This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1711. Remember to slam the door behind you by Isaac

Morehouse of IsaacMorehouse.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Friday and welcome to the

Old Podcast, the OLD Podcast Optimal Living Daily, where I read to you like a big, ongoing

audiobook but from many different authors. Today's being Isaac Morehouse. I'll share

some info about him right after the reading so for now let's get right to it and start

optimizing your life. Remember to slam the door behind you by Isaac Morehouse of IsaacMorehouse.com.

Stop Leaving Door's Open. Start burning bridges. There's an idea that keeping doors open is inherently

good. I've written before about how obsession with options can blind you to opportunities. I'm

going to make an even stronger claim. Not only do you need to stop looking for so many options,

you should begin actively slamming doors to ensure you can never again walk through them.

If you know a door leads you to a life that would make you unhappy, shut it. If you peek

through a particular portal and see something that makes you a little dead inside, slam

the door and burn it behind you. Otherwise you might be tempted to go through it later

if someone dangles the right price in front of you. You might be tempted to say yes to

something you hate, which might be the saddest of all faiths. I've been a number of young

people who spent a summer in turning and watching TNDC and told me after the experience that

they hate the entire political scene and would never want to become one of those people. Many

of these same young people when the fantasy land of subsidized education comes to a close

and the need for a steady job begins to weigh on them, confide things like, I can't publish

that blog post or I'll never get hired by Policy Group X in DC. They're careful not

to burn bridges, just in case. But if the bridge takes you someplace you know you don't

want to go, burning it should be a top priority. There's a reason Odysseus had himself tied

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