One Habit Fixes 90% of Your Problems — Transcript

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1. 0:00How to avoid tons of problems in life.
2. 0:03Go to bed on time.
3. 0:06>> So, I love these.
4. 0:09I want to find single behaviors that
5. 0:12have many positive outcomes. So, if you
6. 0:15think about leverage as
7. 0:17what you get for the effort you put in.
8. 0:18If you have lots of leverage, then it
9. 0:20means you can do one thing and get many
10. 0:21big outcomes, right? Or one very big
11. 0:23outcome. That's high leverage. If you
12. 0:24put a lot of work in and get a very
13. 0:25little bit out of it, you have low
14. 0:26leverage. And so, the highest form of
15. 0:29leverage I think of what's one behavior
16. 0:31or one skill that I can learn that then
17. 0:34has many, many downstream impacts. And
18. 0:37so, for and this is specifically, I'll
19. 0:39say, for the the 20-ish year old, so 20
20. 0:42to 30, 20 to 35,
21. 0:44if you can simply go to bed on time,
22. 0:48you avoid drinking and getting in a DUI,
23. 0:51you avoid early pregnancies, you avoid
24. 0:55missing messing up your work because you
25. 0:57don't sleep well because
26. 0:59uh you show up hung over the next day
27. 1:01and then you don't get the career
28. 1:02advancement that you want or you get the
29. 1:03judgments from your coworkers from the
30. 1:05fact that you're responsible because you
31. 1:06drink even though it might have been
32. 1:07responsible drinking, but you still
33. 1:09smell like booze because it's in your
34. 1:10system.
35. 1:12If you go to bed on time,
36. 1:14it's less likely that you'll get mugged,
37. 1:17it's less likely you'll be in a car
38. 1:18accident. Like there's there's all of
39. 1:20these downstream impacts from one single
40. 1:22behavior. And you also have better
41. 1:24quality sleep in general if you go to
42. 1:26sleep at the same time every day over
43. 1:28and over again. So, that means that you
44. 1:29have life extension, things that happen,
45. 1:31you look younger, and so now 5 years, 10
46. 1:33years later, people are like, "Wow, you
47. 1:34look so good for your age." There's all
48. 1:36of these things from one central
49. 1:38behavior, which is just [ __ ] go to
50. 1:40bed on time. And so, if you want the
51. 1:43action for this, you set your alarm for
52. 1:46when you go to bed, not for when you
53. 1:47wake up. If you set your alarm for when
54. 1:49you go to bed, you will always be able
55. 1:50to wake up naturally at whatever time
56. 1:51you wake up, and it's very difficult to
57. 1:54oversleep when you go to bed at night
58. 1:55because you can get 8 hours of sleep and
59. 1:58still be up by 5.