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How does a single year of focus change your life?
And so I think that just tuning into that more regularly, learning to just listen to that initial gut instinct on something, the energy and what it tells you is a great razor for life with people, with business deals, with financial decisions, with all of this.
So yes, but- more so when you have more experience. Because again, in the first instance, if you're 20, what do you... I mean, unless you've had very experiential teens, what the fuck are you listening to? What experience are you drawing on here? That is where... you would look at it and maybe call it impulsivity, sort of irrationality, emotionality.
You're not being driven by making logical, illogical decisions. But yet, as you start to accumulate some battle scars and some experience and some decades under your belt, I think that's when you can. But again, this is periods of your life, seasons of your life, right? The tools that got you here won't get you there. And one of the tools that
got you here was being very deliberate, very, um, thought through a very top down. You're like dictating to the rest of your body. This is what you're going to do. You're going to push hard. You're going to train more. You're going to, et cetera. And after a while you go, Hey, body's saying it needs to take a rest.
And the last time this happened and I didn't listen to it, I, that was when I injured my knee. That was when that I got burned out. That was when I got sick and fucking got norovirus at New York athletic club. Uh, I think, again, one of those periods where the tools need to change.
Are you familiar with the concept of winner's game versus loser's game? No. This is one of my favorite ideas for life. So this originates from tennis, where... Amateur tennis is a loser's game, meaning you win by avoiding unforced errors. 80% of points are lost on unforced errors.
Professional tennis is a winner's game, meaning you win by hitting magnificent shots, by hitting perfect, elegant shots. It is extremely important in life to know what type of game you are playing. And the reality is that most games of life are losers games.
You win by simply avoiding unforced errors, by showing up over and over and over again with reliability, by doing what you say you're going to do, by showing up and doing the boring basics. Mm-hmm. And so understanding when the game has changed in your own life is really important.
Like early in your life, saying yes to every single opportunity you get is a great game to play because it's what allows you to invest your time to gain the experience, to start building that gut instinct, to start building your understanding of it. But suddenly the game changes. And if you keep saying yes to everything, you burn yourself out. You take on dumb opportunities.
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