I'm joined today by Tim Ferris, best-selling author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and future TV star.

So thanks for your time today.

Yeah, my pleasure. So I wanted to ask you first about where I think people need the most help which is their professional life

People spend you know half or more of their waking hours working yeah and there's a recent Gallup survey that said over 70% of people are either actively disengaged or not engaged at all,

which means basically they're checked out.

So what can people do to kind of turn that around and what are some tips that you have for them?

I think there are two different scenarios so one is a work situation that is

fixable and then there's the work situation that needs to be replaced.

So there are two different approaches.

The first is really just scheduling a regular 80-20 analysis.

And I still do this.

So every say two to four weeks, I will sit down and I will ask

what are the 20% of say activities and people that are producing 80% of the results that I want,

the things that I want, the things that I want,

including emotional states, positive emotional states.

And then conversely, what are the 20% of activities

and people are consuming 80% of my time

producing 80% of the headache, the anxiety, self-flagellation, all of that.

And you can very quickly create a to-do list and a not-to-do list based on that.

But making the time and scheduling the time to take a step back

and do the 80-20 analysis I think is first and foremost a powerful tool.

That's the Archimedes lever for improvement. In the I need to change but I'm afraid of changing

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