#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas Youve Never Heard Of

The number one test I have for myself is I know I'm too busy if I don't know what the most important question is right now.

You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

A lot of the behaviors from school that you were rewarded for, you ultimately get punished for later in life; and a lot of the behaviors at school that you were punished for, you ultimately get rewarded for later in life.

The quote is... 'There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.'

The activity trap is if you stress activity, you don't necessarily increase output. Whenever you stress output, so the end result, you always improve output, but you'll often actually ironically decrease activity.

I was looking at Google Trends earlier, and if you look at the wood 'busy' from 2004, it's like the Apple stock price; it just, each year, we get about 10% more busier, and we're constantly hitting the peak very single year of people searching the word busy.