228. 11 Simple Ways to Be 100x More Effective Than Most People

<p>To get exceptional results, you need to do exceptional things.</p> <p>Most things that are normal are normal only because very few people can resist them.</p> <p>Just because it’s normal, doesn’t mean it’s good for you. It often means the opposite.</p> <p>It’s like the Ancient Chinese proverb says, “If five million people do a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”</p> <h3 id="dontletthemgetapieceofyou">Don’t let them get a piece of you</h3> <p>If you want to carve out your unique place in this world, you need to rise above the noise that other people succumb to.</p> <p>Which means that you have to ruthlessly eliminate the self-destructive things that most people do.</p> <p>The economy runs, like a flywheel, off of exploiting our weaknesses. Sell us addictive and unhealthy substances, then you can sell us drugs to treat the diseases they cause. Hold our attention with news that convinces us we can’t trust one another, then you can sell us suburban developments and home security systems. Then there’s even more attention leftover to sell to advertisers because our social isolation makes us bored and lonely.</p> <p>Getting us to do things that aren’t good for us is great for the Growth Domestic Product.</p> <p>We’re so vulnerable to these things that if you can cut out the things that break you down, and replace them with the things that build you up, you can be way more effective than most people.</p> <p>I say you could be one hundred times more effective than most people.</p> <p>Here are eleven things you can do to be one hundred times more effective than most people.</p> <p>Before I go further, I want to acknowledge that this list really pisses some people off. I posit that it threatens their self-perception.</p> <p>I’m not saying you’re a bad person if you do or don’t do these things. I’m saying you’d be better off if you did all of these things. Let’s be honest -- it’s darn near impossible to do all of these things. I know I don’t. This is just the list I aspire to.</p> <p>Also, some people hear this l