How To Build Unstoppable Confidence - Jocko Willink - #949

I know that you're a fan of the Thomas Sowell quote, there are no solutions, only trade-offs. What's that mean to you? That you're never going to completely solve anything in your life or in the world, and there's always going to be compromises that you have to make. And if you aren't willing to make those compromises or you don't keep your mind open for those compromises, you're going to run into some real problems. But if you look at it and the fact that

you you know you might put a little more effort over here and it's going to take away from s some effort over there. You can't just do everything at once. So yeah, no solutions, only trade-offs. How do you deal with the tension of feeling that other thing pull away from you? Right?

You know that you need to focus and you know that by focusing on one thing, another thing is going to start to drop away, but the classic overachiever mindset is Well, everything needs to be growing at all times. So there's a an emotional pain at watching something stagnate or watching something fall behind. How do you try and navigate that? You just have to figure out what the priority is.

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