Sam Corcos shares 3 rules for life
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm joined by Sam Corcos, CEO and co founder of Levels, a company helping people better understand their metabolic health through real time data. Sam takes a counterintuitive approach to both work and life. Rejecting the always busy CEO stereotype, he schedules his days for deep focus, while also being very intentional about his media diet. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, I think you're going to find a lot of value from Sam's rules.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:48 Rule 1: Don't let urgency, determine priority
05:37 Rule 2: You don't need to know everything
11:26 Rule 3: Only give your attention, to things you can control
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| 0:00.0 | It's just living in this world of constant urgency, shuffling things around without actually |
| 0:05.2 | getting any work done because I think so many people have lost even the definition of what |
| 0:09.9 | work means. What does it mean to actually do work? Hey there, I'm Matt Diabella and welcome to my |
| 0:15.3 | short form podcast, Three Rules. Each episode, I ask a guest to share three rules that help them find success and |
| 0:21.9 | happiness. Today I'm joined by Sam Corkos, CEO and co-founder of Levels, a company helping people |
| 0:27.4 | better understand their metabolic health through real-time data. Sam takes a counterintuitive |
| 0:31.6 | approach to both work and life, rejecting the always busy CEO stereotype. He schedules his |
| 0:37.2 | days for deep focus while also being |
| 0:39.6 | very intentional about his media diet. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, I think you're |
| 0:43.7 | going to find a lot of value from Sam's rules. Let's start off with rule number one for you. |
| 0:48.2 | Rule number one is don't let urgency determine priority. It's a useful way to think about problems. |
| 0:55.8 | And what I found is that, certainly in my past, and a lot of people that I know are basically |
| 1:01.1 | trapped in the urgent category, sometimes urgent important, sometimes urgent, not important, |
| 1:07.8 | usually urgent, not important. |
| 1:09.6 | Where something feels urgent, it just by default |
| 1:13.2 | will override anything that you are doing because it has to be done with a deadline. |
| 1:18.3 | It's a very specific recent example for us. I had a reporter reach out to us for a quote |
| 1:24.1 | related to our space and glucose monitoring and said, I need you to respond to this within 24 hours. |
| 1:30.9 | And I said, no, thank you. Because, you know, it's a large publication, but media is not part of our strategy. |
| 1:39.0 | So while there's this artificial constraint of, hey, you need to do this within 24 hours, I don't actually have to. |
| 1:46.9 | So I'm going to focus on what's important. Media was part of our strategy a few years ago. It's not right now. |
| 1:53.7 | So it's better to just not respond and focus on what's actually important. So one of the practices that I have for this, which I found really helpful, I, every quarter, |
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