Warum harte Arbeit selbst das Ziel ist

0:00So, during my year off that I took after during the year of the sale when I couldn't you couldn't I couldn't really work on the business because you don't want to change anything major when you're going through a sale. Um, but I didn't know if I was going to be owning this business soon. So, I basically just had to do nothing cuz I also had to demonstrate that the team could do it without me so that's still a sellable asset. So, I basically just sat there for a year. That's when a lot of my like thoughts kind of caught up from you know when I had started years earlier.

0:26And that was when I kind of refined my kind of theory of living for me which is that hard work is the goal. And so, it's not like work hard so that X because as soon as you have a so that then the X is the thing. But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way. And so, in reframing that, then it's something that I can win or measure myself against every day in real time throughout the day which is how hard am I working because that is the goal and then even I say this just for audio but like everything else takes care of itself still puts the everything else as the goal still. It's just being vaguer.

1:13But if you just say like the only point is working hard because I know that whatever I'm going to get is stuff that I will become accustomed to. And the I guess opposite of the hedonic treadmill is like your the resilience piece is that my ability to work hard itself is growable. And so, I just need to keep my RPE, my rate of perceived exertion at eight or nine or 10 because I know that when I look back on my life, the days that I loved the most were days when I had nothing left in the tank. And there's this thing that Jesse Itzler has this and I love it. I hate him for having it cuz it's so [ __ ] good.

1:49Um, but he has it he taught us to his kids which is he has them they have a little zero means that there's nothing left in the tank. And when they finish a race or they do whatever, it's like did you leave did you leave anything in the tank? And I thought about that and the best days of my life were ones when I had nothing left in the tank. And so, then the goal becomes to empty the tank not what where I drive but just to drive the car as hard as I possibly can and that means that in the beginning it's just straightaways and just seeing how high I can rev the engine. But as it become more advanced, it's like all right, well now we've got turns and then it's turns and elevation and then it's turns and elevation without guardrails because we have risk. And so, when I think about how hard I want to work, the interesting thing about that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is you because you're the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had. And the better you get and you can resonate with this, you start winning exteriorly and that's when people are like it felt so empty.

2:46It's because they didn't actually work as hard as they could have. They just worked hard enough to beat everyone else. But that discrepancy between how hard you could have worked to work your hardest versus what was required in order to win to me that's the opportunity that shifting towards the work being the goal unlocks for you. And I work harder now than I did when I was poor. And I think it's because I've learned to enjoy it.

3:13How do you ensure that the hard work focus doesn't detach you from outcomes and inputs? This seems like there's a little bit of a tension with what we started talking about in the beginning. I Just to >> Oh, it's totally >> It's direction over speed is the first one but we're now talking about maximizing the speed. Yeah. So, how do we balance direction and speed? >> So, with the question, if the outcome that we're trying to have is being present, then the outcome actually is irrelevant because it's about how much empty the tank. If we're talking about the science of achievement, then the outcome the outcome does matter, obviously.

3:47Um, and so, balancing both of those things which is that if I want to accomplish all my goals, then I need to make sure that my inputs are tied as closely as humanly possible to the outcome. If I want to be satisfied, it doesn't matter at all. And so, I think it's marrying those two ideas where the perfect world in my opinion would be you work as hard as you possibly can because you thought ahead of time what is the input that has the closest correlation with the outcome that I want and then you put your blinders on and you start digging. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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