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President Barack Obama, he had 30 of the same suits. Why? Just because you're busy, it doesn't mean you're being
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productive. Your brain, your cognitive load is like a bathtub. If you have a bathtub, the bathtub can only hold so
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much water. If you keep wooding water, it's going to overflow. That's your cognitive load. It's the same thing when
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you put stuff in there. I'm going to add more stuff and more stuff and more stuff. Your cognitive load is
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overflowing. It's maxed. You're inefficient. You're sloppy. You're not getting things done right. If you are,
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you're just barely getting there. You're everywhere. You're stressed out. You're
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frazzled because you're maxed out. So everything I do, I learned this from watching presidents. I keep my load
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light. My bathtub only holds the water it needs to hold in. So it protects you from overextending yourself, stressing
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yourself. It also keeps you from making bad decisions. You make good decisions. There's something called decision
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fatigue. We think the more I add, the busier I am, the better I am. I'm I'm moving. I'm hustling. I'm doing all
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this stuff. Look how maxed out I am. Just because you're busy, it doesn't mean you're being productive. Those two
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things are not synonymous. So often people think leaders keep adding adding. No. You know what good leaders do? They
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take out of that bathtub. What can I do less of so I can be exceptional at the other things I do? President Barack
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Obama, he had 30 of the same suits. Why? So he didn't have to make so many decisions every day.
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Yeah. He didn't want to sit and figure out what he's going to wear. It's a decision he didn't have to make. That
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keeps his bathtub light. Think about all the decisions he had to make every single day. Take that thing out. You
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don't have infinite resources. You do not have an infinite cognitive load and you do not have an infinite emotional
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load. Don't keep adding. Your job is to take out so that the things you do do, you do exceptionally well and you're
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much more emotionally stable. Lighten your bathtub