Design Your Average Tuesday, Not Your Best One. — Transcript

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1. 0:00This work needs doing.
2. 0:02And there's just no way around it. And
3. 0:05it's just it's just
4. 0:06looking at the face of the work and it's
5. 0:08like smiling back at me like
6. 0:10no one else is going to do it.
7. 0:11>> [laughter]
8. 0:12>> Um and like
9. 0:14I love that one. Like when we're
10. 0:16recording content in the early days
11. 0:17we're doing like 100 shorts every time
12. 0:19we did it and it was direct to camera.
13. 0:22And it was the only time I could fit it
14. 0:23in with all the portfolio stuff that
15. 0:24we're doing.
16. 0:25And so I was it was always like I will
17. 0:27do what's required.
18. 0:28And that's been a really helpful refrain
19. 0:30for me when I'm confronted with
20. 0:32especially when you know what needs to
21. 0:34get done.
22. 0:35And the second one is
23. 0:37but I'll know.
24. 0:40And so like even if it does go well and
25. 0:43even if everyone else says it's great
26. 0:46but I'll know.
27. 0:47And it'll then rob me of all of the joy
28. 0:51of all of those moments in that
29. 0:52experience because I'll know that I
30. 0:54could have done better. And the thing is
31. 0:56is like to to quote myself from earlier
32. 0:58like I've never regretted working
33. 1:01harder.
34. 1:02Ever. Not once. And some people like on
35. 1:04your deathbed you're going to like no
36. 1:06cuz I lived every moment of my day doing
37. 1:08what I wanted to do. And I remember I
38. 1:10had a boss when I
39. 1:12my first boss after college
40. 1:14she said this thing. I had had a a
41. 1:16particularly good weekend.
42. 1:18And she said I'm pretty sure happiness
43. 1:22is stringing as many of those days in a
44. 1:25row as you possibly can.
45. 1:27And although I hated the job
46. 1:29that piece of advice has actually been
47. 1:31probably what I has been my blueprint
48. 1:34for how to live. Which is like my
49. 1:36birthday looks the same as my Tuesdays
50. 1:38which looks the same as my Sundays.
51. 1:40>> know what the original name
52. 1:43pool for this podcast was? It's the only
53. 1:45time in history I've done branding my
54. 1:47entire adult life. And with club nights
55. 1:50all you're doing is coming up with
56. 1:51brands. I
57. 1:52Paradiso oh it's it's tropical there'll
58. 1:55be a flamingo skint oh it's a cheap
59. 1:57night It's for people to get fingered in
60. 1:59the corner. Like is we All I did was
61. 2:02branding. Right, I was the branding guy.
62. 2:03I'm pretty good at copywriting. All I
63. 2:05did was branding.
64. 2:06The one time I've had divine
65. 2:08inspiration, 3:00 in the morning, wake
66. 2:09up with the name was Modern Wisdom. The
67. 2:11one time out of every business, every
68. 2:14night, every brand I've ever come up
69. 2:15with, that was the one time. But on the
70. 2:16list of the others, mind mind and matter
71. 2:20was one of them. The other one was a
72. 2:22quote from Tim Ferriss. It's called
73. 2:24Crushing It Tuesday.
74. 2:25And he said that what you should aim for
75. 2:27in life is for your average Tuesday.
76. 2:30Not the spectacular one-time private jet
77. 2:34with the friends to go for the whatever,
78. 2:36whatever. Not the
79. 2:37UFC power slap launch party [laughter]
80. 2:40with
81. 2:41staring at the back of Dan Bilzerian's
82. 2:43dirty mullet. Like
83. 2:45not that.
84. 2:46You want your average Tuesday
85. 2:48to look the way that you want most of
86. 2:50your life to do.
87. 2:51>> And when I think about the days that I
88. 2:53look back on at the end of my day and
89. 2:54think like today was a good day,
90. 2:56invariably, it's the same few things.
91. 2:58It's I worked very hard on something
92. 3:01that I felt was worth doing.
93. 3:03I worked out, and I spent time with
94. 3:06people that I enjoy being around.
95. 3:09If I do those three things,
96. 3:11I had a good day.
97. 3:12And so, that's been my, you know, Alex's
98. 3:15simple blueprint for doing things. And I
99. 3:17think the point that you were making
100. 3:17earlier, I think it's worth hitting on
101. 3:19again, which is just that like
102. 3:21most people's definition of work is a
103. 3:22negative one, which is why they abhor
104. 3:24it, which is also why they misunderstand
105. 3:25so many people who quote, I'll say quote
106. 3:27here, are successful or ahead of them or
107. 3:28whatever, is that
108. 3:30both people One person says the word
109. 3:32work, and the other person hears the
110. 3:33word pain.
111. 3:35And so,