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00:00:00 ◼   ► so listen ian has found the perfect new [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► game for you [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► oh yes what is it so you know in the [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► past you spoken about the fact that you [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► like games that feel like work you know [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► like you like truck simulator 2 [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► factorial like work games [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► yeah their work simulator games in my [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► mind what we found the ultimate cgpgrey [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► work simulator is called youtubers life [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► you to his life is the ultimate life [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► simulation tycoon via game in which you [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► become the world's greatest video [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► blogger in history edit videos [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► expand the amount of fans and turn [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► yourself into a wealthy fellow that [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► sounds horrible [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► super day at work imitates life imitates [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► work imitates life that little little [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► too close to home [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► the screenshots are amazing because they [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► show a bedroom with an unmade bed and [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► somebody working on a computer [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► remarkably by total coincidence i [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► watched PewDiePie do a playthrough of [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► YouTube simulator just yesterday [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► oh really it showed up in that here's [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► what YouTube thinks you should watch [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► section they were really write the right [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► like that sometimes that YouTube thing [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► freaks me out because they're like oh [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► yeah i know i would like to see that [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► video thank you so much YouTube right [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► well this this one strike me as [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► particularly funny because it's it's i [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► am not subscribed to PewDiePie i have [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► probably watched fewer than five maybe [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► ten of his videos ever and but youtube [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► just knows right there little algorithms [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► their data algorithms simply know hey [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► we're going to suggest you a peopie [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► video that you cannot possibly resist on [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► clicking and they were correct and i [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► clicked it and i watched it and they [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► were right it was very entertaining [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► video but what do you think of youtubers [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► life I will never play a game like that [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► it looks it looks terrible it looks like [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► the kind of work simulator that I hate [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► which is not really work simulator it's [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► just the game randomly rewarding you at [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► times with stuff i don't know I I have [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► no interest in ever playing that game [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► but i can recommend PewDiePie's video [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► where he plays that game like he's very [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► he's very funny and he turns it into a [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► bizarre meta commentary on his own life [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► as a youtuber so of course he ends up [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► making a little character that looks [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► just like him and just makes all of [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► these comments about feeding the Machine [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► and gotta keep going there's a reason [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► that guys number one youtuber I wouldn't [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► watch all these videos they're not all [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► for me but anybody who thinks he's just [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► an idiot playing video games in his room [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► like you don't understand what this man [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► is doing [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► you don't understand what he's doing [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► when we talk about that talent thing and [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► when we were talking about a long time [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► ago about having that spark and we use [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► them k PhD is a an example of that from [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► his first video right right little [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► little tiny twelve-year-old mkbhd yeah [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► PewDiePie doesn't really have a sparky [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► has a fire [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► yeah like that man there's there is no [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► doubt absolutely no doubt whether you [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► don't like these videos are not you [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► cannot deny that they are well made [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► their well made and that he is just [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► engaging I'm engaging in this way that [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► is difficult to describe [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► yep yes really youtube algorithms you [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► know you know what I wanted even and I [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► didn't know what I wanted and what I [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► wanted was watching the number one [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► youtuber play youtube simulation game [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► this is an episode out of time [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► indeed it is Mike because from my [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► perspective this is insanity because i [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► just spoke to you yesterday we did we [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► just did an episode yesterday we did our [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► cortex versuri episode yesterday for [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► people who are interested in the cortex [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► annuity of the show [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► I'm so proud of you right now but then [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► again in service and this episode you [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► are probably listening to sometime in [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► july maybe august i don't even know [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► where this is going to happen so people [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► will be listening to this at some point [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► in the late summer [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► mhm months after we are recording it yep [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► so this is what will be passed me [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► talking to you after what is intended to [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► be a very long very busy very unusual [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► summer for me which is part of the [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► reason why [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► you're recording this well ahead of time [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► but it makes the verb usage here seem [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► very strange like in the future i will [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► have had done things that we will [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► certainly have had already talked about [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► Anya shows we will record but from the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► perspective of people listening we've [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► already recorded and they have already [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► listened to because it's very confusing [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► because in theory now looking to the [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► future so that people can judge our [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► predictions we have participated in real [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► icon to gether right we will have been [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► to relay con you have been to VidCon i [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► will have been to VidCon we will is [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► recorded off first in-person episode of [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► cortex [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► that's right as well and now we are [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► approaching the second annual court xmas [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► very confusing it is all very confusing [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► and the very fact that i'm going to [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► relay khan and the very fact that i'm [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► going to VidCon are things that i have [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► stated publicly nowhere at this stage [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► which is what makes it all the more [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► exciting dimension [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► it's like a fun little secret at this [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► moment I i may not even mention anything [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► about being at VidCon until after I have [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► left I don't know we'll have to see him [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► listener will already know if I did or [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► didn't yep haha but that might be a [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► surprise so yeah it's it's just it's a [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► strange thing but we are trying to plan [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► in advance for what is going to be a a [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► busy summer so the reason we are [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► recording this is because there's going [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► to be just a ton of stuff going on and I [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► know that later in the summer in [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► addition to all of this crazy business [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► stuff i also have a ton of family stuff [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► that I'm doing later in the summer so [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► this very morning for this episode I was [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► actually telling up [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► what is the theoretical number of [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► flights that I am taking this summer and [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► I haven't bought them that there's a [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► there's a few events in a few things [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► that are still a bit uncertain but i [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► will be taking no fewer than eight and [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► no more than 14 flights this summer [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► why [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► my blood yeah I know it's it is quite a [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► lot but that is high a little while ago [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► I said Mike we need it we need to talk [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► about the summer cortex schedule and [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► that is why this episode is happening [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► right now also because mean you have [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► been for something like this already so [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► last year you were away for a lot of the [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► summer and we didn't prepare for it and [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► it was a nightmare yet last summer last [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► summer was a bit of a disaster and very [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► many ways for me probably one of the [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► biggest ways was that somehow i don't [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► really know how but you convinced me not [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► only where we going to launch cortex [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► last summer but we're also going to be [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► doing weekly episodes which was insanity [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► I don't know how you convinced me of [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► this i don't know why past me would have [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► agreed to such a thing but how was way [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► way too many episodes to be doing at [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► once but we tried and then we had to try [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► and squeeze it into a schedule and you [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► are on standby flights arriving at we're [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► days it was it was a nightmare so we [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► also we have learned together and are [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► working together over the last year or [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► so and we are now recording an episode [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► about time [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► yes that is what this episode is but [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► there is an interesting lesson in there [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► i think about the whole idea of this [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► thing existing is that we are [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► collaborating better now than we have [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► before because we now understand the [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► habits and patterns of each other and we [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► are working to respect those so I know [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► that you'll be traveling and you know [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► that I want an episode right with with [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► what Mike is trying to say here [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► listeners is a respected Mike knows that [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► i want a bunch of time off this summer [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► not the michael has a bunch of episodes [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► that summer we have these mutually [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► incompatible desires and so we have [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► compromised on one court xmas there was [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► going to be one fewer episode of cortex [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► the summer and also doing this episode [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► code in advance so this is the thing [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► this is the compromise that we have come [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► to this is another one of those CEO to [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► CEO discussions that we had that we've [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► mentioned in the past which again I will [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► underscore the importance of anybody who [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► is self-employed working with [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► self-employed people that it is very [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► very useful to be able to have these [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► conversations so useful so useful and we [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► were able to come to an agreement [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► because I wanted more episodes then [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► we're doing and you wanted more time [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► often you have so we can take me to a [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► compromise [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► uh-huh yes we did come to a compromise [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► because as we may discuss later in the [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► episode in theory i would just like the [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► whole summer off i would like the whole [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► summer off to LA and I can't eat right [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► that's not how it looks right but that's [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► what I mean right here and that is there [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► are all of these various constraints and [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► things in life i do also just want to [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► again reiterate your point to anybody [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► listening who is self-employed works [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► with the people I i really think if you [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► can try to introduce the the explicit [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► language like that can we will say like [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► we are talking CEO to co now like do [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► that as a mode shift when you're having [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► a business conversation with someone it [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► is hard to express how much easier and [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► clearer that makes things it really [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► really does [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► I i highly highly recommend anybody [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► working with other people like trying to [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► do that try to institute that as a [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► company culture in both of your [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► company's it's extraordinarily [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► beneficial and just makes things much [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► easier but yeah so in addition to this [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► being a bit of a negotiation between the [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► two of us [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► this is also one of these cases for me [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► where it's important to know yourself [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► and i found myself as this summer was [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► approaching really constantly thinking [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► back towards last summer and just [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► realizing how last summer was a bit of a [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► disaster across all fronts like this [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► summer I had a bunch of family [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► responsibilities and also about [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► of work responsibilities so there was [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► cortex is also the Helena podcast is [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► also the youtube videos that I did [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► there's some other business stuff and [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► also a bunch of family things and last [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► summer i just did a frankly terrible job [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► of trying to manage all of those things [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► and as a result i had a kind of grumpy [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► summer I felt that I was not doing [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► necessarily really great with a lot of [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► the business side of things and then I [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► also felt that I wasn't doing really [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► great with a lot of the family [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► responsibilities like it was just torn [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► between these two different worlds and [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► not being able to give either that the [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► time and the mental energy that they [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► required and so I think this is this is [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► such an important skill in life is to be [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► able to look on a thing objectively [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► evaluate yourself on it to recognize oh [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► I didn't do very well last summer with [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► these kinds of things and then think [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► forward to the Future about what are the [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► structural changes that can be done to [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► improve the situation and so reducing [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► the number of cortex episodes by one and [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► also doing one in advance like we're [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► doing now like that is one thing that is [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► definitely happening and i'm doing a [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► similar thing with hello internet i [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► think one maybe two i still have to [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► finalize it but there's going to be a [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► few fewer episodes than would otherwise [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► be normal [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► over the course of the year during the [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► summer and i'm also making a conscious [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► decision like I do most summers to [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► intentionally do one fewer video then in [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► theory would come out over the same [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► three-month span if i was working [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► another point in the year and I feel [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► like this is one of those times where [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► well i have a bunch of things to do this [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► summer in particular is going to be [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► filled with a huge amount of social time [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► and family time like I always find that [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► very energy-intensive and so i am not [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► like last year going to think i can just [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► truck through this like normal i'm just [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► i'm just going to keep doing all the [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► amount of work that I normally do and [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► i'm also going to have all of these [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► other responsibilities [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► and everything is going to be fine so no [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► I'm going to learn from last year's [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► experience and intentionally turn down [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► the work dial so that hopefully the [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► whole of the summer goes more smoothly [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► than it did last time this episode of [TS]

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00:14:42 ◼   ► on a mattress before you commit to [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► spending a third of your life on it [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► mattresses often cost well over fifteen [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► hundred dollars but Castro mattresses [TS]

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00:15:09 ◼   ► much to Casper for their support of this [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► show in the balance of all of that is [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► time off right now understanding that [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► you should be putting your efforts into [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► the right places one of those places [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► should be time off because if you work [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► in [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► Anthony you get time off and you get [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► time off because there's a very good [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► reason because everybody needs brakes [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► right and in more traditional companies [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► everybody takes it and it's all done and [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► like when the company that I worked at [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► you had to write it wasn't even a joke [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► like this was just the thing you had to [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► do and one of those brakes had to be two [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► weeks right later like all things that [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► like you had to do them and I know a lot [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► more kind of new companies these days [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► there are like these trends which on the [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► face of it seemed quite good but [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► actually work out to not be too great [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► like unlimited vacation time you [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► familiar with this [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► oh man I i love i love unlimited [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► vacation time I companies because this [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► to me is is the embodiment of corporate [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► evil [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► yep but so for listeners who may be [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► unaware this is a trend I feel like over [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► the past few years of companies saying [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► there is an unlimited amount of vacation [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► time for you to take you take as much as [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► you feel that you need because we the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► company we love you and we want you to [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► be happy and it sounds great and I think [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► especially for people walking out of [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► university and into their first job like [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► oh this sounds like an amazing bonus but [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► the end result is that without knowing [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► how much vacation time is ok to take [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► that people who work at companies that [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► give unlimited vacation time essentially [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► take no vacation time that they can [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► never take time off because everybody [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► has this paranoid feeling about how much [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► time is appropriate to take off when is [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► it okay i don't understand what the [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► boundaries are and so yeah it's just is [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► total total corporate evil to do that [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► kind of thing but it is very important [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► to make sure that you do it and that [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► like unlimited vacation time in a [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► strange way is exactly the way that mean [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► you live our lives in and with so many [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► self-employed people right it's like I [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► can take as much time off as I want [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► because I make I call the shots but what [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► happens is i think man right here so I [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► am I have become better and better maybe [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► in the last year [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► about taking some breaks but one of the [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► things that I do which is good and bad [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► as a lot of those brakes have some kind [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► of what component in them one that helps [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► me justify a lot of it to myself and you [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► know i'm definitely not working as much [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► as usual in those scenarios but there is [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► more relaxation time occurring than [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► usual as I laughing before because the [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► comparison between unlimited vacation [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► time companies and self-employment is [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► just is perfectly spot-on and again in [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► the into thinking about my upcoming [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► summer which will have passed by the [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► time people are listening to this and [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► thinking about my last summer that's [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► going on and thinking about just how I [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► spend my working time I am so very much [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► aware that in the past two years [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► this is also an area that i have been [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► just very bad at is taking time off and [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► I recognize that as one of these things [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► that I want to try to improve and I want [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► to try to get better at but it is in no [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► small part because there is a bit of a [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► lull this feeling of like Oh in theory i [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► could take any day off but you never [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► want to take any particular day off [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► because there's always stuff to do when [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► you're self-employed this is this is the [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► downside that we talked about it being [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► self-employed that is very hard for the [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► job to leave your mind or for you to [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► leave the job it's always it's always [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► there there's always stuff that you can [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► do and you know I'll i look and look [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► back quite fondly on my time as a [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► teacher when you had those brakes and [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► there is stuff to do during the breaks [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► like I was always working on side [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► projects or whatever but there was a way [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► that you could genuinely completely [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► leave the job behind for regular [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► stretches of time and that was without [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► doubt hugely mentally beneficial to do [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► such a thing and i particularly love the [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► UK schedule for teachers which is very [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► different from in america in america you [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► usually have a one really big long [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► summer and a few short breaks throughout [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► the year but in the UK it's like six [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► weeks of teaching and then one week off [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► six weeks of teaching two weeks off six [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► weeks of [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► g one week off it's an amazing amazing [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► schedule that I think I need to move [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► closer to that in the future because my [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► current schedule of iwork almost every [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► day some amount after probably pretty [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► close to two years of doing that is like [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► now this needs this needs to change this [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► is a thing that I need to improve upon [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► and it is one of the areas in which i [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► have not been so great time office [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► interest vacations though no it's not [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► just vacations i'm thinking of vacations [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► because that is the area in which i have [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► been the worst at you and I'm also [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► thinking about that because I am I keep [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► comparing that oh this summer would be a [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► lot easier if I could just have it be [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► like my summers were when I was a [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► teacher that's why I'm thinking about [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► vacations but i have been much better [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► this past year in particular of making a [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► really conscious effort that no work [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► happens on Saturdays so I have [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► Saturday's blocked off in my calendar as [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► just no workdays think nothing's going [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► to happen here [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► you know i'm spending time on my own i'm [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► spending time with my wife but i'm going [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► to have one really dedicated day out of [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► the week that i know i'm not going to [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► work on that day and simply doing that [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► has been much more helpful like to to [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► really treat that day [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► respectfully like to not just blow it [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► off and it's very easy to do some [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► low-level work but like no no I'm very [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► serious about this [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► it's again it's very funny in this way [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► like when you are something you have to [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► be quite disciplined with this kind of [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► stuff that you have to take time off [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► really seriously [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► otherwise you won't do it and that is a [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► thing that has has worked for me but [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► like what is it that you do in in your [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► schedule with regards to time off [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► because you have all these shows that [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► you record and it seems like you record [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► shows constantly from my perspective I [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► mean do you have a day in your schedule [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► that is perfectly clear do you do [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► something similar or how does it work [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► for you know haha like well yes and no [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► okay i have no [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► today that is like absolutely no work [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► like categorically none [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► weekends are low to none mm and and that [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► is a regular thing for me there might be [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► some low-level work that I do on a [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► Sunday there might be something like [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► just bits and bobs that pop up that I [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► take care of but it's not one or the [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► other for me on weekends but it tends to [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► be that they are like significantly [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► lower work at a point where it feels [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► like I'm not working [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► who's right but I know there's always [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► stuff going on because our companies are [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► very different from mine runs with [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► people right and some and I like to be [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► available for people if they need me [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► so it is a different scenarios set up [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► slightly differently but I'm totally [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► happy with that I wouldn't want to work [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► any other way and that doesn't have to [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► be any people involved but you know but [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► I wanted there to be that there would [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► have been a way to to run real and very [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► differently than the way that we run it [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► we didn't have to create a slight group [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► that had every hosting for dinner [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► we just didn't have to do any of that [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► you know because that makes everybody [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► much more available to each other so it [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► has 11 requirements to that but that's [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► the way that I like to run my business [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► but what I do is in my theme at the year [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► of less i have two days every two weeks [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► i mentioned this many times where there [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► is way less work and also one week where [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► there is just less work anyway yeah like [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► less shows recording I is specifically [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► stack one week heavier than the other [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► blue and i'm running some side projects [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► through some of that stuff too but it [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► doesn't feel so much like work and like [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► you know the way that you do that and [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► one thing that I'm very mindful of is [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► taking many breaks throughout the day [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► that is something that I put a lot of [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► focus on making sure that I do and [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► working with a predominantly us audience [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► means that's very possible because there [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► are a lot of people that are asleep for [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► the majority of my morning and afternoon [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► so I'm able to do work that is isolated [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► during that time where I'm able to take [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► care of things that people want a hug me [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► for I'm able to take care of things [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► where i can send stuff to people and [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► they won't get back to me immediately [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► and then I'm also able to relax a little [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► bit before working in the evening [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► yeah I think that's I think that's good [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► and it's sort of along this the same [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► lines we are talking about many breaks [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► one of the behaviors i have been trying [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► to be much more conscious about is [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► deciding when work isn't happening at [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► particular times and as I mentioned [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► for me the afternoons are always my [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► least productive time and while i have [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► been bad about taking a dedicated time [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► off like a vacation [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► one other thing that I have gotten much [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► much better at is is really accepting [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► the afternoons as my unproductive time [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► and deciding to not feel the guilt of [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► there are things that you could be [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► working on right now and to say instead [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► know i'm i am accepting that this is low [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► productivity time for me and if in the [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► afternoon i want to sit down and I want [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► to watch a couple episodes of TV or I [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► just want to read a book or something [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► that is fine because this is the time of [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► day when it makes most sense to do that [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► when you'd be the least effective [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► working on something else anyway and you [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► might as well take this as your down [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► time I try and do this and I do this I [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► still struggle with it the M and funnily [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► enough time so I struggle with it the [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► most also times when i need it the most [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► what do you mean you needed the most [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► so when when I have a lot on my mind so [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► when I have a lot going on when I'm very [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► busy [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► it makes me feel overwhelmed and when I [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► feel overwhelmed I usually need to take [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► more breaks because typically when I [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► have that overwhelmed feeling it's not [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► as bad as I think it is and what will [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► usually happen in [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► is adina will come home and I will be in [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► a bad mood like usually not angry but [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► upset like I feel upset won't be Mike [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► grant peace might even the right word [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► for liking it so it's a weird feeling of [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► like maybe more vulnerable it's straight [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► something is very difficult for me to [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► explain but the only way that I [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► described it is also the high feel [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► overwhelmed and then she'll say to me [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► tell me all the things that you have [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► going on and then I'll list them and [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► realize it's not as many as I think it [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► is this is a very common thing maybe [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► happens every few months or so but it's [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► not something that I can really see [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► until I'm able to express it but it's [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► funny that like the more and more it [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► happens the more that I'm realizing that [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► it's in those times is typically where [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► I'm not taking breaks [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► mm and it's when i'm not taking breaks [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► I'm working maybe a little bit more than [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► I should and then I feel like there's [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► always more happening there is yeah that [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► it's funny you mention that because at [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► just this thing that I do fairly fairly [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► regularly maybe like you maybe every [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► couple of months I don't know exactly [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► but i am also aware that feeling of [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► overwhelm Ennis and a as much before [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► sometimes like just this feeling like [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► there is so much to do and so little [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► time to do it [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► I almost like that feeling is auntie [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► correlated with actually how many things [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► there are to do and so just the other [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► day again this is now months ago from [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► whatever people on this may have [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► happened three times to be known [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► yeah I may have done it several times [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► now but I just the other day I posted on [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► Twitter about how I always know like all [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► things are serious when I feel the need [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► to break out a second to do app and so I [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► I more like if I have this feeling of [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► overwhelming asst i do the same thing [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► that Athena is walking you through [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► of let me let me not look at my normal [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► system let me not look at all of my [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► normal things [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► let me just list what are all of the [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► things that are on my mind right now [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► what are all of the things that are top [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► of my mind that's taking up all of this [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► mental attention and what am I feeling [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► overwhelmed about and it's always the [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► same experience of ok once i write this [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► down in a list there maybe nine things [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► on that list but i often find is I'm [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► feeling overwhelmed or or busy because a [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► bunch of these things are new or unusual [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► it's not that they're actually i may not [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► actually be tremendously more busy than [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► I currently am but it's just there's [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► uncertainty here and writing it down on [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► a list like clarifies and refined that [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► uncertainty and helps get rid of that [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► feeling of being too busy and too [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► overwhelmed [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► yeah they're there is something quite [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► funny and that you talk to it to do app [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► and I talked to my girlfriend and I used [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► to write it down on a piece of paper but [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► now I know now I i use do out for a [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► little bit in the future come on we're [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► living in the future but yes it's like [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► having just gone through this like this [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► week i had been feeling very overwhelmed [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► when I wrote it all down what i realize [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► is ok i am actually quite busy because [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► this week i am working on a video we're [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► doing these two podcast one which is the [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► bank episode in the future so that is a [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► thing that counts for me as a bit of oh [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► this is unusual [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► this is different the video that i am [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► working on again I can't talk about this [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► now even though it hasn't yet happened [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► is a collaboration video with somebody [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► else and so that also adds to the [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► different pneus of the project i like [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► that you said somebody else you still [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► trying to god don't know why I did that [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► from the people that know right yeah [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► it's a it's a it's a crossover video [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► with Curtis that I don't know why on [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► earth I said somebody else very proud of [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► you right now that was part of my brain [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► really not sure if we're supposed to [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► reveal this yet but no no one will hear [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► this but so that's the thing it's it's [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► and then the other thing is i have a [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► bunch of stuff that's just related to [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► finalizing and preparing for all of the [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► summer travels [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► now that is a busier week than normal [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► but overwhelmingly the feeling of [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► busyness or the feeling of overwhelming [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► this is was just coming from a bunch of [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► these things are different than they [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► normally are [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► and so when you write them all down on a [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► list you can see okay this is clearer [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► than I thought it was before [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► yeah and this helps focus the mind on [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► what you're going to do and what I also [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► really like about this this process of [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► writing things down in these moments is [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► forcing the list to be in what order are [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► you going to work on it like this [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► here's the thing at the top this is the [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► thing that you're doing right now the [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► next most important thing is below it [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► and then just so on [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► I i find that is extremely helpful and I [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► know I always want to use a hippie word [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► like centering I don't know I i get it's [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► a similar thing i have a hard time [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► verbalizing the mental feeling it's like [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► decluttering yeah yeah that'sthat's [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► actually that's pretty good that that's [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► a very similar feeling of like a [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► decluttering is how much stuff is here [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► maybe not necessarily a lot but what you [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► really need to do is get rid of a few [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► items and better arrange the items that [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► you have and then you realize how it [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► wasn't actually that cluttered but I [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► didn't need to do a bit of decluttering [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► that's that's pretty good [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► that's pretty good so going back to the [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► time off em so the time off the isn't [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► vacations you mentioned TV shows the ICM [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► you do video gaming and stuff like that [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► during those periods as well yeah video [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► gaming actually quite recently it's it's [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► been much more TV than video games I [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► always tend to go in cycles with video [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► games are playing a lot then not being [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► very much at all yet depends what [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► weather is something out that you wanna [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► play right as well yeah thats part [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► that's partly it but I think it's [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► there's also just something in my brain [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► which is more or less engaged by that [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► activity and so I think that the like [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► the video game TV cycles are our [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► opposite cycles that that go on so so [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► yeah those are things that I do it [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► if I'm feeling dizzy or I sometimes I [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► feel like there's something that's on my [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► mind in a in a way that is difficult to [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► articulate and so that's a time when I [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► also really like to just go walking [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► around the city and just just kind of [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► explore go to a different place got a [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► shoe over something in my mind I feel [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► like I often don't even know exactly [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► what it is that my brain is thinking [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► about but going for a long walk and [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► really resolve that kind of stuff and [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► again an afternoon is a perfect time for [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► that kind of thing like what else am I [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► gonna do [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► I'm not you know I'm gonna record a [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► podcast like not every day we should [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► look into that [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► no we should I mean we've been doing it [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► for two days in a row and is one day [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► more than enough [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► yeah this is supposed to be fortnightly [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► that's what this is supposed to be on [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► this show we spend an awful lot of time [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► talking about side projects as i'm sure [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► many of you out there have them those [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► side projects they need a website those [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► websites need domain names Hoover is the [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► place to buy yours is the place that [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► I've bought my domain names from the [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► years because finding the perfect domain [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► is ridiculously easy with hover plus [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► when all you want to do is just buy that [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► domain name or email address you [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► shouldn't have to opt-out page after [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► page of add-ons or stuff you don't want [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► to have to deal with and stuff you're [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► not interested in that's why haha only [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► offers domains and email so you can [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► focus on finding that great domain name [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► and just get back to working on your [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► great side project or idea they also [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► believe that you shouldn't have to pay [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► for things that should already be [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► included with your domain most people [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► don't realize that when you register a [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► domain name your contact information [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► including your email address phone [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► number and home address is published [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► online for marketers spammers and [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► hackers to find what's called who is [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► database [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► unlike most other domain providers hover [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► includes free who is privacy we've all [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► supported domains to keep your [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► information confidential find the [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► perfect domain name for your idea go to [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► Harvard calm and use the promo code year [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► of less a check out to save ten percent [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► of your first purchase [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► thank you so much to her for their [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► support of this show and we laugh and [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► what about you Mike like for your time [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► off be [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► I I always just think about your [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► schedule like you have this crazy [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► schedule that I think I could not live [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► with and it seems like your day is just [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► very fragmented yeah so it's like what [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► like what does that look like for you [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► it has been a real problem for me this [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► week mmm [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► yesterday I had a feeling which I do not [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► have very often boredom food so [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► yesterday morning I was very bored and [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► when I started thinking about it [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► what I realized is I haven't been [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► outside of the house [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► mm in five days mmhmm yeah [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► previously to that I was in a relative's [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► house for the day [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► who and then before that i was home for [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► four days [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► so what I realized is really i haven't [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► left the house in two weeks because the [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► times that i left the house I was going [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► to other houses you've been a housecat [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► for two weeks exactly and this is where [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► my there are two factors here that make [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► this difficult which is schedule and [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► location now why was talking to a dinner [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► about this issue saying just go for a [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► walk and but the walk is not the thing [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► that I need [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► it's not being being out of the house is [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► not what I need its stimulation when [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► they leave the house who and just [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► leaving here walking around my outer rim [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► planet right is no good for me that he's [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► got cattle skulls Jack over you just [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► tumbleweed I can chase the tumbleweed [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► down the street but that's not gonna do [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► much good [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► there's not really any benefit to me [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► that I feel for doing that you know [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► other than the exercise I do exercise on [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► don't worry I'm not turning into a blob [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► here so this is like an issue that i [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► have hand mainly because the last two [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► weeks have been uncharacteristically [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► busy because of upcoming travel so is [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► one of the reasons why the year of less [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► quiet week which I'm currently in [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► actually busier than my previous busily [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► because there is travel coming up [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► I presume that this means you are like [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► you're doing with me right now recording [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► other shows in advance or getting in and [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► getting ready in some way for a a [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► Content drought while you are at WWDC [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► and not going to be recording a ton of [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► stuff [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► exactly and also other people like of a [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► co-host and stuff are moving around a [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► lot so there's like it's just a lot of [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► like things moving around on my show [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► Joel we've had news things that we're [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► trying to get ready to do and all that [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► sort of stuff so it's like additional [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► pressures that maybe wouldn't be here [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► usually blue and the other part that you [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► mention my schedule combined with the [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► fact that i am kind of on the outer rim [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► my showed you all will throw things in [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► the middle of the day [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► yeah yeah so we record a two o'clock i [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► record some other shows at three o'clock [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► so once i'm done with my morning work i [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► can't really go anywhere because I [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► wouldn't make it back in time because [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► I'm like an hour away from anything I [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► want to do right so this is where the [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► location is a problem which is why you [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► know when we move which is getting [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► closer and closer one of the key things [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► that we're looking for is to be in [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► civilization as some kind [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► so I won't have to have this feeling [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► because I can just go take a walk and [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► maybe go get a coffee in a different [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► location or they take a nice walk around [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► a nice place to a thing go to the store [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► you know I can do all of these things [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► and they'll be more pleasant for me who [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► but the good thing is I don't feel like [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► this very frequently because I do make [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► an effort in usual times to plan things [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► outside of the home going to visit [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► people having lunches of people and [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► stuff like that but it was very [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► interesting to me to confirm or I [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► expected would be the case which is if I [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► stay in the house too long i would get [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► the boredom feeling but it is funny that [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► it's maybe the first time I felt this in [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► the two years I've been self-employed [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► hmm yes it's it's a funny thing is [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► boredom is a feeling for children and [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► for office monkeys that's where that [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► feeling seems like it would be the most [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► part [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► sent in the population and to be [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► self-employed there's always something [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► to do I I I think boredom [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► I caught myself feeling slightly bored a [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► few weeks ago and i just noticed it as a [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► bizarre feeling like oh I haven't felt [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► this way in forever I haven't felt this [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► way in a really long time [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► yep that's how I was like I put my ipad [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► down and I went poof [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► I was like oh no haha like patting your [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► legs with your hands and I was looking [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► around there's nothing to do there's [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► nothing to do list i have something [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► later on but nothing to do right now [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► I've already watched on my youtube [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► videos I've already mentally and [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► uncharted there's nothing to do [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► yeah this like like my summer planning [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► like some of the other stuff we're [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► talking about now I feel like this is [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► all falling into the category of this [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► meta skill of observing yourself [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► yeah and it is a really key skill to in [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► those moments take note of your own [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► mental state and what's occurring and [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► that i know i think that that's sounds [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► kind of obvious but I really think this [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► is a learned skill to cognitively learn [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► to watch yourself and then walk yourself [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► through precisely what you're talking [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► about here thinking like why do I feel [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► bored and trend tracking it back as [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► opposed to just accepting that boredom [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► is a feeling that you occasionally [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► experience and projecting outward like [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► oh my media is not entertaining enough [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► for me right now that's why I'm being [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► bored like no now that's that's not what [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► it is there's something there's [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► something that you are doing that is [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► causing this in yourself and so then you [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► recognize ago I have been a housecat for [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► 14 days in a row now I'm feeling bored [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► yeah there's there's been no external [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► stimulation everything is just the same [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► for everything is just media consumption [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► but things really key to be able to [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► recognize that in yourself and then be [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► able to try to course-correct and and [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► act on that I was also quite pleased [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► because it proved a hypothesis that i [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► had about myself [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► you know and i was able to i was i was [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► happy in the sense i was able to [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► understand that this could happen and [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► then when it did happen i recognized it [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► right and it also just makes me very [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► wary of allowing it to happen which is [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► why you know as dead as we get closer [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► and closer to the end of the year I mean [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► still halfway for the year but you know [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► we're about to be on the other end of [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► the middle right so we're moving towards [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► the end of the year [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► I'm beginning already to think about [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► what does 2017 look like commitments [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► why's this is this is this is perfect [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► because this is exactly what I've been [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► thinking about so intensely and in the [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► past several weeks as well it is almost [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► mentally like well the rest of the year [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► is is kind of set yeah i'm not going to [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► make any changes now [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► yeah i might do new stuff but i'm not [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► going to get rid of anything because [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► it's all planned it's all there also [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► exists will accept it that is it there's [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► a schedule in place yet but already [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► thinking forward towards next year and [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► like what what does next year look like [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► and doing the same thing on a bigger [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► scale of what is this year looks like [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► what his last year look like what do you [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► do again they along with the meta [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► cognition that this feeling of the the [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► project of a human life is to design a [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► life that it wants to live like this [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► this is the ultimate thing that you want [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► to try to do is make your life more of a [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► life that you want to live and so doing [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► the same thing of thinking forward to [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► 2017 and thinking okay how can 2017 be [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► better than 2016 what structural changes [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► are there that can be made in the future [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► that will place me in a situation where [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► i like my life even better than I [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► already liked it i think this is one of [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► these things you kind of naturally end [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► up thinking about because it's just [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► funny that you say that you again at [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► this point which is essentially not yet [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► but barely halfway through the year [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► you already are quite naturally thinking [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► forward toward next year like that's [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► just something that's that's coming [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► across your mental horizons [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► I think it's you know a lot of it is [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► because by this point in the year I at [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► least accumulates and new things and I [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► want to work on some new stuff so I'm [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► like okay you're at the halfway point [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► now and how are you feeling okay you're [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► going to feel like maybe you've got a [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► lot going on but wait you're not [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► stopping em so it's just a case of over [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► the hump time to consider what next year [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► looks like and it's just like you know [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► how we were talking in January about new [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► year being time to reflect who i feel [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► like in the same vein half-year is just [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► in the time to start making yourself [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► aware of next year just like a little [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► mental clock thing that happens around [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► like okay I've been doing this what I [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► set out in January for six months now [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► now just time to start preparing myself [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► for what the next part looks like i [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► should buy this point in the year of [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► worked out if the 2016 plan was an [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► effective one moving now how do i [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► tweaked it to create 2017 plan right and [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► the the rest of 2016 is in some sense [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► execution on the what has already been [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► set up yet right it's like we're just [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► going to continue to execute what has [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► been set up and then thinking thinking [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► forward toward the next year [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► yeah there's no point for course [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► correction in unless there's something [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► significantly wrong in which there isn't [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► I mean you know your course correcting [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► in some way in that you're getting help [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► yes that's true although i will still [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► say that all of this is falling under [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► the year of less this is fish is this is [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► why that project was set up for this [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► year and two to go even on a1a like zoom [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► out one additional level is another part [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► of the motivation behind the year of [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► last was also also relates to what we [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► were discussing before which is [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► recognizing I have been really bad at [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► taking vacation time for myself and the [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► last vacation time that I theoretically [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► had over the summer I was not very good [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► at doing that I was bad at vacationing [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► uh-huh and so the year of less is in a [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► larger part of way of thinking of okay [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► well [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► how can i setup structures so that it is [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► easier for me to take some dedicated [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► amount of time off right and and but [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► that but even that is like okay I need [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► to get those systems in place in 2016 if [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► there is any hope of rearranging [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► schedules or commitments in 2017 his [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► it's funny to think of these things on [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► such a long term but if you don't think [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► about this stuff you can't do any kind [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► of course correction in our life and [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► everything always takes longer than you [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► think it's it's going to so that's why [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► can take a whole year to think about how [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► can i reduce the number of hours that i [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► am working on stuff while not [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► dramatically reducing the actual output [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► and then if that is successful that can [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► have knock-on effects towards what [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► happens in the future do anything that [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► you want to reveal about your 2017 like [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► to see your plans you don't tell people [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► about I don't have secret plans yeah so [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► what are you thinking about that towards [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► 2017 like what what is pulling your mind [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► in that direction the same thing as last [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► year so that the 2016 change was cutting [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► a show and reducing the shedule some [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► others em so it will be the same kind of [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► thing I expect like that's one thinking [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► now is like okay that worked pretty well [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► what can I do [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► so are there any shows which would be [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► natural to end at the end of the year [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► and are there any shows which would be [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► natural to reduce commitment in some way [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► maybe who I don't change the publishing [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► schedule of them but maybe there are [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► parts of the process which I won't need [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► I won't do anymore [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► whoever that is planning it differently [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► or editing it differently [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► what are the the changes that i can make [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► to reduce that and this is the thing [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► it's not for me about reducing the [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► amount of work it's freeing up time [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► again Lou so I'm not looking to like do [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► less and chill who you know I'm not [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► getting into the grey mentality is just [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► just chill i'm looking to [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► juice commitments so i can do new things [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► because I like working i like it a lot [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► and a lot of the time off stuff that I [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► do is to enable myself to be able to [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► work more effectively because I give [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► myself the time to relax because i know [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► that helps me but in the same vein I [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► also then try and find ways and other [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► than if this is good or bad to turn the [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► things that I enjoy into work so it all [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► comes full circle [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► it doesn't stop my enjoyment of those [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► things i still play video games for 12 [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► hours but then I just doing a podcast [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► episode about it and it feels like it [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► was all ok right getting [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► return-on-investment front retainment [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► time there huh yeah well this i think [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► this is this is a very natural thing and [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► my version of this as well is it i am I [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► know that I am happier with side [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► projects and other things to work on [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► aside from the main things and it's [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► similar thing of feeling that I want to [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► be able to clear time on my schedule and [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► part of that means like and I always [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► have like projects that i'm thinking [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► about maybe this would work out maybe [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► this this would work out [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► I'm filtering them all now through the [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► year of less filter that if they're [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► successful other people need to be able [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► to do the morning to be able to pass the [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► monitor they need to be completed things [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► again very happy to have that mental [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► filter in place but i'm still very much [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► in the mindset of as well freeing up [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► time and very consciously not working on [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► any of those side projects until I have [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► freed up a significant number of hours [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► but then the thing that I'm also [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► wondering about is I agree with you that [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► that vacation time is necessary recovery [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► time and recognizing like I haven't been [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► good at that and so feeling is there a [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► way to aggregate a bunch of these hours [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► together so that in the future at some [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► point i can say i am taking a legitimate [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► one hundred percent week off [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► I'm doing nothing and i am going to feel [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► glorious about it and that will be ok [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► and then after that recovery period [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► going back into the regular schedule [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► because [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► even though again our very first episode [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► was titled I don't really like work i am [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► very aware that I am still in the [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► category of the kind of person who if I [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► don't have something to work on [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► I would go crazy like I i need to have [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► some kind of work to do and without that [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► it would just be a descent into madness [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► there always has to be stuff to work on [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► but there's the interesting question of [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► how do you rearrange hours in the day [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► how do you how do you arrange your time [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► to be most effective so that you can [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► work on the things that are of interest [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► to you and that are also hopefully [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► profitable in some way to pay the bills [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► and to fulfill all of the various [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► financial obligations that we all have [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► what is a great vacation or a great [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► vacation if you will let me hit here's [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► the thing those trips to Amsterdam which [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► we have made fun of various times on [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► this show locations [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► yeah those were in a way my attempts [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► this year to try to do a vacation sort [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► of but i knew i wasn't able to actually [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► take time off to do nothing but I found [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► those very interesting experiences [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► because i was working in a very very [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► focused way but I also felt like I am [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► getting a lot of the same benefits that [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► I would get from a vacation and I think [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► this is this is just simply the again [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► knowing yourself and knowing how to work [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► with yourself and because i am quite [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► naturally and an introverted person [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► those trips were intentionally arranged [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► so that I'm not really talking to [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► anybody when I'm there and I was also [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► very consciously minimizing as much as [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► possible my communication with the [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► outside world and so those were really [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► interesting experiences to me of i feel [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► like i am able to have some kind of [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► recovery [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► while still working as long as i am very [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► conscious about being aware of what are [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► the things that are most draining to me [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► and it's like oh ok well one of those [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► things are unusual or new social [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► engagements or more thing or things like [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► the podcast where this is not an unusual [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► or new social engagement but there is [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► there is something about this which is [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► always a bit mentally draining in the [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► same way because there is the awareness [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► of the audience that is listening like [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► this is a thing that is going out into [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► the public world this is not mike and i [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► just meeting for lunch conversation so [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► those trips are really interesting and I [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► think oftentimes many people's idea of [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► what a vacation might be like oh we're [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► going to go away with a bunch of people [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► to a fun place like that can actually be [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► hugely draining for me like that's [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► what's that is what is going to happen [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► this summer in no small part with some [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► of the family obligations that i have is [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► to any outside observer the the [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► activities that i am doing they will [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► look like vacations but i will be [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► totally exhausted by them [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► it's like oh I don't i'm not doing a [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► whole lot of work there's just a whole [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► bunch of hanging out with people and [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► like oh there's things to do and [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► activities to participate in and this [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► looks like a vacation but it is not it [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► is not if you are me so I think for me [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► vacations at their best are always about [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► limits inactivity or very conscious [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► choices about what is being engaged in [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► that that that to me is what a vacation [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► is that is what I feel like is the the [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► best return on investment per hour spent [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► of recovery received so is Amsterdam the [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► best type of vacation and all is it [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► sitting on a beach for you all that kind [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► of holiday the not doing anything all [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► day what's best then if it's like low [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► low social interaction and low work [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► interaction is you know the Amsterdam is [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► high work interaction [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► yeah I this is this is what i'm trying [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► to think about towards towards for next [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► year is like how am I going to do this [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► and one of the things I'm thinking about [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► is an Amsterdam type trip is very [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► effective because it is it is high work [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► but low social interaction high recovery [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► but i still need trips or vacations [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► every once in a while that have some [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► period of time which is just absolute [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► nothingness and so last summer which was [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► which was quite busy at the end of the [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► trip the best decision that my wife and [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► I made was that after a whole bunch of [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► things we were doing a place we're going [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► like things to do we intentionally [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► scheduled a mini post vacation recovery [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► time by going to Las Vegas and we just [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► rented a nice room in Las Vegas and did [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► nothing for a few days and it was just [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► glorious and and that was a real kind of [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► like this is this is great i can i can [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► relax i can just there's nothing to do i [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► need this every once in awhile of [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► there's no responsibility [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► there's no getting up there is no [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► writing is just a total break and [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► because that is a thing that went really [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► well last summer that is actually what [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► we're planning on doing again this [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► summer is like I have this incredibly [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► unusual busy summer but at the very end [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► of it the last thing that we're going to [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► do is we are once again we're going to [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► go to Las Vegas we're renting a nice [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► room [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► we're going to spend a few days there [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► and we're just going to do nothing and i [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► feel like i need i need a little bit [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► more of the do nothing at all time in my [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► life that i currently have like I feel [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► over the past two years in particular I [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► have [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► had two little do nothing time I don't [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► need a ton of it but i need some of it [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► on a one as honest um somewhat of an [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► interval that it doesn't just randomly [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► it doesn't just randomly occur but now [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► this is one of these cases where I [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► imagine Mike that you might be a little [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► bit different from me in this scenario [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► what some with the mic asian like hello [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► I recently most of my vacations are [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► centered around conferences em and it's [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► because I take my vacations as times to [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► see my friends because very few of my [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► friends live in the same country as me [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► I'm you do which is great which means i [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► see you often other friends and maybe [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► see once a year or twice a year [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► something like that so I'm able to [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► couple these things and because they're [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► also like interesting locations i very [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► much like going to America and is [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► usually nice places in America that i'll [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► go to for the source stuff and they are [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► kind of work occasions because there are [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► working type things happening but it's [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► way lower [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► I tend not to record on these things if [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► I do it's very few and I've tried exam [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► Francisco largely WTC last year was [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► quite a lot of show recordings and other [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► things happening and this year was [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► planned very differently to hopefully [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► maybe it did who knows it's already [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► happened but maybe it was rather a be it [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► wasn't ok we'll find out and adjust [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► again recording with you was an [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► unexpected thing on the calendar by hey [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► huh that's how these things go [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► it's all about cooperation and I do like [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► though the do-nothing vacation I just [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► don't really plan for those as much who [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► because one of the things that has [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► occurred is me and Deena like to make [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► sure we try and take trips together [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► which typically means that she will take [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► a trip with me to a friend its location [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► and America sent around a thing [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► happening and then maybe i will take [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► trips of her [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► to Romania and we'll see friends but it [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► you know we are thinking again for later [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► this year to maybe take a trip with my [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► family which will be a do-nothing [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► location because i feel like i could do [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► that like when i take family vacations [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► or have taken or would take family [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► vacations I would feel way let's [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► obligated like do stuff with my family [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► Lou that maybe you do I feel like there [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► is an obligation within you to when [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► you're on a family vacation family [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► activities i don't really do that and my [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► family understand that about me which is [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► actually quite interesting they're going [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► talking about this is i may be more you [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► with my family then you [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► with my family then you [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► haha yeah with my immediate family there [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► is no obligation to really do things uh [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► I have a very small family Z so I think [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► that's why I'm able to get away with it [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► but people tend not to bother me and my [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► family with stuff because they know i [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► just have no tolerance for it which is [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► quite nice [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► so on a family vacation I wouldn't do [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► anything like that and if we don't do [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► that trip I would very much before the [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► end of the year like for us to do a [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► do-nothing vacation the house buying [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► process might kind of get in the way of [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► that arm but yeah I i like to try and do [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► that as well but the majority of my [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► vacations are centered around some kind [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► of big activity that brings people [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► together [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► yeah for me and interesting intersection [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► of sort of doing nothing but also [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► engaging was a few years ago my parents [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► treated my wife and I to a cruise so the [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► four of us went on a cruise and it was [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► just fantastic because a cruise ship is [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► an environment in which while there are [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► many things going on [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► I again really enjoyed the constraint of [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► it so well it's not actually a whole lot [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► to do you know you this [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► the internet is unusable because it's [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► going through a satellite and they all [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► actually that's a benefit [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► I like this there's there's not really [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► any internet to use there's very little [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► to do except kinda like sit and read a [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► book and watch the scenery go by and the [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► cruise ship is also a a nice environment [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► oh because it's relatively small I keep [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► bumping into my parents right you can't [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► you cannot run into people and it's it's [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► like an artificial tiny village [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► almost yeah yeah and in this really [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► constrained but enjoyable way and [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► there's always something to like remark [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► upon because the cruise ship is going [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► past interesting places and i just i [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► found that was just a really pleasant [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► a to have a trip that just totally felt [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► like recovery time but also had the [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► thing that is beneficial and best about [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► traveling which is novelty like your [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► brain needs some kind of novelty [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► otherwise you become like Mike was your [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► board or you feel like you're an indoor [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► cat and I don't know is that i found [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► that was just a really great interaction [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► like this is this is this is just [TS]

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01:04:39 ◼   ► space for supporting cortex and really a [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► fan I feel like we've been really [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► philosophical on this episode Mikey this [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► episode being an episode out of time it [TS]

01:04:51 ◼   ► has a totally different feel to it [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► do you feel that it is weird right I [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► feel way more raw than usual yeah i'm [TS]

01:05:00 ◼   ► looking for a very strange it is Rhys a [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► good word maybe the continuity somehow [TS]

01:05:08 ◼   ► keeps the safe [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► maybe when were out of continuity [TS]

01:05:12 ◼   ► everything just go out the window [TS]

01:05:14 ◼   ► yeah but it almost feels like i'm just [TS]

01:05:17 ◼   ► i'm here in my office just floating in [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► the black void of space talking into a [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► microphone that that is the feeling of [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► this episode is where my perspective [TS]

01:05:30 ◼   ► because I don't wear so much uncertainty [TS]

01:05:31 ◼   ► to it [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► yeah what will have happened to our [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► lives in between now on this episode [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► being released we don't even look [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► yeah who knows nobody knows it's just [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► been it's been very strange this episode [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► out of time and I think and we need to [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► try to try to get ourselves back into [TS]

01:05:53 ◼   ► the regular space-time continuum with [TS]

01:05:56 ◼   ► some normality and I think we should do [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► that with a little bit of ass cortex [TS]

01:06:01 ◼   ► that's a great idea let's bring the [TS]

01:06:02 ◼   ► people back to us yeah yeah that's what [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► it is this is like calling out in the [TS]

01:06:06 ◼   ► void into the other voices that have [TS]

01:06:09 ◼   ► spoken to us please tell me that you [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► have some ass cortex questions ideal [TS]