Hey, good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast just in

Suta here episode 1,805. Today we're talking about building a system and I

recently came across the transcript of an interview I saw between Tim

Ferris and Jerry Seinfeld. Tim Ferris asks, are there any examples that you

would give from your operating system, any guiding rules or principles? And Jerry

Seinfeld, the iconic comedian says, well my guiding rule is systematize. My

basic system is if you're going to write, make yourself a writing session. How

long are you going to work on it? Don't just sit down with an open ended I'm

going to work on this problem. That's ridiculous torture to put a human

through through a human being's head. It's like you're going to hire a trainer

to get in shape and he comes over and you go how long is the session and the

trainer goes it's open ended. Forget it. I'm not doing it. It's over right

there. You have to control what your brain can take. You've got to treat your

brain like a dog you just got. The mind is infinite in wisdom. The brain is

stupid. It's a stupid little dog that can be easily trained. Do not confuse the

mind with the brain. The brain is so easy to master you just have to confine

it. You confine it and that's done through repetition and system is a system

a systematization easy for me to say. What I love about this it goes along with

what we talk about all the time. Building systems, building routines, building

processes. What is your system for strengthening your mind? What is your

system for building confidence? What is your system for building a habit that

you need to build? Now it doesn't come through. It doesn't come through these

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