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We will get these moments of dissatisfaction or discomfort and be like, "I'm life sucks. I need to change
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something." If you don't like your life in general, change something. But if you
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don't like your life today, maybe don't break up with your wife. Human beings our internal feelings are like the
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weather. There's sunny days and there's rainy days and there's rainy seasons and
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there's sunny seasons and we go through them all. And even if things get better, our baseline adjusts.
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So, if you think about this as a year and we have all the days of the year, half the days are going to be above
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average and half the days are going to be below average. Every month, you're going to have a bottom 10% day
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three times. Cuz you have 36 days per year that are going to be bottom 10% days for
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no reason, purely because law of large numbers. And you're also going to have three days
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per month, which is almost one a week, that's going to be top 10% day of the whole year. That's one a week, almost.
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And so, I think about this variability a lot because when I'm having a quote bad
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day, cuz I have them. I have I have them all the time. And I just think, this is
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probably just a bottom 10% day. One of the lessons that I've learned from an entrepreneurship perspective translated
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into life is my emotional discomfort is not an adequate reason to change what I'm doing. We will get these moments of
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dissatisfaction or discomfort and be like, "I'm life sucks. I need to change something." If you don't like your life
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in general, change something. But if you don't like your life today, maybe don't break up with your wife.
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Maybe you give it a day. People will have a bad day and then basically take it out on their business and then change
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a bunch of things and then destroy what they're with this fledgling business that's getting going because they had an
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emotional need that they could not tolerate. Is my bottom 10% day a big enough thing for me to change my
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behavior? If I determine that I can have a bad day and still do good work, that is a good day.