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- You avoid missing messing up your work because you don't sleep well because uh you show up hung over the next day and then you don't get the career advancement that you want or you get the judgments from your co-workers from the fact that you're responsible because you drink.
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0:00How to avoid tons of problems in life. Go to bed on time. So, I love these. I want to find single behaviors that have many positive outcomes. So, if you think about leverage as what you get for the effort you put in. If you have lots of leverage, then it means you can do one thing and get many big outcomes, right? Or one very big outcome. That's high leverage. If you put a lot of work in and get a very little bit out of it, you have low leverage. And so the highest form of leverage I think of are what's one behavior or one skill that I can learn that then has many many downstream impacts. And so for and this is specifically I'll say for the the 20ish year old so 20 to 30 20 to 35 if you can simply go to bed on time you avoid drinking and getting in a DUI.
0:51You avoid early pregnancies. You avoid missing messing up your work because you don't sleep well because uh you show up hung over the next day and then you don't get the career advancement that you want or you get the judgments from your co-workers from the fact that you're responsible because you drink. Even though it might have been responsible drinking, but you still smell like booze because it's in your system. If you go to bed on time, it's less likely that you'll get mugged.
1:17It's less likely you'll be in a car accident. Like there's there's all of these downstream impacts from one single behavior. And you also have better quality sleep in general if you go to sleep at the same time every day over and over again. So that means that you have life extension things that happen. You look younger. And so now 5 years, 10 years later, people are like, "Wow, you look so good for your age." There's all of these things from one central behavior, which is just go to bed on time. And so if you want the action for this, you set your alarm for when you go to bed, not for when you wake up. If you set your alarm for when you go to bed, you will always be able to wake up naturally at whatever time you wake up. And it's very difficult to oversleep when you go to bed at 9 because you can get eight hours of sleep and still be up by …