The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“Like when people say productivity doesn't matter, I go, does it not matter that you not waste your time?”
“So I kind of like to to use the word productivity because it confronts people. That's what I like. I want people to be confronted.”
“I think it's our our it's our conditioning. It's what we were taught.”
“It's so common and the internet almost makes this worse cuz you can just create free stuff forever.”
“If you want to improve someone's life life outcomes, all of them, increase their income.”
“It's almost like people can be trusted. People know what's best for them, but they need the resources.”
“Like the best way to destroy someone's motivation and productivity and momentum, give them a ton of money, give them a ton of time, give…”
“When you have an overabundance of those things, you just start floating in space because there's no hard line.”
“If you boil it down to the most basic elements, you have inputs, you process those inputs and turn them into outputs.”
“At at the most basic level of inputs and outputs, we're all doing the exact same thing, and therefore we can all learn from each…”
“It's just a completely different mindset because you are paying with that pre-tax. So, you actually want to spend money.”
“You do everything by the book, but the government is shaping your behavior.”
“So, in anything, there is some There is one part of it that is more important and that's like the hook.”
“Just live your your normal life, but when you come across those moments from a museum you go to, perusing a bookstore, something you hear…”
“But until you actually need to, you don't do that. Like you think you do, but when you only have say 90 minutes in a…”
“It's been a helpful constraint where I just wake up in the morning and I have to ask myself and answer, what is the number…”
“Rich Dad Poor Dad changed everything.”
“Business can be my friend instead of my enemy.”
“So, I think I had about 6 weeks of savings. I had about 6 weeks that I could survive before I needed new income.”
“The only thing that I knew how to teach was productivity because I had taught it in the Peace Corps.”
“In fact, I I haven't to this day launched another successful self-paced course.”
“It was taking the business stuff from consulting, the training from corporate training, the teaching of self-paced courses, combining all of them into an online…”
“I have a Christmas notebook. Christmas presents notebook. Every time I come across an item that I think could make a good gift, I just…”
“As a result, everyone thinks I'm like this incredibly thoughtful gift giver. I'm the worst gift giver.”
“You're able to make use of smaller amounts of time because you're not trying to reinvent the wheel here.”
“Sometimes I even do like just the title of the note.”