A short YouTube conversation between Mick Hunt and Daniel Kang arguing that people chase shortcuts and optimal solutions instead of consistently executing simple, proven principles. They apply this to financial literacy, fitness, leadership and other domains, emphasizing boring, repeated execution over searching for the perfect method.
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And I think where most people go wrong I'd say even in financial literacy is they want big results really fast.
Just to add to that I call this intellectual obesity where people try to understand the most optimal way of doing things whether it's related to financial literacy or leadership or whatever but really it boils down to how well you execute on a very simple set of principles, right? And I think the reason people are looking for the answers they're looking for shortcuts. How do we think how do I get the best thing and get the best workout or get the best financial investment or get whatever. But you know if you've worked out at all, you know it's a very boring process of like a pretty set training set and you just keep doing it. Same thing with finance, same thing with really everything. I think you know just taking a few of these principles and really going deep on execution is what really matters. It.