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00:00:00 ◼   ► time is sat let's do this thing shall we [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► alright let's do this time is running [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► got a ton of time tracking follow-up [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► yeah we did it seems like things like [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► from the reddit and from various other [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► sources of feedback that time tracking [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► is a topic a lot of people were [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► interested in and a lot of people had a [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► bunch of questions about yeah it's not [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► surprising because it is it's an [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► interesting idea and it's one of the [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► things that i think yes we were kind of [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► pushing towards that everyone can do Who [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► land but it's just depending on how you [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► want to do it right and we got a bunch [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► of questions [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► one of them was students should students [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► track that time and I wonder what you [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► think about this because i have no idea [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► exciting never been more I mean you've [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► got to school at some point like yeah [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► but it was like it was important you [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► know like I I quit when the school that [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► important [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► IC stopped right after they they talk to [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► you how to read and how to tie your [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► shoes i was out there which i think is [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► what is where the marginal utility of [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► school starts to rapidly decline is [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► after those two points [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► yeah i went to sweep chimneys man was [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► close [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► I was straight out of a down the coal [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► mine their number of students were [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► actually asking about about this and i [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► would say that if i was in college or [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► university now with the level of [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► technology that we have now versus when [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► I was actually in college university I i [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► would totally do some kind of time [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► tracking around at the bare minimum [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► study hours in the same way that before [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► i started barking down this goal of [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► trying to time track all of my waking [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► hours I used to just keep track of the [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► most core important things which was [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► primarily writing and podcast recording [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► i think the equivalent to that of being [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► a student is studying like that is the [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► core prime activity that you want to [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► record and i would suspect for any [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► students who are listening to [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► the podcast if they do that they would [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► probably have a similar reaction that [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► you did last time where you were [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► describing on the previous episode if I [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► can summarize it like if a feeling of [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► relief at realizing that you are not [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► actually working all day like every [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► waking moment of your life that you just [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► have these times that are are punctuated [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► and get your brain kind of tricks you [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► into feeling like you've been doing a [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► thing all day I definitely know that in [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► when i was in university there were days [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► that I almost certainly felt like oh god [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► I've been studying all day but what [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► really happened that was probably in the [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► library all day which is a very [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► different thing from studying all day [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► and so I i think that there would [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► definitely be real value to be gained [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► around a better understanding of how [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► much time are you really actually [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► studying and if i was a student I would [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► I would totally track at least that I [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► mean what was the utility either like [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► him because I guess with the way that [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► we're doing it so we can maximize our [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► efficiency for our work would you say [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► it's a similar kind of ideas like to [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► maximize your study time my my view on [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► this is the time tracking is is [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► beneficial because it increases my [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► awareness of what am i doing with my [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► time and I think that is a thing that I [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► find valuable in and of itself and it's [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► a thing that that seems to me to be much [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► more valuable the more time that I'm [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► tracking is just simply an awareness of [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► exactly how am I really spending my time [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► and we only have a limited amount of [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► time you know grains of sand passing [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► through an hourglass toward the end i [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► get is a non-renewable resource and I [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► think that this is really helpful in all [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► directions of achieving anything and so [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► for example a total non-monetary thing [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► with them [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► I'm doing but I've been working over the [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► last couple months to try to increase [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► the number of books that i read i like [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► I'm not entirely happy looking over my [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► books for the last couple years of how [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► many books are on there and this is this [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► is a case like is that a monetary value [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► i mean like sort of related to my work [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► but not really not in a directly [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► effective way and the time tracking is [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► just a case of being mindful of how much [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► time i actually spending on that and you [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► know i can say like oh here's a bunch of [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► time or i was reading here's a bunch [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► time when I wasn't reading like we're [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► there other other activities that we're [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► taking up the time that could have been [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► better spent and particularly if you're [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► being really honest with the time [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► tracking and putting in like wasted time [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► in some sense I feel like it's helpful [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► in constraining wasted time because it's [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► like well if I want all of the days to [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► be as full as they can be of time [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► tracking like I'm gonna have to put this [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► on here of like what am i doing or what [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► am I not doing so I feel like it is a [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► generally useful mindfulness and like [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► self-direction tool in addition to just [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► being about like the bottom line and [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► trying to increase efficiency [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► here's my concern with that like with [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► the tracking of everything [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► if you are very aware of the worth of [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► your time because of the calculations [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► that you've done by tracking everything [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► don't you run the risk of not spending [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► enough time doing things that are [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► working don't you just look at those [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► reports and be like I spent three hours [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► playing video games because you actually [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► see what it is and then you like could [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► not have been three hours spent trying [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► to write a script it isn't there a risk [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► in that like I see the number of hours [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► on a work every day I don't know how [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► many hours i'm awake really so maybe [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► it's like the rest of the time like [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► sitting and binging on parks and [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► recreation isn't a problem for me [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► because I don't see it in hard numbers [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► this sort of gets the thing that i [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► mentioned last time briefly which is I [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► have these two categories of like for [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► recreation and kind of like intentional [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► recreation and like an unintentional [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► recreation i'm working on refining a [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► bunch of these [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► categories over time and what I feel [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► like those two categories really are is [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► recreation and entertainment time that I [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► can purely unadulterated Lee feel good [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► about and recreation time where I feel [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► like maybe there's something else I [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► should be doing and so my view on it is [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► like okay this is a this is a helpful [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► thing for me to try to move as as much [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► of my non-working time into like a [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► higher state of enjoyment vs non [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► enjoyment and then like that's that's [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► what this is but there's if you're doing [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► calculations of how much is your time [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► worth like well there's there's no way [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► that you can possibly be working all day [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► every day in a sustainable way and if [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► you if you if you think that you are [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► mistaken or if you are able to do that [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► you are a totally lucky genetic freak [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► that you are different from the rest of [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► us and like that's that's not what a [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► normal person's life is like how do you [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► decide how much recreation time you get [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► though [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► well I mean at the moment I'm i'm still [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► in the early phases of this i am not [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► making any real intentional decisions [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► about how much work versus non-working [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► time is is occurring i'm still mostly in [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► the recording and just trying to see [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► what like is naturally happening over [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► time but at least for me and and i would [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► suspect for other people who are [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► self-employed in extreme ways like you [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► are in control over your own schedule [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► what I'm more keeping in mind is a [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► diminishing returns on the working time [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► so that if I'm if I'm working on a thing [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► like that let's let's say Mike let's say [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► you and I we wanted to record like 10 [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► podcasts in a single day like okay we [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► could do one we could maybe do too but [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► probably by the time we get to podcast [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► three there's a severe diminishing [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► returns in there like you just done [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► thank you just you just can't keep going [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► at a certain point and [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► and I feel like lots of high-intensity [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► work if you if you pay attention to your [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► mind has a kind of natural point that is [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► a diminishing return again in my winter [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► review when I was doing a lot a lot of [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► like metalwork sort of working on the [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► work in thinking through systems and [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► setting up the time tracking and doing [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► all these other things it wasn't it [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► wasn't a question of like how many hours [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► of recreation do I get it was coming [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► from entirely the opposite perspective [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► of i'm doing some high intensity work [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► when do I feel like I have kind of run [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► out of steam for this and I need to [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► shift to a different activity might be [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► that going to the gym right or be that [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► goofing off and playing video games like [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► it's that I feel like it it's coming [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► from an opposite question like i would i [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► would like to have the work hours in my [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► life be maximally effective and and I [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► feel like that's the thing that I'm I'm [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► trying to pay attention for not [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► necessarily aiming for like oh boy into [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► my billing rate is X dollars per hour [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► let me try to maximize in every possible [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► way the sheer number of hours per day [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► that work is occurring and and so I [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► think with anybody who's doing the time [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► tracking like if you're a student [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► tracking your time or anything i feel [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► like this is one of the big benefits to [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► get is like is not just not just a [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► record of hours but his sense of the [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► effectiveness of those hours and I feel [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► like tracking the time forces you to pay [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► attention to what were you really doing [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► and and that's why I think like the [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► studying is a great place to start [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► because if I think it forces you to be [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► honest if you're running a little timer [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► like what I really studying for the last [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► 15 minutes or was a kind of dancing [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► around studying for the last 15 minutes [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► and if the latter then it's like okay [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► well that doesn't count and sort of [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► start again and and try to get in like a [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► real solid block of actually doing like [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► high-quality work on the thing that [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► you're attempting to do [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► how's it going for you Mike so I have [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► been recording for about I'm in my [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► fourth week now so my data is becoming [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► more stable i have logged about 84 hours [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► of work so far into toggle and I'm [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► feeling pretty good about it a lot of [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► the assumptions that i made last time [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► are holding true about where my time is [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► being spent who I'm finding that i could [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► probably have maybe four to five hours [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► of my time taken away i'm on just the [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► basic things that we would want to give [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► to an assistant who which I feel like [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► lines up with the kind of around 10 [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► hours a week we wanted to give because [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► that person coming initially it would [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► take longer to do the stuff that I do [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► then me because they will be learning [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► right and then over time you would kind [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► of that would take them less time and I [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► need to find new testament to do so I [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► feel like the goal has been achieved [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► I feel personally I feel like that i [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► found enough of my time to to give to [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► somebody and the the statistics of like [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► editing to recording you know so in the [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► last three and a half weeks it's been [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► about three and a half weeks I've spent [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► 35 and a half hours recording shows and [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► i spent 21 hours editing shows blue and [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► about 12 hours preparing ok [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► those numbers are not based lining up [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► based on my original expectations but [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► they are lining up based on what week [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► one told me [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► right okay i see like okay so you did [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► the first week of time tracking yep and [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► then that allows you to sort of project [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► forward with a with a somewhat [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► reasonable basis to start at least they [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► could data point to start exactly and [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► that that seems to have rung true as you [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► know it's about two-thirds of the [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► recording time in editing and what I you [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► know what I saw was about third at the [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► time recording in preparation and again [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► I remain very happy with the preparation [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► number i am less comfortable of the [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► editing number right and I'm thinking [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► about that now like what can I do about [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► that when I'm editing now I'm being more [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► conscious at the time [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► I'm taking not that I'm rushing it but [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► trying to be more efficient with it and [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► just seeing what sort of things I can do [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► so who that's been that has been useful [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► so far and one thing that I was [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► interested to see is kind of on a [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► breakdown of shows how that stuff works [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► out and again I am I'm happy to kind of [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► look at that and I feel that what I'm [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► seeing from that so from the report [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► based on like how long each show is [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► taking me [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► I'm not concerned about that at all [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► because that is lining up exactly how I [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► expected and wanted so the shows that we [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► have the largest audiences for the shows [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► that make the most money [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► the show's i'm spending the most time on [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► and then it goes down from there and [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► that feels like the right kind of thing [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► for me to be doing with that [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► yeah that feels like the correct way [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► that it should be ordered and it's good [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► to see that in the actual data [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► yeah you want to reveal how many hours [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► it took the last cortex to be made [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► yeah I get information up yeah i'm going [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► to bring it up the last cortex took [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► eight hours and 12 minutes 44 seconds in [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► total from recording editing preparation [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► and posting the bunch of time it's a lot [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► of time but I think it's worth it Mike [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► I think it's worth it I do too i mean [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► and again like it [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► that might change when it comes to [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► working out like what my time is worth [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► who but based upon what I expect that is [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► that makes perfect sense to me but just [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► that shows you ladies and gentlemen that [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► it takes eight and a quarter hours to [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► get you 90 minutes but that's why we do [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► every two weeks [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► this is all the editing time Mike [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► requires uh-huh to make me sound like a [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► normal coherent person [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► uh-huh that's that's what sucker punch [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► for someone days it was only a one-hour [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► recording and then just hang out with it [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► yeah I'm real incoherence backward like [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► mike is piecing together individual [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► words to make sentences are rearranging [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► words and sentences it's I just have a [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► bank of words and i just put them all [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► together as brilliant [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► yeah i was just I'm just pulling up my [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► report for the last 30 days and yet [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► again it's it is very interesting to me [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► to attempt to do this thing of recording [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► all over the time and I would be [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► interested to hear in the comments if [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► anybody else's is attempting to do a [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► similar thing because i am endlessly [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► fascinated by how surprisingly hard it [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► actually is to record a full day like in [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► in theory right there should be [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► something like 16 hours track today [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► because that's about as long as I'm [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► going to be awake [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► it is so hard to actually get to that [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► because there are so many kinds of [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► project that i'm working on work feels [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► like what is this thing that I'm doing [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► right now like how with this get [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► categorized or things that I'm aware of [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► that are are like transition times where [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► you're switching from one thing to [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► another and you're sort of in between [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► two tasks and it's interesting just [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► trying to find the balance of recording [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► things without being a crazy person [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► yeah and recording lots of little [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► categories that don't matter here one of [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► these for me was listening feedback i [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► started to track that but it's [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► impossible for me to track that because [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► that would be like tracking two seconds [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► right to like or elected in the time it [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► takes for me to send a tweet or to you [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► know to favor tweet or to reply to an [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► email like it'sit's that would be way [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► too many entries of really short time [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► that I figure it's not what it's not [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► what doing is plus as well when it's [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► like Twitter well i'm also slacking off [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► at the exact same time that these tweets [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► will come through so it did that which [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► is too difficult for me to track going [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► for it [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► yeah and i had a had a moment like this [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► just the other day where was I was [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► really aware of thanks [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► so here's the thing that I'm doing I'm [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► sitting on the couch with my wife [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► we're sort of half watching a TV show [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► but i'm also replying to a bunch of [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► comments in my subreddit and talking to [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► some people on slack [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► how is this activity to be categorized [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► there is no meaningful useful way to [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► describe this period of time is supposed [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► to be watching a TV show and you can get [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► from that everything LOL yeah and and [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► it's like that that is a perfect case of [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► like well okay here was an hour or two [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► of time that was useful in a bunch of [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► ways but it is impossible to [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► consistently and meaningfully categorize [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► and so that's time that I felt like okay [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► well i'm just letting that go [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► but it's a perfect example of of a like [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► a mixed kind of thing i have for anyone [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► else try this experiment i have come up [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► with two useful rules of thumb for [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► difficult to categorize time though [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► and one of these is a campus i'm [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► thinking of things like sort of my [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► equivalent of a commute now many things [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► that I do work within walking distance [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► of where I live but okay how am I going [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► to track exercise time because there's [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► many different categories here is like [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► well mi tracking the literal minutes in [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► the gym that I'm exercising my tracking [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► the entire time that I met in the gym or [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► my tracking like the time that it also [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► takes me to get ready to go to the gym [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► right like that's it's not an [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► immediately clear answer and my rule of [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► thumb for this kind of stuff is as soon [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► as the transition starts start recording [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► i have finished activity a i am now [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► deciding like i am going to the gym [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► timer starts now until I'm finished and [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► if that means it includes like packing [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► up the gym clothes and and walking down [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► the street to the gym like that's fine [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► because what I'm trying to capture is [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► not really the literal minutes that I'm [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► exercising I'm trying to capture the [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► total amount of time out of my life that [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► exercise takes do you track the time in [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► which are trying to convince yourself to [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► go to the gym but instead you're [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► coloring do you track that time because [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► that's that's time that games included [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► in my gym time [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► see that's that ok i was gonna say this [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► sounds like a very specific question [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► not a general question for a person in [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► particular um so I do have a category [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► that's like essentially a version of [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► wasted time which always gets filled in [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► retrospect which is intended to do with [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► thing and failed and then I recognize [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► okay well look back in the clock and see [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► what like when was the left that point [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► the last time we stopped and then feel [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► like from that moment until now [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► you failed time right that's essentially [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► what that is so no coloring in your [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► coloring book and not going to the gym [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► but thinking about going to the gym at [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► least the way I track things i would not [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► actually put as Jim time in my system I [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► wouldn't recommend that [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► FYI am back on the coloring train didn't [TS]

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00:22:21 ◼   ► that's fresh books.com / cortex thank [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► you so much to freshbooks for supporting [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► the show and all real afm the other just [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► quick rule of thumb that i have found [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► useful is if there is a situation where [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► I'm recording some time that could [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► possibly be two different things so it's [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► not a multi-faceted ambiguous things [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► like like the thing i was saying before [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► but let's say I'm having a like a [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► meeting with someone and there's a [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► question about is like this this this [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► meeting that I'm having with the person [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► it's like half a social meeting and it's [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► half a business meeting like which one [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► is the thing under those circumstances [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► my rule of thumb is just to put it in [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► the less frequently tracked category of [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► whatever it could be if I'm trying to [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► choose between two different activities [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► what do you mean by less frequently [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► track so it's like if I have a category [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► which is say like social time and I have [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► another category which is business [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► planning time and i'm having a meeting [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► with someone that could be both of those [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► whichever of those categories i have [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► less trapped I'm track for in the system [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► i will count that towards the the one [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► that is less going to be social time [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► okay yeah I'll check but I have those [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► two rules of them not because they're [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► the correct way to do it but that they [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► exist to cut down on the thinking and [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► the ambiguous in any situation as far as [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► time tracking goes yeah the rules are [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► good because like do you end up with 25 [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► seconds of thinking about time tracking [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► before you track any action and then at [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► that point it's like it's starting to [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► work against itself it's exactly like [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► what one of the key things here and one [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► of the very reasons why i'm using toggle [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► is this is all about speed and ease of [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► entry [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► I get it has to be [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► a really fast no-brainer to start a [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► timer for a particular activity and if [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► you're going to spend any brain power at [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► all filing away the thing that you're [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► doing like this becomes I think totally [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► self-defeating so that that's why i [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► eventually settled on those two rules as [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► when situations came up that were a [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► little bit unclear either of these rules [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► most of the time resolves whatever it is [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► that I'm i'm attempting to do and then [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► again particularly with the exercise [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► thing it's like I'm concerned about how [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► much time does this take out of my life [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► like if I wasn't exercising if I wasn't [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► going to the gym I wouldn't be getting [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► ready to go to the gym and walking to [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► this is like I would be getting all that [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► time back so i think it's a fair thing [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► to represent in that way so those are [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► the those are my rules of thumb so far i [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► want to give a shout out to someone in [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► the reddits why is this so funny Mike [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► is that what you do now she can shout [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► outs to people i don't know [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► isn't that the the word no that's it [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► yeah yeah the shower referencing someone [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► I don't know [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► shoutout to my red use their ego ready [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► haha already in the reddit left a [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► comment that i am really grateful for [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► he proposed an alternate name for my [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► year of new as year of redirection and [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► that this was fantastic because [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► listening back to previous show I was [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► just so aware of i'm doing a terrible [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► job of attempting to explain like what [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► what am I going for here and just like i [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► mentioned with the quarterly reviews and [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► trying to change that word into season i [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► think a large part of it was like new [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► was just not quite the right word and [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► that ends of the coloring the way that [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► I'm thinking about things but I feel [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► like year of redirection is the label [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► that I was not able to come up with on [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► my own but someone else listening to me [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► ramble about my ideas of what's going to [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► happen is like oh you nailed it better [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► than I did year every direction feels [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► exactly right I'm not I wasn't aiming [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► for a whole ton of new things [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► it's it's more like a refinement of a [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► bunch of things and exactly how I'm [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► going to be spending my energy and where [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► am I putting my efforts and like this [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► this just feels like the perfect label [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► so i'm i'm crossing out year of new and [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► writing over it [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► year of redirection so thank you you're [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► ready for coming up with that this makes [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► way more sense as to why here if you [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► didn't mean new projects but right [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► exactly about it's about doing the same [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► stuff but doing it differently like [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► different levels of time going to each [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► of them like if you imagine them in a [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► pot shot and i'm only thinking of this [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► because i was just looking at a report [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► that's because it's emblazoned in my [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► brain now to see all those little bars [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► going up and down it is that basically [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► if you had all of your little tasks in a [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► bar chart just moving them around right [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► so like the same amount of time is there [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► but it's just being moved into different [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► silos [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► yeah exactly and it's it's also why like [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► why does the attempt at several months [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► of time tracking everything [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► why does that fall under the year of [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► knew that makes no sense that doesn't [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► fit at all but your redirection it's [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► perfect it's a perfectly sensible [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► project to take on during that time [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► exactly because that's how you find out [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► what to redirect exactly you got you [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► you're measuring things ended up it also [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► lines up with my own personal feelings [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► that led me towards this which was a lot [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► a lot of monkeying around with schedules [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► for my business over the next year and [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► thinking about how I'm working it's like [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► yes all of this lines up much much much [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► better with your redirection so I am [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► ridiculously pleased about this because [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► i really was not entirely satisfied with [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► year of new and I was even more grumpy [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► listening to myself talk about Europe [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► new on the previous episode so I'm much [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► happier man right now this is you know [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► this is why you have a podcast we talk [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► about your work so people can make it [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► better it i have to say it is it is a [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► great little moment of feedback like let [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► me talk about some things in an [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► incoherent way maybe one of you can [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► summarize in a better way and somebody [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► did that train [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► I mean it was it is not really practical [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► all for all of our listeners to have [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► their own versions of cortex where they [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► talk to someone about their productivity [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► who i would recommend that people in [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► their lives try and find someone they [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► can have these types of conversations [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► with because i know that i have become [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► better at working since me and you start [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► explaining things to each other [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► blue because i feel like i have to [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► justify how I think about things and [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► when i do that enables me to make things [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► clearer look and also as I you know the [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► more i talk about the fact that i'm [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► switching to do this but haven't done it [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► the more I realized that i need to [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► actually do it because otherwise I just [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► keep saying I'm gonna do it if you can [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► find someone in your life that you can [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► talk to about these things that's good [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► or just spend time in the cortex uh [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► brother honest I can be in serious [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► because there are people in there who [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► are talking about the stuff of each [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► other and I think that's valuable yeah I [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► i really i really have to agree with [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► that and it's like it is a thing that is [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► mutually beneficial to have somebody [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► else that you talked to this stuff about [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► because that there really is a process [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► by which when you have to articulate out [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► loud your own reasons for doing anything [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► you often find that you have been doing [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► a thing without really thinking about it [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► humid so much nicer than make I was [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► gonna finish the sentence for saying [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► stupidly now but it but here's the thing [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► I I really there is a real distinction [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► between doing something stupidly and [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► doing something unintentionally mm and [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► it right it's very very easy to do lots [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► of things in an unintentional manner and [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► to just not think through the process of [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► why am I doing this thing this way and I [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► am i doing it this way because this is [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► the way I did it the first time and I've [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► just repeated that activity all over [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► again or like am I doing this thing [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► because this is the way other people do [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► it as I ok well if that's the reason [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► do other people have a good reason for [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► doing it this way or are they doing it [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► just because they see other people doing [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► it right [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► it's it is a it is hugely valuable to [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► repeatedly and consistently reassess [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► your reasons for why you do something [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► and when you talk to somebody else about [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► it there's an accountability that [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► happens when you externalize these [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► thought processes and it's funny I [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► actually saw someone somewhere on the [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► reddit describe this show as like it it [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► is turned into like a working journalist [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► between the two of us [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► wow that we're coming together every two [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► weeks and we're we're talking about our [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► work together and then that like the the [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► listen area is participating in this [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► like working journal of hearing two [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► people just talk about what they're up [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► to [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► like that's an interesting that's an [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► interesting way to look at the way this [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► has developed over time and i think it's [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► it's pretty accurate [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► yeah and and does have this effect like [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► I am really aware that there's there's a [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► few things in my own working world that [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► i have changed or work to change because [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► I realized when I talk about it on the [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► show like how it makes me think about it [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► more like I've sort of mentioned number [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► of times like growing frustration with [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► like getting things done and not [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► necessarily working for me the way that [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► it used to it's like and I know I make [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► and I'll say this on the show and then [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► that causes me to think about it more [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► right which which has like a little bit [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► of a feedback loop but I i really do [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► think that's the case and if you can if [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► you can find someone in real life to do [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► this with it's even better in a form a [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► little cortex working group with some [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► people to get together and talk about [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► what you're up to I really do think it [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► is hugely beneficial today's episode of [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► cortex is brought to you by a new [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► sponsor and that is movement watches [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► movement was founded on the belief that [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► style shouldn't break the bank [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► the goal of this watchmaker is to change [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► the way that people think about fashion [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► by offering high-quality minimalist [TS]

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00:33:02 ◼   ► 60 countries around the world movement [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► watches have solidified itself as the [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► fastest-growing what company movement [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► watches was started by two college kids [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► who wanted stylish watches but didn't [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► have the money to pay for them that's [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► why movement watches start just $95 [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► which is super cheap and way cheaper [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► than the hundreds of dollars that you'd [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► be looking to pay a department store [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► movement figured out that by selling [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► online directly they're able to cut out [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► markup that you seem retail stores and [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► they keep those prices low and they said [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► give those savings to you [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► movement watches feature a classic [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► design quality construction and style [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► minimalism movement wanted to send me a [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► watch so I took a look at the great [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► selection and pick one out that I like [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► the look of and I'm really happy with it [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► it's got a great band and there is a [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► great watch face with some blue dials [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► and I really love the blue dials the [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► version i chose the gunmetal and [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► sandstone leather and I'm really super [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► surprised at how good this looks and [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► feels for the price like I am very very [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► surprised about like genuinely I was [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► wondering like what is a 130 if I do [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► watch going to feel like and I'm really [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► surprised it's got good weight to it [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► it's packaged beautifully [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► these are really really good-looking [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► watches that feel good to wear as well i [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► mean i've been wearing an Apple watch [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► for a while and I've got to say that use [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► wearing something like this has a real [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► nice different feel to it there's [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► definitely like a different level of [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► class to it that I've been enjoying a [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► lot and everybody that I shown it to is [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► super impressive as well so it gets full [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► marks for me as a nice little accessory [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► nice piece of fashion to where you can [TS]

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00:35:01 ◼   ► cortex is time for you to step up your [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► watch game and join the movement and hey [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► valentine's Day is just around the [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► corner could be a great gift for someone [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► Thank You movement watches for [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► supporting this show every layer [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► them i have a question for you maybe [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► this wall will be a good entry in the [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► journal who [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► why has it been so long since has been a [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► video like this is not this I don't [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► think this has been the longest amount [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► of time but you were on a real tear for [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► a while with a bunch of videos some [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► would call it an out-of-character amount [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► of videos for you i would call it out of [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► character number of videos but we're [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► about what we just over two months which [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► you know usually looking at your kind of [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► your your page here guess at the last [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► year you've had a video every month or [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► two months and then when it's been two [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► months [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► there is like a couple of videos or [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► something like that and again just from [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► me knowing a little bit about what you [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► do I don't get a sense that you're [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► knee-deep on a video right now so I'm [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► just wondering what's going on is it [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► like is you still got a hangover from [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► court xmas like was what's happening [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► over there [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► I was just looking through my in-depth [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► private video analysis spreadsheet upon [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► which I record all of the data about all [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► of the things it is not the longest gap [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► between real videos but it is it is [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► rapidly gaining on the longest gap [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► between i consider to be real videos do [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► you think it's going to pass it [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► yes okay at this point if i had to put [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► money on it and I of course have insider [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► knowledge in this betting pool yeah I [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► don't think you could I think you [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► definitely could not make this back it [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► seemed like that's where you have [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► insider information are the best that's [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► good yeah really i really want there to [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► be like a betting pool about the day [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► that my next video would come out it's [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► like man I would just I would clean [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► house with a really would but [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► unfortunately that's not a thing that [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► exists it will be super up saying if you [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► didn't [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► yeah it would be upsetting to me as well [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► be missing out on all of that but you [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► know that it has it has been a very long [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► I mean this is what this is one of these [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► things that like I'm not even really i'm [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► not even really sure how to talk about [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► this or even like how how much I want to [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► talk about it because it comes it comes [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► very close along this this fine edge of [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► what is my personal life and this thing [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► about being a person who does work in [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► public back in November my wife had a [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► very serious repeated number of [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► hospitalizations that were as serious as [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► these things can can possibly be [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► she's fine now she's flying just people [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► it ended up taking up a blowhard portion [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► of my mental energy managing this [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► situation when you're self-employed it's [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► it's great on one hand that you can drop [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► everything and and focus on what is the [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► most important thing at the moment but [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► it does also mean that it there's nobody [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► else to pick up the slack when you [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► yourself are are not working and so this [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► this has has definitely been a thing [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► which caused some delays there is no [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► such thing as compassionately when you [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► have no employer yeah that that is true [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► this is something we're at this moment [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► had been just a regular employee many [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► things would have been much easier in a [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► way user you can get time off you know [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► you know everything's running when [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► you're not there and you know you come [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► back at some later point but it is [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► definitely a case of everything kind of [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► stops if you are the one person who is [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► running your own business and so I spent [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► a large amount of of energy on the [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► situation and then not [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► not surprisingly I myself became pretty [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► horrific Lee sick after the [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► this for a while and it's not something [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► I really wanted to discuss at the time [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► it was something that few people who are [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► used to the way my voice normally sounds [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► definitely picked up on a couple of [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► those podcasts that we're going out in [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► december i did see people saying like he [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► doesn't sound so great and yet the the [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► answer was I was I was not in I was not [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► in great shape think we had to stop one [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► of the cortex podcasts halfway through [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► don't even actually really remember but [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► it was blank [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► there was just the whole it wasn't a big [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► ol thing but yeah so that's that people [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► ask that's one of these things that's [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► been happening I don't necessarily [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► really like to talk about this stuff [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► again because there's this weird line [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► between being like a public person and a [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► private person yet so people don't need [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► to know [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► yeah exactly you feel sometimes not [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► always you feel an obligation to be open [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► yeah its people care about you [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► right well now you got it back up there [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► my can disagree with you there [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► I i actually actually think that it's [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► part of the hesitation is on his [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► understand i think it's very important [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► for anybody who does any work in the [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► public space to understand that the [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► audience actually doesn't care about you [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► there's this big difference between like [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► you the person who lives your life and [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► the the you that exists in the [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► audience's mind through the media that [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► you create that was the you I meant [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► though it is [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► cgpgrey that they care about that's what [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► i mean is is the version of yourself [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► that they interact with which is not the [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► whole person right it's not it's not the [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► whole person and it's it's a thing [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► that's like if that I've had some [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► conversations with some people I try to [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► convince the very hard about this works [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► like you have to you have to understand [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► as a public person that's like like I am [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► very aware that when people listen to [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► the podcasts they're not listening to [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► the podcast because it's me [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► people listen to podcast because they [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► get some kind of enjoyment or some sort [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► of entertainment out of it or some value [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► out of it right that's the reason that [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► people listen to podcasts and [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► it's the same it's the same thing with [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► the videos like what why do people [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► subscribe to my youtube channel to watch [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► my videos is because they derive some [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► sort of enjoyment and entertainment out [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► of the videos that I produce like and [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► and and that's where what the audience [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► cares about comes from and if I feel [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► like sometimes talking about personal [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► stuff is like blurring the line that [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► often the audience doesn't even [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► necessarily want to have blurred down [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► yeah and and so and so that's why it's [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► like while all of this stuff was going [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► on I just didn't really want to talk [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► about it at all because it's like a much [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► more comfortable just like mentioning [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► that like a thing has occurred and then [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► I'm on the other side of it and it's [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► over [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► and this is why there was a delay as [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► opposed to saying oh I'm in the middle [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► of a terrible thing right now [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► alright cuz you know what it's not fun [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► to listen to on a podcast but don't need [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► to know [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► yeah and people don't need to know [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► there's nothing they can do school now [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► yeah that's why I didn't feel like I [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► really want to talk about these things [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► but we are mentioning it now ignore [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► normally i'm very happy just having [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► their be like a big gap between the [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► videos like I have I have intentionally [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► set up my career in such a way so that [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► big gaps between videos are normal [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► things like nobody super surprised when [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► there's a big gap between cgpgrey videos [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► the expectation is there will be a gap [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► exactly which is the inverse to most [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► exactly yeah always playing with fire [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► with that YouTube algorithm with these [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► big gaps which i think one day will come [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► to bite me in the ass [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► hopefully not not today but I do just [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► want to mention it on on this show [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► because I feel like there have been some [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► times because we are having this like [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► meeting and discussing our work where [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► I've been sort of talking around thing [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► in a way that doesn't make it helpful or [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► clear to the listener and so I think [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► that was one of the things that was also [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► happening on the last show about like [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► why was I had doing a bad job of [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► explaining year of new is because i felt [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► like i was talking around a thing that I [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► didn't really want to directly talk [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► about and so I think that's why we're [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► just mentioning it now to to generalize [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► out to the listener that I do i do think [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► that there's there's something to be [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► aware of and and to just just really [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► like learn from from something like this [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► which is the guy had this really rough [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► time but as as far as these things go i [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► could not have been better prepared for [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► it because this is the kind of thing [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► that if you're self-employed you sort of [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► have to set up the business to be like [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► this and to be ready for the possibility [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► of you having to step away from stuff [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► for a while and so this this is part of [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► the reason why i like my youtube channel [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► is run in this particular way where the [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► videos come up somewhat randomly because [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► i am aware that the process of creating [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► them is is not building widgets and [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► sometimes there are delays and that's [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► just built into the system and I've said [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► before one at one of one of by far and [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► away the best decisions and probably [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► costly as decisions I have ever made was [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► to switch the patronage on my youtube [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► channel from building monthly to [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► building when a video goes out and even [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► then not every video only the videos [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► that i select I cannot tell you what a [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► huge mental relief that was like [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► especially during this time and like [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► that is a decision that has has paid [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► paid if not actual monetary dividends [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► like working life dividends because then [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► i feel like i am NOT I am NOT taxing the [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► people upon which my living depends [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► needlessly yeah right because there [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► would have been what like two or three [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► payments come out right exactly there [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► there would have been something like [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► three payments for what should have been [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► three videos and nothing and you know my [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► my patron was was briefly setup like [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► that in the very beginning and I loathe [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► did I hated it like it made it made my [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► life unhappy i hated the feeling of a [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► building going out and people getting [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► nothing in return [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► i I just I loathed it and but but here's [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► the thing was one of the things that [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► occurred when i was doing those changes [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► is I realized okay if I'm going to do [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► this what I need to have in place is a [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► bigger emergency fund so i can get [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► through potentially longer periods of [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► time and it was also then thinking about [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► some kind of income diversification [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► which ended up being podcast like the [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► very podcast that i'm talking on right [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► now and what like what is one of the big [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► advantages of doing a podcast one of the [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► huge advantages especially if you're [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► working with mike is it's a hell of a [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► lot less work than producing a youtube [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► video this is not a recommendation by [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► the way and this this is this is the [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► thing it's like okay [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► even during like a rough time I can [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► still make some podcasts because doing [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► podcasts as much easier and so this is [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► the kind of thing of like structuring a [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► business to be okay even if you're not [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► doing great and so it's like okay [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► cgpgrey hasn't made a video in a long [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► time but there's still content coming [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► out like there's still podcast coming [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► out and for the nature of my business i [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► think that that is an important thing to [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► not just drop off the face of the earth [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► for six months and then we know then pop [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► back up later and I i mentioned this and [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► I think it's important to mention [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► because this is the hard part about [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► being self-employed is really being able [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► to prepare yourself for these kinds of [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► things and being able to structure your [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► business in such a way so that it's [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► ready to absorb these sorts of problems [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► and I think sometimes there are people [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► who wants to become self-employed and [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► they're only ever thinking of all of the [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► upsides [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► but you really have to be aware of how [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► much your life is in your own hands when [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► you're self-employed and then like that [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► is in the best of all possible ways and [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► that is also in the worst of all [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► possible ways that is a is a big big [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► scary decision that you really have to [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► be prepared for I am lucky in that I [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► have a co-founder blue and my co-founder [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► has me so our business has two people if [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► one person cannot do something by and [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► large the other person is able to to [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► pick that up and part of the thinking [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► for me in us getting an assistant to [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► help with arranging and dealing with [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► with sponsors is another part of that [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► because that's one of the things that I [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► have the majority of visibility over and [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► it would be great to have the companies [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► that we work with familiar with another [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► person and the process that if they [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► can't get ahold of me there's someone [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► that they can talk to little so like [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► this is another step in that and it's [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► something you know we could just have to [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► even do this [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► that's not the way that we want to do it [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► we want to kind of broaden it out and [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► make some of this not the stuff that we [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► do but another thing that comes as a [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► benefit of that is having this other [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► person [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► visit who has visibility on the process [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► to help deal with things when we can't [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► whoo-hoo so there is a benefit there and [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► also you know of all my shows having [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► co-host there is another person who can [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► help [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► there is another person i can put more [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► time in lab and or in in many cases [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► there is another person who can host a [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► show with somebody else they can get I [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► can get someone to fill in for me and it [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► can just carry on as normal so there are [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► you know what my business is structured [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► a little better than your video part of [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► the business in that way to say with the [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► podcast part you can lean on me if you [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► need to all i'll pick up the reins and [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► do more if you need it [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► but with the videos so much of it comes [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► from you [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► I mean you have your animator now who [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► helps but there's nobody at the start [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► process there's nobody in the script [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► writing process is just you and that is [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► a huge bottleneck you know you just got [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► the the way relays setup i can I had [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► been a listener long after that you can [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► definitely be wearing oh there's times [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► when you were Steven are there more or [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► less like in it it's you know that [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► that's how these things work and the [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► Machine of relay is you know vast beyond [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► just you Mike now and and that is [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► definitely an advantage but if you're [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► like a freelancer and it's just you i [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► like that that is a occasionally [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► precarious situation [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► yeah the youtube videos are like being a [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► freelancer I don't need to be on the air [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► for the company to be making money [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► anymore and that wasn't how it was when [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► it started right right and that is a [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► good thing [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah it it totally is it totally [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► is a good thing but yeah without without [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► a doubt for my youtube channel the [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► script writing process is the biggest [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► bottleneck like it has always been the [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► biggest bottleneck and until I bring on [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► some apprentices right it's always going [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► to be the biggest bottleneck please do [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► not send any submissions in for this job [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► application better map those fundamental [TS]

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00:53:34 ◼   ► thank you so much to Casper for the [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► support of the show we have identified [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► that the script writing is maybe the the [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► biggest issue here in that is currently [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► something that you you don't have any [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► help would help with in your whole [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► pantheon of work [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► pantheon I know it's the best thing i [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► could think of at the time I like every [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► other her is there is somebody else [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► involved little podcast editing plus [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► production animation posting everything [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► else has another person now which [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► touches it effects it and can pick up [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► slack from you [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► mmm now there is one big issue with [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► scriptwriting that I don't think we've [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► ever touched on before which is writer's [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► block i use cgpgrey currently suffering [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► from writer's block [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► no I wouldn't i wouldn't say that are [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► you writing scripts [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► ok so i don't believe in the existence [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► of writer's block however i'm currently [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► struggling to right now as I guess that [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► that's a different they look at you like [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► you're trying to frame this in a [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► particular way that I disagree with [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► arrived [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► I'm only talking about when i said [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► before like oh you have like big [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► disasters like I'm made of multiple [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► things all of this stuff happened right [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► around the time that I was experienced [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► much more like what I would describe as [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► a kind of burn out there was a running [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► joke in the reddit where people like oh [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► wow look at this new piece of content [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► and i would say don't get used to it now [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► like I know the content will keep coming [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► forever like know people that won't [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► because i was really aware like 2016 was [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► it was a very interesting year in in my [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► working life [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► it was the most successful year in in my [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► working life thus far and it was also in [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► terms of years where I have been [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► self-employed it was the year that had [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► by far and away the most deadlines in it [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► of some kind [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► anytime there's like sponsorships [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► there's some kind of deadlines there are [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► other deadlines behind the scenes that [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► people don't see these two things I [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► think are are very much related like [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► deadlines and the financial success of [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► the business between videos podcasts [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► every other week some other things [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► behind the scenes 2015 gray signed 2016 [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► gray up for too many things [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► Chuck this is just it right like 2015 [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► grades like add 2016 gray he'll be fine [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► handling all of these things and by the [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► end of the year sort of after the rules [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► for rulers video I was really feeling [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► like man it has been just like too much [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► to constantly and and that's what i said [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► like starting in the summer I was doing [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► a little summer review i was already [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► making plans and and scheming for a [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► 20-17 that would have fewer deadlines in [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► a whole bunch of different ways that's [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► like this year is great for the business [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► but it is not a sustainable thing for me [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► over the long term like this this can't [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► go on forever because i will just be [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► totally burned out [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► and so I like almost made it to the end [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► of the year but but around November time [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► I was beginning to feel like i am i am [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► just a little burned out from this [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► schedule that I have set for myself this [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► is this is too much and then things i [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► mentioned before happened and so that [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► the combination of those two things have [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► this essentially meant that like I have [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► done almost no productive writing work [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► that's the situation that I was in [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► really just up until just a few days ago [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► sort of is is like also dealing with the [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► fallout from like a kind of burnout from [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► over over-scheduling but what I mean [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► what the ideas that we keep on out from [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► creation perspective just burned out [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► from a production perspective I don't [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► really understand what the difference is [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► between those things [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► well I mean if you're burned out from an [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► ideas perspective just sitting down to [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► do something and you can't do anything [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► but if you'll just burn out from [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► production perspective you're having [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► ideas but you just don't have the desire [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► to sit down actualize them seems like a [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► distinction without a difference i think [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► it's a clear difference but yep [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► well the thing is that i have i have a a [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► long list of prioritized and order [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► ordered ideas for the videos that i want [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► to make Ryan there's like a i have a [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► like a top five list of like here's the [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► next videos that I want to do tons of [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► notes on them and and stuff to work on [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► them but the difference is like what [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► what i think is an interesting [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► phenomenon is what what i have come to [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► call over my working life a bounce rate [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► and so this is this is the way I think [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► about going into work in the mornings is [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► get up going in like I'm going to go [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► write something this is the first thing [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► that I try to do in the day and some [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► mornings I just I kind of bounced off [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► the work [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► this is the this is the best word i have [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► come up with to describe this phenomenon [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► people always talk about something like [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► procrastinate [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► Shin this word holds no real value for [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► me i don't think the things that people [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► are talking about when they talk about [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► procrastination of the things i'm doing [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► i'm in the office and I want to write [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► but I just sort of don't and but on [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► there like I'm all like I'm all set like [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► the routine has gone and just nothing [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► happens and for the entirety of of my [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► writing life this has always been a [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► thing that occurs sometimes and so I [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► think of it as like a bounce rate that [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► if you are doing any kind of creative [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► work there is going to be some portion [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► of bouncing off of that work like how [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► you wanted to do the thing but nothing [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► happened was like why because creativity [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► is mysterious eh what's going on here [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► oh yeah what's going on here it's like [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► you're applying your logic to these [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► situations little logic [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► situations little logic [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► is anchor and what you're saying I agree [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► of it but what you are calling bounce [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► rate people call writers block like you [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► are sitting to produce a script and on [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► that day maybe that week [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► nothing is coming and you're just [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► talking it down to this is fine this is [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► normal this is how it goes [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► people categorize it as writers block I [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► think when they feel like the situation [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► is dire and are out of their hands but [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► you consider it as something which is [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► part of the creation process and you're [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► fine with it [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► that's how i'm reading this situation [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► yeah i guess i guess because i think it [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► it's out of my hands but not dire at all [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► like it's just part of the things like [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► it's just part of the process this is [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► just maybe the way that you are good at [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► detaching emotion from situations like [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► that is a a good skill that you have [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► mean that you're able to just be like [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► this one where other people would maybe [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► worry about it more [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► maybe you're right maybe you're right [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► about that I guess it's also it's also [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► think that i am aware of always liked [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► comes and goes in various waves [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► yeah but a lot of people worry that one [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► at one point it's never gonna go right [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► that the the block comes and that's it [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► right i think that is a fear that people [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► have about their work [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► yeah but that's why they should [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► diversify their business into podcasting [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► right this is what if you see what I [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► mean no it's like you you see things you [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► see things the way that you see things [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► and that the exact same thing that [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► somebody else sees but they they react [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► to it differently [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► mm right I feel like my way of thinking [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► about this is correct and superior your [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► way is rational and not everybody is as [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► rational as here [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► I mean it would be very curious to hear [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► from other people who do any kind of [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► creative work like what like what [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► they're like how they internalize it is [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► very interesting that I happen to be [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► like because of [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► because of my line of work I happen to [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► be in a position where i can have [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► conversations with other successful [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► people who do creative work in various [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► fields again and you find it interesting [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► that almost everybody who does this kind [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► of thing has their own way of describing [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► what is it that they're doing that's [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► like specific to them and I feel like Oh [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► even even that must be part of the [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► process like it's that it's such a [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► strange thing to try to produce any kind [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► of creative output that is going to be [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► consumed by a large number of people [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► that it i think it ends up becoming a [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► very internalized process for anybody [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► who's doing it and they're like [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► everybody has their own like weird [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► language or description of how they do [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► these things and like I feel like this [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► using this word bounce like this is this [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► just feels like i was the word in my [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► brain that feels like the right thing [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► that is like go into the office but sort [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► of like bounce out of the office and I [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► got nothing occurred [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► okay well it's it's like it's like a [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► batting average [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► you know it's just like well you're [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► expecting to do perfect things every [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► time [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► well you're crazy nobody does that [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► nobody you ever have spoken to does that [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► it is it's like bizarre beyond [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► rationality to expect some kind of [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► perfect hit rate every single time [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► alright here's the thing right there are [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► there are people that work differently [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► to you and have different schedules and [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► who have i would say maybe luxuries in [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► the way that they work which means that [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► they have to be creative of but can't [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► treat it like this is fine [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► the work will come so used two examples [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► i will use me who and then i will use [TS]

01:04:08 ◼   ► general person who works and creative [TS]

01:04:10 ◼   ► field for their jobs and in a company [TS]

01:04:14 ◼   ► who so i'll start with me there is off [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► joke like an often told joke on the show [TS]

01:04:20 ◼   ► that i love shared Jules who I don't [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► necessarily love shows [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► but I choose that my business will run [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► on one I make the choice because that [TS]

01:04:33 ◼   ► makes more sense to me it's easier to [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► plan my shows run on Churchill's all of [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► my podcasts they run on charges and that [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► makes it easier for me to book [TS]

01:04:43 ◼   ► advertising in a way that uncomfortable [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► with it's not necessary but I figure it [TS]

01:04:49 ◼   ► to be for me a more realistic way of [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► getting my work done there are times [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► when a show is looming and i have no [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► idea I have no inspiration who I have no [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► topics some weeks there is no news [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► who what do you do so I work in a couple [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► of different ways sometimes I despair [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► because there is nothing and I have [TS]

01:05:19 ◼   ► nothing planned [TS]

01:05:21 ◼   ► sometimes I work in advance in that if I [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► am feeling particularly inspired i will [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► make notes and I have this for all of my [TS]

01:05:30 ◼   ► shows lots of notes of ideas and planned [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► out topics like I have topics that i [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► have had planned out for this show in [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► outline form for over a year when they [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► sit there waiting to even be pulled in a [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► time when one of us is inspired to talk [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► about that thing or a time when we have [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► no other inspiration of any kind of [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► drawing us towards something so I have [TS]

01:05:53 ◼   ► these planned out things that are ready [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► so for someone like me who goes through [TS]

01:05:59 ◼   ► these problems and but is able to work [TS]

01:06:03 ◼   ► in in the way that i work i will have [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► things kind of in the chamber ready to [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► be pulled in malaria definitely times [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► when i don't and there are times when I [TS]

01:06:15 ◼   ► am lucky in the type of work that I do [TS]

01:06:17 ◼   ► though I can ask our audience what do [TS]

01:06:19 ◼   ► you want to hear me talk about and that [TS]

01:06:22 ◼   ► is a very valuable thing so like that is [TS]

01:06:25 ◼   ► a thing for me or it's like I have [TS]

01:06:27 ◼   ► decided i want to be my work to be on a [TS]

01:06:30 ◼   ► schedule that there is a an expectation [TS]

01:06:34 ◼   ► set by a calendar as to when the work [TS]

01:06:37 ◼   ► will be completed [TS]

01:06:38 ◼   ► and i have understood that and i have [TS]

01:06:40 ◼   ► tried to use my experience to build the [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► business the way that I want right so [TS]

01:06:44 ◼   ► that is that is a difference to you but [TS]

01:06:47 ◼   ► a solution but there is another option [TS]

01:06:49 ◼   ► so like the the third root of this which [TS]