Das Tim-Ferriss-Zitat, das Alex' Leben veränderte

0:00this work needs doing and there's just no way around it and it's just it's just looking at the face of the work and it's like smiling back at me like no one else is going to do it. [laughter] Um, and like I love that one. Like when we're recording content in the early days, we were doing like a hundred shorts every time we did it and it was direct to camera and it was the only time I could fit it in with all the portfolio stuff that we're doing. And so I was it was always like I will do what's required. And that's been a really helpful refrain for me when I'm confronted with especially when you know what needs to get done. And the second one is but I'll know.

0:40And so like even if it does go well and even if everyone else says it's great, but I'll know and it'll then rob me of all of the joy of all of those moments in that experience because I'll know that I could have done better. And the thing is is like to to quote myself from earlier like I've never regretted working harder ever. Not once. And some people are like on your deathbed you're going to like no cuz I lived every moment of my day doing what I wanted to do. And I remember I had a boss when I um my first boss after college. She said this thing. I had had a a particularly good weekend and she said, "I'm pretty sure happiness is stringing as many of those days in a row as you possibly can." And although I hated the job, that piece of advice has actually been probably what I has been my blueprint for how to live, which is like my birthday looks the same as my Tuesdays, which looks the same as my Sundays. You know what the original name pool for this podcast was? It's the only time in history I've done branding my entire adult life. And with club nights, all you're doing is coming up with brands.

1:52Paradiso. Oh, it's it's tropical. There'll be a flamingo. Skint. Oh, it's a cheap night. It's for people to get fingered in the corner. Like is we all I did was branding, right? I was the branding guy. I'm pretty good at copyrighting. All I did was branding. The one time I've had divine inspiration 3 in the morning wake up with the name was Modern Wisdom. The one time out of every business, every night, every brand I've ever come up with, that was the one time. But on the list of the others, mind and matter was one of them. But the other one was a quote from Tim Ferrris.

2:23It's called crushing a Tuesday. And he said that what you should aim for in life is for your average Tuesday. Not the spectacular one-time private jet with the friends to go for the whatever whatever. Not the UFC power slap launch [laughter] party with staring at the back of Dan Bilzerian's dirty mullet. Like not that. You want your average Tuesday to look the way that you want most of your life to do. And when I think about the days that I look back on at the end of my day and think like today was a good day, invariably it's the same few things. It's I worked very hard on something that I felt was worth doing. I worked out and I spent time with people that I enjoy being around.

3:09If I do those three things, I had a good day. And so that's been my, you know, Alex's simple blueprint for doing things. And I think the point that you were making earlier, I think it's worth hitting on again, which is just that like most people's definition of work is a negative one, which is why they abhore it. Which is also why they misunderstand so many people who quote, I'll say quote here, are successful or ahead of them or whatever. Is that both people, one person says the word work and the other person hears the word pain. And so, …