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Welcome to The Productivity Show, a podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family, and things that matter to you.

If it's your first time we're listening, welcome to the show. I'm Tan founder of Asian

efficiency, where we help people become more productive at work in a life. And then do this

podcast together with my co-host, Brooks Duncan, all the way from Canada. How are you today,

Brooks? I'm great, but I need to establish some ground rules for

this episode we're going to be talking about today because, spoiler alert for those listening,

one of the exercises we're going to be talking about today is the five wise exercise, which is

super effective as we will talk about. However, I just want to set the expectation that you're not

going to ambush me with a five wise exercise the way I did to Michael on that one episode years ago.

We're not going to have any of that or I'm hitting the hang-up button.

Right, I forgot about that until you told me about it.

I'll link to that episode in the show notes.

Notice I do the five wives and chat TVT and we just go back and forth at a pace that I can actually manage versus on the spot. I'm usually not a good thinker on the spot. Like I get questions asked all the time. I was like, hey, 10, you have a big network. Who do you know that could do this? And I go, I have no idea. But if you give me a day to think about it, I'll get back to you.

And then when I let my mind kind of wander and I'll sit down and really strategize, then I'll go, okay, yeah, here's five people that I know that you should meet or connect with.

So any thought that requires deep thinking on the spot, usually not that good.

Hence, why in a podcast we still have show notes and outlines and ideas we want to cover.

But every now and that, you know, we go off script and that happens quite often.

So having done a podcast for 10 years now since 2015, right?

So 10 plus years, you get better over time after a few

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