Womit ist Alex noch unzufrieden?

0:00Is there anything you're unhappy about? I would say I have the the same the same complaints that any entrepreneur would, which is like I always want things to happen faster. Um but like I also realize that and and try to adjust my expectations appropriately and talk to Solomon and be like, "Well, what did you expect? If I were to give me advice, I'd be like you're doing you know, you're doing fine and you're it's taking it's actually happening faster than you originally thought it was going to happen. So like are you really just readjusting your expectations so that you can be dissatisfied? Well, that sounds silly.

0:24Um but uh No, I'm not I'm like honestly I'm I like my life. It's weird just I mean like it's it's odd nowadays to just be like I like my life. Like I I I've spent a lot of effort to create an environment uh with people that I enjoy doing things that I enjoy. Uh are there things day-to-day that come up that are stressors? Of course. Like that's you know, any business anything you do has overhead, but um I I like what I do every day. And um I think I'm I'm pretty good at it. And that brings me a lot of enjoyment.

0:56When you wake up, you'd say the off-the-rip emotion that you feel is >> tired. >> [laughter] >> How much sleep do you get? Oh, I mean I I I if I get eight, I can like cure cancer. So like I'm you know, I try to like I got two I got two eight-hour sleeps in a row this last week and I was like I could literally repaint the Mona Lisa right now. Like I felt so good. >> What occupies that time that would inhibit you to get eight hours? Nothing inhibits me from getting eight hours. I just wake up earlier. That's more that's like more often what happens. Oh, really? Yeah, I I I haven't I haven't put an alarm on. Yeah, I haven't put an alarm on in How do you do that?

1:31>> forever. Upon first wake up, do you get up or do you sometimes think >> No, I try. If I can if I can go back to sleep, I will. But I I mean there's a lot of things I want to do. And so like I get excited. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean like I'll be physically tired, but like I'm excited mentally. Like I my brain will turn on and I'm like there's all these things I want to do. I mean there was a time when I I had a one of those rings that like did your sleep stuff. And I got I got more annoyed about the the ring Why? >> than I cuz I cuz in this in this in may be an indication of how much I've changed over time. I was 22 the last time I did that. So it's 12 years ago.

2:01Um but I got I got so competitive with myself uh to try and like beat my last night's PR that I would like stress about trying like I would like not move so that it wouldn't like wake the ring up to think that I was sleeping. You know what I mean? And then I was like I'm sleeping worse now that I have this ring on. So I was like you know. And um and if anything I'd wake up the next day and it would give me a reason why like the day would be like it would tell me if I was going to have a good or bad day. And I was like well that's silly. Um because I've had plenty of days that have been very little sleep and great days and I've had days where I was Cuz I have the Aura ring and I use it a lot and I do say that when I see in the morning that says like you did not get a good night of rest. Be careful today. It does kind of put me in a mood where I'm like oh crap. Yeah, yeah, it's telling me I got to be careful. I wouldn't have even thought about that had it not been now planted in my mind that maybe I'm going to be a little slower today. Well that's like the superstition stuff that I've talked about where it's like um Dr. Kashif, a good buddy of mine.

2:51He says he defines a scam as something that if you remove it uh your functioning gets worse. And so it's like basically we create these crutches. So it's like oh man if I don't have my green juice in the morning like I feel if I feel terrible. But then after a while you start to be able to only take the green juice just to feel normal. Well then if I take the green juice away then I feel bad. Well then that's a scam. Like that's doesn't it doesn't actually do anything. It's it's it's not doesn't work. And so I I just I'm super cautious and to like to your point about like creatine the very earlier it's like I I just really try not to be superstitious about anything because I want I want to have as many of the controllables under my control as I can.

3:24Um and if I like I love the idea of competing against somebody who has a million crutches. It's like you just knock one of them out and they're they're screwed. Like like if my competitor like oh if I if I don't have 8 hours of sleep I'm a bear. It's like well, can't wait for you to have one bad night's sleep and then I'll just win that day cuz I don't mind having short night's sleep and still working. Like I work fine. So anyways, all that to say um sometimes I sleep shorter and sometimes I sleep longer. I sleep as long as I can.

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