Your Life Doesn't Need to Be Easier. Just Simpler

0:00Uh, I Adam Lane Smith taught me this a couple years ago. I think it's really, really true. Your life does not need to be easier, it needs to be simpler. Your system is designed to handle stress and challenge, but not complication. >> Mhm. >> You probably handle hard things pretty well, but feel overwhelmed when they become messy. Do not attribute to difficulty that which can be explained by complexity.

0:23Really cool. Really cool. And I think that's that's where a lot of stress is felt. And this is the line from whatever [ __ ] four episodes ago, where uh, there's no such thing as being overworked only under-rested. Mhm. That overworked is the asterisk. Overworked at a small bucket of things.

0:48But there is such a thing as being spread too thin and overworked across a larger bucket of things. If all that you have to do for the next 6 months or 2 years is write a book, it's going to be stressful, but it's going to be enjoyable. If you have to write a book and raise a kid and manage finances and go to work and try and get in shape and get get connect with your partner and your mom's ill and it doesn't take it only takes two or three of those and people fall apart.

1:16Your system is designed to handle intensity, but not complexity. >> I think I think most people would be astonished at how much they can accomplish if they remove things. Because I don't I don't think focus is also not additive, but multi- multiplicative in that the best things that I've ever made, books, things like that, the best works that I've created have been things that had many coats of paint.

1:50And so, I can look at the same project over a long period of time. When I'm on good days, on bad days, it rains, it's it's It's sunshine. Layla and I are good. Layla and I are bad. Like through all these different seasons. And so, I look at the work through as many lenses as I can, and then it it creates it creates the texture to the work that gives it that depth. Of And I like the many coats of paint cuz like you have to let it dry. Like it's very rare that something on the first shot is very good. It just takes a lot of attempts.

2:17But you you can't get that surface area of thinking if you can only think about it a handful of times. And so, there's only so much thinking time that you have, which means that if you give it to five projects rather than one, getting 1-in deep on five projects is rarely a novel concept. Like you rarely will come up with something that isn't is inherently unique because many people can give 1-in deep thought towards any idea. Like

2:42>> also somebody who is 1/5 as good as you at doing that thing at giving 100% of themselves. So, you're basically curtailing your capacity by spreading it across multiple things. >> And again, I relate things back to business, but um in some ways, you believing that you can pursue multiple masters is actually arrogant because it assumes that the people that you compete against can't beat you when they're fully focused on one thing and that you can somehow compete with three or four or five people at the same time and still win.

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