Name: Principles for Success: "Everything is a Machine" | Episode 5
Uploaded: 2018-09-20T05:47:51.000Z
Duration: 4 min 39 s
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Sometimes things happen that are hard to understand.

Life often feels so difficult and complicated.

My deep pain led me to reflect deeply on my circumstances.

because it provides a guide for what's true.

So I thought a lot about how things work, which helped

to put me and my own circumstances in perspective.

I saw that at the Big Bang, all the laws and forces

of the universe were created and propelled forward,

interacting with each other as a perpetual motion machine

in which all the bits and pieces coalesce into machines

the makeup of Earth's geography and ecosystems,

our economies and markets, and each of us,

we individually are machines made up of different machines,

our circulatory system, our nervous system

that produce our thoughts, our dreams, our emotions,

and all the other aspects of our distinct characters.

All of these different machines evolve together through time

to produce the realities we encounter every day.

And I realized that I was just one tiny bit

in one nanosecond deciding what I should do.

While that perspective might sound very philosophical,

For example, I observed that most everything happens

over and over again in slightly different ways,

some in obvious short term cycles that are easy to recognize

so we know how to deal with them, like the 24 hour day,

some so infrequently that they haven't occurred

in our lifetimes, and we're shocked when they do,

and some we know exist but are encountering

for the first time, like the birth of our first child.

Most people mistakenly treat these situations

as being unique and deal with them without having

I found that if instead of dealing with these events

as one offs, I could see each as just another one of those

first identifying its species, then drawing on principles

Because I could see these events transpire in

I could more clearly see the cause-effect relationships

that govern their behaviors, which allowed me to develop

I learned that while most everyone expects the future

to be a slightly modified version of the present,

That's because people are biased by recent history

and overlook events that haven't happened in a long time,

With that perspective, I realize that what I missed

when I mistakenly called for a Great Depression

and I could use my newfound knowledge of these patterns

that risk and reward naturally go together.

I could see that to get the most out of life,

one has to take more risks and that knowing

how to appropriately balance risk and reward

is essential to having the best life possible.

of having a safe boring life if you stay where you are

or having a fabulous one if you take the risk

of successfully crossing a dangerous jungle.

That is essentially the choice we all face.

For me, the choice was clear, but that doesn't mean

In episode six, I'll share some invaluable techniques

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