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anything goes with emma chamberlain

life hacking my way through life

06 Apr 2025

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[video available on spotify] i’m someone who absolutely loves hacking my life. i’m always on the lookout for ways to be more efficient with my time - it’s basically a hobby at this point. so today i’m sharing some of my favorite life hacks - the ones that actually work and make a difference in my life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0.249 - 21.871 Emma Chamberlain

Let me tell you about three things that are really important to me, okay? Number one, efficiency. I don't like extra steps. I don't like wasted time. I spend probably an hour every day thinking about how I can make my day as efficient as possible. And I know what you're thinking. Spending an hour a day thinking about how to be more efficient probably is inefficient, right? Wrong, wrong.

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22.572 - 49.206 Emma Chamberlain

Because while I'm thinking about how to make my day more efficient, I'm doing other things that are productive, okay? And that's called optimization, okay? Which leads me to number two, optimization. making every single step in the day count. Every single action is accomplishing two tasks. Do you see what I'm saying? Optimization, getting the most done with the least amount of effort.

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49.266 - 66.978 Emma Chamberlain

Is that even what optimization means? I don't know. I actually have to Google it, to be honest. Optimization is the action of making the best or most effective use of a situation a resource. Okay? Number three, crisis aversion and preparedness. I think we all want to be prepared for a crisis.

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68.219 - 87.374 Emma Chamberlain

Close your eyes and think about a time when maybe you had food poisoning at school and you pooped a little bit. Not enough to like throw your whole pants away, but just a little bit in your underwear. How nice would it be to have a pair of underwear in your backpack at all times ready just in case you shit yourself in math class?

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87.394 - 108.414 Emma Chamberlain

It'd be really nice because moments that are traumatic like shitting yourself in math class become less traumatic when you're prepared. What about when you're going on a road trip and you realize, oh, fuck. I forgot my phone charger. Oh wait, no problem. I always have an extra phone charger in my car. Do you understand what I'm saying? Being prepared is important to me.

109.155 - 134.831 Emma Chamberlain

Averting crises as often as possible is important to me. Now, what does this all really say about me? If you were to simplify it, basically that I like life hacks. And I think most people think of life hacks and they cringe because there was this weird phase on the internet for a few years where like 90% of internet content was was about some sort of life hack.

135.331 - 155.464 Emma Chamberlain

And, you know, there are only so many life hacks in life. You know what I'm saying? Like there are only so many. And because this was such a video trend, it became this thing of like, people were just coming up with these ridiculous life hacks that actually didn't work and actually required more steps than the original. Like it wasn't hacking life, it was actually making life more complicated.

155.925 - 180.435 Emma Chamberlain

And so then the trend ultimately died. And then we all sort of started to hate life hacks. But We really don't hate life hacks. We all have our own life hacks in our day-to-day life. And we might not even realize that we have them, but we do. And I am somebody who absolutely loves hacking my life, okay? I am constantly trying to figure out how to hack my life.

180.995 - 199.387 Emma Chamberlain

It's almost like a hobby for me, honestly. Because I will say, and I'm not like trying to shit on the people of my life, but... I think my life is more hacked than anyone that I know. I briefly paused this episode to let you know that this episode of Anything Goes is presented by Temptations Cat Treats.

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