Brutally Honest Advice For Hard Days | Ep 872

The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about. I've had some of the hardest days of my life this year, and so maybe you feel the same. And so in this video, I want to share a four-part framework that has helped me move forward even when life sucks. If you can be in a bad mood for no reason, then you might as well be in a good mood for no reason too. And so one of the things that's been helpful for me is just actually recognizing the math of hard days.

And so if you think about you having a hundred days, right? Let's just say that you, you know, last hundred days of your life. Well, the top 10% of those days, you're gonna have 10 days that are smiley face days. And then you might have, you know, kind of the middle 80 that's gonna be kind of neutral days, right? And then you're gonna have your bottom 10% days.

Now, this is just normal because of a standard distribution of how days work. I think the most important skill that you could have is being able to reframe reality. And I say this because I had a very good friend of mine this year say something to me. And it was, it was really powerful, and it's been top of mind since he said it. And he said, well, I'll tell you what he actually said.

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