I have long believed that the solution to even our biggest problems, right?

Our toughest tasks, our greatest challenges, they can be solved.

Or at least the process of solving them can begin exactly where you are using only what you already have.

Right? Meaning the solution to your problem exists in the room with you

an arm's length away. And you might hear that and think, dude, you know, that's way too good to be true.

That's that's too idealistic.

It's too simple.

But what I want to try and explain over the next few minutes is how the most important changes we make in life.

The things that matter the most, they're simple. Incredibly simple. And it's only our

tendency to make things unnecessarily complex that becomes the problem. One of my favorite thinkers, Thomas Sol, once said,

people who pride themselves on their complexity

and deride others for being simplistic

should realize that the truth is often not very complicated.

What gets complex is evading the truth.

And he's coming up this more societally from a political angle, but I think so many of these things in the big picture and the macro, they make sense in the micro.

Like I hear this and I think at a personal level this is so true.

You should see the

things I come up with in my mind when I'm procrastinating

or dragging my feet on something.

This angle, that angle, what if this happens or that?

Have I thought about A? What about B?

What about C? And I usually dance around

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