Why "I'll Try" Is the Most Dishonest Thing You Can Say (with Carla Ondrasik)

Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Carla Androsik, and I'm about to have a productive conversation.

with Mike Vardy Carla, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today for a production. of conversation. So happy to be here. So uh I am holding in my hand my iPad and on my iPad I have the book Stop Trying. The life-transforming power of trying less and doing more.

And Carla, first off, one of the things that we, as we kind of had some preamble before we hit record, is the idea, the word trying has, just like the word time, just like, uh, you know, just like uh several words in the English language, have several definitions, right? And some of them are paradoxical, right? Like and some of them, you know, you know, like close and close spelled the same. very different meaning, like a closer and a closer.

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