- [Narrator] Okay, so here are three rules to live by
that will quickly improve your life.
Rule number one, follow the path of most resistance.
Now, this obviously isn't an absolute rule,
like you probably have a lot of resistance
towards driving into oncoming traffic
or throwing your laptop into a lake,
and that's probably a good thing.
But if you have two brain cells to rub together,
then you probably know
that's not what I'm talking about here.
I'm talking about the internal resistance you feel
when you think about doing something constructive,
something that would move your life forward
in some way or another,
like writing a cover letter
for a job posting you've been keeping an eye on,
or finally cleaning your hell hole of a garage
where you've been stashing eight months of cardboard.
This type of internal resistance that you feel
when you think about taking care of these things
is also the same type of resistance
that feels empowering to overcome,
but paralyzing if we stay under its thumb.
But if we can learn to not shy away from this feeling,
but instead lean into it,
we will find that our life will rapidly improve
because the most rewarding things in life
are hidden behind discomfort or resistance paywalls.
We purchase long-lasting order and success in our lives
through temporary discomfort,
and if we become aware of this weird little transaction
that seems to be deeply woven into the fabric of reality,
we can use it to our advantage.
We can be comfortable with making this trade
as often as possible.
And one thing that I've noticed is that as we get better
at willingly leaning into this discomfort of action,
after a while,
we'll actually start to enjoy the feeling of resistance.
It's kind of a weird thing.
The discomfort itself becomes exciting and empowering.
I think this is because since resistance is a source
of power after we transcend it,
then once we go through this process
of transcending it frequently enough,
our brain eventually starts to clue in.
We'll just link this feeling of discomfort with empowerment,
and we'll get excited to overcome obstacles and challenges.
Remember this rule.
When we overcome resistance, we absorb its power.
The greater the resistance, the greater the power.
Rule number two, don't stop doing the things
that got you out of a bad situation.
Kind of a mouthful.
But what I mean is that human beings
are pretty hilarious sometimes.
It's because most of the time we know exactly
what we need to do to stop feeling like crap,
like if we've worked ourselves into a hole,
we're playing more video games, we're eating junk food,
blabbity blabbity blah,
and we're just not taking care of ourselves,
we're in this negative mindset,
this self-loathing spiral.
Eventually this goes on for a long enough period of time
that we eventually snap.
We say, "You know what?
I'm tired of living my life like a piece of crap.
I'm gonna change things up."
So we bounce back.
We start eating better, we start going to the gym,
we start getting our work done on time,
and we start showering in the morning
and dressing into something half decent.
And as we do this, we start to feel better and better.
We start to feel more confident,
we start to feel more energized and better about ourselves.
But the weird thing is something usually happens.
Since we no longer have that negative incentive
to work ourselves out of the hole,
we kind of forget why we were taking care of ourselves
to begin with.
So we start to slip.
We cut corners.
We skip the gym one day.
That turns into two days, which turns into a week,
into a month,
and we eventually slip and slide down the slippery
and slidey slope back into the hole
from whence we came.
But have you ever considered what your life might look like
if you didn't stop doing the things
that got you out of a bad situation?
Because in reality, there's no secret to success.
Success isn't built by doing lavish, extraordinary things
like banging out an entire book overnight,
200 brilliant pages of literature,
and it's not by going to the gym harder than everyone else
that one time you're motivated to go to the gym.
You work out so hard that one day you just explode
into this meat mountain.
No, it's ridiculous.
Success is built by doing the same things
that got us out of our rut,
but just continuing to do those same things
every single day, over a long period of time.
The key is to just do these things long enough
that they get locked in as habits.
Habits, meaning that they're easier to do than not to do,
because that's what happens when you engage
with these things for long enough.
They'll eventually just become a part of who you are
and they'll be easier to do than not to do.
And if this sounds kind of miserable to you,
just know that it doesn't have to be such a grind
because as I've mentioned previously,
eventually doing these constructive things
feels really good.
On a long enough timeline,
you'll begin to look forward to these things,
not as a means to an end,
but because of the way they make you feel.
So start small,
try to implement one simple habit
that you actually think you're gonna stick to,
lock it in for 30 days or however long it takes
until you feel like it's really sticking,
and then add a new habit.
And keep on doing that until you're in a place
where you feel satisfied with your daily life
and the activities that you do on a daily basis.
That's different for everybody, but use your judgment.
Okay, rule number three, record everything.
So life can be pretty turbulent.
Some days, life really just deals you a shit hand
and maybe something truly devastating happens to you
and it rocks your world
and you have no idea what to do.
And other times you have an amazing day.
You feel euphoric, on top of the world.
You think to yourself, "Holy smokes.
Why don't I feel like this more often?"
Instead of remaining completely oblivious
as to why you feel good or bad,
why not start writing stuff down
and recording your thoughts and feelings
on a day-to-day basis?
Because when you do this, patterns start to emerge.
You start to realize that there's an intimate relationship
between your repeated behaviors
and the way that they make you feel.
So I truly believe one of the best bang-for-buck habits
you can start implementing is just recording your thoughts,
either as a voice memo or as a written document
on a piece of paper or a notebook.
Because once we start verbalizing or writing things down,
taking our thoughts
out of the weird cobweb-ridden nest in our head
and manifesting them into the real world,
as woo-woo as that sounds,
it's easier to see our thoughts for what they are.
And once our thoughts and behaviors are actually recorded
in an objective way,
then it becomes really difficult
to keep making the same mistakes.
You'll start to eventually clue in that,
"Oh, when I do this, I feel like that.
When I think these types of thoughts,
it makes me feel like this."
And hypothetically, yeah, I think you can come
to these conclusions without writing these things down,
but why make this process of growing
as a person any slower than it needs to be?
And no matter whether you're recording your thoughts
and feelings from a good day or a bad day,
all information is good information.
Use this information to your benefit
and your life will dramatically improve.
So that's pretty much it.
These three rules have really helped me in my life
and I really hope they help you as well.
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- Exactly.
Do you understand me, Capo Wane?
- I understand you're loose.
(man cackling)