1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: [gentle music] 2 00:00:07,220 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: This is Seeking Minima. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Here is a way to solve ninety-nine percent of your problems. 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,740 Speaker 1: Spoiler, it's not sexy, but it works. 5 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: So the problem is not what you think it is, basically ever. [laughs] You 6 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: think the problem is, "Oh, my kids are acting up." You think the problem is, "Oh, my 7 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: spouse or my friends aren't paying attention to me," or, "My boss isn't giving me 8 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:46,060 Speaker 1: the credit I deserve," or, "I can't get traction on this business because such and 9 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:51,660 Speaker 1: such competitor or such and such market problem." You're wrong. 10 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: You're wrong. You think the problem is A, but that's not the problem. 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: In fact, the problem is almost always something much, 12 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:11,260 Speaker 1: much simpler. So the next time you think you have a problem, especially a 13 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: complex problem in your life, try this approach instead. 14 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:17,900 Speaker 1: Get eight hours of sleep. 15 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,460 Speaker 1: Stop eating junk food and eat healthy. Get some exercise of any kind. 16 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,860 Speaker 1: Get outside. Talk to some friends, ideally in person or over video. 17 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: You know, do things that healthy people do. And I think when you look back, you will 18 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,780 Speaker 1: realize, "Okay, yeah, I've been a little unhealthy lately." 19 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:47,700 Speaker 1: And what you'll find is once you've done those things, I call these keystone habits, 20 00:01:48,180 --> 00:01:52,180 Speaker 1: once you do the things you already know you're supposed to be doing to be healthy, 21 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: you will find that the so-called problem that you had, it's not really a problem at 22 00:01:58,460 --> 00:02:03,420 Speaker 1: all. In fact, it either, A, just completely goes away and you forget about it. 23 00:02:03,420 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: [laughs] That's, that's usually what happens. That's like eighty percent of the 24 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: time. All right? B, you realize the problem was way out of context. It was 25 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: improperly sized. When you are less capable, 26 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,420 Speaker 1: by definition, you are less capable of solving this problem, and that problem is 27 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,460 Speaker 1: bigger, right? It doesn't matter if you can bench press a thousand pounds. 28 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:39,580 Speaker 1: If you are dead tired and you have nine hundred pounds 29 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,060 Speaker 1: [laughs] of burden on you, you can actually only lift a hundred pounds, 30 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:50,180 Speaker 1: and yet you're kicking yourself because you can't lift five hundred or eight hundred 31 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: or your thousand. Of course you can't. You're burdened by nine hundred pounds 32 00:02:54,700 --> 00:03:00,180 Speaker 1: already. So when you take away the burden of all this pain and 33 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:06,300 Speaker 1: crap that comes from being unhealthy, from not doing the simple stuff, 34 00:03:07,460 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: remember, the problem is not what you think it is. When you just get back to being 35 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:18,580 Speaker 1: able to lift a thousand pounds, so to speak, you find that this was a 36 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: fifty-pound problem, right? It's not a big deal. You just solve it or you forget 37 00:03:23,260 --> 00:03:27,220 Speaker 1: about it, and you don't even need to solve it. You don't care. It's not a big deal. 38 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:32,540 Speaker 1: Here, done. It's fixed or whatever. I'm just gonna ignore it. I don't know why I 39 00:03:32,580 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: thought this was such a big deal. Or you've been dwelling on things that you're not 40 00:03:36,420 --> 00:03:40,980 Speaker 1: actually trying to solve, and this is another outcome. When you're in a healthier 41 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: state of mind, you realize the problem you thought you had with your kids, with your 42 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,980 Speaker 1: work, with your business, 43 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,820 Speaker 1: you weren't really trying to solve a problem. You were just fancy complaining. Fancy 44 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:57,740 Speaker 1: complaining [laughs] is just a way of 45 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: feeling bad about a thing while not really doing anything to solve it, 46 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: and you can't see that clearly when you're under so much duress because you're 47 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: unhealthy or because you're not in the right state of mind to solve the problem. So 48 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:21,860 Speaker 1: the next time you feel like you have a problem, remember, you probably don't, 49 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,820 Speaker 1: and the way you can find out is by doing the keystone habits. 50 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: [gentle music]