Hey lazy geniuses! This is Kendra Adachi and you are listening to the lazy genius podcast.

Here I am going to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode, the lazy genius buys a gift. Here's the pitch.

Whether or not you like giving gifts or have the money to spend on them, buying and giving gifts can be such a source of joy for you,

as well as for the person getting it, rather than stress.

So today in the playbook, we are going to talk about three things. First, we're going to talk about the myths of the perfect gift.

Then we're going to hit three tips to know what people want without asking, and then three ways to remember to buy a gift before it's too late.

First let's talk about the myth of the perfect gift, because the perfect gift does not exist people.

Here's the thing. If you think about gifts that were memorable for you, usually they are marking time.

It's a new bike. It's your first car. It's your first KitchenAid mixer. It's your first Barbie doll.

It's things that are your first things that mark movements through your life.

Marking time doesn't really work as much as we get older.

And so we put these emotional expectations on ourselves to give kind of bike level gifts to people for every occasion until we die.

And that is so much pressure that we need to release from ourselves.

Trying to create and give the perfect gift to each person each time is trying to be a genius about the wrong thing.

Because you're not going to do it. There is no way that you're going to give the perfect gift every single time.

The gift that that person says, this is the best gift I've ever received. That's not a thing.

And you're going to keep, even if they say that one time, the miracle that they might say that one time, then that means the next time you're going to have to do better.

Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.

So the first step in being a lazy genius and buying a gift is to release ourselves from the tension in the expectation and this terrible myth of the perfect gift.

It doesn't exist. So just have fun. The sooner you let it go, the more fun you're going to have.

Okay. So let's move on to three tips for knowing what a person wants without having to ask.

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