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And lo, and welcome to this training.

As you can see from the title, what we're going to be talking about today

is how I accidentally discovered a glitch in human productivity.

And as you can see from the overview,

what we're going to be talking about more specifically

is first, the overview itself, the date everything broke, the glitch.

I found by accident, how to exploit the glitch every single day,

the review, and then finally your action items for the day or the next few days.

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With that out of the way, let's get started and talk about the date.

Everything broke.

So for about two years of my life I was doing everything right.

At least that's what you would think.

Like, if you looked at my routine on paper,

you would have said, this guy has it figured out.

He's waking up at 5 a.m., he's got a full productivity system.

He's tracking his health,

his business, his relationships, his personal development,

all of it neatly organized with systems and checklists and daily rituals.

And I was completely stuck.

And I want to tell you this story because there's something hiding inside it

that completely changed

how I think about productivity, something I didn't find on purpose,

something I basically tripped over by accident.

And if you're someone who's doing a lot

but not really seeing the results, you think you should be getting,

this might be the most important thing you'll hear all year.

So I was waking up at 5 a.m.

every single day.

And for anyone who's done this, you know how easy it is to under sleep

if you went to bed just 30 minutes later than usual.

So sometimes I was under slept.

Immediately I would jump into my morning routine

and going straight into my to do list, which was very always very full,

like genuinely packed, because I had convinced myself

that being productive meant getting absolutely everything done, every task,

every follow up, every little admin thing, every workout,

every meal prep, every relationship check, and every piece of content.

All of it. Every single day.

Now, the sheer volume of what I was trying to manage on a daily

basis was honestly staggering.

Sometimes when I look back at it now, because I wasn't just working,

I was trying to optimize every single domain of my life

simultaneously health, wealth, love, spirituality, personal growth.

And each one of these

had its own set of habits and tasks and systems attached to it.

So my days were basically just back to back to execution.

From the moment I opened my eyes until I collapsed at night.

And the tricky part was that it did feel productive.

Like genuinely, I was checking boxes, completing tasks,

I was getting things done,

and from the outside it looked like I was crushing it right.

And and the actual results were very, very small.

The tangible outcomes in my life and work were weirdly flat,

and on top of that, I was constantly tired.

Not necessarily physically, but mentally drained in this low grade way

where my thinking always felt a little foggy, a little shallow,

like I never had the space to actually think deeply about anything

because I was too busy managing the system I'd built around myself.

Now, the system itself had become this massive thing,

like layers of routines, trackers to do, lists, schedules,

review protocols, and all of them on different apps

and every single day basically required a significant amount of energy

just to start with operating the system.

Before I before I even started doing the actual work,

which is something I didn't see at the time because I was so deep inside it.

But the friction was actually enormous,

and it's hard to explain unless you've been there.

But the weight of maintaining all of that, like the cognitive overhead,

of that of just knowing everything that needs to happen today

and needs is in quotes, right?

Was like carrying a backpack full of rocks while trying to sprint.

Like you can still move forward, which you're burning

three times the energy for half the distance.

And I was completely blind to it, because I've been doing it so long

that it just felt normal.

Like this is what being disciplined looks like.

I thought, this is what a productive person does,

and if I'm not seeing results, it must mean that I need to do more.

Like I need to optimize harder, add more, wake up earlier,

add another system which is exactly the wrong conclusion

and what the breaking point actually looks like

was way more mundane than you might imagine.

And in a way, that's what makes it so important,

because the thing that changed everything was genuinely unremarkable at the time.

So let's talk about the glitch I found by accident.

So one day, and I remember this clearly.

I woke up and I looked at my system.

All the routines and tasks and checklists opened up all the apps

for the day, and I just didn't use them.

Not as like a bold decision of my own,

like a courageous decision or some kind of an intentional experiment.

I just couldn't bring myself to really start doing the things

because the friction was too high, there were too many moving parts,

and something in me just went, not today.

So I closed it and I decided to just wing it

and manage my energy appropriately

and just focus on whatever feels like the most important thing for the day.

And where it gets weird is that because.

Because that day, the day I abandoned my entire productivity system,

it turned out to be one of the most productive days I had had in months.

And I don't mean productive in the

in the sense of checking boxes, but I mean, I actually moved

the needle forward on the things that mattered.

I'm like, I did deep work.

I had ideas

that had been stuck for weeks that suddenly came through quite clearly,

and by the end of the day, I had this unsettling feeling of like, wait, what?

What just happened?

And I first, at first, I wrote it off as a fluke.

Like, okay, I had one good day doesn't mean anything.

But then I noticed it kept happening every time I simplified

or skipped the heavy system, my output

actually doubled

and the quality also went up dramatically.

And every time I went back to the full system, my output quality

dropped back down.

And after a few weeks of this pattern repeating,

I couldn't necessarily ignore it anymore.

Something real was going on there.

The pattern was consistent and kind of disturbing,

because it meant that the thing I'd been building

and refining and trusting, the thing I thought was making me

more productive, was actually the thing that was holding me back.

And the question that started forming in my mind

was a simple one what if the system is the problem?

Like whatever the friction, the cognitive overhead, the constant

managing of all these routines and tasks and trackers

is basically eating up the exact mental resources

I needed to actually produce great, great work.

So I started digging into this and what I found basically confirmed

exactly what I was experiencing, because there's this researcher named, like lots

who wrote a book called subtract, where he presents this fascinating finding

that humans have a deep cognitive bias towards adding meaning.

When we encounter a problem, our default instinct is to add something,

to add something to our life a new habit, a new tool, a new system,

maybe a new relationship, rather than to remove something

even when subtraction is objectively the better solution.

And this connects to what cognitive scientists call cognitive load theory,

which basically said it says that your brain has a fixed amount

of processing power available at any given moment in every single task,

decision, system and open loop you're managing is really consuming

a portion of that bandwidth.

So the more stuff you're

running simultaneously, the less processing power is available

for the actual deep thinking and creative work that produces real results.

And this is the glitch right there.

Every low value task on your to do list, every maintenance routine, every tracker

you update, every small decision about what to do next.

All of that is stealing cognitive resources

from the high leverage work that actually moves your life forward.

And you can feel it happening in real time because it's invisible.

But it is there and it just shows as that vague feeling of being foggy

or drained or not in the zone or having quote unquote, mental fog.

So once I understood why it

was happening, I basically rebuilt everything from scratch.

And the principle was simple

make it as simple as possible and as quick as possible to use.

So subtraction first, ruthless elimination

of anything that wasn't directly producing results.

And what I ended up with was something radically simpler.

Basically a system that was maybe 30% of the original moving parts

that did ten times the actual work for me,

because now my brain had room to breathe and had room to think.

It had room to actually process and access the deeper

cognitive states where the real output happens.

And I'm talking about stripping it down aggressively, like I removed

entire categories of daily habits.

I deleted most of my recurring tasks.

I stopped tracking things

that felt important but weren't actually moving anything forward,

and each time I removed something, I'd wait a week to see if my life got worse

and almost every time it got better, or at least nothing changed, right?

Which shows you how much of what we call productivity is really just busywork

and just habits that we saw on YouTube or on any other social media platform

for that matter.

And we thought, hey, I need to add this to my life.

And at the end of the day, we end up with like 30 habits and

and tasks and things that we think we need to to do every day to feel good.

And what was left after all of this cutting was essentially

just a handful of high leverage activities and habits.

The things that when I did them consistently in a focused state,

actually produced a measurable outcome in my work or in my life

and in my subjective well-being and everything else was either eliminated

entirely or bashed into a single low energy atom in block once a week,

which obviously freed up an enormous amount

of cognitive bandwidth for the work that actually mattered.

And the things that nobody tells you about subtraction is that the value isn't

just in the time you save, it's in the mental space you create.

Because when your brain isn't constantly managing 47 open loops and micro tasks,

it naturally drops into a deeper, clear operating state

where ideas connect faster, your decisions become easier,

and the quality of your thinking just overall goes through the roof.

And that state was available to me entire the entire time,

and it is to you I just couldn't access.

And because my own system was blocking the door

and the beautiful

irony of the whole thing is that I spent years adding more and more

to my productivity system, thinking that that's what would get me unstuck

when the actual exploit the actual glitch,

was really removing things right

until my brain could finally do what it was designed to do.

And now that I understand this principle, I see it everywhere in my clients

and people I talk to, and basically anyone who says I'm doing everything right.

But nothing is really changing.

And the answer is almost always that they're doing too much, and the system

they built to help them is really the very thing that's keeping them stuck.

Or it's the very least they're doing a bunch of things that they shouldn't

be doing or are not helping them in any way.

And look, some people will hear this and immediately

sort of simplifying on their own, and that's great.

But if you're someone who wants to collapse the timeline

and make a complete transformation in your health, wealth, relationships, and self,

I work with a small number of people, 1 to 1, to do exactly that.

And you can book a free call with me using the link in the description below.

And even if you're not sure whether it's the right fit,

the call itself will give you more clarity in 30 minutes

than you'd get in months of trial and error on your own.

So just allow yourself to take that step, and at the minimum,

you'll walk away knowing exactly what's been eating your bandwidth.

Now, with that said, let's talk about how to actually

exploit the glitch every single day.

So now you understand the glitch, the fact that you're most likely doing

too much and your brain can't access its deeper gears because of it.

And the real question is, how do you actually apply this every day?

Because understanding the concept is one thing, but restructuring

how you work and think is something entirely different.

So let me walk you through the exact process I use now to exploit this.

Every single day.

And it's way simpler than you think you might think.

So the first thing you need to do, and this is honestly the hardest step,

but it is the first one.

It's hard

because it requires you to be brutally honest with yourself,

and that is to audit everything that you're currently doing

and ask one question about each task, habit, or routine.

Is this directly producing a result I can point to,

or does this just feel productive?

And I mean, to be I mean, I want you to be ruthless

about it, you know, because your brain will try to justify everything.

It will say, well, I might need this later or this is important for my development

or whatever.

And in most cases, that's just the addition bias cloth stocks

about your mind's natural resistance to subtraction.

And what helps is really sorting everything into three

categories things that directly produce results.

Client work, deep creative work, revenue generating activities.

Things that support those results, meaning basic health, key

relationships, essential admin, and then everything else.

And that third category, everything else is where 60 to 70% of most

most people's daily lives are, and most of it can be eliminated

or done once a week without any negative consequences.

And it takes a certain amount of courage to actually cut things,

because we've been trained to believe that more effort equals more results

in letting go of habits and routines that few virtuous can really trigger anxiety.

But the evidence will speak for itself within the first week,

because the mental clarity you experience when you stop managing 30 daily

tasks and start managing five is genuinely shocking.

And if you're scared to cut something permanently, just remove it for

a week and see what happens.

I can bet money that in eight out of ten cases,

absolutely nothing bad will happen and you won't even miss it.

You won't even feel a difference,

which tells you everything you need to know

about how much of your system was actually serving.

And once you've stripped it down, the second move is really protecting

the space you've created,

because the natural tendency is really to slowly fill it back up

with new tasks and new systems and new habits and new relationships,

which is the addition bias creeping back in.

And you have to treat that open space as sacred

as the most valuable asset in your entire productivity system,

because that space is where deep work actually happens.

It's also where real thinking lives and where the real results come from.

So practically, this means saying no to things more often,

defaulting to subtraction when a new problem comes up

instead of adding another tool or routine,

and checking in with yourself every week to make sure

that the system hasn't started bloating again, because it will try to.

And that's

mainly because that's just how the brain works.

It wants to add things.

It's easier to add than to subtract, because when you subtract,

you have to prioritize.

Now, the rule I follow now is pretty simple.

If my system takes more than five minutes to set up for the day,

then it's too complex because the whole point of that system

should be to do work.

It should be so light that you barely notice it's there,

meaning it should free up

maximum cognitive bandwidth for the actual work that matters.

And this is basically the second law of thermodynamics that applied to your life.

And we've talked about it before,

because entropy says that every system naturally moves towards disorder

over time, unless energy is deliberately applied to maintain it,

and your productivity system is no different, it will always drift towards

complexity, towards

more tasks, more tools, more layers, unless you actively resist it.

Which means simplification isn't a one time event.

It's an ongoing practice of fighting the natural tendency

of everything to become more complicated.

And what most people don't realize is that

every single thing you add to your system

increases the total entropy you have to manage,

because each new element interacts

with every other element, creating exponentially more potential disorder.

So the real cost of adding one more habit or one more tracker

isn't just the time it takes to do it, it's the invisible maintenance energy

your brain spends keeping the whole system from falling apart.

And that's and that's energy that could be going straight into the work

that actually matters to you, to creative, deep work.

So not only are you intriguing, not not only is entropy going

to increase over time by more tasks appearing, more habits appearing,

more systems, more apps, etc., but each one of those exponentially

create more entropy because they connect with each other.

Essentially, they interact with each other.

And so in the third piece

is what you actually do with the freed up space,

because subtraction on its own just gives you time.

But the real leverage comes from using that time in a specific way,

which means single focused, deep work blocks where you pick one thing.

The highest leverage thing, and you then pour all of your now freed up

cognitive resources into it for 60 to 90 minutes without switching.

And I can't emphasize this enough.

One thing, not three things, not a few.

Prioritize one thing per block.

Because the research on cognitive switching costs is very clear.

Every time you shift your attention from one task to another,

your brain pays a tax and that tax is in small.

It can take up to 25 minutes to fully reengage

with the original task after an interruption.

So every switch is essentially resetting the clock on your focus.

And when you combine subtraction, meaning fewer things consuming your bandwidth

with single focus depth meaning all available

bandwidth is now directed at one high leverage target

the output compounds in a way that can be hard to believe

until you experience it, because you're basically concentrating

all of the cognitive energy that used to be spread across 30 tasks

into one task, and the results reflect that concentration.

Now, most people find it that they only need 2 or 3 of these blocks

per day to produce more than they used to produce in a full week,

which means you actually end up with more free time, more energy,

and better results simultaneously.

And I know it sounds like it shouldn't be possible,

but it's the direct consequence of exploiting the glitch.

Now, the last piece is really important here

because what will happen is you might you

most likely will have a lot of free time after you implement this.

And the last piece is really learning to tolerate boredom

because and having some boredom tolerance because when you simplify your life,

it can feel empty at first, like uncomfortably empty,

or in other words, uncomfortably peaceful.

And your brain immediately interprets that emptiness

as a problem, as something being wrong,

because you've spent two years basically equating busyness with progress.

So when you suddenly have more open space in your day with nothing scheduled,

nothing to check, and nothing to manage, every instinct in your body screams,

fill it!

Add something you're falling behind.

And this is exactly the trap, I think that pulls

people back into complexity, because the discomfort

of having less to do is so unfamiliar that most people

reflexively start adding more and adding more things again.

And it usually happens gradually, like a new habit here, a new trick,

or they're a new morning routine they saw on YouTube,

another habit that they think they should do, and within a few weeks

they've rebuild the exact bloated system they just escaped from.

Not because they needed any of it, but because they couldn't

sit with the feeling of having space and what I had to learn.

And what you have to learn,

too, is that boredom is the signal that you're doing it right.

It means your brain finally has room, it means the cognitive bandwidth

is available,

and if you can just stay in that discomfort for a few days

without reaching for something to fill it or something

incredible happens, your mind starts using that space on its own.

Deeper ideas start to surface.

Connections form that could inform before

and the quality of your thinking generally.

Overall shifts in a way

that makes all the grinding you used to do look almost comically inefficient.

So with that said, let's go over the review.

We talked about the overview the day everything broke, the glitch

I found by accident, how to exploit the glitch every day,

the review and your action items for the day or the next few days.

First, this week write down every single task, habit,

and routine you do daily and sort them into three categories.

Directly produces results, supports results and everything else,

and then eliminates or batch everything else into one block per week.

Then rebuild your daily system from scratch with a maximum

five core activities.

And if your system takes more than five minutes

to set up for the day, keep cutting until it doesn't

and then for the next 30 days, do 160 to 90 minutes

single focus deep work block per day on your highest leverage task

and track the results so you can see the compound effect of subtraction

plus depth working together.

But that said, I hope this was valuable.

If it was, let me know in the comments.

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