 So this question is from Amy and it says, I've heard I need to make sacrifices to achieve my goals. This seems to contradict what you talk about. Like I said, I do contradict that in my videos. Isn't some degree of sacrifice necessary to achieve excellence? So that's Amy's question and I'm going to address it here because I think it's a really good question. Do we have to make sacrifices in order to achieve our goals? Do we have to make sacrifices in order to achieve excellence? So we're talking about excellence. The short answer is it's kind of complicated but I'm going to ultimately say no, we do not want to have any mentality of making sacrifices or a sense of sacrifice when we're going after our goals. And the other thing is that it's not even necessary. In fact it's it's just an unhealthy way to think about achieving excellence. If someone said to you, it's important to achieve a state of excellence, we can have a reaction to that. It's like, oh god, that's for special people. That's not for ordinary people like me, right? But excellence is a very subjective thing and whatever excellence means to each of us in our own individual personal life is what we're talking about here. We're not talking about some societal standard of excellence. Excellence is what excellence means to us individually. So in that regard, excellence is important. Why not achieve excellence if we're the ones that are defining it? So in terms of how do we actually achieve a state of excellence, I have two things I always talk about and the formula I use for excellence is focus plus boundaries or maybe that's focus multiplied by boundaries. There are two factors involved. To achieve any excellence, any state of excellence, any level of excellence, we have focus and boundaries. Those are the two things. Now if we can combine those two things together, we will inevitably achieve a level of excellence in whatever it is we put our mind to. So the first thing, focus, why is focus so important? And maybe that's what some people mean by sacrifice. They mean you cut out a lot of the distractions, the things that are important. What I really mean by focus and why I think focus is so important is, well, if you're going to achieve excellence, okay, you need to have focus. If you're focused, you're going to arrive at a mindset of simplicity. Focus means, look, there's only one thing I'm really focused on here, moving towards and that one thing, only having one thing that you're focused on leads to a feeling of simplicity, okay? There's no confusion. And when there's simplicity, a sense of no confusion, inevitably you're going to succeed in whatever that thing is. See, it's the doubt and it's the uncertainty in goal attainment that makes it very, very difficult and makes us tend to fail in that. So focus is a thing because it gives you a sense of simplicity, okay? So we do want to be focused. You know, this, to be excellent in one thing, think of someone who's excellent. Like, again, we're not comparing ourselves to these people, but like think of Lionel Messi or, you know, Ronaldo or some musician or scientist or whoever who has achieved a state of excellence, a writer maybe, they tend to be focused really on whatever that is, whatever the thing is you're doing. So they have a sense of focus on, but the thing is it gives them a sense of simplicity in life. So that's what we want to achieve here, okay? That's the really important thing. It's not necessarily you win brownie points for sacrificing things. It just gives you a sense of simplicity. So that's the first thing. Now, the other thing is, okay, if I'm focused and I have a sense of simplicity, there's only one thing I'm really moving towards. How can we remain balanced with that attitude? Because that sounds like it's going to become obsessive. It's going to become unhealthy. And this is where our boundaries come in. So it's almost as if we're going to be only consciously focused on one thing. So that's our conscious attention. What about it? Is there another type of attention that we're not talking about here? The way I put this is the obligated mind, that's something we have. And that's in charge of having a goal, a very clear goal. It's a conscious goal. It's a rational mind mindset that we find ourselves in in the obligated mind. And this is the other mindset we have is the spontaneous mind. And that's much more intuitive. The spontaneous mind, you could describe it more as Carl Jung would say, it's the feminine. And the obligated mind is much more of a masculine mindset. Each of us has that within ourselves. But we want to have a balance. You can still be focused solely on one goal, and that's your obligated mind. But the boundary comes in with, I have a space where I step out of that into this more spontaneous mindset. So I don't let the conscious one goal that I have monopolize my entire life. I leave space to do it. I have standards around that. But then I step away from it into something else. And the thing is, the spontaneous mind is given charge of all the other life areas. You know, you can be super focused on one specific goal. But you know, we all know that there are multiple other areas of life. So the spontaneous mind is given authority in how those things should be organized for us. It's much more intuitive. It's much more about standards and rule setting and things of that nature. It's not typically addressed in terms of standards and rules. It's much more about intuition. It's how do I feel? Can I actually proactively remove as many rules and restrictions around my time in the spontaneous mind? If we can have a balance between these two things, hopefully you can see here that it is possible to be focused on one thing, and also have a space in your life where you're coming out of that obligated mind, because it's not healthy to be in that mindset all the time, and you're moving into addressing other areas of your life, but just with a different psychological frame or a different mindset. So those are the two things. Again, the formula here is focus plus boundaries. Boundaries are around that focused goal. Then you step away from it, and you're into this spontaneity mindset that we're talking about here. So some people think, well, look, I can have my obligated mind, my masculine frame around this, but I find it hard to switch off and let go of all these other areas and give them over to this intuitive mindset. The thing about excellence is, though, if you are focused on one goal and you're achieving a state of excellence in that goal, there tends to be a kind of a positive emotional effect or a positive emotion you get. You get a sense of momentum and that positive momentum, that sense of growth in this one area allows you to be more willing to step away from overly controlling these other areas of your life. It's almost as if the psychological momentum you're gathering over here kind of spills over into other areas and you become more willing to let go of micromanaging them and controlling them all the time. So this excellence that we achieve, it does lead to a willingness to let go of control of all these other areas because you're exercising a level of control here. Some degree of control, some degree of obligation, some degree of that rational masculine mindset is useful, very useful, until it becomes, you know, if you have your whole day in that mindset, it becomes very unhealthy. So, Amy, I hope that answers your question. I think you talked about a sense of sacrifice. With the approach I take of having these two mindsets, there is no sacrifice. We have focused attention, move towards your goal, but we have boundaries around it so that we can live within the obligated and spontaneous mindset. And everything gets addressed, nothing gets sacrificed. You can still be focused, but you have a balanced lifestyle. So Amy, I hope that was useful and to anyone else watching this, I hope that was a useful insight for you. And as always, thanks for joining me and I'll see you again soon. Bye for now.