19 Lessons From 1100 Episodes - #1100

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. It is episode 1,100, and that is a number that I did not think that I would get to. I don't think I've done 1,100 of anything apart from these podcasts. As is tradition, I've put together a list of lessons that I've learned from the show and from writing and reading and life over the last six months since the last one of these that I did, and I'm going to go through them today. So let's get into it.

First up, I started thinking about obsession and why no one understands obsession. I think literally no one understands why obsession is the way it is. Discipline, motivation, and obsession are three words that get thrown around quite a lot. And I think most people misunderstand all three, and because of that, they missed some very big lessons about how life actually works.

So here's the simplest way to separate those three out. Discipline is I will make myself do the thing. Motivation is I want to do the thing. And obsession is I can't not do the thing. So all three produce the same outcome, right?

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