Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
- 48,704
- 5,456
- 136
![]()
Tony Robbins? That you???![]()
lol, if we want to get all motivational-speaker about it:
One of humanity's core problems is that we use the Atlas Interface by default, i.e. we try to hold up the weight of the world. We latch onto the idea of effort rather than outcomes, and effort has a marketing problem, where it seems hard, because we tend to look at it from the wrong angle. That's what I'm talking about with the whole BrainSnap concept - when we run into different situations in our lives, big or small, and if we're tired or it looks hard or it seems to big or impossible, our default reaction is "seems hard, I quit". Things like, say, cooking isn't hard, per se, but when you're even mildly run down & don't have a clear path forward, it's easier to order takeout. McDonalds generates $22 billion annually because of this. It's just easier not to think or deal with our problems because things seem so heavy & quitting to an alternative convenience option is so much easier!

The good news is that there are some simple checklists to follow to clarify & simplify the management of our work. So rather than it being a big job to figure out things like life, bucket lists, current responsibilities, etc., you can just zip through a checklist. For example, this is how I do my planning:
1) Bucket list
2) 5-year plan
3) Current responsibilities (in the Now Now Now vein)
4) What's going on this week?
5) What items are on my agenda for today, in the various blocks of time at different locations? i.e. what do I need to do in the morning, afternoon, and evening?
6) What am I supposed to be doing right now?
One of the biggest reasons we quit on things is that we try to hold everything in our head, and we keep it vague instead of using simple, specific checklists, which makes it easy to avoid our problems & live in denial, haha. Everything more or less boils down to a checklist, which isn't a form of motivation, but rather a jumping-off point. Sort of like if you want to swim, you can bounce off a diving board. The diving board isn't the point, it's just the tool to let you have a lot of fun doing cannonballs & belly flops & diving into a pool in a way more fun way than just jumping off the edge of the pool.
I lived in a fog for most of my life because I didn't know this & didn't put in the easy effort to walk through a checklist to clarify the outcomes desired in my life. What's on my bucket list? What do I want to do in the next 5 years? What am I working on right now? This week? Today? Right now? It's easy to let avoidance behavior & anxiety run the show because it's so easy to just flip the ignore button in our brains, but as it turns out, that's a pretty stressful way to live. And it's like, low-key stress; that whole "a frog put into boiling water will jump out, but a frog slowly boiled won't". We all tend to live with hidden stress 24/7 & not even realize how stressed out we are; one of the tell-tale signs of this is how quickly we employ the BrainSnap in any given situation & just saw screw it, whatever, seems hard, I quit.
Once you understand how the BrainSnap mechanism works, and how checklists = rocket fuel for your life, things start to make more sense. That's because, rather than wandering around in life in a fog waiting for motivation and reactively waiting for opportunities, we're proactively chasing after what we want using an outcome-driven approach, i.e. show me the clear & simple list of what you want to achieve, then create a checklist of physical next-action steps, then...just get to work on chipping away on things. Things like high school have a phenomenal 88% success rate of graduation because the goal is clear (graduate high school) and the next-action steps are simplified as much as possible: the school takes care of the schedule, of providing teachers, of providing instruction, of providing assignments, and pretty much all kids have to do is show up, listen, do some assignments, and after 4 years, almost all of them magically graduate.
Obtaining that clarity represents a fundamental shift in perspective, i.e. dealing with life doesn't have to be hard, if you're willing to walk through creating & using some simple checklists. But things look hard & seem hard when they're really not, especially when we don't have a detailed step-by-step plan to proceed, so...we quit. Our brains kind of have this complexity chip built into them that obfuscates the ease of how reality really works (simple checklists of individual tasks done over time) & we tend to buy into that. Checklists containing a clear outcome desired & a literal list of physical next-action steps required is the antidote to solving problems, especially ones that seem really hard. It's so easy once you internalize this & it clicks that you can apply this to literally everything in life to get better results with less stress!
Also, banana hands:

