Everything Is Hard and No One Cares

0:00Do hard >> [snorts] >> Not because it's fun, but because the win actually means something. You bled for it. You broke for it. You earned it. Easy wins are forgettable. Hard ones change you. That's the point. And that's your line. Everything is hard, and no one cares. >> [laughter] >> Um I'm sorry accomplishing your dreams wasn't fast, easy, and risk-free.

0:29Like they wouldn't be dreams if they were. And you wouldn't call them wins if they were easy. Cuz they would just be you tying your shoes. And what it was once a win when you were five is no longer a win when you're competent. And with increased competence comes increased stakes. You have to be willing to bet more, put more on the line to win bigger. Which means like if you're a billionaire playing $10 hands of poker is a complete waste of time. >> Uh Gabe from I Prevail, he's the drummer from I Prevail.

0:56>> Mhm. >> You will always think you suck. That's okay. It's okay to suck compared to your standards. As you grow, so will your standards. That doesn't mean you actually suck. >> You think it would be the the actuality of sucking versus the perception of sucking. >> [laughter] >> Correct. It's the As as you increase in capacity, you increase in standards. And given that your standards will always outstrip your capacity, there will always be this felt sense lack between where I am and where I want to be. But yeah, that Mark Manson line I think is really important in sort of an era of AI because you can speed run or shortcut getting the outcome without putting in the requisite inputs. Now, because everybody's obsessed with leverage and trying to get as many outputs from as few inputs as possible, that does make sense. But when you begin to fully detach it from it and you don't focus on the journey that got you there in the same way, and you're not scrutinizing the outputs with the same level of finitude and and resolution that you used

2:01>> cost. >> Yes. Yes. And it's not just the outputs that matter. It's not just the output and this is where the sort of leverage crowd doesn't fully come into reality. It doesn't come into contact with the way that humans are telling themselves the story of their life. If all If you could come up with some sort of super quick code that would write 100 million dollar leads for you.

2:25>> Mhm. >> The entire project would feel different. Your process of getting that It could be word for word the exact same. Take every word that I've written and create this book based on this brief. Dink. >> Mhm. I would prove that AI knew a lot about leads but not me. And I think that I mean um I think this this this sits at the discrepancy between saying the output of your life is who you become and the aggregate set of behavior that you've learned over your life or if the output of your life is the stuff that you that exists as a result of you being here.

3:01Um and that is more of a philosophical question than I think it is a like right or wrong. I think you can make arguments for either side of like the person the purpose of your life is what changes as a result of you being here. >> What you did or who you became. >> Yeah. Um or the purpose of your life is all of the outside only existed to change the inside. And I think there's there's arguments for both. I have I'm I would say I have strong affinity towards both definitions because um I would say that when I go through harder times I lean more towards like this is happening for me.

3:32And when I'm going through easier times it's like I'm hap I I am happening to it. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm happening to reality. >> But the binary of that. >> Yeah. >> Seeing it as only one or the other will create a kind of fragility. If all that you're focused on is outcomes then you're never going to think about becoming the person who can generate those outcomes because you're going to find shortcuts that don't necessarily work. And if you're only ever focused on inputs, you're never going to actually work out if all of this suffering amounted to anything.

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