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Speaker 1: [gentle music]

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Speaker 1: This is Seeking Minima.

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Speaker 1: Here is a way to solve ninety-nine
percent of your problems.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler, it's not sexy, but it works.

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Speaker 1: So the problem is not what you think
it is, basically ever. [laughs] You

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Speaker 1: think the problem is, "Oh, my kids
are acting up." You think the problem is, "Oh,
my

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Speaker 1: spouse or my friends aren't paying
attention to me," or, "My boss isn't giving me

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Speaker 1: the credit I deserve," or, "I can't
get traction on this business because such and

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Speaker 1: such competitor or such and such
market problem." You're wrong.

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Speaker 1: You're wrong. You think the problem
is A, but that's not the problem.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the problem is almost always
something much,

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Speaker 1: much simpler. So the next time you
think you have a problem, especially a

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Speaker 1: complex problem in your life, try
this approach instead.

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Speaker 1: Get eight hours of sleep.

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Speaker 1: Stop eating junk food and eat
healthy. Get some exercise of any kind.

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Speaker 1: Get outside. Talk to some friends,
ideally in person or over video.

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Speaker 1: You know, do things that healthy
people do. And I think when you look back, you
will

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Speaker 1: realize, "Okay, yeah, I've been a
little unhealthy lately."

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Speaker 1: And what you'll find is once you've
done those things, I call these keystone habits,

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Speaker 1: once you do the things you already
know you're supposed to be doing to be healthy,

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Speaker 1: you will find that the so-called
problem that you had, it's not really a problem
at

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Speaker 1: all. In fact, it either, A, just
completely goes away and you forget about it.

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Speaker 1: [laughs] That's, that's usually what
happens. That's like eighty percent of the

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Speaker 1: time. All right? B, you realize the
problem was way out of context. It was

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Speaker 1: improperly sized. When you are less
capable,

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Speaker 1: by definition, you are less capable
of solving this problem, and that problem is

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Speaker 1: bigger, right? It doesn't matter if
you can bench press a thousand pounds.

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Speaker 1: If you are dead tired and you have
nine hundred pounds

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Speaker 1: [laughs] of burden on you, you can
actually only lift a hundred pounds,

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Speaker 1: and yet you're kicking yourself
because you can't lift five hundred or eight
hundred

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Speaker 1: or your thousand. Of course you
can't. You're burdened by nine hundred pounds

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Speaker 1: already. So when you take away the
burden of all this pain and

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Speaker 1: crap that comes from being unhealthy,
from not doing the simple stuff,

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Speaker 1: remember, the problem is not what you
think it is. When you just get back to being

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Speaker 1: able to lift a thousand pounds, so to
speak, you find that this was a

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Speaker 1: fifty-pound problem, right? It's not
a big deal. You just solve it or you forget

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Speaker 1: about it, and you don't even need to
solve it. You don't care. It's not a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Here, done. It's fixed or whatever.
I'm just gonna ignore it. I don't know why I

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Speaker 1: thought this was such a big deal. Or
you've been dwelling on things that you're not

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Speaker 1: actually trying to solve, and this is
another outcome. When you're in a healthier

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Speaker 1: state of mind, you realize the
problem you thought you had with your kids, with
your

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Speaker 1: work, with your business,

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Speaker 1: you weren't really trying to solve a
problem. You were just fancy complaining. Fancy

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Speaker 1: complaining [laughs] is just a way of

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Speaker 1: feeling bad about a thing while not
really doing anything to solve it,

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Speaker 1: and you can't see that clearly when
you're under so much duress because you're

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Speaker 1: unhealthy or because you're not in
the right state of mind to solve the problem. So

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Speaker 1: the next time you feel like you have
a problem, remember, you probably don't,

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Speaker 1: and the way you can find out is by
doing the keystone habits.

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Speaker 1: [gentle music]