September 22, 2025 • 21 mins
What if the real secret to extraordinary success isn’t in grand gestures or viral moments—but in embracing what most people consider boring?
In this episode, I break down how the best in the world use routine and repetition to their advantage. Mark Zuckerberg wears the same gray t-shirt every day. Steve Jobs stuck to his black turtleneck. Kobe Bryant spent hours shooting the same free throws. Tiger Woods drilled three-foot putts over and over again. These habits weren’t random—they were intentional ways to save energy for what really mattered and build consistency that compounds into mastery.
The truth is simple: consistency beats intensity every time. Yet, we’re wired to chase dopamine hits and quick wins. Social media can fool us at times.
As Naval Ravikant says, true wealth (and success) comes from the “boring” path—like steady index funds instead of risky meme stocks. The same principle applies across life: the unsexy, repeatable actions compound into greatness.
Cheers to embracing boring!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
what if I told you that boredom not boredom, but
the art of boring is a goodthing?
What if I told you that it's agood thing to embrace boringness
, that being boring is sexy?
(00:21):
Now, now, that might be thereason why you clicked on this
episode.
How the hell is someone goingto say that boring equals sexy?
What does that mean?
Do hard things, help one person, be good and do good, live a
life of discipline, and you willalways win.
(00:43):
You have all the tools that youneed to succeed.
Welcome to win today in whatmatters most to them in their
lives.
Every week, you're going tolearn from either myself or
(01:05):
renowned expert in their field,and we're going to unveil pieces
of our playbook to help you wintoday.
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
Diving into playbooks of peoplethat you've often talked about
(01:27):
or heard about whether it'sWarren Buffett, michael Jordan,
tim Cook, steve Jobs there'smany themes that emerge on this
podcast is that they all embracethis notion of practicing
(01:50):
boring things and doing boringthings over and over and over
again, meaning they're known forthe big, sexy things, whether
it's Warren Buffett withBerkshire Hathaway and being a
multi, multi hundred billiondollar conglomerate, or Kobe
(02:10):
Bryant, with being trusted totake the game winning shots and
hit the game winning shots andbring championships home to the
LA Lakers, whether it's SteveJobs and innovating the newest
Apple products that are stillthe paramount in technological
(02:34):
devices today.
Those were the sexy things thatthey got to do, but what
enabled them to do that, whathelped get them there, was
embracing all of the boringthings and finding peace and joy
and strength through that.
Have you ever known somebodyand perhaps this could be
(02:59):
personal experience as well butmaybe they lost a lot of weight
and looked different and thenshortly thereafter gained most,
some, most, if not all of itback?
And then you scratch your headhow did that happen?
The reason why these thingshappen and that's just one
(03:23):
example is because people do notbuild a system around the very
thing that they want to have orwant to become.
Rather so in this case, thesexy thing would be I lost a
bunch of weight, I've got asix-pack now and I get a lot
(03:45):
more attention.
And I can do that if I go anddrink a lot of water, work out a
ton, don't eat a bunch of food,go and sweat, I can make my
body change its form and lose abunch of pounds and look a lot
(04:08):
more cut.
But if I never really built asystem around it, meaning I just
did whatever I needed to do forthe number to hit whatever I
wanted it to say, if I neverreally built a system and
embedded it into my DNA, all Ireally did was achieved a
short-term outcome and didn'tchange any of the underlying
(04:36):
factors or variables.
That's why you see a lot ofpeople that they'll lose weight
and then they gain it right backbecause they didn't transform
their being.
This is all a process ofbecoming so what we're going to
talk about is how boring is sexy, why boring matters.
Look at a few people that aremasters of the boring figure and
(05:01):
then, by the time we finishthis up, you're going to think,
huh.
I believe you'll think that,man, boring is in fact, sexy and
there's a powerful reframe forthe things that I don't want to
do.
Well, if they get me closer tothings I do want to do and
perhaps they're on autopilot,then, yeah, boring is actually
(05:24):
sexy.
So why does boring matter?
Because by doing the same thing, the mundane thing, over and
over and over again.
Kobe taking thousands of shotsover and over and over and over
and over again.
Kobe taking thousands of shotsover and over and over and over
(05:46):
and over again versus.
I'm going to go take 5,000shots today and go as hard as I
can, and then now I'm good forthe whole season.
You might make some shots inthe games, but all of that's
going to wear off and eventuallythat skill level is going to
fade because it is not backed byrepetitive action.
(06:07):
So in this case, consistencyreally beats intensity.
We'll often think at times thatsuccess may come from these big,
flashy moments, these one-timethings, whether it's the viral
video, the record-breaking game,the massive deal.
But it's really the small,repeatable actions that don't
(06:35):
seem like they're a whole lot offun at the time that compound
in the greatness.
So, as boring as it can soundquote to eat the same meals
every week, to wake up at thesame time, to follow your
training schedule, to have yourearly evening routine.
Though it may not appear to bethe most exciting thing, those
(06:59):
are the things that allow you tomove closer to doing the sexy
things and allowing those thingsto actually stick, because the
more that we choose to embrace,boring is a decision to further
(07:20):
embed into our DNA that, hey,this is who I am, and by doing
this, this is what allows me todo the big things that I've
always dreamed of.
So a few examples of peoplethat embrace boringness and are
(07:43):
we'll call it champions ofboringness Mark Zuckerberg,
founder of Facebook, now Meta.
If you ever look at Mark, you'llsee that he's wearing the same
clothes.
He's wearing a pair of jeansand usually a gray t-shirt.
And you think a pair of jeansand usually a gray t-shirt.
(08:07):
And you think why are you doingthat?
You have all the money in theworld.
Why don't you wear some coolerclothes or hire a fashion
stylist or go buy some niceleather shoes?
A few hundred dollar pair ofshoes is like pennies for you.
Why would you do that?
And the reason why, in aninterview, that Mark decides to
do that every day, while it mayseem extreme to the outside, is
(08:30):
that he wants to reduce hisdecision fatigue, meaning that
one of the richest men in theworld doesn't want to spend a
substantial amount of time inhis closet looking at thousands
of different options that he canwear, because that's what he
has the opportunity to easilyafford.
And then now getting dressedbecomes one of the most
(08:52):
important things of the day,versus building Facebook and
meta to what they are now.
So by embracing boring, now weget to experience the sexy
meaning that we have a thrivingcompany.
All of you are on Facebook.
You likely are now with whereAI is going.
(09:15):
Use Facebook or Instagram tobuy a bunch of things some of
what you need and some of whatyou don't need.
You can thank Mark for that,and Mark is embracing boring
while we are sometimes fundinghis dream.
(09:35):
So I could stop right there andyou say, okay, I get it, but
let's keep going.
Look at Steve Jobs, apple.
If you look at Steve, anytimeApple is doing a product launch,
what was Steve wearing?
Black pants, black turtleneckand similar to what Mark does.
(09:56):
And perhaps Steve is whoinspired Mark that he's reducing
decision fatigue and, in hiswords, protecting mental
bandwidth for what reallymatters.
Looking at Kobe, the legend hewas known for countless hours of
(10:19):
boring practice, shooting freethrows to the thousands, showing
up to the gym before everybody,staying until after normal
practice ended, going back tothe gym after normal practice
ended and doing another workout.
Thousands of shots, thousandsof layups, thousands of the
(10:45):
short shots.
Of course we all want to hitthe step back three pointer from
deep and three point land,maybe even close to half court,
like you see Steph Curry doing.
And why did?
Those guys will even bringSteph Curry into the mix now.
Why do they get to hit thoseshots in the game?
Why do they get trusted to takethose shots?
(11:06):
Because they take thousands ofthe boring shots, tens of
thousands of shots, but alsofocusing on tens of thousands of
(11:27):
three to five foot putts, sothat he could then end up
draining the clutch.
20 and 30 and 40 and 50 footputts that everybody Boring is
sexy.
Two more Usain Bolt, who is thefastest man in the world.
(11:50):
A lot of people thought thatUsain Bolt lived this very
flashy lifestyle.
Obviously, on the track he hasquite a personality that he has
carried, quite a personalitythat he has carried and he is
(12:14):
somebody that clearly backs uphis flashiness.
But his coach had him do theexact same running sprint drills
, same starts, same formcorrections, endlessly, over and
over and over and over again,just so he could run 100 meters,
which is less than 10 secondsof actual racing effort.
(12:37):
Just so he could run 10 secondsacross the track faster than
anybody else.
Jocko Willink, who many peopleknow, posts a picture of his
watch every day around the hoursof 4.30 to 4.45 every single
day, with the tagline disciplineequals freedom, discipline
(13:08):
equals freedom, and the wholepremise of that is that the
beauty of repetition gets youwhat you really want in this
life.
To bring in the final example,and this is with Naval Ravikant,
many people are ofteninterested in what's the next
hot meme stock going to be,what's the next trend, how can I
get on top of the next Bitcoin?
(13:30):
And while all of that is greatand I certainly have those
thoughts too man, how do I getthose insights?
Naval Ravikant, who is a bigangel investor and philosopher
author, author, has a great book, the almanac of naval ravikant,
talks about wealth buildingbeing this boring practice.
(13:55):
Boring wealth building.
Focus on boring wealth buildingversus sexy wealth building.
So, instead of chasing the memestocks or what's the next
Bitcoin going to be, by simplychoosing to invest in index
funds or the S&P 500, which arethe top 500 stocks in the United
States, all culminated into onestock.
(14:17):
So basically, you're investingin the country.
By doing that over a multipledecade period, you will amass
just as much, if not more,wealth than you would by hitting
the lucky meme stock or thelucky sexy Bitcoin once.
(14:42):
I should drop the mic herebecause I believe you get the
point now that boring is sexy,but here's why it feels hard at
times, or why it can.
Because wearing the same grayshirt every single day, wearing
the same black shirt, choosingto putt the same three to five
(15:03):
foot putt 10,000 times a day,choosing to invest in the boring
stocks that don't get all theheadlines, versus finding the
meme stocks, doesn't give usthis dopamine rush.
There's nothing exciting thatfollows those things.
You don't jump up in the airafter you put on your boring
(15:28):
gray shirt in the morning.
Why?
Because it's a boring grayshirt but you're going to be
jumping in the air later,knowing that by not spending
eight minutes in your closetevery single day times seven
days a week, which is now we'relooking at an hour of your week
figuring out what the heckyou're going to wear Now, we get
(15:52):
more time to pour into ourdream, which is pretty freaking
sexy.
I would imagine if you told methat you're living your dream
right now, or moving closer toit or have touched a piece of it
.
It's pretty damn sexy.
That gets you excited.
(16:17):
So embracing this boringnessgives us resiliency.
By embracing the minute,not-so-fun day-to-day things,
and building that consistency,it allows us to experience
results.
It's not about it's not alwaysabout excitement in the moment.
It's about stacking small winsthat really become unstoppable
(16:38):
momentum.
So what can we do to apply thisto our lives?
A few things.
One is audit your decisions,think about your life and ask
yourself what's one area where Ican simplify and repeat, or
(16:58):
really what's one area that Ican make boring?
Maybe it's meal prep.
Maybe you are spending too muchtime getting dressed every day
and would benefit from a simplefive pack of neutral colored
t-shirts.
Maybe they don't need to be thesame color, maybe that's a
little extreme, but you get whatI'm saying here.
(17:19):
Maybe you're spending way toomuch time thinking about what
you're going to have everysingle day of the week, versus,
hey, let's just spend one hour,make five steaks, some rice,
chop it up, throw it in a bowl,boom.
We're done so that we can focuson the things that matter most
(17:40):
to us and align to our goals, toour dream, to our vision.
So that's the first thing.
Next it's automate the basics,so piggybacking on what we were
just saying.
But are there, things that arecomplex in your life, that
should be simple and that youcan either automate or just
(18:06):
create some more mental capacity.
Because, hey, I'm not going toallow myself to think about this
all day long.
I'm going to go do this reallyboring thing and that's it.
So we're going to continuemoving forward.
The next thing is I keepbringing up boring and without
this context, when we say theword boring, we think, oh yawn,
(18:27):
don't bring up that word.
Rather, let's reframe boring asI like to call it sexy, but
figure out what you can call itother than boring itself,
because that may be the verything that moves you forward.
Remember that language is thecreator of all things.
(18:48):
The words we speak matter, aswe mentioned a few episodes
prior about the importance ofusing the word outstanding even
when you're feeling tired,because we can trick our minds.
So by reframing boring intosomething more meaningful to you
for me it's sexy, for you itcould be something else that can
(19:11):
keep you moving forward.
The other thing I like to callit is something that's quote,
boring to me are weekly mobilitysessions for my body.
I love to run.
I'm an ultra endurance athlete,what allows me to do more of
the long, fun, fast, sexy runsis, embracing the quote, boring,
(19:31):
or what I like to call justgetting a lot of fuel and oil
changes so that my body is readyto go.
So a stretching or a mobilitysession, that's just an oil
change for the body.
You're not going to wait untilyour car's broken and change the
oil, right.
Don't wait until your body'sbroken to start taking care of
(19:52):
it.
Do the boring things, do thesexy things, get the oil changes
.
Fill up your gas.
The last thing is trust in thecompound effect of all this.
That's why I brought up thesepeople as examples that, hey,
even though you might feel inthe moment that by doing the
(20:14):
same thing all the time doesn'tseem so fun and it looks like
the people on the internetperhaps some of them that all
they do are the fun things, thatis highly likely not the case,
and behind the one-minute clipthat we get to see from a lot of
people is countless hours ofdoing the same thing over and
(20:36):
over and over again.
So I want this to be a shiftfor y'all that boring is sexy.
Boring creates freedom.
Just as Jocko says, disciplineequals freedom.
Boring creates focus and ratherthan creates focus, boring is
focus, and boring creates thelife that you actually want.
(20:56):
So if you want to win, stopchasing the big flashy moments
and start building upon theboring ones.
So be bored and win today.
Thank you so much.
what if I told you that boredom not boredom, but
the art of boring is a goodthing?
What if I told you that it's agood thing to embrace boringness
, that being boring is sexy?
(00:21):
Now, now, that might be thereason why you clicked on this
episode.
How the hell is someone goingto say that boring equals sexy?
What does that mean?
Do hard things, help one person, be good and do good, live a
life of discipline, and you willalways win.
(00:43):
You have all the tools that youneed to succeed.
Welcome to win today in whatmatters most to them in their
lives.
Every week, you're going tolearn from either myself or
(01:05):
renowned expert in their field,and we're going to unveil pieces
of our playbook to help you wintoday.
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
Diving into playbooks of peoplethat you've often talked about
(01:27):
or heard about whether it'sWarren Buffett, michael Jordan,
tim Cook, steve Jobs there'smany themes that emerge on this
podcast is that they all embracethis notion of practicing
(01:50):
boring things and doing boringthings over and over and over
again, meaning they're known forthe big, sexy things, whether
it's Warren Buffett withBerkshire Hathaway and being a
multi, multi hundred billiondollar conglomerate, or Kobe
(02:10):
Bryant, with being trusted totake the game winning shots and
hit the game winning shots andbring championships home to the
LA Lakers, whether it's SteveJobs and innovating the newest
Apple products that are stillthe paramount in technological
(02:34):
devices today.
Those were the sexy things thatthey got to do, but what
enabled them to do that, whathelped get them there, was
embracing all of the boringthings and finding peace and joy
and strength through that.
Have you ever known somebodyand perhaps this could be
(02:59):
personal experience as well butmaybe they lost a lot of weight
and looked different and thenshortly thereafter gained most,
some, most, if not all of itback?
And then you scratch your headhow did that happen?
The reason why these thingshappen and that's just one
(03:23):
example is because people do notbuild a system around the very
thing that they want to have orwant to become.
Rather so in this case, thesexy thing would be I lost a
bunch of weight, I've got asix-pack now and I get a lot
(03:45):
more attention.
And I can do that if I go anddrink a lot of water, work out a
ton, don't eat a bunch of food,go and sweat, I can make my
body change its form and lose abunch of pounds and look a lot
(04:08):
more cut.
But if I never really built asystem around it, meaning I just
did whatever I needed to do forthe number to hit whatever I
wanted it to say, if I neverreally built a system and
embedded it into my DNA, all Ireally did was achieved a
short-term outcome and didn'tchange any of the underlying
(04:36):
factors or variables.
That's why you see a lot ofpeople that they'll lose weight
and then they gain it right backbecause they didn't transform
their being.
This is all a process ofbecoming so what we're going to
talk about is how boring is sexy, why boring matters.
Look at a few people that aremasters of the boring figure and
(05:01):
then, by the time we finishthis up, you're going to think,
huh.
I believe you'll think that,man, boring is in fact, sexy and
there's a powerful reframe forthe things that I don't want to
do.
Well, if they get me closer tothings I do want to do and
perhaps they're on autopilot,then, yeah, boring is actually
(05:24):
sexy.
So why does boring matter?
Because by doing the same thing, the mundane thing, over and
over and over again.
Kobe taking thousands of shotsover and over and over and over
and over again.
Kobe taking thousands of shotsover and over and over and over
(05:46):
and over again versus.
I'm going to go take 5,000shots today and go as hard as I
can, and then now I'm good forthe whole season.
You might make some shots inthe games, but all of that's
going to wear off and eventuallythat skill level is going to
fade because it is not backed byrepetitive action.
(06:07):
So in this case, consistencyreally beats intensity.
We'll often think at times thatsuccess may come from these big,
flashy moments, these one-timethings, whether it's the viral
video, the record-breaking game,the massive deal.
But it's really the small,repeatable actions that don't
(06:35):
seem like they're a whole lot offun at the time that compound
in the greatness.
So, as boring as it can soundquote to eat the same meals
every week, to wake up at thesame time, to follow your
training schedule, to have yourearly evening routine.
Though it may not appear to bethe most exciting thing, those
(06:59):
are the things that allow you tomove closer to doing the sexy
things and allowing those thingsto actually stick, because the
more that we choose to embrace,boring is a decision to further
(07:20):
embed into our DNA that, hey,this is who I am, and by doing
this, this is what allows me todo the big things that I've
always dreamed of.
So a few examples of peoplethat embrace boringness and are
(07:43):
we'll call it champions ofboringness Mark Zuckerberg,
founder of Facebook, now Meta.
If you ever look at Mark, you'llsee that he's wearing the same
clothes.
He's wearing a pair of jeansand usually a gray t-shirt.
And you think a pair of jeansand usually a gray t-shirt.
(08:07):
And you think why are you doingthat?
You have all the money in theworld.
Why don't you wear some coolerclothes or hire a fashion
stylist or go buy some niceleather shoes?
A few hundred dollar pair ofshoes is like pennies for you.
Why would you do that?
And the reason why, in aninterview, that Mark decides to
do that every day, while it mayseem extreme to the outside, is
(08:30):
that he wants to reduce hisdecision fatigue, meaning that
one of the richest men in theworld doesn't want to spend a
substantial amount of time inhis closet looking at thousands
of different options that he canwear, because that's what he
has the opportunity to easilyafford.
And then now getting dressedbecomes one of the most
(08:52):
important things of the day,versus building Facebook and
meta to what they are now.
So by embracing boring, now weget to experience the sexy
meaning that we have a thrivingcompany.
All of you are on Facebook.
You likely are now with whereAI is going.
(09:15):
Use Facebook or Instagram tobuy a bunch of things some of
what you need and some of whatyou don't need.
You can thank Mark for that,and Mark is embracing boring
while we are sometimes fundinghis dream.
(09:35):
So I could stop right there andyou say, okay, I get it, but
let's keep going.
Look at Steve Jobs, apple.
If you look at Steve, anytimeApple is doing a product launch,
what was Steve wearing?
Black pants, black turtleneckand similar to what Mark does.
(09:56):
And perhaps Steve is whoinspired Mark that he's reducing
decision fatigue and, in hiswords, protecting mental
bandwidth for what reallymatters.
Looking at Kobe, the legend hewas known for countless hours of
(10:19):
boring practice, shooting freethrows to the thousands, showing
up to the gym before everybody,staying until after normal
practice ended, going back tothe gym after normal practice
ended and doing another workout.
Thousands of shots, thousandsof layups, thousands of the
(10:45):
short shots.
Of course we all want to hitthe step back three pointer from
deep and three point land,maybe even close to half court,
like you see Steph Curry doing.
And why did?
Those guys will even bringSteph Curry into the mix now.
Why do they get to hit thoseshots in the game?
Why do they get trusted to takethose shots?
(11:06):
Because they take thousands ofthe boring shots, tens of
thousands of shots, but alsofocusing on tens of thousands of
(11:27):
three to five foot putts, sothat he could then end up
draining the clutch.
20 and 30 and 40 and 50 footputts that everybody Boring is
sexy.
Two more Usain Bolt, who is thefastest man in the world.
(11:50):
A lot of people thought thatUsain Bolt lived this very
flashy lifestyle.
Obviously, on the track he hasquite a personality that he has
carried, quite a personalitythat he has carried and he is
(12:14):
somebody that clearly backs uphis flashiness.
But his coach had him do theexact same running sprint drills
, same starts, same formcorrections, endlessly, over and
over and over and over again,just so he could run 100 meters,
which is less than 10 secondsof actual racing effort.
(12:37):
Just so he could run 10 secondsacross the track faster than
anybody else.
Jocko Willink, who many peopleknow, posts a picture of his
watch every day around the hoursof 4.30 to 4.45 every single
day, with the tagline disciplineequals freedom, discipline
(13:08):
equals freedom, and the wholepremise of that is that the
beauty of repetition gets youwhat you really want in this
life.
To bring in the final example,and this is with Naval Ravikant,
many people are ofteninterested in what's the next
hot meme stock going to be,what's the next trend, how can I
get on top of the next Bitcoin?
(13:30):
And while all of that is greatand I certainly have those
thoughts too man, how do I getthose insights?
Naval Ravikant, who is a bigangel investor and philosopher
author, author, has a great book, the almanac of naval ravikant,
talks about wealth buildingbeing this boring practice.
(13:55):
Boring wealth building.
Focus on boring wealth buildingversus sexy wealth building.
So, instead of chasing the memestocks or what's the next
Bitcoin going to be, by simplychoosing to invest in index
funds or the S&P 500, which arethe top 500 stocks in the United
States, all culminated into onestock.
(14:17):
So basically, you're investingin the country.
By doing that over a multipledecade period, you will amass
just as much, if not more,wealth than you would by hitting
the lucky meme stock or thelucky sexy Bitcoin once.
(14:42):
I should drop the mic herebecause I believe you get the
point now that boring is sexy,but here's why it feels hard at
times, or why it can.
Because wearing the same grayshirt every single day, wearing
the same black shirt, choosingto putt the same three to five
(15:03):
foot putt 10,000 times a day,choosing to invest in the boring
stocks that don't get all theheadlines, versus finding the
meme stocks, doesn't give usthis dopamine rush.
There's nothing exciting thatfollows those things.
You don't jump up in the airafter you put on your boring
(15:28):
gray shirt in the morning.
Why?
Because it's a boring grayshirt but you're going to be
jumping in the air later,knowing that by not spending
eight minutes in your closetevery single day times seven
days a week, which is now we'relooking at an hour of your week
figuring out what the heckyou're going to wear Now, we get
(15:52):
more time to pour into ourdream, which is pretty freaking
sexy.
I would imagine if you told methat you're living your dream
right now, or moving closer toit or have touched a piece of it
.
It's pretty damn sexy.
That gets you excited.
(16:17):
So embracing this boringnessgives us resiliency.
By embracing the minute,not-so-fun day-to-day things,
and building that consistency,it allows us to experience
results.
It's not about it's not alwaysabout excitement in the moment.
It's about stacking small winsthat really become unstoppable
(16:38):
momentum.
So what can we do to apply thisto our lives?
A few things.
One is audit your decisions,think about your life and ask
yourself what's one area where Ican simplify and repeat, or
(16:58):
really what's one area that Ican make boring?
Maybe it's meal prep.
Maybe you are spending too muchtime getting dressed every day
and would benefit from a simplefive pack of neutral colored
t-shirts.
Maybe they don't need to be thesame color, maybe that's a
little extreme, but you get whatI'm saying here.
(17:19):
Maybe you're spending way toomuch time thinking about what
you're going to have everysingle day of the week, versus,
hey, let's just spend one hour,make five steaks, some rice,
chop it up, throw it in a bowl,boom.
We're done so that we can focuson the things that matter most
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to us and align to our goals, toour dream, to our vision.
So that's the first thing.
Next it's automate the basics,so piggybacking on what we were
just saying.
But are there, things that arecomplex in your life, that
should be simple and that youcan either automate or just
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create some more mental capacity.
Because, hey, I'm not going toallow myself to think about this
all day long.
I'm going to go do this reallyboring thing and that's it.
So we're going to continuemoving forward.
The next thing is I keepbringing up boring and without
this context, when we say theword boring, we think, oh yawn,
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don't bring up that word.
Rather, let's reframe boring asI like to call it sexy, but
figure out what you can call itother than boring itself,
because that may be the verything that moves you forward.
Remember that language is thecreator of all things.
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The words we speak matter, aswe mentioned a few episodes
prior about the importance ofusing the word outstanding even
when you're feeling tired,because we can trick our minds.
So by reframing boring intosomething more meaningful to you
for me it's sexy, for you itcould be something else that can
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keep you moving forward.
The other thing I like to callit is something that's quote,
boring to me are weekly mobilitysessions for my body.
I love to run.
I'm an ultra endurance athlete,what allows me to do more of
the long, fun, fast, sexy runsis, embracing the quote, boring,
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or what I like to call justgetting a lot of fuel and oil
changes so that my body is readyto go.
So a stretching or a mobilitysession, that's just an oil
change for the body.
You're not going to wait untilyour car's broken and change the
oil, right.
Don't wait until your body'sbroken to start taking care of
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it.
Do the boring things, do thesexy things, get the oil changes
.
Fill up your gas.
The last thing is trust in thecompound effect of all this.
That's why I brought up thesepeople as examples that, hey,
even though you might feel inthe moment that by doing the
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same thing all the time doesn'tseem so fun and it looks like
the people on the internetperhaps some of them that all
they do are the fun things, thatis highly likely not the case,
and behind the one-minute clipthat we get to see from a lot of
people is countless hours ofdoing the same thing over and
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over and over again.
So I want this to be a shiftfor y'all that boring is sexy.
Boring creates freedom.
Just as Jocko says, disciplineequals freedom.
Boring creates focus and ratherthan creates focus, boring is
focus, and boring creates thelife that you actually want.
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So if you want to win, stopchasing the big flashy moments
and start building upon theboring ones.
So be bored and win today.
Thank you so much.
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