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[English]

- You know when you're walking down the street

and you see a dude and he's muscular,

and you think to yourself, that guy looks pretty good.

He's nice and jacked, he takes care of himself.

A stupid question is wondering how he got that way

'cause everybody kinda knows.

You kinda know that he probably goes to the gym.

In fact, he definitely goes to the gym.

That guy shows up to the gym regularly

and has probably been doing that for a long time,

and he looks that way.

What doesn't matter is how he got to the gym.

What doesn't matter is his reasons for going to the gym.

Maybe he's super angry at some ex.

You know, he's like revenge lifting

or maybe he has a very healthy outlook on life.

He loves himself so much as he tucks himself in at night

and he thinks about how lovely it is to go to the gym,

and he just can't wait to go there.

Or maybe it takes him all day

to summon up the motivation to go to the gym

and he finally guilts himself

out of self-loathing to walk in the door.

But ultimately none of that matters.

It doesn't matter how much

or how little mental resistance was in the way

for him to go to the gym

because all we see is the result

of him making a binary decision to end up going to the gym

more often than not over a long period of time.

Almost everything in life is like this.

More often than not,

life is exactly as simple as we need it to be,

and it's us that brings the complication into life.

We completely overcomplicate things.

We like to paint this very emotional picture.

We like to have strange incentive structures,

maybe some guilt, maybe some excitement, motivation.

We add some weird things

to things that probably don't need to be so weird.

If we want certain outcomes in life,

it'll almost certainly come down to either doing

or not doing things that we already know

need doing or not doing.

And anytime this becomes clouded,

it's almost always because we clouded it.

The things aren't clouded.

So here's kind of a weird example.

So I have two, well I have three sisters,

but I have two sisters in university

and they're always writing essays, always writing papers,

and I sometimes have to help them out with it.

Sister number one generally has very little roadblocks

in the way of just writing a paper.

You know, 99% of papers you have to write at school

aren't actually papers.

They're kind of just like reflections

and sort of polished train of thought.

It's like, what do you think about this article?

Sister number one just writes it.

It's probably pretty good

and she gets decent grades.

Sister number two will procrastinate

and really try to think about

the best possible way to write this

and whether it's good enough

or maybe, do I sound stupid?

Or maybe it sounds like I haven't even done the readings.

And it's so emotionally and psychologically taxing for her

to do these reflections,

it's almost hilarious to watch.

But unsurprisingly, she always ends up doing it.

They both always end up doing it

and the funny thing is they get

pretty similar grades, right?

It's kind of a wash.

And that really got me thinking.

It's like sister number two, just do it.

You're not gonna think your way into becoming

all of a sudden like a 600% better writer.

Here's another example.

If you are a single male and you lie awake at night

wondering why you're not married with children yet,

and you're also somebody who doesn't ask girls out ever.

You don't go on dates,

you don't do any of that stuff.

Then you might as well not bother feeling bad about yourself

because you already know

what the solution to your problem is.

If you want to find a wife,

you probably have to ask a girl out.

So the next girl that you come across

that you want to ask out,

just know that you can either ask her out

or not ask her out.

And if you choose not to,

her life will go on and your life will go on,

and everything will probably work out okay,

but you're not gonna be married.

So if you want that outcome,

you have to behave a certain way.

You have to ask girls out

if you wanna eventually get married.

If you just almost look at things like a robot,

it might help you.

We might need a little bit more robot energy in our lives

where we kinda just take the overcomplication

of the human psyche out of it and just perform optimally.

When it comes to tasks and just getting things done,

you don't need emotion, right?

You can bring emotion into things that actually require it.

Art, relationships,

wait, but I just said you gotta

not think about asking a girl out.

So maybe not relationships.

Maybe asking her out is like,

not a big deal and you should just do it

and then on the date, bring your personality with you.

Hopefully you understand the point I'm trying to make

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Okay, so how do we apply all of this?

Well, I think the bottom line is

we all have to just slow ourselves down.

We have to take a deep breath

and just think about the few most important things

that we have to do.

Think about them as objectively as possible.

Call them by name.

Maybe it's something like do my taxes

or submit my firearms application license to the RCMP.

You know, for instance.

Clean my toilet.

Whatever those things are,

just try to look at them as if they are text

and then pick one and do it unthinkingly, right?

Just perform the action.

And on your own time when you're soaking in the bathtub

or pampering yourself

or watching "Succession," you can think to yourself,

what's my life all about?

You know, where do I want to be in life?

What are my hopes and dreams?

You can think about bigger picture stuff

but at the end of the day, to get there,

you just have to do certain unemotional things

that are either done or not done

so you just kinda have to do them, right?

Not a big deal.

Just do them.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
gym /dʒɪm/ A2	noun - a place for physical exercise
motivation /ˌmoʊtɪˈveɪʃən/ B1	noun - the reason for doing something
think /θɪŋk/ A2	verb - to have an opinion or idea
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - the state of being alive
things /θɪŋz/ A1	noun - objects or situations
result /rɪˈzʌlt/ A2	noun - the outcome of an action
decision /dɪˈsɪʒən/ B1	noun - a choice made after thinking
outcome /ˈaʊtkʌm/ B2	noun - the final result
emotional /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/ B2	adjective - relating to feelings
weird /wɪərd/ A2	adjective - strange or unusual
ask /æsk/ A1	verb - to request something
procrastinate /proʊˈkræstɪneɪt/ B2	verb - to delay doing something
grades /greɪdz/ B2	noun - levels of quality or marks in school
emotion /ɪˈmoʊʃən/ B1	noun - a strong feeling
educate /ˈɛdʒuːkeɪt/ A2	verb - to teach or learn
longevity /lɔːnˈdʒɛvəti/ C1	noun - long life
health /hɛlθ/ A2	noun - the state of being well
complication /ˌkɑːmplɪˈkeɪʃən/ B2	noun - a problem or difficulty