Short video micro-class by Brian Johnson presenting Warren Buffett’s ‘25-then-5’ goal method: list 25 potential life goals, choose the top five that most energize you, and discard the other 20 to focus your best energy on the five that represent your highest contribution. The clip frames this as a strategy to find meaningful work and optimal living.
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Foreign. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on Buffett Goals. It's inspired by Born for this by Chris Gillebeau. All about helping you find the work you were meant to do. Talked about the joy money flow concept in the last idea. Here's one way to get some more clarity. Warren Buffett apparently had a friend who once came to him and asked him for advice, right? And Buffett said he's trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Buffett said, think about the 25 things that you could see doing over the course of your life. 25 life goals that inspire you, that you'd like to do in your life. 1, 2, 25. Right. Think about all those things and then look at that list. Think hard about it and pick the five that most fire you up. That if you got to the end of your life and you achieve these five things, that'd be a win, right? So you've got 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These five things. We're not talking about bucket list stuff as much as we are. How are you going to use your greatest gifts and greatest service to the world? Top five. And then he says, throw away everything else. Throw away those other 20 goals. This is your life. Focus right here. You're not going to someday get to these after you get these done. This is your life.
Be willing to commit, decide, cut off.
Other options, throw them away and focus.
Be willing to put all of your.
Best energy into that. That's a cool way to expand and then contract. What are your top 25? And then what are the top five?
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