Micro Class: What's Wildly Important

Foreign. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on what's Wildly important. It's inspired by deep work by Cal Newport. So we're talking about shallow versus deep work. And shallow work, as we've discussed, is basically all the things that just distract you. Email coming in all the time, social media, right? You're on your iPhone and you get the next push notification telling you, ding, this is important.

Pay attention to me.

And you never do any deep work. Now, if all I tell you is don't do this, don't do that, and don't do this and don't do that, that's not very inspiring, right? You can look at that and go, what doesn't work? Psychologists say that's the difference between approach versus avoidance. You never want to set avoidance goals. You never want to say to yourself, I need to stop doing that. That's not good for me. What you want to do is you want to create a big yes. A yes that's so big that it crowds out, crowds out all the no's. You are just so unbelievably fired up about this big yes that you don't even remember what you were saying no to. You don't have time for it. It's crowded out. So the question to get to that big yes is what's wildly important to you? What one thing. If you could achieve it over the next six to 12 months, what would it be? What's the challenging yet feasible goal that you could achieve in the next six to 12 months that just fires you up? It's wildly important. If you were able to achieve this over the next six to 12 months, your life would just extraordinarily take a leap forward. Yes, that would be awesome. And that would also be a catalyst to remove all the distractions easily by approaching something that inspires you rather than trying to avoid the things that don't.

This is big.

What's wildly important to you?

Think about that.

Use that as a motivation and incentive to structure your life around it. And again, remember, challenging and feasible. We don't need to be silly about it. Don't set a goal that you're gonna burn yourself out on in a week. Cause it's impossible. Do your whoop on it. Mentally contrast it right? Go check out the whoop for all the goodness on there, but get your challenging and feasible goal. Say yes to it. Then structure your days in your life such that you can do the deep work required to make that come to fruition and make it easier to say no to all the distractions. Hope you enjoyed and look forward to celebrating wild success with you.

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