There's no such things right in this block. He said what that is is performance anxiety that you've

imposed on yourself because your expectations are too high. And it's like slower your standards,

lower your standards until you get started.

In terms of patterns we were talking about, some of the things I've spotted,

meditation or journaling are performed by close to 100% of the people that I interview.

What can I learn from the people I hate the most? Now this does two things.

It forces you to separate your morality from your search for effectiveness.

It also helps you to develop some degree of empathy. And those two are very powerful.

So what can I learn from the people I hate most? It is a very, very useful practice. I'll

journal on that very often. Are you being busy or are you being productive? What makes you angry

was one of the key pieces of advice that I was given by writer named Pope Bronson.

When I asked him what do you do when you have writer's block, he said what makes you angry or

just write that. Happy write your faults. And of course there are weaknesses you should address,

but then there are flaws that can be converted into strengths. So I think that's another way to

catalyze creativity or just creating anything. It's to realize that some of your biggest flaws may

in fact be assets. This is Derek's recommendation to his younger self and really to any 20 or

30 something, but it applies to everybody, which is in effect you can do almost everything you want

in life, but you can't do it at the same time. And if you can just dedicate yourself to one thing

for even a year and then the next thing for a year, you can do those 10 things. He said when I

start to get really stressed out, I just stop because I realize 95% is enough for getting almost

all of the results that I want and making it sustainable. The impact that I want to have on the

world right now would be creating a benevolent army of super learners who test the impossible.

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