How To Manage All Your Interests (and get real results)
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses effective time management and personal development strategies. The narrator, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt with a passion for piano, shares a system to manage multiple interests without burnout. Key strategies include creating a 'graveyard' for less urgent projects, eliminating 'zombie projects,' identifying life multipliers, and conducting a time audit. The script also emphasizes the importance of making every day a 'non-zero day' for consistent progress and balancing short-term gains with long-term skill development.
Takeaways
- 📚 Start a 'graveyard' for your drafts and ideas to declutter your mind and reduce pressure during the editing process.
- 🎼 Recognize and 'kill zombie projects' that no longer serve you, freeing up time and mental space for more valuable pursuits.
- 🌱 Identify 'life multipliers'—activities that have a broad positive impact on your life, such as physical exercise, cooking, or learning a new skill.
- 🏋️♂️ Engage in physical activities like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for long-term benefits like improved health, social connections, and potential income.
- 🍳 Cooking as a life skill can lead to healthier eating habits and the ability to share meals with others, enhancing social life.
- 🎹 Pursue interests that provide immediate joy and relaxation, like playing the piano, even if they don't directly contribute to income.
- 🗓️ Create a 'Must-Do' list to differentiate between interests that are 'cool to do' and those that are essential for your desired lifestyle.
- ⏳ Conduct a 'time audit' to understand how you spend your spare time and identify opportunities to reallocate time to meaningful activities.
- 📝 Determine your 'Su' (smallest unit) of time for each interest and plan specific actions to take during these periods to avoid wasting time.
- 🐢 Embrace the 'tortoise approach' by making every day a 'non-zero day' of progress, even if it's just a small amount of work towards your goals.
- 🍊 Think like an 'orange farmer' by balancing short-term gains with long-term cultivation of skills and interests for sustained success.
Q & A
What is the main issue the speaker addresses in the video?
-The speaker addresses the challenge of managing multiple interests and hobbies while avoiding burnout, and finding a system to make progress in all areas of interest.
What is the concept of a 'graveyard' as mentioned in the script?
-A 'graveyard' is a place where the speaker stores drafts, notes, links, and ideas that are not currently being worked on, allowing them to stop worrying about them and focus on current projects.
Why is it beneficial to kill 'zombie projects' according to the speaker?
-Killing 'zombie projects' is beneficial because it frees up time and mental energy to focus on projects that are more valuable and aligned with one's current goals and interests.
What are 'life multipliers' and how do they relate to the speaker's approach to managing interests?
-Life multipliers are projects or skills that have a significant positive impact on one's life in multiple ways, such as meeting people, providing long-term skills, or improving health. The speaker suggests focusing on these to maximize the benefits of one's time and effort.
How does the speaker use the concept of a 'Musto list' to prioritize interests?
-The speaker uses a 'Musto list' to differentiate between interests that are 'cool to do' and those that are 'absolute must-dos', helping to prioritize activities that are most meaningful and aligned with long-term goals.
What is the importance of a 'time audit' in the speaker's system for managing interests?
-A 'time audit' is crucial for understanding how time is currently spent and identifying areas where time can be reallocated to pursue interests more effectively.
What does the speaker suggest as the smallest unit of productive time (Su) for pursuing interests?
-The speaker suggests identifying the smallest unit of productive time (Su) for each interest, which could be as short as 5 or 10 minutes, to ensure that progress can be made even with limited time availability.
Why is it important to avoid 'zero days' according to the speaker?
-Avoiding 'zero days' ensures that there is consistent progress in interests and habits, which helps in maintaining momentum and preventing the loss of skills or knowledge over time.
How does the analogy of an orange farmer relate to managing multiple interests?
-The analogy of an orange farmer emphasizes the importance of balancing short-term gains with long-term cultivation. In the context of interests, it means working on immediate skills while also developing those that will benefit in the long run.
What additional advice does the speaker provide for those with multiple interests?
-The speaker advises creating a plan, being mindful of life multipliers, and ensuring a balance between short-term and long-term activities to make the most of one's time and efforts.
Outlines
📚 Managing Multiple Interests and Prioritizing Time
The speaker, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu with a passion for piano and various other hobbies, discusses their struggle with time management and the feeling of burnout. They introduce their system for managing multiple interests, which includes creating a 'graveyard' for storing drafts and ideas that aren't currently a priority. This allows them to focus on their current projects without the pressure of losing those ideas. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of 'killing zombie projects,' which are half-finished tasks that no longer serve a purpose, freeing up time for more meaningful activities. They suggest identifying 'life multipliers,' activities that provide long-term benefits in multiple areas of life, such as physical exercise, cooking, and social activities like Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
🗓️ Time Audit and Prioritizing Must-Do Interests
The speaker encourages viewers to conduct a 'time audit' to understand how their time is currently spent, which can reveal opportunities for reallocating time to more meaningful activities. They suggest recording daily activities in detail to identify where time can be reassigned. The speaker also recommends creating a 'Must-Do' list to distinguish between interests that are merely 'cool' and those that are essential to one's desired lifestyle. They advise considering the long-term benefits of skills and experiences, such as learning an instrument or writing a book, and to plan for both short-term and long-term activities. The concept of 'nonzero days' is introduced, emphasizing the importance of making daily progress, no matter how small, to build habits and maintain momentum in personal development.
🌳 Thinking Like an Orange Farmer for Long-Term Growth
The speaker concludes by discussing the importance of balancing short-term gains with long-term cultivation in personal interests, using the analogy of an orange farmer from the book 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.' They suggest a mix of activities that provide immediate satisfaction and those that build skills for the future. The speaker also highlights the significance of life multipliers and encourages viewers to invest time in learning them for their overall well-being. They propose a step-by-step guide for planning and managing multiple interests effectively, which will be provided in the video description, and they invite viewers to explore additional resources on life multipliers shared in the video.
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Keywords
💡Graveyard
💡Zombie Projects
💡Life Multipliers
💡Bucket List
💡Time Audit
💡SU Number
💡Nonzero Days
💡Orange Farmer
💡Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
💡Piano
Highlights
The speaker is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, enjoys playing piano, and has various hobbies including going to the gym, cooking, reading, writing, editing videos, and learning random things.
They've developed a system to manage their interests and make progress without feeling burned out.
The concept of a 'graveyard' is introduced as a method to store drafts and ideas that are not currently being worked on.
The graveyard helps alleviate the pressure of editing and refining ideas by providing a place to store them without the fear of permanent deletion.
The speaker uses the graveyard for various interests like improv piano, cake decorating, surfing, and card manipulation.
Scott Anthony's concept of 'killing zombie projects' is mentioned as a way to eliminate projects that are not providing value.
Life multipliers are projects that have a significant positive impact on one's life in multiple ways, such as meeting people, learning a lifelong skill, or providing financial benefits.
Exercise is given as an example of a life multiplier that provides energy, mental clarity, and long-term health benefits.
The speaker suggests listing all interests and categorizing them into 'cool to do' and 'must do' for personal fulfillment.
A time audit is recommended to identify how time is spent and to find opportunities for reallocating time to meaningful activities.
The concept of SU (Smallest Unit) is introduced to determine the minimum amount of time one can productively spend on a hobby or interest.
Avoiding 'zero days' is emphasized to ensure consistent progress in interests and hobbies.
The analogy of an orange farmer is used to illustrate the importance of balancing short-term gains with long-term cultivation.
The speaker encourages planning and making the most of every day while also preparing for the future.
A step-by-step guide on how to manage multiple interests effectively is promised in the video description.
The video concludes with a call to action for viewers to learn life multipliers and provides resources for doing so.
Transcripts
okay so I'm a black belt in Brazilian
jiu-jitsu with a pretty serious piano
habit but I also like going to the gym
cooking Reading Writing editing videos
learning all sorts of random stuff and
hanging out with my family and honestly
it's not that easy for the longest time
I other felt like I didn't have enough
time to do all the things I wanted to do
or like I was constantly on the edge of
burnout because I was always grinding
and never resting but after a lot of
learning experimenting I actually think
I've found a system that lets me not
just manage all those interests but also
Al make forward progress in all of them
weekly if not daily will also give me
enough downtime to not just feel like
I'm completely burned out so that is
what we're going to talk about in this
video and we're going to start with
probably the simplest single thing that
you can do which is to start a graveyard
so this is something I've done for years
in writing and it's absolutely the best
way to take the pressure off when you're
trying to kind of edit and refine your
ideas the basic idea is that you put
every draft you do along with notes
links and anything else you think you
might want to remember in a graveyard at
the bottom of the document you're
working on and then you just stop
worrying about it it's always there if
you want it and sometimes you will go
back to it but what it really does is
make the process of deleting things from
your current draft feel easier because
you know you're not deleting anything
permanently but the point is this is
something you can do with your interest
too so for instance I quite like to get
better at improv piano cake decorating
surfing making campfires and doing that
sort of weird card manipulation thing
that isn't quite magic but looks really
cool but I'm not really in a position to
work on any of that right now so all of
that goes in the graveyard along with
any like projects or ideas I have that I
haven't quite got the time to work on
right now so that might mean a book that
I've got an idea for an essay that I
want to write or a video that might be
cool but isn't quite right for this
channel so it has to wait until I've got
time to prioritize it and I'm not saying
I'm never going to do this stuff I
actually revisit my graveyard quite a
lot just in case something in it Sparks
something off or if I've got like time
to do a little side project and I fancy
doing something fun but by having it
written down I don't actually have to
stress about it it's just there
somewhere in a backup spot so I'm not
constantly juggling in my brain on a
similar sort of subject something I also
really recommend is what Scott Anthony
calls killing zombie projects or those
projects that you've sort of half done
or started but you aren't really
committing to or getting any value from
We're often quite reluctant to abandon
these because of the time we've already
put into them but admitting to yourself
that you're not really benefiting from
these things can make it kind of easier
to stop worrying about them and that
gives you more time to worry about the
stuff you do want to do and a way to do
that better is to look for Life
multipliers so I like to think of Life
multipliers as those projects that have
like an outsize ability to improve your
life in either one way or even better a
whole bunch of ways that might be
because they're a cool way to meet
people and make friends or because it's
like a skill you're going to use forever
or maybe because it's something you can
use to travel and make money from so I
think the ultimate example of a life
model mullier is getting into some kind
of physical activity for the 2 or 3
hours a week I put into it exercise
really pays off by giving me more energy
more mental Clarity and a mood boost
that lasts for most of the rest of the
day and in the longer term hopefully
it's also keeping me healthy so I can
keep doing all the other stuff I want to
do for a much longer Time Another Life
multiplier is being able to cook you're
going to have to eat for the rest of
your life and so learning to make even a
handful of delicious meals is going to
pay off by helping you eat healthily and
cook for other people for me Brazilian J
as a life multiplier because it's a cool
way to make friends and stay in shape
and now that I'm pretty good at it it's
also something I can make money from and
I don't think I'm ever going to make
money from piano but it is a cool fun
thing that helps me decompress and kind
of takes me away from screens and work
and I'm not saying you have to think
about everything in these kind of
calculating mercenary terms like I
learned to do a Rubik's Cube just cuz it
was something cool and I wanted to
impress my six-year-old but I do think
it can help you out to go through
everything you want to do and list out
the kind of benefits that it might have
now and in the future and once you've
done that you're in the perfect position
to make your Musto list so I think
pretty much everybody is familiar with
the idea of a bucket list I've got one
written down and it's full of stuff I
would genuinely like to do one day like
visiting your semi going in a hot air
balloon and reading Edward gibbons's
decl and fall of the Roman Empire but I
also have one for skills and interests
and with those I think it's really
helpful to make a distinction between
stuff that would be kind of cool to do
and stuff that's super meaningful to you
and the kind of life if you want to lead
so for me for instance I've always
thought it' be kind of cool to get a
black belt in Judo but I won't really
feel like I've failed at the end of my
life if I've never done it whereas piano
was kind of the opposite when I sat down
and thought about it learning an
instrument and that instrument in
particular was one thing that I was like
yeah I'm going to be sad if I get to
like 70 years old and I've never even
tried this and similarly if I never try
and write a book about the kind of stuff
I talk about on this channel I think
that'll be a missed opportunity and I'll
regret not having done it so the first
thing I would suggest is is sitting down
and scribbling out absolutely everything
that you're interested in doing and then
splitting that stuff out into yeah that'
be kind of cool and this is an absolute
must do this is where your graveyard
comes in handy because a lot of the kind
of cool stuff can go in there but it's
also where life multipliers are going to
come in handy because those let you look
at the things that are going to improve
your life right now and then in the
future like maybe you're young and you'd
like to one day travel the world as a
digital Nomad maybe that's a process you
can kick off right now by starting to
learn a skill that world one day let you
work abroad or even teach or is there
stuff that you should do right now while
you're young like I did a bunch of
gymnastics and capera when I was younger
and I'm really glad about that because
as I've got older it's not just
difficult to get to the sort of gyms
where I can do that stuff it's also a
lot harder on my body whereas some stuff
that's on my kind of cool list like cake
decorating an improv piano I can keep
practicing till I'm 90 and then once
you've got all this stuff in the list
it's time to do a Time audit and I will
make you a bet this is probably the one
thing from this video that you are going
to think about and then not do because
it seems kind of boring and obvious but
I also think it's the one thing that you
absolutely shouldn't skip because it's
very easy to think that you don't have
any spare time to do anything until you
look at what you're doing with your
spare time so for instance I recently
got into a video game called seafu and
it's a nice not too challenging way to
just chill out at the end of a long day
but when I looked at all the little
10minute bouts of it I played over a
recent week I was like hm that is
actually quite a lot of time that I
could be spending moving forward in
another one of the many things I want to
do so you can either do this with a pen
and paper or on a spreadsheet but what I
really recommend is trying to record
your daily activities in as much
granular detail as you can like right
down to little 10 minute bursts of stuff
here and there and doing it as soon as
you've done the activities so that you
don't forget them if you sit down at the
end of a long day and go oh how long did
I spend like looking for something to
watch a Netflix before I actually sat
and watched it you're probably going to
underestimate it and how long you do
this audit for is really up to you I
think 3 days is the minimum but a week
is really good and 2 weeks is even
better and once you've done your time
audit you can sit down and look at where
you've got extra time and then work out
what you could actually be doing in that
time like you're probably not going to
make it to a Jiu-Jitsu class at 10:00 at
night but maybe you could spend some of
that time looking over instructionals or
watching match footage or maybe you
can't get to a piano during your lunch
hour at work but could you spend like at
least 5 minutes of that watching some
music theory or going over your notes
and so once you thought about this stuff
and filled the obvious gaps in your
schedule it's time to change your Su so
the question to ask yourself here is
what's the smallest amount of time in
which I can get something done towards
the projects that are meaningful to me
so for Jiu-Jitsu people often think
about that in terms of the hour they
have to go to the gym and the commute
time around it or even for piano people
think about it in terms of like 25 or 30
minutes but the thing is that's not
really true for me a big part of keeping
my piano practice going when I'm busier
is being able to fit into a five or a 10
minute gap which might not be enough to
get into seriously studying a piece but
is definitely enough to work on some
technical skills or some site reading
and in Jiu-Jitsu even on a day when you
can't actually get to the gym it's
pretty easy to watch 5 minutes of an
instructional or go over some class
notes or even just do a handful of band
movements to keep yourself in shape for
the days you can train so what I would
suggest here is to grab a post it note
for each of your main interests and
write down your Su number which is the
smallest unit of productive time you
think you can spend on it and then the
important bit is write down what you're
going to do during that time and make it
as specific as possible being specific
means you'll be able to jump straight in
when you get 10 five or even a couple of
minutes of spare time and that will make
you better at the next bit of advice
which is to avoid zero days so we all
hear the story of The Tortoise and the
hair when we're kids and then we go yeah
yeah slow and steady wins the race I get
it and then we kind of forget about it
but that story really does have an
important lesson when it comes to
practice because there are a ton of
people let's call them hairs who'll
totally throw themselves into a new
hobby for a few days or weeks but there
are far fewer tortoises who commit to
investing time over months or even years
and if you want to be more like a
tortoise because they win in the end
then what I think is really valuable is
to try and make every day a nonzero day
which basically means doing a little bit
of work towards whatever you're trying
to get better at every single day and
there are three reasons this is a good
idea first if you're moving forward you
are going to get where you're going
eventually however slow your progress is
second it builds good habits which is
obviously really helpful but finally
maybe most importantly because it keeps
whatever you're doing on your mind so
that your brain's always working on it
and I think there's a lot to this if you
do something for like an intense week
and then stop then you're going to
forget a whole bunch of it but if you do
5 minutes a day it stays some people
find it helpful to have a streak of
nonzero do I don't really worry about
that but I do try never to have two
nonzero days in a row so if I miss a day
on a project I make sure that that
project is prioritized the next day but
I also think there's another important
thing to consider here which is to think
like an orange farmer so I read this
book tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
earlier in this year and one line that I
absolutely love from it is one
character's grandmother saying life is
very long unless it is not which kind of
sums up the themes of the entire book
and seems like kind of an obvious thing
to say but actually feels more
meaningful and helpful the more I think
about it because the thing is life is
long and you actually might have plenty
of time to do everything you want to do
but also maybe you won't so that
probably means you should try and plan
for the future but also try and make
sure you're making the best of every day
so what does that mean in a book called
organize tomorrow today performance
optimization coach Tom BTO talks about
the idea that there are two categories
of productive Behavior activities that
produce immediate financial results and
activities that bring about a consistent
supply of Revenue generating
opportunities so he uses the analogy of
being an orange farmer short-term
Revenue means picking fruit but
long-term cultivation is about taking
care of the trees planting new ones that
sort of thing and this sounds kind of
obvious like surely every job does that
but bto's point is that you should be
making time to focus on both long-term
and short-term activities every day so I
think the way to think about this with
hobbies and interests is to mix up
making short-term immediate gains and
also working on skills that are going to
be beneficial over the long term this
has kind of the side benefit that you
get the dopamine hit of quick wins but
you are also laying down the foundation
for making longer term wins that kick in
when those quick wins stop coming so in
BJJ for instance you might learn a few
moves that work almost immediately but
also put some time in and drill in a
foot sweep that might take a th reps
before you pull it off in sparring and I
think that you can also work on ways to
do this in a nonzero days way so for
instance if you've got 15 minutes to
practice piano you can spend five on
technical drills like chromatic scales
and trills that are going to be
important for learning in the really
complex piano repertoire that you learn
down the line and then you can spend 10
on whatever piece you're working on in
the moment so I think one of the best
uses of your time right now if you're
juggling multiple interests is to sit
down with a pen and paper and go through
this stuff and make a plan and I will
put a step-by-step guide to how to do
this in the video description but I also
think there's one more thing to bear in
mind because I mentioned life
multipliers earlier in the video and
there are a handful of those that I
think are so powerful and beneficial to
your life that I think everyone should
take the time to learn them and in this
video I explain what they are and give
the best resources that I found for
learning them fast I will see you over
there
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