So we'll go ahead and get on with it.
If you guys do have some weekly wins, yes.
Tyler, do you have a win?
I do, we had a difficult customer that we were dealing with
and I think just the four people from our team
actually went to handle this customer,
which at the beginning was kind of like,
man, that might be too strong of approach,
but there was just a lot of truth that was said
and a lot of deescalating words that were said.
And I think this training, man,
is just helping our mind and our language so much
to be able to handle those conversations
and those customers.
So it was cool to see it in action.
And I was talking to a guy today and he was like,
man, I've got 25 answers to all the problems we have today.
So I think that's a win.
That's a huge win.
Dion, what do you say to that?
The deescalation of the difficult customer.
Yeah, I love that.
I mean, it also says that you're growing a team of leaders.
It's not like, oh, only the leader can fix,
only the leader can deescalate.
That is a very healthy sign indeed.
That's a big one.
And Robin said that they had a strong September.
So that's another big win.
Congratulations to both of you.
Ah, Nancy, you've noticed that language has synced up
within the office with the buckets,
the Q book, deep work, bread versus seed.
Isn't that a cool thing
when you guys are all speaking the same language?
I love that.
That's a great win.
Well, last week you guys talked about
making work effortless
and that was part one of a two-part series.
And so what you did in making work effortless
is you learned how to make essential activities
the easiest ones.
As I said, I was on vacation last week,
but what's really cool about that
is I actually used this technique
with someone that I was talking with
and talked about inverting,
taking a task that they really did not enjoy
and that they delayed
and pairing that with something that she really liked to do
and making that task effortless in that process
and making it more of a delight
so that it's not something that you're dreading.
And so this week, as we said,
we're gonna talk about making work effortless part two.
But right before we dive into that,
my pro tip for you today is deep work is your superpower.
And this helps you to become a master of your craft.
And as a reminder,
for those of you who need the friendly reminder,
deep work is focused, undistracted work on a task,
and this pushes your cognitive abilities to the limits.
And so my encouragement to you this week
would be to create a habit
of having one deep work session per week.
And if you're having difficulty
creating that habit of deep work,
pair it with something that you enjoy
or create a reward for yourself
at the completion of that task
so that it then becomes effortless.
For me, my routine for getting into deep work,
it consists of putting on some light background music,
having a cup of coffee and a small chocolate.
And that immediately sets my mind in that right space
to dive in and get started with deep work.
All right, are you all ready
to get started with the call today?
Yes.
As a reminder, as we're going through the material,
add your comments and questions to the chat.
And Dion, now I'm gonna hand it over to you.
Thanks, Jenny.
You just gave away a secret here at Brilliant.
So everybody now knows you can get anything out of Jenny
if you involve quality coffee and chocolate.
So just some really cool European chocolate,
some amazing coffee,
and then you could got a blank check from Jenny.
It's very bad.
That's kind of how it goes.
Anybody else enjoy those too?
Yeah, I'm also very much a coffee guy.
So I have a family of sons who,
we have three sons and a daughter,
but the three boys are all incredibly
into the coffee culture thing.
I mean, down to weighing the beans
and then the grinder has to be made of this kind
and then they have to be this.
And I mean, it's such a science and the exact temperature
and the kettle has to get to whatever.
And anyone who've been around any of my boys
know that's the case, but man, that coffee tastes good.
Just to take so long to do.
Here's what we got to do.
So today, I'm so jealous for you guys
because this is one of those topics that I wish, honestly,
when the first time we did this at Berlin,
we spent six weeks on this
and we're going to be-
spending two weeks on this for you guys. But what I'm jealous for you guys is that if you would,
if you would listen intently, I'm trying, I'm going to try and package three ideas together
that I really hope will help you. And then we've set the worksheet up with those same three ideas,
because what we're doing, remember, is we're trying to make essential work effortless. You
know, the first step is to figure out what's essential, right? And we spend a lot of time
beginning of the course going through what's essential, what's your one-line job description,
what's that one thing you do, that if you do that one thing, the organization moves forward.
The next step, though, is how do we make that feel effortless? And it's not that it is effortless,
is that the cognitive load, the cognitive drain or energy that it takes for you to do that
essential thing feels effortless. It still takes hours, but you feel energized. You know,
we talked a lot about as we were leading into this, there were a lot of concepts we were laying
a foundation for, so we could have this conversation, because you can say this stuff,
and people go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then two weeks time, it's like you never said a word.
That's the last thing I want for you. I really want this for you, because of all the things we're
doing, this can make bring a lot of delight and joy to your daily routine, and to really upgrade
your whole working memory, the way you work. And we pick up bad habits as we go through,
because nobody sat down at college and taught you how to work, certainly didn't teach you how to work
effortlessly, and didn't teach you how to get cognitive control. And I find that when you lead
a team, you're constantly tweaking and helping your team members. And you can do this for each
other, where you're looking at what they're doing, and you go, no, no, no, that's not how you do that,
because the basic goal is, how do we get you to feel cognitive control, in control of what you're
doing? And secondly, how can we bring your emotional state to feel the sense of effortlessness?
And that's the internal calm. And there's a very deep psychological satisfaction when you experience
this effortless state. And so, you can do this, and there's several things. So of course,
you know, step one of anything is make people self-aware. So yes, there's an initial
self-awareness thing that we're going through, but then you need to give them practical tools,
so they can lock it in and start to actively and intentionally change their working habits.
And what happens if you don't? How many of you do this? Because I'm sure this is true for most
of us, right? How many of you do this? You're a great idea. I want to do that thing. Oh man,
that sounds like a great way to work. And you try it for a week or two, and a month later,
you look back, and all that's happened is you reverted back to the old. And the reason is,
is that you, in that process, there's a process that you've gone through. And so, we're going to
go into a little deeper today as to what makes you spring back to old known ways and habits.
And so, the first thing is, we want to get through is, we've talked a lot about
this whole idea of habit stacking. So, habit stacking is when you take an existing habit
you already have. So, it's a little different from inversion. When we're talking about inversion,
take a thing you love with a thing that's essential and join them. This is habit stacking.
Habit stacking is taking a new habit and attaching it to an existing old habit, so that you don't
have to think of when to do it. So, if I want to make sure that I make a new to-do list every
Monday morning, I think of what Monday morning ritual that I already do. Well, Monday mornings,
when I come in, I make my coffee. So, on Monday mornings, when I make my coffee, when I do X,
I'll do Y. Monday mornings, when I make my coffee, I'll also do my to-do list. And after you've done
that a couple of times, it's a cheat. It's a hack because instead of having to create a whole new
standalone habit, you attach it to one you already have. You say, well, I don't have habits like that.
Actually, you do. You have a lot of them. You do them every day. You do them so automatically,
you don't even know you have them. So, it means just a little bit of intentional thinking about
what habits do I do. You brush your teeth. You do, I hope, you do various other habits every day.
And we are on Zoom, so we can't tell. So, when you're thinking of this power to transform
and take just a tedious habit that you do already and attach something significant to it is really
powerful. So, I want to make you aware so that you can start to think about that.
And as we go through this, it's helpful then to make a list of what things bring me joy.
If you can attach it to a habit that already brings you joy, the emotion…
The emotional value of the thing that already brings you joy will seep across to the new thing, even though there's no logical connection, there will be an emotional connection.
So Jenny talked about, she starts with the coffee and the chocolate because that brings her joy.
That joy sets up the tone, if you like, for what she's about to do next.
So now your deep work session starts in fun and joyfully because that emotional transfer took place, even though there's no logical reason.
There's no reason your brain should create joy for a task you haven't done yet and think it's joyful.
So just remember, your brain is pretty dumb.
You can get it to do most things you need it to do.
Remember, your brain has no emotional circuits.
It literally makes up emotions on the fly.
And that's, you know, as we've gone through all that training.
So I want to go to the next deeper level.
Now, here's one of the things I have found that really get people stuck.
And the thing that causes people more than anything else to snap back to old ways is they have thoughts living rent free in their brain.
Three major types of thoughts living rent free in their brain.
And I say rent free is that you've held them for so long, you've forgotten how they got there.
But so the first is things like outdated goals.
Outdated goals like and we're still wired to get to that goal or we've already settled the idea we're not we're never going to reach that goal.
And so what an outdated goal does is it keeps you wired in a certain direction.
And so when new habits come, you subconsciously are looking at that through that old filter.
So there's so you've got all these it's those so you've got ideas that are squatting in your brain.
And it's time to do a little bit of eviction.
It's time to give some eviction notices to these old outdated goals.
So it's worth just going through and say, is there an outdated goal that I'm still holding?
And now, if that sounds easy to do, it actually isn't quite so easy.
It's going to you sort of have to creep up to it when it's not looking, you know, I mean, it's it's I don't know how else to explain it.
It's like you have to catch it a little bit off guard because it isn't obvious because if it was obvious, you would have evicted it a long time ago.
So that's one of the things you might have to give some thought to is an outdated goal.
A second one is that an idea that's got stuck in your brain about yourself, some identity statement, something you believe to be true about you, which is now outdated.
And when you go through a course like The Edge, you're actually transforming very rapidly.
And we often don't take a moment to update our sense of identity, the sense of self, the sense of me, right?
Your internal world, the sense of I, when I say I feel, I think, I am talking about that, that thought, that you, the sense of who you are.
And so what happens when we get old identities trying to take on new habits?
It's like that old identity refuses to give permission to the new way of working.
So we have lots of these little words we say, well, I'm not a patient person.
I'm not this.
I'm not that.
We spend a lot of time explaining, well, you know, I'm not good at math.
Now, as I don't often make references to my foreignness in this, but that was one of the first things that struck me when we moved to America is how much it's almost universal.
With most Americans that I met, I'm not good at math.
And I'm like, why?
And I just sort of like a universal thing, you know, and I thought, so be careful of that.
I pick that up as that's a particularly cultural one, but there are others, you know, and I'm sure other countries have their own cultural little quirks.
That's just one I noticed.
Why do most people think they're not good at math is perfectly logical and wonderful.
And so I don't understand why I quote, you're not good at math, but when you get, when you do that, I'm not good at math thing, you degrade your expectation of yourself.
So anything that looks logical or mathematical to you, you automatically disqualify yourself.
And so subconsciously you've shut it down before it's even a time to take root.
Does that make sense?
Now I've just picked math.
It could be anything.
It could be, you know, I'm not creative.
Well, creativity is a broad range of things.
You know, ask a very, a brilliant mathematician that has to be very creative to come up with new ideas and theories of math, right?
So creativity doesn't mean you can paint and draw.
Maybe it means, I mean, it does mean that, but it's not only that.
Maybe you're very creative in the way you do accounts or send out invoices or the little notes you put attached, attached to your customers.
Maybe there's a level of creativity, but because I'm not creative, you shut.
down all those mechanisms. That make sense? So it's subtle, but why would you limit yourself
and put, because that's one of the things that creates stress. That's one of the things because
now I feel like I have to do something I'm not good at. So the question is, who told you you're
not good at it? There are so many studies, my brain's exploding, but one in particular
is that there was a study that tested kids, I think a few years old, three or four years old,
five years old. And then they tested them again as they graduated college. And then they tested
them again in their fifties. And when they tested the young kids, something like almost 90 something
percent of them were creative geniuses by the standard that they were using. By the time they
got to high school, that percentage dropped down into the 40% range. And by the time they got to
their mid fifties, it was in single digits, seven or 8%. So how did we go from 90% geniuses to
seven or 8% genius? You know why? We learned that we're not creative. Somebody taught you that.
A teacher said this, you say, well, I'm, you know, I'm 50, 60, whatever I'm 40, I'm 30,
I'm 20, it doesn't matter. But some teacher may have locked some thought in that that thing has
been living rent-free in your brain, time to evict it and come up with a new definition of yourself.
Now this takes a much better, so the exercise here, when we give it to you, it's not going to
be that easy just to fill it in. I mean, if you can, fantastic, but just a heads up, it may take
more work this time around, because we want you to go and find that underlying anchor that's lying
there unnecessarily. Third area of rent-free thoughts is mindsets. They've just outlived the
usefulness, you know, it's like, as you get older, you know, your jokes are the same,
your mindsets are the same. You just get, you just get into this routine, right? And while the jokes
are fine, the mindsets aren't. And, and what happens, we get a mindset, well, I don't do this,
I'm not at that, you know, I, I'm bad at this, I'm good at that. And at some point we have to say,
you know, I want to be 80 years old and still learning stuff. And in this regard, you know, my,
my dad-in-law, Bridget's dad, Justin, was just a remarkable individual, because he was 92 when he
decided to change his whole philosophy of life in the sense of his understanding of what, you know,
he had five degrees, he had a PhD, two master's degree, two bachelor's degree, was a very smart
guy. And he could have easily gone old and crusty in his brain, never. He just stayed, he was learning
all the time. And I think that is time to identify. If you, in this next week, can find one thought
that's been living rent-free in your brain, some identity thought. Remember, we learned previously
that identity was the power tool for creating new habits. Remember that? Don't try to become a
runner. Be a runner in your mind. And what do runners do? They run. So then you run. Well, I only
ran for two minutes. That's okay. Now we're just talking about getting good at it. We're not talking
about you being a runner or not anymore. I'm not a writer. Well, now be a writer. See yourself as a
writer. Change your identities. Well, I'm not good at writing. Well, be good at writing. And then write
one good sentence and get good at writing one sentence. And now we can talk about how we go
from one sentence to a book. So the issue of identity is huge. So let's identify that.
Is that helpful? Okay. So we've covered habit stacking and the rent-free thoughts.
The next thing I just want to talk to you briefly about is, again, as you go through
this exercise, I'd love to just talk about why this is so
deep and so important. There's a whole theory of psychology. If you care, it's called broaden and
build theory. And that broaden and build theory in psychology basically says
that when you have negative thoughts, your brain will seek out the smallest possibility for you.
It will reduce options in your head of what you're capable of, what it gives you
permission for. When you think positive or positive emotions open up the new perspectives
and new possibilities. So here's a couple of thoughts. There's a couple of ways to help.
Remember I said you have to sneak up on all those rent-free thoughts. Well, here's some
strategies on how to do that. One is to attach gratitude to every complaint.
So think of a thing you complain about often. I don't know. The government picked something
innocuous.
We all complain about the government, right, to some point. But what thing of gratitude could
you apply to that? So now you make a new rule, every time I complain about the government,
I'm also going to be grateful for. Now, listen, as you know, I've been in America for 30 years,
I can tell you a lot of things to be grateful for in America. And maybe because I have a reference
from something else, you know, maybe you were just born in the US. And so that's great. Maybe
you don't have quite the reference. I was born somewhere else. And I've worked extensively in
various parts of the world. And I chose to live in America for lots of wonderful reasons.
It doesn't have prompter. Do I have a lot of things to be grateful for? Absolutely. So when
I complain about this or that I got a lot of gratitude elements. Or maybe there's just
things you complain about in one of your you know, with your spouse or your job or your
whatever, you know, your old car, but I'm so grateful it's paid off.
Right? This whole thing in a bucket of bolts, but I'm so grateful it's paid off.
So you can you can do your own thing. Because what that does is it stops that shrinking mode and it
puts you into an expansion mode. Another another thing that I found is, you know, never do more
today, that you cannot recover from tomorrow. Because all of us are so driven, we want to act
like it's our last day on earth and get everything done today. And I'm definitely that guy. But then
if I can't recover tomorrow, what I've done is I've set myself up into a negative emotional state.
So just apply that as however it works for you. A third area that puts us into a negative state
is when we when we stop being in the moment with people. You know, when you feel fully present with
people, it's one of the most powerful impacts you can have in someone's life. Literally your customer
giving them look, listening to people is not hard. It's getting your mind to stop wondering
while you listen, even what's going on now stopping your mind from wondering is the hardest part of
this, right? Being fully present while we say, hey, arrive, be engaged, be fully engaged for you, not for us,
for you. Because there's a curious, almost magical power of your presence, of your undivided
presence. Now that by presence, I mean being fully present. Because you can be sitting there, we all
know this, ladies, how many times we always pick on the guys because we're so, ladies do it too,
guys do it in a more obvious way, right? Ladies are talking to us, we're nodding, we're going, uh-huh,
we're not there, we're solving other problems, right? And you ladies know when we're doing that.
But we all do it to some degree, we just get very good at covering it. So what I'm talking about
being fully present is one of those things, when I'm fully present, what I'm doing is I'm giving
myself to my moment. And what that's doing is it's opening up a new possibility in that moment that
I didn't have before. Because it's just like deep work, being present is like deep work for
relationships. It takes out the distractions and it makes them richer, more substantive. So next
time you talk to your spouse, how about being fully present for the conversation? What a gift,
what an amazing gift. So, you know, I could go into a lot more of these practical elements,
but I think for now, I just want to talk about one more, one more key ideas. We're always seeking,
you know, best ideas. And I need to, I need to figure out, I think there's, I think this,
this is a Chinese idea. It's called Wu Wei, it's, it's pronounced O-O-W-U-Wei,
spelt, I will tell you in a second. But what it means is, it's trying without trying.
It's effortless doing, or directly translated, it's do without the do in it.
In other words, take that, that do, that feeling of, that's what it means. It means doing something
without the feeling like, Oh, I'm doing this. It's very subtle, but what it's trying to get to is
there's an effortless way to do something. So I think, you know, if you think about how we know,
we go about doing tasks, we just tend to make them hard. And the reason we make them hard is usually
from all the rent free thoughts that have just stuck there. That's now we've decided it's hard
before we even started. And so it's useful to say, why do I think this is odd? And that's why
the inversion technique, but what if this could be easy? And those little attaching, the little
chocolates and things that feel gimmicky, but they really help you identify these,
these underlying issues. So what we're saying with all
These are more than just sort of little mind tricks.
What we're really doing is we're showing you
how to liberate yourself from the very things
that are stopping you becoming the person you wanna be.
Because here is what is possible.
It is possible to be a high performance person
and for it to be joyful and effortless to you.
It is possible to live that way.
This is an entire possibility.
To get there means a bit of intentionality on your part.
So when you feel like this is going to be hard,
that's a great red flag to go find
that rhythm free thought and evict it.
What caused it?
Everything doesn't have to be hard.
We do not have to be perpetually exhausted
because we're not, I'm feeling like we're not doing enough.
Your contribution isn't about how exhausted you feel,
how many hours you work.
Your contribution is, did you move the ball forward?
Now, if you can do it in an effortless way
and why we have to do this as a team
is because we're fighting a deeply held puritanical view.
And it's a very Western idea that if it's not hard,
it's not worth doing.
Or the inverse, if it's worth doing, it's gonna be hard.
And if it's not hard, then somehow there was,
that thing was obtained in an incorrect way.
It sounds shady to us.
Now, nobody gets to do something that good
and it was easy.
And we talked all about that puritanical idea before.
And so we've identified one thought
that for many of us lives rent free
and that's perfectionism.
Because perfectionism makes it hard to start projects.
And another one is self-doubt.
Just, I don't know if I can do this.
So it makes it...
So perfectionists find it difficult to start projects,
self-doubters find it difficult to finish projects.
So you have a whole bunch of started projects
that are never finished.
So there is the third category of those who try to do it,
try to do too much when they're doing it.
So we talked about deciding what done means.
All these techniques are designed to set you free
into this ultimate space.
We've spent literally months to bring you to this point.
And this point is you can actually
be in that effortless state.
So that feeling of lighter,
where you don't feel physically stressed,
you're not mentally fatigued at the end of the day,
you've learned how to do batching,
stop the switching costs,
you've become more unburdened
and you're more mentally energized.
And we've just generally called that your A-seat.
Now here's the interesting thing.
Remember A, B and C seats are things you can do well.
You're good at all three of those.
You can do A's, B's and C's.
They're not a list of what your competence,
they're a list of your energy state.
When you do things in your A-seat,
you're more energized afterwards than before.
That's because you have found an effortless state
for those things.
Your B-seat is like a wash,
you're not depleted, you're not energized.
C-seat you're depleted by them,
but you're good at them.
Here's something that's gonna unwind all of that.
As we come to this part,
we're gonna tell you the A, B and C are somewhat artificial.
They're more to do with how you've learned
to gain an effortless state in those.
And therefore you call them your A-seat,
which opens up a new possibility.
Anything can grow into A-seat.
I'll let that sit with you for just a second.
It's called the principle of least effort.
And that means you're constantly challenging
the rent-free thoughts.
When you say, what if this project could be easy?
Your brain is fighting you saying,
no, no, it's hard, it's hard, trust me.
I've been around your brain a long time.
It's hard, it's hard, it's hard, why?
Why is this hard?
Why is this depleting me?
Why do, so for instance, and the older we get,
I've noticed this, for instance,
as people get into their 60s and 70s,
they've decided technology is too hard.
Why, what if it isn't?
My dad-in-law was 85 when he learned how to write HTML code
for his website,
because those days that's what it took to publish one.
And this is the most impractical man on the planet.
Literally, I have never met a more impractical,
I loved him to death, one of the most philosophical brains.
He wrote 15 books, a genius,
but could not organize one thing in front of the other.
He's the most impractical,
yet he did not put that restriction on himself.
And so the idea.
is, is this idea, nothing should be in your way. So all this
tradition we've built up this self narrative we've created
about quote, what I'm good at, and quote, what I'm not good at,
what if you challenged it? What if you just took it head on, and
then find find the culprit. Because there is a culprit,
there's a thought that's been living without paying rent, it's
outdated, it should have, it should have been, you thought
you evicted a 20 years ago, it turns out it's been squatting
in the corner, you didn't know. You know, out of the house, but
still living in the garage, whatever analogy you want. The
point I'm saying to you is, don't put that on you. Don't
put this, this idea. So we've, we've spent a lot of time
bringing you to this, what if anything can be your A seed?
That, to me is exciting. So, you know, the average, the average
person in the United States will change careers five to
seven times, not jobs, careers, five to seven times, that's the
statistic. So that retooling that refreshing, I think it's
part of what keeps the country so can do so energize one of the
things I love very much about American culture. I just love
the way it's like, let's build, you know, let's build this, get
some collaboration going, let's build consensus, let's, let's
go and do it, because we know we can do it. Let's just figure out
how. Because I know other cultures where it's like, oh,
it's all gonna fail and whatever. And well, we'll give
it an old good old fashioned go, whatever, it probably fail, you
know, so trust me, I love this about what we're doing. But
there's something when we take it down into our personal level,
we're not very good at recognizing our own beliefs that
we're holding that are holding us back. So now that you know,
the goal is an effortless state, that's high performing. And that
it's entirely doable. And that the only restrictions that lie
there are these rent free thoughts. And so self awareness
knocks out 80% of the problem, just finding it just identifying
it solves almost most most of the problems. Right? Once you
know, there's a squatter, you're in the game, you're in the
winning streak. It's being unaware there are squatters is
the problem. Jenny, let me hand it back to you tell us about the
worksheets and what we're going to do next.
All right, well, I've just put the worksheets in the chat. So
you can access it there if you haven't accessed it before. And
now we are going to break out into our breakout rooms because
Dion has just taught us how to live a limitless possibilities
lifestyle. If everything can be effortless in your AC, then
there's no limits that can be placed on you, which is a really
exciting thought. So we're going to go ahead and open the
breakout rooms. All right. How'd those breakout rooms go?
Any questions or comments that you all have? Post them in the
chat or you can raise a hand there, Bev.
So we were I was talking about or became aware that, um, Dan,
you talked about attaching the you know, a new habit to an old
habit. And my tendency is more to give myself a reward when a
task is done. So where Jenny has her coffee and her chocolate
before I'm saying, as soon as I finished working on this
client's project, I'm going to go get a cup of tea and a
chocolate. Can you talk about the difference like cognitively
between the attaching to before versus giving a reward after?
I don't think it matters greatly. I think what it's
after is to set up the right emotional state, so that you
have a positive emotional feeling towards it. And if it
creates it for after or before, that's okay. What habit
stacking was, though, is not so much an incentive to get to a
task. But what habit stacking is, is to take an existing
habit to set up a new regular, like if you want to walk every
day for 20 minutes, and you don't do it, if you don't do it
now, then pick a habit, you know, maybe you go out in the
morning and pick up your newspaper, you pick up, you go
to the, you go and get your mail or whatever it is you do. And
just say, when I do the mail, when I do x, I'll do y. And so
you just plan to add 20 minutes on the site on the walk. So what
it is, is to extend if you like, an existing habit to attach
another one that you want. So it's a kind of a hack, because
it doesn't have to have its own, just like if you because
typically, we say, Oh, on a walk every day, and then we'll say,
Well, I'll do it at the end of the day, and then I'm tired. And
so I don't. So you know, that's what it's designed to do. It's
designed to attach a new habit that you want to create.
So, but the task, the task reward system you were using created the same effect so that
I don't think it matters.
It's only the effect on you.
Okay.
And by the way, even though you know, you're doing it, it's still effective.
Yeah.
It's not like, cause you understand the mechanism, it's less effective, Matt.
I had a question.
We spent a lot of time in our group talking about like transitioning things to ACs.
Can you talk about like the practicals about like how you actually do that?
Cause I think like from my end of things, I'm like, I don't know if spell checking emails
is ever going to be an AC in the same way as like a really creative project would be.
Even if I could get like, I feel like I would have to discipline myself into that process
if that makes sense.
So can you talk a little bit about that?
Yeah, I'll tell you really, really short.
So the, so the idea of what's an AB or CC, remember these are all competencies.
You have equal competencies.
This isn't a competency rate, competency rating.
It's a, it's an effortless state rating actually.
Remember that A's give you energy and C's deplete you and B are neutral.
So if you're thinking through that process, the reason is that you've achieved some form
of state.
You've found a certain delight and enjoyment, which gives that feeling of it being effortless.
So, you know, like maybe Cindy would be, would love to correct grammar and go through that.
And that's a great joy for her, but she's done a lot of it, you know, as an English
teacher and all that.
So for her, that's an, that's an interesting thing that doesn't feel like work.
We'll go an extra minute.
If you guys have to drop, just drop since time's up, but I'll have you stay for a few
seconds and answer the question.
So I think what we're saying is the mere fact that you think of it as, so if you're good
at spelling checking and you're good at these things and you, and the only difference then
between A, B and C is your emotional effortless state.
And we're saying that you can change it so that you, and there's usually a rent-free
thought that's stopping you from changing it.
Like it, because it's difficult, it's hard, or in general, the feeling of this is hard.
This is exhausting.
I'm depleted comes from something you're fighting in yourself.
You're pushing against, there's a resistance in you and you're pushing through that resistance
whole way.
You all know what I'm talking about.
Through all through the task, you're pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing.
Okay, I got it done.
And that's, there's something causing that resistance.
What we're trying to do is go into a deeper sense of self-awareness of, okay, so that's
why I do that.
Somewhere along the line, I was told this is for you.
This is difficult.
Or I told myself that.
And so, and, and the older you get, the more narratives you've had that reinforce the,
you know, the, the, the squatters, the squatter thoughts are being more and more.
So the older you get, the more crusty and harder it is to change, but that's not true
either.
That's just because you've got more narratives backing up the, backing up the old, you know,
you think, Oh, I've got a lot of data about this.
Again, it's not a competency issue.
That's the key.
In your, in your suffering competent that you shouldn't try and fix that anyway, should
ignore your, your weaknesses and just lean into your strengths anyway.
So this isn't about a strengths weakness structure, but that's helpful.
I can handle one question more since we're a moment over time anyway.
All right.
Is that good?
Jenny, over to you.
All right.
Well, thank you for answering that.
It was a good one.
I hope you all enjoyed it and we'll see you again next week.
Thank you.