 All right, I want to move on to the second blog post. I'm just scanning the chat for, you know, the usual, you're unbashing over Trump. All right, it's pretty funny. The second blog post that Armin Hoffman put up, I thought was really good, was, this is the title. This is the title. Why hard work is so important and still underrated? And the post is really to combat a trend that seems to be out there among people, among in Twitter, self-help, manuals, all kinds of stuff, that you can have your cake and eat it. You can achieve greatness in everything that you do. Don't work too hard. There's an important balance to be found in life. And Armin is very clear. If you want to be good at something, now, if you want to be great at something, anything you want to be great at, you're going to have to work really, really, really hard. Lots of hours, not just hours, thoughtful hours. More than that. If you want to be great at something, you have to obsess about it. You have to be obsessed by that thing. To be one of the best in the world at anything, at something, you have to work hard. So if you aspire to greatness in whatever you do, and I wouldn't say best in the world, because that's too comparing to other people. If you want to be the best that you can be at something, then you have to work hard at it. You have to obsess about it. You cannot be great at something, Armin writes, and I agree with him. Unless you're obsessed with it. He says, you need to be thinking about it all the time. And that obsession may consume you, and it might not be healthy for you. But that's the difference between being great and just being good. And I think he's absolutely right. If you want to change the world, you're not going to do it working 40 hour weeks. And by the way, he talks about the fact that nobody actually works 40 hour weeks. 40 hour a week is very rare. Think about how many hours you actually work. You're actually productive. You actually do not moving around emails, emptying your trash, playing around, checking out, checking out the latest scores, but actually working. He says very few people, and I agree. Very few people who work 40 hours actually get 40 hours work done. To get 40 hours work done, you often have to work 60 hours, 80 hours. Either a few incredibly productive, focused, energetic people who can get 40 hours work done in 40 hours. But that's a minority. Most of us have to take a lot longer to get that work done. So if you want to be great at something, if you want to be really good, if you want to make a lot of money, not every field allows you to make a lot of money, but if you want to make a lot of money and you are in the right field, you better work hard. And 40 hours is not going to cut it. Take an example. And this is what's amazing to me, because there is this trend against hard work, against focus, against obsession, against really, really, really focusing on career. And yet we all understand that athletes have to do it. That athletes have to work unbelievably hard to just play one game. That it's constant. That it's in season and off season. They work when they're not playing the game. They're thinking about what to eat, how many hours to sleep, what they can and cannot do. Constantly, all integrated about one purpose, playing the game, being the best that they can be. Think about that, they rehab themselves when they get injured, how much effort they put into that. I mean, there's the 10,000 hour rule. I don't know if it's a true rule or not, but there's the 10,000 hour rule that was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that to get great at anything, you have to do it. To master anything, you have to do it. 10,000 hours of practice. But I suspect many of these do much more than 10,000 hours, and it's not just a dumb 10,000 hours. It's a real 10,000 hours. Now this context is a good opportunity to mention the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant this last week. Now I am a Celtics fan. So I despise the Lakers. But Kobe was an amazing player, one of the great players of all time. But Kobe did not become an amazing player accidentally. Luck, yes, he had some physical talents, physical skills, physical athletic build. But Kobe worked it, and worked it, and worked it. I mentioned Neil Purt when he passed away, give me a break, the chat again, always goes crazy, no matter what I'm talking about. So Kobe, I mean, all of these players, they practiced unbelievable, unbelievably. I mean, there's a story that Armin Hoffman cites in this blog post, says Kobe Bryant was training with the American Olympic basketball team in 2012. I mean, this is Olympic basketball, nobody really cares. But Kobe did, because he wanted to be great, wanted always to be great. A trainer met Bryant in Las Vegas and offered to help him whenever he needed it. Bryant ended up calling this trainer at 4 a.m. in the morning to do a conditioning stint. After the workout, the trainer went back to bed to get some sleep before an 11 a.m. scrimmage with the full team. When the trainer returned to the court, he asked Bryant how long he had worked out for. Bryant told him he hadn't left the facility. He had wanted to hit 800 shots and had just finished. Bryant had shown up seven hours early for scrimmage game. That's how you become great. You want to be great at what you do? Then that's what you have to do. So work hard, focus, choose your values. Talked about this in the past. Choose your values, create a hierarchy, decide which is the best, because one of the other points that Arlen makes is you can't be great at everything. You can't be great at everything. So pick a few things you want to be great at. Pick a few areas you really care about. Pick the things that are most valuable to you and be great at that. You have to choose. You have to create hierarchies. People talk about sacrifice, sacrifice something for others. No, you have to create hierarchies and figure out what's more important to you and what's less important to you. I've still got these things on. In whatever you do, if you look at it in every field, great scientists, great musicians, great athletes, great business leaders, every single one of them worked unbelievably hard at what they did. If you're gonna be great, get a work. Get a work. And working hard does not mean working stupid. It means figure out the best way to work. Figure out the smartest way to work. If you're a basketball player, figure out the best way to condition yourself. Figure out how many shots you have to make in order to get better at shooting. Figure out what you need to do to make your work as effective as possible to make you great. And you have to give up stuff to do that. If you're gonna be great at your career, you're gonna spend less time with your kids. If you're gonna be great with your kids, you're gonna spend less time with your friends. If you're gonna be great with friendship, you're gonna spend less time doing something else. You cannot be great at everything. You have to prioritize. You have to prioritize. Don't buy into the stupid Twitter memes of you can have your cake and eat it too or you don't need to sacrifice. Sacrifice not in the sense of moral sacrifice but in the sense of giving up something for something else. You don't need to sacrifice to achieve success. It's all BS. You have to work unbelievably hard. You can't have everything. You have to give up some things, sleep in many cases. And you have to figure out what's most important to you and go out and do it. And don't pretend. Don't lie to yourself. Or you can do it all, because you can't. So figure out what you want to do. Take control over your own life. You determine. You determine where to spend your time, where to spend your effort, where to spend your thinking. This is a saying that he quotes, which is pretty good. You can have anything you want but not everything you want, which I think reflects that. I think reflects that. All right. He says that in the end of the day, there are only three ways of getting, of being great at something, three ways, three ways. Lucky, you have to be extraordinary lucky. And include extraordinary lucky. And I think that's really, really, really rare. Being born with extraordinary gift that no one else has, again, that's lucky and that's really, really, really, really, really rare. Or working insane hours. Now, again, working insane hours in the right way. But working insane hours. So if you want to live a great life, you got to find the thing you want to be great at. And focus on that. Strive for that. Create an explicit, higher care values and go for it. One of the things I like about Arne Halfman is, I don't know, my guess is he's been inspired by Inran, but I don't know it. But he, this is like his closing, one of the, almost his closing paragraph in this podcast, in this blog. He says, we enjoy all the pleasures of modern day life because someone worked hard to create them. If only people understood that. If only people recognized it. Dreamers who put their dreams into action have given us medical breakthroughs, space exploration, and the rule of law. So even in politics. Hard work is a prerequisite for changing the world. There's no substitute for it. And despite what some may say, it's still underrated. If you work hard with the right people on the right product, you can change your life and the lives of millions of others. Now that's, that's inspiring. So again, I recommend Arne Halfman, A-U-R-E-N, Halfman H-O-F-F-M-A-N's blog called Summation.net. He has some really interesting stuff. 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