Konstanz schlägt Intensität: Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg

0:00It's rarely the information or the intensity that makes things hard. It's the sticking with it that makes it hard. And so, the desire that we have to quit is simply breaking the consistency. And so, that's why consistency has always been the hardest thing for most people to achieve. But, the intensity of what you have to do to be successful is much lower than most people expect. And so, often times they suffer significantly more in a short period of time than is required to be successful over a much longer period of time with a much lower intensity. And so, it's just like if you walk for 5 minutes a day, you're going to get, you know, 50% of the health benefits, probably more than that, I'm sure, um, of just even exercising. You add 10 years to your life if you walked 5 or 10 minutes a day. Um, and the path of personal development is befriending uncertainty. And so, I obviously sit from the entrepreneurial perspective, but almost all decisions that you make in the beginning you have incomplete data, and you have to make decisions anyways. And so, it's growing comfortable with taking your best bad guess, and being directionally correct rather than searching for a perfect answer, because a perfect answer assumes perfect information, which you can only have after you begin.

1:23And so, in some ways, making a decision is the perfect answer so that you can get the information to then >> Feedback. to then improve the quality of the decision later. And I think that one loop is what a lot of people miss out on is that they spend, they obsess for years sometimes on the perfect pick, the perfect business, the perfect job, the perfect mate, when most of the times beginning each step illuminates the next step, which means the information, the feedback that you get from walking gives you more about where to walk than trying to sit at the beginning in the darkness and pick a direction. What's the difference as well, I think, between people who are super advanced, super developed, super far down the line, and people who are beginning. It's like, "Dude, what have you got to What are you risking by trying to do this thing?"

2:11You've For you, it's fine for you to spend 18 months negotiating with Sam on the school deal, but if you are yet to do any business, that's probably not necessarily the right way to go about things. Uh, Tim Ferriss says, "In the short term, your success depends on your intensity. In the long term, your success depends on your consistency. Do not sacrifice the latter for the former." Mhm. What's wild about the fear that people have when they're starting out is that they say things like, "I have nothing going for me. I have no advantages. I have nothing to my name. I have no money. I have no network. I have no resources."

2:52But, using Rory Sutherland's reframing, it also means that you have nothing to lose, which makes you incredibly dangerous. And I think people wildly underestimate how many shots on goal you can take when you have nothing to lose. Whereas, when someone has something to lose, they have to be more and more selective about the the shots they take. And so, you have the perfect conditions for taking risk, because the worst case scenario is baseline, is where you're currently at.

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