How to Stop Obsessing Over “What If…?”
Build For Tomorrow
Jason Feifer
4.7 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling, because the Big Arch is back, and this time |
| 0:05.3 | is here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce. |
| 0:09.9 | Hungry? You are now. Order delivery on the McDonald's app. |
| 0:15.0 | Serve from 11am. Upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders. Subjects availability, price and |
| 0:19.0 | participation may vary. |
| 0:20.4 | This is Build for Tomorrow, a podcast about the smartest solutions to our most misunderstood |
| 0:25.5 | problems. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Jason Pfeiffer. |
| 0:28.2 | Have you ever done something, and it did not go as you hoped, and then you just felt |
| 0:34.4 | empty? |
| 0:35.5 | And you started obsessing over it, like going through every detail over and over, |
| 0:41.5 | imagining all the ways you could have done better. Well, I recently had a kind of embarrassing |
| 0:47.3 | experience like this and it made me feel a little crazy and then it sent me down a rabbit |
| 0:51.8 | hole to understand what was happening to me. And I want to |
| 0:55.6 | tell you about it because what I found was pretty helpful. And maybe the next time you are |
| 1:00.6 | obsessing over what could have been, it can be helpful to you too. So, some context. As you may know, |
| 1:07.3 | I released a book in September. It's called Build for Tomorrow, just like this podcast. |
| 1:11.7 | And as part of promoting the book, I asked every big podcaster I know if they would have me on their show. |
| 1:18.1 | Because, you know, podcasts are one of the best ways to promote books. |
| 1:21.8 | And for the most part, everyone said yes, which was awesome. |
| 1:24.4 | And then the tapings all went pretty well, which was also awesome, except |
| 1:28.7 | for two of them. Those did not go so well. And when that happened, I just could not stop |
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