#3507: The "Avoidance List"

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

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4.9 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode, I talk about the idea of the avoidance list and why success is more about what you don’t do than what you do. This comes from a story in the book The Third Door and a strategy often linked to Warren Buffett, even though he didn’t actually create it. The idea is simple: pick your top five goals and avoid the other twenty, not because they’re bad, but because they distract you. Focus is limited, and trying to do everything weakens your results. I will explain why a “not-to-do” list might be more powerful than any to-do list. Show Notes: [03:53]#1 Most people fail through too much addition, not through subtraction. [10:25]#2 True power is in restraint, not commitment. [15:19]#3 Discipline creates presence. [18:04] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 1193: Focus: The Force Multiplier Next Steps: ⚡️ Power Presence Protocol Command The Room Without Words → http://PowerPresenceProtocol.com 🎓 Work On Your Game University Get structured, get paid → WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com 📲 Get Dre’s #DailyMotivation Text → 305.384.6894 (or http://www.DreAllDay.com/text) 📧 Dre’s Daily Emails (Free) Clarity. Strategy. Execution. → WorkOnMyGame.com 🤖 Chat with DreGPT 🤖🔥 AI that thinks like Dre → DreAllDay.com/AI 📚 Claim Your Free Books The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com Sales Discipline System → SalesDisciplineBook.com Overseas Basketball Blueprint → BallOverseas.com How To Play As Well As You Practice → HoopHandbook.com/Free 🎧 Free Audiobooks The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com/audible Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible 💵 Support the Show CashApp → Cash.app/$DreBaldwin PayPal → https://www.paypal.biz/workonyourgame 📱 Connect with Dre Instagram → Instagram.com/DreBaldwin TikTok → TikTok.com/@WorkOnYourGame YouTube → YouTube.com/DreAllDay Twitter / X → X.com/DreAllDay Facebook → Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity 🎙 All Episodes + Archive → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:50.3	Today's topic is the avoidance list.
0:53.3	I was reading this book called The Third Door by Alex
0:56.9	by Nayan. And he talks about this Warren Buffett concept that a lot of people have attributed
1:05.3	to Warren Buffett. And the concept was these two lists that Warren Buffett said came up with. And I'll get to that in a second. My friend Lee is a person who actually recommended this book to me. And I was happy to find I already had it in my library, but I hadn't actually read it yet. So this concept is coming from, again, Warren Buffett's famous list strategy. He's credited with a lot of things that some of which he
1:28.4	did actually do in many things. He didn't actually do what people give credence to it by putting
1:32.2	famous person's name next to it. So this is one of them. And it's about going against the grain of
1:38.5	the concept that most people think success is all about and that people think success is about all these things that you do.
1:46.7	Whereas Warren Buffett, or this concept that is attributed to Warren Buffett, what's just
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