#771: Productivity Tactics Two Approaches I Personally Use to Reset, Get Unstuck, and Focus on the Right Things

The psychological difference between zero acts of creation and one act of creation, no matter how small, is really impossible to overstate. It's binary. Zero to a little bit, those are two different worlds.

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something while does not make it important.

The reality is most superheroes, these superheroes, are nothing of the sort. They're just as weird and neurotic as we are. They're strange creatures who do big things, despite lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.

It does not take much to seem superhuman and appear successful to nearly everyone around you if you learn to single task. Single single single single task.

The mantra that has saved me... was very simple, and it's this: make before you manage.

Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You're better than you think. And you're definitely not alone. We're all in this together, and everyone is fighting a battle that you know nothing about.

There are the rare times when I feel like I'm in the zone, and those are great; those are fantastic. Then there are times when I ask myself, how in holy hell have I become the janitor of a mountain of bullshit. That happens more than you might think.

Sometimes you are the boxer, and sometimes you are the punching bag. We all get our turn as the punching bag. It doesn't matter who you are. As far as I can tell, it doesn't matter how successful you become; you've always grabbed a number at the deli counter of 'Just wait, eventually you're going to get your ass kicked by the universe.'