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My First Million

Framework Friday: Easy Choices, Hard Life. Hard Choices, Easy Life.

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 18 November 2022

ā±ļø 11 minutes

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Summary

Episode #387: Shaan Puri (@shaanvp) and Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) discuss the idea that making hard choices, doing hard things, can actually make life easier. ----- Links: * Influence, Robert Cialdini * Charlie Munger, "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" speech * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: Show Notes: (05:20) - Do the hard thing (06:00) - What are your blindspots ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0

This is framework Friday special guest Andrew Wilkinson joining Andrew I wanted to hear

0:21.1

from you because I think you like frameworks just as much as I do.

0:24.5

Is there a framework that you've been using or has stood out to you as particularly

0:29.7

useful lately?

0:30.7

It's actually a quote and it's easy choices hard life hard choices easy life by this

0:39.6

guy Jersey Greg Rick.

0:40.7

I think Tim Ferris famously shared this quote years ago and it always sticks with me

0:45.5

and it most recently has been on my mind and it's one of those things where you will

0:52.9

often find a situation where you know what the right thing to do is.

0:56.9

So let's say an employee is you know just not working out or there's a difficult decision

1:02.0

that needs to be made and naturally the thing to do is to delay it or to try and make

1:08.0

it work and I have really shifted over the last two years of really trying to make the hard

1:13.3

choice and I found that it always results in an easier life that the road to hell is

1:19.9

paved with good intentions and that when I try and make it work with someone or I try

1:24.3

and make a business work it just never does.

1:27.7

So for me you know the other piece that framework is if I ever think should I fire this person

1:34.5

that means I absolutely should because you never think about a superstar and go should

1:38.9

I fire them you go oh my god I'd be lost without them.

1:41.9

So if you have that thought you got to immediately fire that person make a hard decision and

1:46.3

that applies to so many different parts of business.

1:49.1

I like that I'll give one personal experience caveat with that recently in the past two

1:55.0

years there's been a couple people that we were like should we fire this person and I

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