Maximieren vs. Optimieren: der Unterschied zählt

0:00You lose more life trying to optimize everything than just living it. The stress of trying to be perfect is killing you more quickly than your imperfections. All right. So, I I I'm glad we came back to optimization because um there's obviously on the extreme there's uh guys like Bryan Johnson with Blueprint who are trying to like live to 200 or live forever. Um and I I I respect that I respect dedication to anything always. Um and interestingly around I've always been a maximizer. So, I've actually not really been an optimizer in my life. It's just like as soon as I have an input output equation where it's like n equals x and it's like and if I want 10x I do 10n. I'm like, great. Then can we do a thousand n? Like I just want to do as much of that as humanly possible.

0:42Um but when we like I love competitors who like optimizing because I always see it as a weakness because it's so easy to exploit. It's like, oh, you need your eight hours of sleep or you need your morning routine or you if you don't have your supplements you're just totally [ __ ] or like, I didn't have my coffee this morning so I can't function. Like I love to compete against people like that because they're so easy to break.

1:06>> Yeah. And so what happens is the optimizations become superstition. Correct. And so my my fear around and I and maybe I take a more extreme stance on this but like I've always wanted to be able to with an internet connection and a laptop and a fold-out chair go make money. And always have that as my North Star that anything else is extra. And I feel like I lose more quickly when I get into this optimization cycle around cuz I remember years ago I I bought one of those rings that tracks your sleep.

1:42And I kept trying to like set sleep PRs. And you can only get so high anyways. And then I started stressing more about not hitting sleep PRs that I was sleeping worse than when I wasn't tracking it. And so then I was like, well, [ __ ] this thing. >> [laughter] >> And I slept fine the next night. And so um obviously micro guys, I'm a big believer in tracking progress in general, but just the idea that we become so overly romantic around these things that sometimes you just have to break [ __ ] And sometimes you have to be violent.

2:14And sometimes when you're on your journey, you're not going to sleep much and you're going to you're going to like there was a a two-year period where I did uh turnarounds for gyms. I flew around the nation and I every month I would do a new gym. I ate out of gas stations and I ate gas station food and I gained weight during that period of time. And it was for then and not forever and I'm in shape now and so whatever, who cares? And so like I used to tell this when I was selling weight loss to people. I'd say like, who cares if you get in shape for six weeks out of 80 years?

2:43And like the right as they're about to sign up [laughter] for a membership, I was like, you want to sign up and then this is how I would sell longer memberships, but like it's also true. It's like, you want to sign up for the six weeks, but like Susan, like who cares if you lose 20 lbs and you're still overweight six weeks from now and then you gain it back the next six weeks and you're still the exact same weight for the rest of your life. And so I just I think the absolute dedication to maximization so that it becomes a part of your identity and your character has been one of the outside returns that I've gotten in my life and just being absolutely willing to sac- like I'm pretty violent about this, but like list all the things that you aren't willing to give up for the dreams that you have and that is what the person who will beat you is willing to give up.

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