Puri: Nick Gray runs habit-tracking groups enforced by virtual assistants
Shaan Puri · 3 Underdog Stories That’ll Get You Inspired This Week · Jul 31, 2024 · at 36:38
Sean Puri (co-host of My First Million) details entrepreneur Nick Gray's minimalist WhatsApp habit accountability framework.
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“So he has a thing called done. It's like a group of people that all agree. We're going to do X every day. And I forgot what X is. It might be walk a certain amount of steps, might be cold plunge, might be whatever it was. Let's assume you set the bar. And what he did was he made a WhatsApp group and in the WhatsApp group, you only can send one word done. And that's it. Every, every day people just say done whenever they've did the thing and you can't say anything else, but you get the momentum from other people saying done. You're like, shit, I gotta get mine in. And then he has his assistants. He's got these like assistants of the Philippines who will go in. And if you haven't said done for like three or four days, they'll like DM you, they'll nudge you.”
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