, and there's a difference in how much energy you feel with each. Follow the energy.
That's a good signal. If you're trying to decide between two career paths, you probably feel a distinct energy difference when you think of one versus the other. Don't ignore that. When you're buying a car, most of that decision is practical and focused on your needs. But some car models give you a feeling that boosts your energy. Some don't.
Sometimes that feeling hits you every time you get near the vehicle. That's energy. Take the car that provides it. And so it goes with most decisions in life. One path energizes you more than the other. No matter how they stack up in other dimensions, Energy isn't the only variable. I don't want to leave that impression, but after health and safety, it's near the top.
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Chapter 3: What strategies are suggested for managing energy instead of time?
I've dealt individually with a bunch of the renters in our neighborhood who are renting from, by and large, large corporations that own thousands and thousands and thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of properties, perhaps. And When they have a problem, they have to fix it themselves. They can't get the landlord company to do it.
They're having to do things that, you know, in the Neolithic era, when I was still a renter, things that were always the landlord's responsibility in terms of maintenance and lawn care and these kinds of things, that if you did have somebody that owned a bunch of properties. They had a maintenance crew that would come around.
And I've had to deal with these companies just shirking their responsibilities, leaving the properties, literally creating hazards to other people in the neighborhood. And we've had to take all kinds of action to get that resolved. And my understanding is that, and Marcella, you may know more about this. Owen, you may not more, may know more.
But my understanding is this wasn't an issue before the big pandemic. financial crisis in 2008 when all of the mortgage-backed securities started getting bought up and companies decided, hey, I can go out and buy a lot of single... You had corporations that owned apartment buildings and whatnot, but you didn't have them owning single-family homes.
And at least from my anecdotal situation, I see it as a real issue. I'm more in favor of that than I am limiting the credit card interest. Because I figure there are state usury laws already that should protect that to some degree. And at some point, the consumer has to be responsible for the contracts they sign. And if paying excessive interest is a hard, I mean, I did it as a kid.
I got into credit card debt and had to learn the hard way how to deal with it and pay it off and get to the point like, oh, and you know, I pay it off every month and don't pay a penny in interest. But yeah, I'm as, as much as a free market hands-off limited regulation guy as I am, I'm with Trump on this one.
Okay.
That's good. That's interesting.
To be honest, I lived in a country before here. I was born in El Salvador and I have to say when you restrict ownership on corporations, there's many other things that can lead to to this idea that the government controls how the economy works. And I'm against it. I understand the plight of everybody that's going through it. I mean, I'm poor, so I would know.
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