Chris Williamson and a guest distinguish leverage from brute force and optimizing from maximizing. The stress of chasing perfection damages more than the imperfections themselves. Missing a biohacking routine isn't catastrophic.
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America was built on the backs of men who smoked cigarettes, drove without seatbelts, and had bacon for breakfast. If you miss your biohacking routine this morning, you're going to be okay. There's a time for leverage, but there's also a time for violence, which is just brute force. People get really obsessed with optimum, which is getting the most bang for your buck, but there's also maximizing, which is just getting the most bucks. You lose more life trying to optimize everything than just living it. The stress of trying to be perfect is killing you more quickly than you're imperfections.
That's so true. I, um, I think I work pretty hard, and still some days I'm like, there's definitely more in the tank, man. And you see how hard someone like him worked to accomplish the things he did in life. Just trying to do my best to keep pushing.