The Exchanges

Q about how time relates to not only your life, but also your business. Because for example, August will be four years that I've been doing the podcast. And I feel like in that time, I've become a completely different person in a good way and not in a good way. I think there's, there's positives and negatives that happen all over. Uh, how do you feel time works for you?

A So I have, um, I have sort of a love hate relationship with time because I do think, I do think that one of my core skill sets is daily time management. Um, I, I feel like I'm really good at taking large, seemingly insurmountable task lists. And because I do what's called batching. So like I'll batch, like, okay, I've got my campaign starts. I put all those and I, you know, I block it off for like an hour for that. And so, you know, I, so I feel like I'm really good at Doing tasks in a day, but then, yeah, when you look out over a longer time horizon beyond the day, that's when, uh, that's when time becomes, uh, becomes one of those more, more scary things. The, um, one of the things that this is might, might be an apocryphal story, but I don't, I like to think that it actually happened. But, uh, one of the stories about Julius Caesar is that when he was a young man, he saw this statue of Alexander the Great and Alexander the Great. You know, conquered the pretty much entire world, you know, before, you know, before he was 30. And, um, here was Julius Caesar at basically that same age looking at the statue going, you know, I've done nothing, because he really hadn't done much at that point, uh, in his life. And that was a big, uh, at least as far as the story goes, it was a big motivator for him to actually, like, finally get up and start doing things. And so, I do think that t…

AI assessment note: “I have sort of a love hate relationship with time because”

Q Do you think we will figure out how to escape death in our century in the century?

A Or are we just like, I think it's, I think we'll definitely can extend it out a lot, a lot further. Um, because with things like, uh, with things like gene editing, and then also with, uh, the advancements that have been made in terms of, um, who is it that's doing the big research project right now on actually keeping like mitochondrial, like decay. There's somebody who's basically figured trying to figure out and think they have figured out a way to keep The, the mitochondria and, uh, and cells from decaying as rapidly and those things, which would be, you know, prevent aging and things. So I would say that horizon is going to be pushed out a lot further, but I don't know that it will ever be like a forever horizon. Unless you count training an AI or something like that. Like, unless you count like externalizing, you know, a brain and then, and then having it live on or something like that.

AI assessment note: “I don't know that it will ever be like a forever horizon.”

Q was definitely a very tough woman from New York. Um, and she, she died like two weeks ago. And I think that combined with like my birthday is kind of got me down because I was thinking about mortality and I feel like emotions make life great, but also can make life really hard. So, even if we had the technology to extend life, emotionally, would it be worth it?

A Right, exactly, because then it becomes like, okay, well, how do we pay for this thing? Can everyone afford it? You know, inevitably, not everyone will be able to afford it, which means that there will be some that die and some that don't, and so it's like, yeah, you'd be racking up this, this longer list of, like, former people you knew, which is, Hard. Plus, there's the brain decay in terms of, um, you know, in terms of like, you know, okay, we've got to not only figure out how to make the body last longer, but then also, You know, you don't want to just live 200 years, but the last hundred is with Alzheimer's, right? So, um, yeah, it's the, like, I wouldn't call that a win. I don't think anybody would. So, um, so, you know, but the, uh, but yeah, I mean, those things happen, you know, I carry a coin often. It's actually, it's, it's, um, it's in the other room, so it's not, it's not worth getting, but the, uh, I have, I have one of those coins that I actually got from, uh, from Ryan Holiday's Daily Stoic, and, uh, it has este morto on it, which means, um, sorry, memento mori, sorry, memento mori on it, which means, uh, remember your death, and that is actually a common stoic phrase, not in a morbid way, but actually in the sense that It helps us, I think, get our priorities in line when we remember that our time here is short and it helps us have a sense of urgency when we re…

AI assessment note: “you'd be racking up this, this longer list of, like, former people you knew”

Q people I've noticed as an adult did not have that kind of love from their families growing up. An alarming amount of people. And so I, I struggle to connect with them because they struggle to love themselves. And if they don't love themselves, how can they love other people? And therefore, how can I have a good relationship with them? Because we're not emotionally in the same playing field.

A Absolutely. Yeah, that's, I, you know, so I had a little bit of a, a little bit of a different, I basically just grew up like alone, more or less through, through, through, through my, through my childhood. So I don't know if that's where it comes from. I don't really know that, or if it's just coming from, uh, I, it's weird. I have this sort of high confidence in terms of my ability to achieve things. Like, in other words, like I am somebody who, you know, like, cause I mean, even just business ownership in general, right. You have to have a certain amount of, Self-belief, right? Like you have to believe, oh, I can do this thing. Like, oh, this super hard thing, this, you know, earning that, you know, earning, whether it's earning a high income or achieving some big thing, you have to have a certain amount of, yeah, that's possible. And I'm smart enough and good enough to do it. So it's like, I'm area, I would say that I'm like confident in that way. But in a very, like, real sense too, I do definitely struggle with the other side of the coin where it's like, you know, I have this constant, like, you know, No one likes me. No, no one's gonna like what I'm saying. Everything's bad. Like sort of train going up through my, uh, through my brain at all times. I think that's what causes me to like almost always talk like that, you know, or like that. So I need to work on that.

AI assessment note: “I basically just grew up like alone, more or less through, through, through”