The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time - Jonathan Swanson - #1047

How did you get started in thinking about time and delegating? So my first job out of school was working at the White House and I worked for the president's top economic advisor. And I got a walk in the West Wing every morning, which was a cool life experience, and I sat next to the president's executive assistants. And As you might imagine, the executive assistants to the president are really freaking good.

And it set my bar crazy high for what this client EA partnership could look like. And so when I left the White House to start my first company, I asked myself the question, what if I had an assistant or a team of assistants that was as good as the presidents? Obviously I'm not going to become president, but what else could I accomplish if I had that sort of support? And so Hired my first uh assistant that way and then set out on a journey to build the best team I could to see how it changed my life.

What were the unlocks that you saw inside of the White House? Like how how complex and big is the system of spindly octopuses with the tentacles and everything trying to help get the machine moving? I mean, it's insane. The president has multiple assistants, as you might imagine. There's actually an entire department called Advance that plans every minute of the president's life for months in advance.

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