Going to the Next Level Within Your Personal Limits (#026)

In this week's episode, our hosts discuss the aspects that impact their limitations, whether they're building habits, testing new approaches, or realizing the things that drive them forward. Listen to Sean as he shares about his therapy, processing your thoughts externally, the two-week rule, and their reflections on how our culture and systems shape how we see our goals. Key Takeaways: Having a culture of instant gratification affects how we look at our life's timelines and goals. Our education system and culture seem to be designed so that you’re always supposed to have a timeline and move to the next level. There are projects where the 2-week rule, diving right into it, is applicable, and there are ones where we’re meant to start small—building a healthy lifestyle. Episode Quotes: How instant gratification is affecting our perception of life’s timelines Sean [00:12:57]: But in many ways, I've noticed I'm also very impatient, and in some of these stem from how I know I've very terrible consumption habits. Like, if I want something, get it now. I don't know that. It's like builds from our, society and culture, and materialism today. It's like Amazon one day. Like, dude, I can't imagine what life is like without one-day shipping. Prioritizing health helps in becoming better leaders James [00:15:03]: What we are trying to do is to get to somewhere else because we’re unsatisfied with where we are now. That's only trained through school; through this education system of how we are trained to learn. It's like we learn this stuff to get good grades to go to the next thing. And it's just like pushing, always, to the next thing, get done with grade school, get done with college. Get done with finding a job and getting a promotion. It's always like the next thing. And somewhere in that whole mess of things, we've forgotten what it's like to actually enjoy and be satisfied with where we are now. The two-week rule Sean [00:23:06]: So the two-week rule, how does this work? You basically just do something. You start something. But you just f****** go hard for two weeks. You go hard for two weeks and give it a real shot. You'll know very quickly whether or not you want to continue doing this, and not because you're a failure. This is the emotional aspect of the first two weeks, and this is very important, that after all, you can do anything, you can make any kind of change, embrace any kind of routine for two weeks. Show Links: One Hundred Years of Solitude The Courage to be Happy How to Use the Two-Week Rule to Become Remarkably Successful (and Optimize your Bucket List)