In this is tiny leaps,

we talk about how to make your life easier.

Get excited because this is tiny leaps.

Big jee. In yesterday's episode of the podcast we talked about how the idea that instead of

worrying about making life easier you should focus on being better, is actually really bad advice,

and how quotes like that really kind of lead you down the wrong path.

Because ultimately, when you look at all of the behavioral

science the goal should be to make things easier the easier you make something to

engage with the more likely you are to engage with it the more likely you are to engage with it, the more likely you are to be consistent.

You see when somebody, and this is a point that I didn't make in yesterday's episode, but

when somebody tells you to focus on just being better, then you focus on being better.

And ultimately what's going to happen is you're going to run into a moment where you can't

be better, either because life gets in the way, or you're too busy at work,

or you need to pick up your kids, or a parent or family member dies.

There are any number of things that can throw you off your game because life is complicated.

And so what ends up happening is they tell you, you just need to be better.

Don't worry about life being easier.

You just need to be better. And you focus on, I just need to be better.

And you focus on, I'm going to be better.

And through that, when you eventually fail,

because you will fail, you start to feel like,

well, I just wasn't good enough.

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