WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 All right, well, we can go ahead and get started. 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:12.580 So last week, we talked about a simple rule to help you take action no matter how you're 3 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:13.740 feeling. 4 00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:17.960 And that was called the five second rule based on the book by Mel Robbins. 5 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:22.240 So I think today's training is going to pair perfectly with what we learned last week. 6 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:26.640 And today we're talking about how to power start your projects. 7 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:31.560 So this is a really incredible technique that I love, and it helps you overcome that initial 8 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:36.980 resistance that you start to feel sometimes when you're beginning a new project or activity. 9 00:00:36.980 --> 00:00:41.280 So just before we dive in, I do have a pro tip for you all today. 10 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.460 It's one of my favorites, but it's all about batching and theming. 11 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:49.800 So by now, I think we're all familiar with setting up our work buckets. 12 00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:53.840 And again, that's where we're setting aside time for general work, focused work, deep 13 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.840 work. 14 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:55.840 Has that been going well for all of you? 15 00:00:56.040 --> 00:00:57.040 Any thumbs up? 16 00:00:57.040 --> 00:00:58.040 Nodding heads? 17 00:00:58.040 --> 00:00:59.040 Yes. 18 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:00.040 All right. 19 00:01:00.040 --> 00:01:01.040 Yeah. 20 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:03.820 It's been such a game changing way to organize your time. 21 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:07.640 And even with buckets, I mean, have you ever found yourself still feeling like you're jumping 22 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:12.160 between different tasks at once and maybe losing that momentum and that focus? 23 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:14.360 I know for me, that does happen. 24 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:20.040 So one of the best ways to combat that loss of focus is actually to start batching similar 25 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:22.880 tasks together within your work bucket. 26 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:27.240 So for example, my role here at Brilliant is partly administrative. 27 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:29.020 The other half is content management. 28 00:01:29.020 --> 00:01:33.840 And so when I'm working on content managing or planning for the podcast, it is a whole 29 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.840 lot easier for me to transition from that into another content task instead of completely 30 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.140 switching over to something administrative. 31 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:46.660 So on Mondays, I like to look through my cue book when I'm planning my week and find similar 32 00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:49.620 items and batch them together in a focus session. 33 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:54.460 That way, I'm not losing any momentum as I'm finishing one task and then starting another. 34 00:01:54.460 --> 00:01:57.260 So that's your pro tip for today. 35 00:01:57.260 --> 00:02:00.020 And with that, I think we are ready to get started. 36 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:01.980 So everyone ready to dive in? 37 00:02:01.980 --> 00:02:02.980 Perfect. 38 00:02:02.980 --> 00:02:04.780 All right. 39 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:09.900 And then just as a reminder, as we're going through the material and Dion is talking, 40 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:11.660 feel free to add your questions in the chat. 41 00:02:11.660 --> 00:02:12.900 We do want to get to those. 42 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:16.420 So Dion, I will go ahead and hand it over to you. 43 00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.420 Thanks, Jaylen. 44 00:02:17.620 --> 00:02:25.100 Just so you know that the podcast that Jaylen runs gets about 25,000 downloads a week. 45 00:02:25.100 --> 00:02:31.340 And just so that's a rather substantive product that Brilliant offers. 46 00:02:31.340 --> 00:02:35.020 And I think we just passed, was it 4 million downloads in total? 47 00:02:35.020 --> 00:02:36.660 It's been a lot. 48 00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:40.660 And we were in the top 10 downloads on Spotify. 49 00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:42.460 I've forgotten. 50 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:46.780 Anyway, all that to say, she just threw that out there like it wasn't a big deal. 51 00:02:47.140 --> 00:02:49.700 It's a very casual issue. 52 00:02:49.700 --> 00:02:53.500 She launches an enormous podcast and manages it extremely well. 53 00:02:53.500 --> 00:02:54.500 Yeah. 54 00:02:54.500 --> 00:02:58.740 Jaylen is an understated person, which is one of the things we love about her. 55 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:01.380 Massively competent, very capable. 56 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:06.060 And I love that she's applying all these things because Jaylen, you came into the process 57 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:07.300 fairly late, right? 58 00:03:07.300 --> 00:03:10.900 I mean, we were already well into it a year and a something into it. 59 00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:15.060 And so you've gone through a lot of what people here on the Edge have gone through where you 60 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:16.660 had to learn stuff, right? 61 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:21.580 So I know I'm putting you a little bit on the spot, but as you're thinking back, what 62 00:03:21.580 --> 00:03:26.780 were some of the first things that helped you jump into this new culture and catch up? 63 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:29.460 Yeah, that's a good question. 64 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:33.220 It's funny because when I came in, you all had been running after this for a while. 65 00:03:33.220 --> 00:03:34.580 So I didn't know any different. 66 00:03:34.580 --> 00:03:39.220 I just was like, oh, everyone does focused work and everyone has their deep work session. 67 00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:40.460 So yeah, I should do that too. 68 00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:46.220 And I think actually setting aside those times of buckets was the most helpful thing for 69 00:03:46.220 --> 00:03:52.860 me to get running and on my feet because it gave me the permission to set aside time 70 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:54.380 to get done what I needed to get done. 71 00:03:54.380 --> 00:04:00.300 And I felt like I had permission to not necessarily be interrupted or constantly juggling things. 72 00:04:00.300 --> 00:04:06.560 So it was actually a pretty easy transition once I got the hang of the Q book and setting 73 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.020 up my work buckets because then I could plan my time accordingly. 74 00:04:10.020 --> 00:04:13.980 So it helped that everyone else did it and it was an entire culture of it. 75 00:04:13.980 --> 00:04:14.980 Yeah. 76 00:04:14.980 --> 00:04:15.980 I think that is the key. 77 00:04:15.980 --> 00:04:19.940 And why we do it all together as a team, right, is because we want to normalize and culturalize 78 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:24.460 these ideas because it's very hard for you to just do deep work on your own and tell 79 00:04:24.460 --> 00:04:28.580 your boss I'm not available for four hours if that's not part of your culture, it's not 80 00:04:28.580 --> 00:04:29.580 part of your thing. 81 00:04:29.580 --> 00:04:30.580 Right. 82 00:04:30.580 --> 00:04:31.580 So. 83 00:04:31.580 --> 00:04:32.580 All right. 84 00:04:32.580 --> 00:04:35.780 Well, today we're going to get into how to power start and it's playing on words because 85 00:04:35.780 --> 00:04:39.820 the word start is an acronym, how to power start your project. 86 00:04:39.820 --> 00:04:44.180 So we're going to do is we're going to pull several things together. 87 00:04:44.380 --> 00:04:50.140 And then we're going to do a little hot seat here with something she's working on. 88 00:04:50.140 --> 00:04:53.420 And then we're going to break up into our teams and then I'm going to ask your teams 89 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:56.660 to go through the worksheets that we've provided and then come back. 90 00:04:56.660 --> 00:04:59.820 And then I want to spend 20 minutes hot seating a couple of people. 91 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.280 last time we did the hot seats you guys said that was helpful and this ties in this really you'll 92 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:11.360 see this is one of those uh this one of those talks that ties together a lot of the components 93 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.600 and hopefully it all starts to make sense why did we do this piece and that piece and the next piece 94 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.520 today we pull them together here's why we're doing this we're doing this because we want you to help 95 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:28.000 you to feel like your work is effortless how can we make work feel effortless and we've talked a 96 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.560 lot about getting rid of switching costs you know jayla just talked about batching things every time 97 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.280 you switch there's this 20 40 minute switching you may have moved to the next task but your 98 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:42.320 brain is still lingering on the other one that creates mental and cognitive fatigue we've talked 99 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:46.240 a lot about some of the elements that but this one we're talking about today is how to make your 100 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.800 projects feel effortless i don't know how many of you've got the general feeling that these all 101 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.680 these projects you haven't done right let's take home projects how many got a pile of home projects 102 00:05:55.760 --> 00:06:00.080 you just haven't got to you'd like to you haven't done this you want to do that just never got to 103 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:07.680 do that busy too many too many projects too little time so that general feeling of you know pressure 104 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:12.160 how do we get rid of that feeling that all these projects need to be done and how can we live in a 105 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:20.800 far more free way to do this we have to reprogram what's called our working memory the way you work 106 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.680 has a certain memory to it you even down to how you answer emails the way when you get up in the 107 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:32.080 morning the first thing you tackle and we spend a lot of time saying things like don't put your 108 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:37.600 best energy on your lowest tasks right we've talked about how to find joy how to find peace in what 109 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:42.800 you're doing you know all those kind of elements and they were all designed for the same idea 110 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:49.600 of helping you find that freedom so the real question is how can we reprogram our working 111 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:55.280 memory so now we're going to do the same thing jaylen just mentioned we're going to batch together 112 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:01.280 five techniques they're going to make one power away to kickstart projects so what is it so 113 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.400 it's like you know i don't know if there are any introverts on the call but introverts are 114 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:11.040 notorious we raised a few in our family the introverts never want to go to the party you 115 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.920 know they don't want to go i don't they just because there's like a there's like this um 116 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.880 connection resistance but then they go to the party and they connect and they're having such 117 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:26.240 a great time they don't want to leave so that you know that mechanism i saw that in our kids 118 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.440 you know i don't want to play the sons i don't want to do that and then they get into it and 119 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:34.000 then you can't you can't pry them away because they kind of get into it so there's this connection 120 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:40.240 resistance um that a lot of people feel and experience the same with projects getting into 121 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:44.080 the project how many of you know that when you're in the project and you've got that rhythm of that 122 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:48.080 thing going it's a lot easier you're not you're starting to enjoy it your brain's wrapping itself 123 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:54.400 around so you're tracking your projects in a different way so how do we create this inertia 124 00:07:54.400 --> 00:08:00.640 how do we overcome this resistance and reprogram our working memory now here's the interesting thing 125 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:07.280 that programming uh working memory works the same for your personal projects at home as it does for 126 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:12.880 your business it's just the way you work it's the way you think it's that mental the mental steps 127 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:18.240 you go through in your mind and depending on how you've programmed that that can create stress 128 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:23.760 tiredness that feeling of fatigue can be done just because of the way your brain is programmed 129 00:08:23.760 --> 00:08:29.360 last week we spent a lot of time talking about how this simple simple thing called the five second 130 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:35.760 rule counting down from five five four three two one move that simple thing disrupts those old 131 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:42.159 mental patterns and gives you a new highway you can build in your mind so as we go through that 132 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:47.040 you know a lot of times we got all these projects and so we can just have this general feeling that 133 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:52.400 we're always behind feeling overwhelmed and so we often stall projects delay them 134 00:08:52.400 --> 00:08:58.080 or we use over analysis as a way to talk ourselves out of it or as we know from last week 135 00:08:58.800 --> 00:09:03.760 sometimes it's as simple as you take five seconds to talk yourself out of every good idea you have 136 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:09.920 so what we're doing is we're overcoming that we're rewiring our minds we're using the latest 137 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:15.200 neuroscience and tools and techniques so let's put a let's put introduce one more concept one or 138 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:22.080 two more concepts and a great book on this by the way is a book called effortless by greg mckeon 139 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.720 and greg has studied you know if you may know him from the book essentialism he's the guy wrote 140 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:34.480 essentialism if anyone's you know fantastic book on how to figure out what's important and only do 141 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:40.480 the essential stuff and say no to everything else so it's a very radical way to live and maybe some 142 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:45.680 of you know some essentialists you know they some of them are called minimalists you know they've 143 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:51.040 got rid of all the extra clothes all the extra furniture get rid of all that great basic idea 144 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:56.000 wasn't so much that as it was can you figure out what's the main thing in your life what's the 145 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.000 essential thing you have to do that you have to execute on 146 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.000 to say no to everything else, so that that one main thing gets done. And then he realized that 147 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.240 even when people became essentialists, they were still tired, still behind, still couldn't keep up 148 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:17.120 with their projects. And so he did his next level of research seven years later. And by the way, 149 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:26.080 I know Greg McKeon, he spoke at one of our events, and he's an incredible guy. And he realized that 150 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:33.200 people need help. And so he went to look at which people seem to effortlessly do their work. And so 151 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:38.320 he wrote the book called Effortless. It's a wonderful book, just frees up your mind. But 152 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:43.040 again, of course, you always get the bottom line from us. So you don't have to read the book. 153 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:50.800 But one of the key ideas is that he introduces is this idea of the first baby step. So if you're 154 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:55.040 going to tackle something, and again, I've mentioned it once before, the first baby step 155 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:59.280 is when you're going to start any project, if you can identify the first baby step, it'll get you 156 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:04.720 going. So the problem with things like, you know, Marie Kondo, you know, the whole clean your house, 157 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:09.040 everybody know her, you know, the Japanese influencer, and it's the whole clean your house, 158 00:11:09.040 --> 00:11:12.560 and how to fold your socks and all that, she will literally come in someone's house, and they'll rip 159 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:17.440 through the whole house, and they'll do the whole thing. So these are what we would in our language 160 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:23.040 now called the boil the ocean project, certainly not a thin slice approach at all. And the problem 161 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:30.640 with that is, you know, there's another Japanese leader, by the name of Sasaki, I think I pronounced 162 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:35.840 it correctly, wrote an incredible thing called Goodbye, things. It's a great book. And basically, 163 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:41.120 what he says, why don't we rather instead of reorganizing the whole house? Why don't we just 164 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.640 start with the idea of discard something right now, just discard one thing right now, get up, 165 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:51.760 walk, walk away from your computer, go and discard something right now, give it away, 166 00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:58.240 discard it, get rid of it. For those of you know, Bob Goff is an incredible guy. He's written a lot 167 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:06.160 of books, and I've had the honor of meeting him. And Bob, you know, he, he, if anyone knows this 168 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:11.520 about him, he's cut out the left pocket out of his pants, all these fancy by new pair of pants, 169 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:17.440 and he will cut out the left pocket. And that's to remind him not to hold things. So every pair 170 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:23.520 of pants, he doesn't have a left functioning left pocket. And then he decided, it's Thursday, 171 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:29.520 I'm giving something away. So every Thursday, he cuts something out of his life, he either simplifies 172 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:34.720 his, he gives something away. And so one time, you know, he built up this big law practice, 173 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:42.400 he said, and I think he teaches law at somebody can remind me, Pepperdine, I think. And anyway, 174 00:12:42.400 --> 00:12:47.360 so Bob, who travels around the world is an incredible isn't only an attorney, great speaker, 175 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:54.400 just loves people. I think he wrote a book called love does. There's just, he's just a great guy. 176 00:12:54.400 --> 00:12:59.200 But here's what Bob does, Bob, every Thursday, give something away. So you know, he built up 177 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:03.680 this law practice. And then one Thursday, he called all the staff together in the room. 178 00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:09.760 And he said, Okay, it's Thursday, I'm giving away my law firm, and he handed it to a junior partner. 179 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:16.240 And the guy said, What is it? I don't have to buy it. He said, No, you are now on the law firm, 180 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:22.320 gave him the keys and left. That was the end of his spent 30 some years building a practice 181 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:27.040 literally gave it away, because it's Thursday. And that's what one does on Thursdays. 182 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:35.520 I don't know. That's Bob. Just a great just a great guy. Yeah, so it is Pepperdine law school. 183 00:13:35.520 --> 00:13:40.800 Thank you, Jalen. So we used to do this. We're raising our kids, we do like, you know, 184 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:44.560 do the spring cleaning thing, take two, three days, just super clean the house, 185 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:48.160 throw out all the junk, get rid of it. And it's brutal, you know, on the family. 186 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:54.640 So a much better approach is just to do the first baby step to do one thing. So Bridget and I give 187 00:13:54.640 --> 00:13:58.480 away something every Saturday, Saturday is our day we give something away, we just give away stuff, 188 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:04.800 give away furniture. I've given away iPads, computers, very expensive jackets, I've given 189 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:10.400 away, you know, something because it's Saturday, we didn't do Thursday, we chose Saturday, we like 190 00:14:10.400 --> 00:14:15.520 Bob's idea. So we've adopted it as a part of our lifestyle. Because what it does, it gets you out 191 00:14:15.520 --> 00:14:21.120 of the hoarding thing. And it just helps you that first baby step, guess what happens, you give away 192 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.960 something, you start to think about other stuff, you can give away, you start to declutter your 193 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:31.200 life, just because you took the first baby step. So the first baby step can lead to the beginning 194 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:38.720 of a thin slice project. Right? So when Airbnb were first starting, they were struggling to get 195 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:44.400 stuff to work. And they couldn't figure out why people weren't booking their first in New York, 196 00:14:44.400 --> 00:14:49.040 why they couldn't get the first people to book Airbnbs. And it was a very odd concept that you're 197 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:53.200 going to go into some stranger's house, and the person who owns the house is going to let some 198 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:59.280 stranger in to use their spare bedroom. It just seemed weird. So they so the CEO and the CFO, 199 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:00.000 and I think one 200 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.080 another, went to the house, and actually met with the first, 201 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.840 you know, the first person, and then they realized that the 202 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.560 photographs were really bad. And I think the CFO is a natural 203 00:15:09.560 --> 00:15:12.880 photographer. So they read the photography, and they just took 204 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:16.240 the first baby step, just let's make it look good. And then they 205 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.880 figured out that was huge. And I think still today, if you list 206 00:15:19.880 --> 00:15:24.080 your property on Airbnb, you have to use one of their, one of 207 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.280 their, you know, photographers. So all these come down to, you 208 00:15:28.280 --> 00:15:32.920 know, the first baby step. So, you know, it's like the first 209 00:15:32.920 --> 00:15:35.280 rule of business, right? What's the first rule of business, you 210 00:15:35.280 --> 00:15:41.120 start a business having done a lot of startups, you know, so if 211 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.600 you think about as a startup person, the first rule of 212 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:49.600 business is find a customer, and then get them the product they 213 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:53.400 want. A lot of what's the rookie mistake everybody tries to do 214 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:58.280 build a product and then find the customer. Find the customer 215 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.680 and give them what they want, rather than build a product and 216 00:16:00.680 --> 00:16:06.200 try to find somebody to buy it. So anyway, so there, there's 217 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:09.440 that. So what we've come up with to help you is we've created an 218 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:15.000 acronym called start, S-T-A-R-T, start. So the first, the S of 219 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:19.200 start is slice, identify the thinnest slice of the project 220 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.520 starting with the appetite, I've got two hours, I've got two 221 00:16:22.520 --> 00:16:27.080 weeks, whatever your appetite is. So the first, the S is for 222 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:31.840 slice, what's the thinnest slice I can do here. Number two, T for 223 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:36.520 target. What does done mean? Visualize done. Remember the 224 00:16:36.520 --> 00:16:40.760 whole thing about done? Sometimes done means this, you 225 00:16:40.760 --> 00:16:43.000 know, are we doing the Miyada version? Are we doing the 226 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.680 Porsche version? I think you may remember that, that talk. The 227 00:16:46.680 --> 00:16:50.920 next one is ACT, A-C-T, ACT, take the first baby step, 228 00:16:50.920 --> 00:16:55.320 identify what's the first tiniest baby step I can do, 229 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.560 right? So I'm going to clean out the garage, find the broom, 230 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.520 first baby step. The next thing is reset, reset or reprogram. 231 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.560 This is using the five second rule to get that initial 232 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:09.319 resistance, five, four, three, two, one, move, get the broom 233 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:14.440 start. And the last one, the T is transition. Now transition 234 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:18.079 uses an idea called microbursts. And we have mentioned this once 235 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.680 before. But microbursts is that you work flat out for 10 minutes 236 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:25.960 without thinking about it. And you don't stop at all. It's 237 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.640 called a microburst. And if you can start with a microburst, 238 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:31.880 like you start cleaning the garage, you work flat out for 10 239 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.160 minutes, what will happen is within 10 minutes, you will have 240 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:39.600 created enough momentum to keep going. It's like the flywheel 241 00:17:39.600 --> 00:17:42.480 concept. You know, remember when you're kids, everybody jumped on 242 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.880 the on the merry-go-round or whatever you call it. What's the 243 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:47.760 American equivalent of a merry-go-round? Is that what's 244 00:17:47.760 --> 00:17:50.720 still called that? Yeah, it is. Okay, well, you know what I 245 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.120 mean. So all the kids jumped on. And remember, if you were the 246 00:17:53.120 --> 00:17:56.560 kid, you had to push that first circle and you killed yourself. 247 00:17:56.560 --> 00:17:58.920 And then it got a little easier. And eventually it got so much 248 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.640 momentum, you were just tapping it and just keeping it going. 249 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.480 Well, that's what microbursts do. They help you get that first 250 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:10.320 rotation going. So how do we use this? Let's talk about super 251 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:14.440 practical. How do we use this? At first, I'm warning you, it 252 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.360 will feel artificial to walk through these five steps. But 253 00:18:17.360 --> 00:18:22.640 remember, you're reprogramming your working memory. And over 254 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.760 time, it will feel less artificial, and it'll become 255 00:18:25.760 --> 00:18:29.240 more part of the way you think. But you have to create new 256 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.160 highways in your thinking in your mind to make this work. So 257 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.800 let me give you an example. So we can try to make this a little 258 00:18:35.800 --> 00:18:40.160 more interactive if we can. But I want you to picture a problem. 259 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.480 Here's the problem. You walk into a house, and it's 260 00:18:43.560 --> 00:18:48.080 absolutely stuffed with books, true hoarder of books. There's 261 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:51.680 so many books that it's overflowing everywhere. They're 262 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:55.040 they piles on the floor, it's even being used as a sort of a 263 00:18:55.040 --> 00:18:59.480 side table for the coffee. It's just piles of books everywhere 264 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.440 in the room. Right? Now you can imagine this is such an 265 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.960 overwhelming thing to fix that it just stays like that. They 266 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.240 just clear the pathway and vacuum around the books. So what 267 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:14.200 would be the thinnest slice that we could come up with for 268 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.400 this, for this project? Well, I'll suggest a few things. The 269 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.680 thinnest possible slice would be, remember, delete, don't go 270 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.560 and don't go and organize the books, pack them in a bookshelf 271 00:19:25.560 --> 00:19:28.240 and then find out and then give away half of them. And now you 272 00:19:28.280 --> 00:19:32.400 only need two shelves, not four. So the first thing would be to 273 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.600 give away as many books as possible, that would be your 274 00:19:34.600 --> 00:19:37.560 first thinnest slice, get rid of the books you don't actually 275 00:19:37.560 --> 00:19:40.680 want or need. So that's the slice the target would what is 276 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.320 done mean? So done would mean having less books on the floor. 277 00:19:46.120 --> 00:19:51.880 Right? And, and those books at Goodwill, or wherever you're 278 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:54.800 giving them at the second hand bookstore. So you're visualizing 279 00:19:54.800 --> 00:19:57.880 the bookstore, having your books or Goodwill, and you're 280 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:00.040 visualizing less physical books on the floor. 281 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.320 Then you're going to act. You can take your first baby step. 282 00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:04.800 What's the baby step? 283 00:20:04.800 --> 00:20:06.400 Is you're going to write a criteria, 284 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.020 a list of how you're going to decide. 285 00:20:09.020 --> 00:20:10.680 So that's all you're going to do, write a list. 286 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:13.040 So like, if I haven't touched you in three years 287 00:20:13.040 --> 00:20:15.000 and the book doesn't have sentimental value, 288 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.360 like my, you know, my great-grandmother gave it to me 289 00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:20.320 or whatever, it doesn't have sentimental value, it's going. 290 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:23.960 Then you're going to do reset, five, four, three, two, one, 291 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.920 move, get the paper, write the list. 292 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.760 Soon as I do that, I start the microburst. 293 00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:32.600 As I write the list, I get up and for 10 minutes, 294 00:20:32.600 --> 00:20:33.960 I start sorting books. 295 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.640 And I create my first pile of books, 296 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:37.320 which I then move to the car. 297 00:20:37.320 --> 00:20:38.240 And I keep that up. 298 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.200 Remember, I started with the appetite 299 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:41.960 that I want to do this for two hours. 300 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.080 Sorry, I forgot to mention that, it's in my notes. 301 00:20:44.080 --> 00:20:45.280 So when I did the thin slice, 302 00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:47.360 I started, I got two hours to do this. 303 00:20:47.360 --> 00:20:50.420 And two hours later, I've cleared out the books 304 00:20:50.420 --> 00:20:51.680 and they're off to the... 305 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.440 Now I haven't solved the problem. 306 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:54.960 I just took one thin slice. 307 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:56.560 You noticed that, right? 308 00:20:56.560 --> 00:20:58.840 This is really, really important. 309 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.880 Because I did this, now I'm going to do several slices. 310 00:21:05.840 --> 00:21:08.360 So let's go through, what would the second slice 311 00:21:08.360 --> 00:21:10.120 look like if I did the books thing? 312 00:21:10.120 --> 00:21:13.320 The second slice would be, okay, I've got two hours, 313 00:21:13.320 --> 00:21:14.920 well, I got one hour. 314 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.720 The second slice is I want to figure out 315 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:19.360 how many bookcases I need. 316 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:20.280 That's the second slice. 317 00:21:20.280 --> 00:21:21.640 I'm not organizing the books. 318 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.800 I'm not packing them away. 319 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:25.360 I'm just working on how many bookcases I need. 320 00:21:25.360 --> 00:21:29.360 So I got one hour to figure that out, maybe half an hour. 321 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:30.840 What does done mean? 322 00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:34.040 Done means I've done enough calculations. 323 00:21:34.040 --> 00:21:37.240 I know how big the books are and I can visualize a drawing 324 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:40.120 with and how many bookcases I need. 325 00:21:40.120 --> 00:21:42.720 First baby step, get a tape measure. 326 00:21:44.040 --> 00:21:45.560 This is super simple. 327 00:21:45.560 --> 00:21:48.040 Five, four, three, two, one, get the tape measure, 328 00:21:48.040 --> 00:21:50.720 measure out everything that we need. 329 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:52.600 And then I work for 10 minutes, 330 00:21:52.600 --> 00:21:55.360 but now I've got a list of all the books. 331 00:21:55.360 --> 00:21:58.120 So let me summarize and speed up the example. 332 00:21:58.120 --> 00:21:59.960 So slice one, give away books. 333 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:02.240 Slice two, figure out how many bookcases I need. 334 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:05.960 Slice three, I find a way to get the bookcases 335 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:06.960 within my budget. 336 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:08.200 Maybe they're giving it away. 337 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.160 Maybe a school's getting rid of them. 338 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.240 Maybe I build them, whatever it is, 339 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.960 I'm now finding a way to find the bookcases I need. 340 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.240 So I don't have the excuse of, oh, well, I can't afford it 341 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.920 because I can't afford the ones I want from Ikea 342 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:22.320 or whatever it is. 343 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:24.080 Now I'm looking for a way to find the books 344 00:22:24.080 --> 00:22:25.280 within my budget. 345 00:22:25.280 --> 00:22:27.240 The next thin slice I've got is, 346 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.800 I now clear the physical space where the bookcases can go. 347 00:22:30.800 --> 00:22:32.160 And of course, slice number five 348 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:34.560 is I fill the bookcases, right? 349 00:22:34.560 --> 00:22:36.280 I organize them and I fill them. 350 00:22:36.280 --> 00:22:38.480 So notice I didn't boil the ocean. 351 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.280 I didn't walk in and say, okay, 352 00:22:40.280 --> 00:22:42.720 because here's the mistake I could have made. 353 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:46.520 I could have gone and bought twice the number of bookcases, 354 00:22:46.520 --> 00:22:48.640 got halfway through filling them out, 355 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:51.840 lived with this chaos while I was trying to figure it out. 356 00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:53.080 Then as I was going through it, 357 00:22:53.080 --> 00:22:55.080 I realized I don't need this book, I don't need this book. 358 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:56.520 And I started giving books away 359 00:22:56.520 --> 00:22:58.320 and then I end up with two empty bookcases. 360 00:22:58.320 --> 00:22:59.560 Now I have to sell those. 361 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:01.880 So what I've done, 362 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:04.600 this is how boil the ocean problems are, 363 00:23:04.600 --> 00:23:07.520 is what you think you understand, 364 00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:09.120 as simple as this example is, 365 00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:11.000 what you think you understand 366 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.280 at the beginning of the project 367 00:23:12.280 --> 00:23:14.680 is usually at least half wrong. 368 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:18.360 It's at least half wrong. 369 00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:19.960 What you think the client needs 370 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:21.640 for that software development program 371 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.760 is at least half wrong. 372 00:23:23.760 --> 00:23:25.960 And when I say at least, 373 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:27.440 we have projects at Brilliant 374 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:29.760 where we've been 90% wrong. 375 00:23:29.760 --> 00:23:31.040 So welcome to our world. 376 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.080 And the reason is we know this. 377 00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:35.600 And because we know this, 378 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:37.200 we do this in thin slices 379 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.000 because it makes you less wrong. 380 00:23:40.560 --> 00:23:42.600 Thin slices makes you less wrong, 381 00:23:42.600 --> 00:23:44.200 makes you feel in control 382 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:46.520 and you end up at the end of the day 383 00:23:46.520 --> 00:23:47.440 in a different position. 384 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:49.400 Hey, Jalen, let's see your project 385 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:50.720 and let's go through yours. 386 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:52.000 Let's do a hot seat quick. 387 00:23:53.760 --> 00:23:58.760 Okay, there you go. 388 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:01.480 So Jalen, tell us about your project. 389 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:02.760 What is the project? 390 00:24:02.760 --> 00:24:06.800 All right, this is a real life project. 391 00:24:06.800 --> 00:24:09.360 So my landlord is doing renovations 392 00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:11.040 at the house where I rent. 393 00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:12.880 So I need to empty out my bedroom 394 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.840 and I have definitely been putting this off 395 00:24:14.840 --> 00:24:16.080 for a couple of weeks. 396 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:18.680 So this is my thin slice to get started. 397 00:24:19.800 --> 00:24:21.760 Hey, walk us through it. 398 00:24:21.800 --> 00:24:24.360 All right, so hopefully I did this right, Dion. 399 00:24:24.360 --> 00:24:26.320 But for the slice, 400 00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:27.760 the thinnest slice I could think of 401 00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:30.000 was just to tackle one area. 402 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.440 So I picked the closet to pack that up. 403 00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:35.000 And I said, I'll dedicate four hours 404 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.800 and make a deep work session of it on Sunday. 405 00:24:37.800 --> 00:24:40.720 So my target, what I am- 406 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:41.560 Very good. 407 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.520 So you start with your appetite. 408 00:24:44.520 --> 00:24:46.000 I'm putting four hours in. 409 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.640 So of course we don't have to measure 410 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.680 personal projects in deep work, 411 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.320 but just how many hours you're gonna do. 412 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:53.400 So four hours would have been great. 413 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:54.400 So we can say it's four hours 414 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:55.440 and we would have started there 415 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.720 was when the first thing you said 416 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.840 was this is a four hour thing. 417 00:24:57.840 --> 00:25:00.040 Give your time, give your appetite first. 418 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.300 And then we go to pack up the closet. 419 00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:05.140 Okay. 420 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.300 I especially didn't rehearse this with Jalen 421 00:25:10.300 --> 00:25:13.500 so that this would all be live for benefit. 422 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:18.140 Go ahead. 423 00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:21.520 Okay, so for the target, what I want to see, 424 00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:22.980 what I'm visualizing in my head 425 00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:25.660 is my closet being completely empty. 426 00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:28.260 So that is, I have my suitcase ready with all my essentials 427 00:25:28.260 --> 00:25:31.320 so I can live at least one box filled with things 428 00:25:31.320 --> 00:25:33.600 that I can take to donate and get rid of. 429 00:25:33.600 --> 00:25:34.920 And all of the remaining things 430 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:37.400 will be packed away neatly in boxes. 431 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.000 That is what I'm visualizing. 432 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.200 Did you clean the closet? 433 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:42.720 Did you wipe it down or any of that? 434 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.200 No, but it can be a part of it. 435 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:46.040 It doesn't have to be, 436 00:25:46.040 --> 00:25:48.180 but you didn't put it in your list, I'm just saying. 437 00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:49.020 All right, let's go. 438 00:25:49.020 --> 00:25:51.340 No, it doesn't have to be, that's your list. 439 00:25:51.340 --> 00:25:54.300 And then you add, what's your first baby step? 440 00:25:54.320 --> 00:25:58.720 Yes, I put to buy five large boxes at Home Depot, 441 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:00.620 hoping that will be enough. 442 00:26:00.620 --> 00:26:03.240 But I think that will be enough for what I have left. 443 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:05.320 So when you're about to start, you're going to do the reset, 444 00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:06.680 you're going to count down 445 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.800 and you're going to head out to Home Depot. 446 00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:10.880 I take a countdown and head to Home Depot. 447 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:12.520 Is that what you're going to do? 448 00:26:12.520 --> 00:26:13.520 Mm-hmm. 449 00:26:13.520 --> 00:26:16.440 And when you get back, as you get back from Home Depot, 450 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:18.640 are you going immediately to a microburst? 451 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.900 Ooh, that is a great question. 452 00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:24.160 Yes, if this is a part, 453 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:27.160 if getting the boxes becomes a part of my four-hour session, 454 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:28.680 then yes, then that it's the beginning. 455 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:29.920 That's how I'll start it. 456 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:30.760 Yep, good. 457 00:26:30.760 --> 00:26:31.880 Okay, so we got it down. 458 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:35.000 You've just power started your first project. 459 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.040 Let us know how it goes. 460 00:26:37.040 --> 00:26:37.880 I will. 461 00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:41.800 So I'd love you guys to break out into the groups. 462 00:26:41.800 --> 00:26:43.080 I want to make it shorter though. 463 00:26:43.080 --> 00:26:45.200 So we'll give you 15 minutes. 464 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:46.400 Pick a project. 465 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.440 You can make it personal, a business one, 466 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:49.740 anything you want. 467 00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:51.020 Go through that exercise. 468 00:26:51.020 --> 00:26:52.560 We just want you to see it live. 469 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:56.100 And then I'd like, if the leaders could pick it, 470 00:26:56.100 --> 00:27:00.620 find somebody who's willing to do a hot seat, 471 00:27:00.620 --> 00:27:02.220 just like we did with Jalen, 472 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:04.180 and then we'll do a hot seat or two, 473 00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:06.340 and hopefully we'll really lock this down. 474 00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:11.500 Right, Dion, we have a really quick question 475 00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:12.940 about the reset step. 476 00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:15.380 If you could explain that one just a bit more. 477 00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:17.540 Yeah, so the reset is just the five-second rule. 478 00:27:17.540 --> 00:27:19.260 How the five-second rule disrupts 479 00:27:19.260 --> 00:27:21.260 your old patterns of thinking 480 00:27:21.280 --> 00:27:23.840 and resets your mind to learn new ways. 481 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.480 So that was from last week. 482 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.040 It's all of last week's talk about the five-second rule. 483 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:31.720 I could have said reprogram, 484 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:34.320 but in some ways the whole thing is a reprogramming. 485 00:27:36.520 --> 00:27:37.360 Thank you. 486 00:27:37.360 --> 00:27:38.720 All right, well, then we will go ahead 487 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:40.840 and separate into our breakout rooms now. 488 00:27:40.840 --> 00:27:43.320 So we'll see you back here at 140 489 00:27:43.320 --> 00:27:45.440 so we can start hot seat time. 490 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.560 Let's make it 145, let's give them 15 minutes. 491 00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:50.460 Okay, perfect. 492 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:53.120 And solo leaders, if we have any of you all, 493 00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:55.120 you can go in the group called General 494 00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:56.680 where you can interact together, 495 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:01.060 and we'll see you all here at the main meeting at 145. 496 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:03.920 All right, here we go, everyone's coming back. 497 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:05.940 Hey, how are you doing? 498 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:11.360 All right, we're gonna need a brave volunteer or two here 499 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:16.200 to drop their project, their worksheet. 500 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.020 Has anybody got their, anybody willing to be a volunteer? 501 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.680 No, it looks like we have a- 502 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:24.320 Who's ready? 503 00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:25.160 Who's speaking? 504 00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:26.340 Oh, there you go. 505 00:28:26.340 --> 00:28:27.840 Okay, who is that? 506 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.640 Who's speaking there? 507 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.800 The one marked Carla, where is that person? 508 00:28:36.800 --> 00:28:39.120 It's actually, it's K Construction. 509 00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:41.920 Our power went out, so we're at the resident 510 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:43.480 that has a generator in town. 511 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.040 I see, oh, wow. 512 00:28:45.040 --> 00:28:47.840 So we're not gonna be able to share a screen, 513 00:28:47.900 --> 00:28:51.740 but Amber has one that I think we can listen to, 514 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:55.860 and she'll walk us through, so I'll point it to Amber. 515 00:28:55.860 --> 00:28:56.700 Hey, hi. 516 00:28:57.740 --> 00:29:01.820 There you go, hey, Amber, thanks for being brave. 517 00:29:01.820 --> 00:29:06.820 Yeah, so my thin slice or the problem, 518 00:29:08.060 --> 00:29:09.340 do you wanna know what the problem is, 519 00:29:09.340 --> 00:29:12.220 or do you want me to just jump in with my thin slices? 520 00:29:12.220 --> 00:29:14.100 Yeah, you can jump, you tell us the problem 521 00:29:14.100 --> 00:29:15.940 and then tell us the thin slices, yeah. 522 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.360 So the problem is that we need a way 523 00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:22.880 to be able to understand our leads 524 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:27.880 and where we are at in the process of each lead. 525 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:33.200 And so my thin slice would last two hours, 526 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.320 and I would like to create a lead report 527 00:29:38.520 --> 00:29:42.580 that I could produce at a sales meeting once a week. 528 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.280 Okay. 529 00:29:46.040 --> 00:29:49.920 What done means would be to have a template 530 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.080 or have a spreadsheet that is a template 531 00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:56.420 where I can input the info that I need. 532 00:29:58.240 --> 00:29:59.080 My app. 533 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:07.760 is to gather my notes and determine a layout for that spreadsheet. 534 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:13.520 My 5 4 3 2 1 reset would be to open Microsoft Excel. 535 00:30:15.840 --> 00:30:21.360 And then my transition would be to actually spend the time creating the spreadsheet. 536 00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:24.160 Yeah, the 10 minute micro burst will get you into the game. 537 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.680 Yep. 538 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.240 Yeah, that was perfect. The 10 minute, 539 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.880 just remember the 10 minute thing is not negotiable. 540 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.560 From the time you have 3 2 1 go, the 10 minute clicks directly. 541 00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:37.440 And that's the key for the reprogramming. 542 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:39.920 I know these seem very elementary points, 543 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.880 but we're talking about rewiring your working memory. 544 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:46.000 Cool, man. Thank you for doing that. 545 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:47.360 Excellent. Anyone else? 546 00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:50.400 That was so good. Nothing too hot seat there. 547 00:30:51.360 --> 00:30:52.400 That was pretty tight. 548 00:30:54.320 --> 00:30:55.600 Okay. Somebody else? 549 00:30:55.600 --> 00:30:58.720 Did we have somebody else there? 550 00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:02.480 We need another volunteer. 551 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.240 Otherwise, I'll have to pick on two brilliant people. 552 00:31:08.320 --> 00:31:10.560 Looks like Owen has one as well. 553 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:11.760 Okay. 554 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:13.760 Yeah. 555 00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:14.800 Go ahead. 556 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.320 Yeah, I'm Owen here from Alpha Vista, Kansas. 557 00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:23.680 So the big problem, I guess, between what Ben and I had going on, 558 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:28.800 we had discussed some of our leads in our marketing and trying to improve that and 559 00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:34.320 trying to basically fix the trail from our website and links and everything like that 560 00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:36.080 to generate more leads. 561 00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:40.800 And so with the kind of antiquated system that we were used to, 562 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:46.400 now my slice is learning how SEO has changed 563 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.720 as far as the algorithm and everything like that. 564 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:53.280 I've allotted two hours to figure out and learn about how SEO has changed. 565 00:31:53.840 --> 00:32:00.800 My target is to have a list of our weaknesses versus the way the algorithm is now generated. 566 00:32:00.800 --> 00:32:03.120 My act is to open YouTube. 567 00:32:03.840 --> 00:32:05.680 My reset is to click play. 568 00:32:06.320 --> 00:32:08.800 And then my transition is to watch videos. 569 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.120 There you go for 10 minutes. 570 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:13.840 10 minutes. 571 00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:14.240 Perfect. 572 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:15.680 Was that Owen? 573 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:16.560 Is that who we spoke? 574 00:32:17.760 --> 00:32:18.560 Yeah, very good. 575 00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:19.120 Thank you, Owen. 576 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:20.320 That was really good. 577 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:21.120 Guys, you got this. 578 00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.600 Does it make more sense to you now that we're pulling all the pieces together? 579 00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:28.720 When you're learning the pieces by itself, you might like, what's the use of that? 580 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:29.520 What's the use of that? 581 00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:33.920 I hope now that we got to one of those fun times, it doesn't make more sense to you. 582 00:32:35.040 --> 00:32:37.600 Anybody have a question when you were going through this? 583 00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:40.240 You were like, I don't know if I got this right. 584 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:44.560 Okay. 585 00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:48.960 So during the break there, Jalen, you mentioned that 586 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:51.680 even though you've been doing this a while, 587 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.280 and even though this is part of the work culture that you're familiar with, 588 00:32:56.080 --> 00:32:59.840 even when you started your project, you found that it was quite hard to thin slice it. 589 00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:01.060 Yes. 590 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:03.680 Yes. 591 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.640 Anytime I would try to start a thin slice project, 592 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:11.840 I would almost cut off too big of a slice where I thought it was the thinnest slice. 593 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:15.040 And then as I got into it, I realized, oh, this could have been three slices. 594 00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:18.400 So it still takes effort as I'm going through it to think, 595 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:21.120 okay, is there anything thinner than this that I could do? 596 00:33:21.840 --> 00:33:26.320 And yeah, I would say I was very used to boiling the ocean before Brilliant. 597 00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:28.560 Yeah. 598 00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:30.560 So we were talking about why that is. 599 00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:35.120 The reason that is, is because for those of us that grew up in a Western culture, 600 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:40.160 it's a very Western thing to do this big blocky stuff. 601 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:43.600 When we want to fix something, we spring clean the house. 602 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.640 We reorganize the company. 603 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:48.720 We redo everything. 604 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:52.640 We don't have this idea, which is a bit more of an Eastern idea 605 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:59.120 of making micro, small changes and learning every little step along the way. 606 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:04.800 We'll get to the concept of Kaizen, the Japanese thing, in much more detail because 607 00:34:05.520 --> 00:34:09.520 what will happen is, which I haven't got into, but if you do this enough, 608 00:34:09.520 --> 00:34:13.280 if you give yourself permission to think in the way that we just said with start, 609 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:18.239 and you realize you have the freedom to do as many slices as it takes, 610 00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:23.760 you'll be amazed at actually how fast you do it because you won't be wasting time. 611 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.080 It will feel more effortless and you will feel in control. 612 00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:29.120 That's the big thing. 613 00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:30.560 Back to cognitive control. 614 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:33.760 You will feel like, okay, I got all these projects, 615 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:38.159 but they don't mean anything just because they're on a list because I haven't started them. 616 00:34:39.120 --> 00:34:41.120 And that way, when you start a project, 617 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:44.400 it's not like you can have a pile of half unfinished projects. 618 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.360 I think this is a very powerful way. 619 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:48.560 Here's the interesting thing, though. 620 00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:52.400 Once you've done the thing with the books, as an example, now the book's on the shelf. 621 00:34:53.040 --> 00:34:57.600 Now you can add Kaizen, which is just Japanese for good change. 622 00:34:58.160 --> 00:34:59.920 You can add tiny Kaizen. 623 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.560 is the idea. It's not continual improvement like we have in the West. Continual improvement is 624 00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:10.320 still in big chunks. Kaizen is the tiniest thin slice improvement you can possibly make. 625 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:17.280 When you walk past the books, you notice this shelf looks unorganized because they are 626 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:21.680 different heights, so you just organize them shortest to tallest. Or you don't like the 627 00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:25.920 categorization, so you're just going to pull all the fiction books together. You don't reorganize 628 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:31.520 all the books. You just fix that one thing. And every two or three days, you're tweaking this, 629 00:35:31.520 --> 00:35:36.800 tweaking this, tweaking this, almost subconsciously. What will happen is over six months, 630 00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:41.600 that bookcase will become amazing because it'll keep getting better in tiny imperceptible ways. 631 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:47.520 Think of how you organize your desk. Don't reorganize your desk. Just fix the one draw 632 00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:55.680 or just organize where your pen goes or just one tiny thin slice idea. So this will 633 00:35:55.680 --> 00:36:03.840 build up over time. What we were dealing with today was how do you just reprogram your brain, 634 00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:10.560 power start a project, and pull together all these techniques. What's amazing is if we had the time, 635 00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:15.360 and you can imagine this would be a very many-hour course, if I had to go through all the neuroscience 636 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.920 behind each of these points, our gift to you is you don't have to put yourself through that. 637 00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:26.000 But the downside is when you land them on such a simple idea, five-second rule, 638 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:32.320 10-minute microburst, first baby step, visualizing what done means, they sound such tiny things 639 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:38.560 that they sound like, is this a serious course? But when you batch them together, they're incredibly 640 00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:45.520 powerful. So if you can take my word for it, there is a lot of research behind each of these points. 641 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.320 So, Ben, you looked like you wanted to weigh in there on something. 642 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:59.920 No, I'm just really thankful. Honestly, I said, awesome. I appreciate the simplicity, honestly. 643 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:09.600 And we were just having a discussion earlier today about Qbooks and how simple it is to have 644 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:18.800 a piece of paper, and how we have to fight our urge to overcomplicate things and stay in the 645 00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:24.160 electronic world. When we're actually paying you, we should take your advice and just listen to you. 646 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:31.520 Well, thank you. We appreciate it. It's funny you should mention the Qbook. I had a Gen Z come to 647 00:37:31.520 --> 00:37:38.320 me and say, hey, I'm going to automate this whole thing in Notion. So I said, sure, go ahead. And 648 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:44.880 I should bring him on at one time, because he's my son. And there's a big gap between my older 649 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:51.200 three kids, and he's the young one. And so he does this whole thing. I mean, he's a genius. I mean, 650 00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:58.400 he's writing code in Notion, if you want to know how good he is. And he works for PricewaterhouseCoopers, 651 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:04.400 he's got a big, he knows what he's doing, is my point. And he works, his job at PwC, 652 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:10.480 he's one of 70 designers, and they design human interfaces, they're into the psychology of human 653 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.120 interactions and interfaces. I say that to say that if anyone was going to pull this off, it 654 00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:21.040 would be him. And after the third edition, you know, he said to me, I kept telling him, it's not 655 00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:25.200 going to work. But hey, I mean, the poor guy spent so much time doing this. And I have it if you're 656 00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:31.280 interested. But here's the problem with it, is it doesn't let your brain map the page. And the 657 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:36.480 minute the screen scrolls, it's gone. The mapping's gone. He's, yeah, but you can search. Yes, you can 658 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.240 search. So this is what helped a lot of people, is when we created the pyramid, you know, right, 659 00:38:42.240 --> 00:38:47.840 Q sits at the top of the pyramid, it controls all the systems. Sitting below that are all the 660 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:54.480 middleware, all the middleware stuff, Notion, Slack, all the, you know, your calendar, all that stuff 661 00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.400 sits in middleware. At the bottom are all your digital assets, your documents, your photos, your 662 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:06.880 videos, all that's at the bottom of the pyramid. Q sits by itself. You need one ring to bind them 663 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:12.560 all. You need one ring to control them all. And if you find yourself, if the middleware can do a better 664 00:39:12.560 --> 00:39:20.080 job, use it, but use Q to control it. Go to Notion and check that I'm up to date on projects. Go to 665 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:26.320 Slack and do this. You can use, you need one place your brain can map. And I counted the other, 666 00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:32.560 there are 12 neuroscience components in Q. Now, you haven't got them all because we haven't done 667 00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:36.560 the advanced Q version, which is coming. We'll do, there's a next level up where there's little 668 00:39:36.560 --> 00:39:40.640 tweaks and improvements, and it'll create a little more space for you guys. We'll do that. 669 00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:43.840 And we only did it recently for Team Brilliant as well. 670 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:49.680 Q was really interesting for me. I think one of the things, I'm Matt, I'm Matt, if you don't know 671 00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:56.560 me, I'm the newest member of Team Brilliant. I found myself, and I don't know, Ben, if you 672 00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:59.920 feel something similar, but like I almost felt myself like guilty for like not 673 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.880 using the latest technology. I'm like, Oh, I should be using this. I was freelancing for most 674 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:10.160 of my career before I came here. So I had these, I also had very elaborate notion boards and, 675 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:17.600 but I kept finding myself also just wanting to use a notebook. And then when I was given the 676 00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:23.360 formula of Q, I literally just stopped using my notion boards. I was like, Oh, here's permission. 677 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.800 I think for me, the power was the permission to not feel like swept up in this. Oh, you have to 678 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:33.760 use all these new technologies. And I'm like, no, pen and paper works great for me right now. 679 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:40.400 And yeah. Yep. We will, we'll address it again, but thanks for sharing that and appreciate it. 680 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.600 Well, thanks everybody. Really appreciate it. Over to you Jialan, wrap it up for us. 681 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:50.480 Yes. Well, that concludes our edge team training for today. As always, we will have the end of 682 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:55.360 call survey. Please fill that out. It does give us more insight on how to make this better next 683 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.120 time. So we will see you next week and happy Wednesday.