A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Ramit Sethi (Feb 21, 2025) in which he humorously criticizes trivial consumer behaviors and excessive self-tracking. He mocks obsessive money-tracking (e.g., tracking grocery prices or using spreadsheets to impress partners) and criticizes vanity health metrics (e.g., obsessing over VO2 max, eyelids, sleep data) as distractions from meaningful improvement.
Don't buy iceberg lettuce. Don't you dare go outside and look in the window of a store. Ugh. Maybe when you're 90, then you can spend money. No, thank you. You fire nerds who open up your spreadsheet and go, look at this cool little vlookup that I did. It's so cool. Do you feel good? Do you finally feel good about money? Then they're like, I don't want to be with this person anymore. That's it. You don't need to be tracking the price of turnips. It's a waste of time. Money for couples. Learn about it. Who are running a business together. You did that. You KE them in business. Since I was a kid. Why? No. Stop it. Hey, everybody. I need more information about my eyelids and my sleep and my heart rate and my VO2 max. And I need to do everything except the thing that's actually going to improve my life.
