Modern Wisdom - #087 - Life Hacks 109

Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, hello people of podcast land, I am so happy to be back in the UK after my trip to America and we are returning with a big hitter. It is Lifehacks 109, our most popular series returns for, without a doubt the most jam-packed episode that we've ever done. You should know what to expect by now, we list our favourite tools, principles, apps and products for a productive and efficient life and tell you whether we think they are worth their salt or not. In the show notes below, you will find links to all of the products that we spoke about. And if you follow those links, you'll be supporting the podcast at No Extra Cost To Yourself.

Starting point is 00:00:35 Today, expect to learn. Why Yogit is a savoury ketchup, how to save £1 on meal deals in the airport, how to automatically share your Instagram stories to Facebook, the best apps for keyboard shortcuts, frictionless to-do list capture, finding free, beautiful images online and an awful lot more. Also, this episode is brought to you by the Proteinworks. They make amazing steel shakers and they're giving five away for free. All you need to do is share this episode wherever you want, send it to a friend, post it in a group chat or share it online and either tag me in your share or send me the screenshot,

Starting point is 00:01:08 at ChrisWillX on all social media. But for now, life hacks, one, oh nine, let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back and joined by none other than Johnny and Yusuf from propanefitness.com. It is Johnny and Yusuf. It is Lifehacks 109. Tools, Approaches, Apps and products for a productive and efficient life. And this episode is brought to you by the Protein Works. Thank you very much to the Protein Works for sponsoring this episode. We are massive fans of steel shakers if you haven't transformed your life and your training by moving from plastic to steel you have to much

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Starting point is 00:02:37 Doesn't it wash it? I mean, it's easier to wash, you're 100%. And it's nice, it catches a little bit condensation on the outer of it when, outside of it when it's cool. So that's what I like the most about it, is you pick it up, and it feels cold. It just feels cold, and it's, you know, like mid-training session or after training session,

Starting point is 00:02:51 that's just, you don't want like, like lukewarm plastic, you want cold metal. The plastic warm's it up, doesn't it? It's, I don't know how to taste the plastic. It's also just something, you feel like a kid at nursery drink out of plastic, you know? There's this little red cup with you squashing. You got the little bottle of milk,

Starting point is 00:03:06 and it was milk, but it like, yeah, the milk, and it's in the milk. Oh, oh, oh. So yeah, anyway, if you want to win one, just share the episode, tag me in the share. Chris will X on all social media. So yeah, on to life hacks, we've prepped quite hard for this episode.

Starting point is 00:03:21 So we have got some motherfuckers. Ah, um, quite hard for this episode. So we have got some motherfuckers. I am L.in you man. This episode is going to be sick yet. I don't think mine are better. Mine are more organised. Mine are fucking mint. Mine are new. Yours aren't the same. Okay, so I'm going to go first. We think then you. Yeah. I am going to go first. And the first one is when you take a screenshot on iPhone, the corners of the screen, when the screenshot pops up, you can just press on the screenshot, open it out, and you'll see on the outside, you have the frame where you can pull the crop in.

Starting point is 00:04:01 Yep. So you can crop naturally from there. So I didn't know that you didn't just have to go back into photo editor afterwards. Take a screenshot, so do it now. Take a screenshot on your phone, and then if you press on the picture and then the corners of the image, you can pull down and crop from there. So you can zoom in, you can zoom it to square,

Starting point is 00:04:19 you can just take the particular areas out of it. So you don't actually need to, there you go. I also did a little lineback, so I'm... Oh, you've drawn on this. But that's okay. But yeah, I mean, game changer, there we go. Right, Johnny, hop to it up. Hop to it up.

Starting point is 00:04:33 I've just got to undue my... Oh, you've wrecked it. This is a banger. Is it? Proper banger. Oh, okay. Well, at least it is for me. So, ladies, prepare, is it for ladies?

Starting point is 00:04:43 It's not for ladies, I really can be. Okay. If that's what you want. So, I... Well, it's not the only can be okay if that's what you want so I I'm because I'm no so I order a lot of coffee shop coffee okay and I've come to the conclusion that in my humble and correct opinion filter coffee is the best thing to order, right? VMD agrees with me, or VGD depending on your preference. So filter coffee, so people order like a Maricano or whatever, like if you want a coffee with milk, right? Order a filter coffee. Now there are two scenarios when you order a filter coffee.

Starting point is 00:05:21 One is that there is filter coffee in the machine, great, winning, fantastic. The second is that they've run out of filter coffee. What are we to do? Well, what they almost always offer to do is to make you an Americano, which is more expensive for the same price. Interesting. So what place are you just never ordered Americano? What places do I fill the coffee? Starbucks, right, not Cafe Nero, Bretter-Montier and some coasters. They're rolling it out in Costa.

Starting point is 00:05:52 Okay. And who's been coffee company will do it as well? And they'll always be prepped. Sure, do they? Yeah, I'm pretty certain they will do. So just a fill the coffee is the cheapest coffee on the menu, also almost always the nicest. And if they don't have it, you just get a more expensive

Starting point is 00:06:04 coffee for the same price. Three ups, though. Three ups, though. Awesome, I love it, you see. Very good, speaking of drinks, I'm heartbroken. I brought these guys some kombucha. Where is it? Vinegill, this stuff, which is,

Starting point is 00:06:15 the minted tea, and I'm seeing three bottles, almost full. So just to be clear, I've drank out that one. As you can see, the seal, the seal on this has been broken, as is mine, but the top has been placed very firmly back on because this carbonated vinegar piss of Satan is not coming back out of the life. It's a big creative expense of combustion, I thought, you know what, I'm going to... The only saving grace. Three pounds to do.

Starting point is 00:06:42 What's the only saving grace about this entire thing. Three pounds each. That's up 100 pounds. Two pounds. So like 70 pounds of kombucha. Only saving grace about this whole thing. I'm gonna have to drink it now. It's nice.

Starting point is 00:06:55 If you have a look right there, that's actually... The modern wisdom logo is on the lid of it. But yeah. It's okay, so it's not kombucha. So it's not kombucha, but I'm on a gut health kick at the moment. We can talk about that later. At the moment, you've heard us discuss Alfred at menth, which is basically a way to get you away from your track pad, away from your mass, and fully into your keyboard. I have gone a step further recently and there are two apps that I'm using

Starting point is 00:07:25 Vimeo and Shortcat both of these these are so bean So what what these allow you to do is never need to use the trackpad again now you might think well It's only a few centimeters away. Why why why but Do you move the trackpad? Yeah, if your hands are just on the keyboard, you're locked in, you're doing work, you're typing, you're doing stuff, you're focused. As soon as you start using the track pad, it always leads down a horrible garden path

Starting point is 00:07:54 to naughty YouTube videos, YouTube videos, whatever it is, you're just scrolling. So this forces you to, so what this, and it's quicker as well when you use shortcut and Vimeo, these are the same app, but one is for specific to a web browser and one is for the general. Okay. In fact, Apple and I'll bring in art this in the native version of Catalina, the new Mac OS in November or October. Interesting. So they'd

Starting point is 00:08:19 bring in art specifically for disabled people and voice activated control, but you can do it with your keyboard. What it does is anything that's possibly clickable on your screen suddenly has a letter assigned to it, a letter or two letters. So you press like the special key and it goes, and then you just, so like, F A is close the thing. B M is minimized this and C D would be click on this link or whatever. And so suddenly you just, the sensation is incredible because it feels like more and more you're just at one with your device and there's no gaps and fafing around with trying to access.

Starting point is 00:08:56 But it's the polar opposite to when you ask your, when you see your mom Googling something, single finger single finger, just typing http into the Google search bar and then move the mouse over and she'll capitalize letters by pressing the cap stock on and off. Oh, yeah. Do you ever worry that you are breaking your laptop? Well, you've done, you have broken your laptop. I'm not saying you are. I'm just saying, does it concern?

Starting point is 00:09:29 Do you ever think maybe it's a bit much? These jail broken apps coming out of Bazzara. I see. It's not a system, Tweaks. It's not a jail. There are some that I've been like, I'd love that, but I don't want that. Didn't you, John Brinkett? Didn't you use the migration assistant to back up,

Starting point is 00:09:46 to restore your new laptop from your old laptop and your new laptop inherited some of the problems that you're old laptop had? Yeah, it did. So there was something chronic and pathological about your last laptop, which is now being passed down. And none of those things make it to life hacks. They're all in the experimental phase. Don't worry, Vimom and the trouble is that we don't know what those things are.

Starting point is 00:10:09 Yeah, but we don't use what we may step on. Because what if that thing is Alfred? That will be the biggest nasty twit. Twit plot twist. They're just they're just released 4.0. So Vimeoom V-I-N-E-U-N. I've been told to wait for 4.0. So Vimeem, V-I-M, E-U-M. I've been told to wait for 4.0 Alfred. V-I-M, E-U-M. V-I-M, I-U-M. I-U-M, and short-cat. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:32 These are tools that are designed for coders and programmers. They just have their lives correct. They just got it right. It's a good way to look, like, designing for the extremes often means that when you dial that back as it's still effective right we all want a little bit more attention for me or one isn't it? Yeah, okay so hold on to the bottom of the steering wheel in a crash. This is something that's taken from NASCAR drivers. So I was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast from maybe

Starting point is 00:11:01 a year ago and he was talking to a very famous NASCAR driver, his dad had been a NASCAR driver and this I knew that actually talking about concussion for quite a while because they suffered it super bad. They're absolutely locked in to these cars, right? The seats molded around them essentially and they're 25 point harness and all this stuff. But yeah, so they were talking about the fact that he rolled his truck running this guy essentially crashes cars for a living and he rolled his truck just on normal streets so he's driving along like I think it was Christmas day perhaps even going to his like family's house or something like that. Rolled his truck on some ice and it's the cars rolling, forgot the first

Starting point is 00:11:42 rule as far as he was concerned, of being in a spinning car, which is hold the bottom of the steering wheel, and his arms. As soon as you start to spin, your arms will go... You'll be like the team America's signal. The family signal, yeah. So your arms will just start flailing everywhere, and he was saying he had the window open. So he had his window of his big truck open, car starts rolling like sausage rolling sideways and his arm goes out of the window, out of the open window and then he pulls it back in just before the car lands on that side. So you've got to think if this car's spinning around and your arms are flailing everywhere, the chance of your arm getting

Starting point is 00:12:20 crushed pretty high, holding on to the bottom of the steering wheel, so gripping the bottom like that. First grip bench press, reverse grip bench press, you could go mix grip but it's a short endurance, but you're holding the bottom apparently locks all your organs in, a lot more, keeps your arms in tight. Very, very, very, very serious. So practice it now if you're listening at home. I'm afraid I'm tear a bicep. Listening at home, just imagine holding on to the bottom of the steering wheel, or if you're driving'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, Because it's really then also always drive like that. Different. Just in case.

Starting point is 00:13:06 Then you're always ready. The trouble is, a guy who crashes professionally for a living has the moment of clarity and inclusion ago. If you think about it now, I was considering this the other day, you told me right, you need to drill holding on the bottom of the steering wheel, which means being in lots of car crashes, which is obviously unadvisable. However, I thought, like, if I was ever in a car crash, I think, after maybe a second of spinning, I'd be like,

Starting point is 00:13:31 fuck! Yeah, hold the bottom of the steering wheel. I am in an accident. I am having a fucking shit. Yeah. If anyone's got any advice about how to brace and stuff, like, so I've been in a couple of car crashes where I've known the impact was coming and I don't know the theory behind whether or not you should brace, relax, do whatever. I don't know that. So if anyone knows, tell us. You should put the clip of the callister

Starting point is 00:13:58 at a fight-to-jet video. That's brilliant. Just go full, Valsal, that like full app tension. No. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what you mean? Are you more likely to enjoy yourself? Do a mischief, yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Because you're sort of like ripping up or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard like hernia. Like they tested, they never see that thing on channel four where they crashed a plane. They crashed a real plane into the desert, but they had loads of crash dummies in it. And they split tested, brilliant.

Starting point is 00:14:26 Split tested, sitting upright or sitting in a race position. If you sit upright, you hit the seat, concuss yourself, and you just burn while you're concussed and don't know what's happening. If you race, you snap your ankles, but you're conscious. Well, I just snap your ankles. Because if the force goes down or three, your ankles are, crack. I have to get conscious,

Starting point is 00:14:48 but can't get out the plane. Oh, the fuck is. Swings are roundabouts. You know what you need there? A lot of upper body strength. Big bench. So, you crash like, rip the seat out in front of you,

Starting point is 00:14:59 but you're fine. Yep. So a quick fact about that, it makes me really furious, is there was a recent plane crash where I can't remember where it was, but the plane landed in some water, it was on fire, people at the front managed to get out, people at the back didn't get out and time and died. It was in the news like a few weeks ago, and the reason that the people at the back couldn't get out

Starting point is 00:15:22 is because the people at the front were trying to take their luggage off the place. Oh my god. Jesus fucking crazy. Oh my god. It makes me so angry, but I don't know what the moral of that story is. Excuse me, mate. I've just got me duty free. Oh, sorry. In the back, I've got a 200 sleeve of Benson and Hedges. Menthol. In the sea. Like, it's going to be in the sea. Just think that worries me the most about situations like that is not me it's the people I'm with. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:50 Because I feel like all I would do in practice is just push. Yeah, very much. I mean like angle down and then go. Do you know what you're really good at doing? Watching and pulling. Technically a deadlift to push, if you think about it. Push the floor, I'll wash away. I mean, as far as the IPF, like, if you go for a push, pull, competition.

Starting point is 00:16:11 But then he has to say, you can tell you the bench press is a pull. Ten minutes for all's here. Right, Johnny, you're up. This is a change in tack, but get a toasty machine. All right. So I think a George Foreman for bread for bread. So I love sandwiches. I just think sandwiches are gods' gift of food.

Starting point is 00:16:35 Half thickness bagels. You know. I'm half thick with bagels. You just witnessed what I do to sandwiches. Oh, it's so much of a chance. It would be banned from Paul Hub. You don't want to tell me this is sandwiches like They don't sound much of a chance. It would be banned from Paul Hub. Arian Hunk destroys double-bikes.

Starting point is 00:16:59 But so because you think like Toe's and Sound, which that's something that's reserved for you know if you're in somewhere that makes them. But I can't move. What I mean what think how boundless or fun can be? So I want a couple of bits of info from you here. OK. I want the Toasty Machine that you use. And I want that is important. I want your top two Toasty recipes, including prep. OK.

Starting point is 00:17:18 So the first Toasty Machine I bought shorted the circuitry in the house. Sounds like a good toasty. I want that. Well, so the thing is, so you'll think you look at, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just,

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Starting point is 00:17:56 It was our boss. Yeah. Isn't that like the first thing you think of when you think about buying to get a like basic kitchen appliance, our boss? I always go for the mid-range kitchen appliance. Right. Well, so that's the lesson. Go for the mid-range one.

Starting point is 00:18:09 Yeah. The interesting thing about it is you have to butter the bread from the outside. Oh, yeah. So you can't butter the inside of the sandwich. Right. So we only can. Because it was just melt. Moist on the outside and it'll stick to the thing.

Starting point is 00:18:23 So you've got to create like a filter. The biggest problem with the outer machine melt. Moist on the outside and it'll stick to the, so you've got to create my, because the problem is lubricate the outside and say, the toast machine is the bread sticking to the hot plate. So you, could you use oil spray in the surface of the, you could, then you can add a little bit of the bread. Yeah, yeah. Because what makes the toastie, oh, I've just got a new one, like nice and brown golden,

Starting point is 00:18:42 is the butter. Ah, yeah. Fillings, I found so far actually the more creative you are with this, it just comes back to about you. There is a reason why Harmanjee's Toasty is so highly circular. You have some failed fillings. So don't add anything, like any source stuff at all. I imagine mayonnaise would be awful.

Starting point is 00:19:03 Because it just goes, it separates into its component parts. Egg. Yeah. Is it like refining oil? Yeah, it's minging. Like obviously no tomato and things like that. The Martha. Because the other thing is the Martha,

Starting point is 00:19:15 you've got a really clamp down on it. So you put the thing, you put the bread in. What is it? What's the solution? Well, yeah. Well, actually it's a pinch. You're not getting on top of it. No, no, no, well, you'll snap it. No, no, no, no, no, so you put the bread in Yeah, you do the thing like what I do with most things that you think might require a bit of force Be doing a break it so you go like

Starting point is 00:19:37 Just feel it you tension It's quite a bit of because obviously I overfillfill them, that's why. So I've put too much filling in. Then you go, duck, it's... It's a duck. So I'm like, I like, grab it and I'm like, you squeeze it once, like, no, it's not going to close. And then you think, well, I could remove filling. That's not my... No. You manage to get the clip on.

Starting point is 00:20:01 Turn it on, you have, house and short success. And then the level level advancement they have is two lights, green and red. So there's no... The 95 will have a full rainbow. Well, so exactly, this one has no dials, there's an on switch, and then a green light and a red light, and somehow they've decided that they know the time for all toasties to be toasted. Universal toastie.

Starting point is 00:20:28 The e-mastro toastie time. So the light's red and then it goes green but because it's like it'd be like, I want to say like a minute and 45 seconds you get a bit distracted and you look at it and real fast. There's no sound. No, no buzzer. No, no, no, no. Okay, so you have to literally stare at it so you're like, this is so fucking primitive. There's no sound. No, no buzzer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I quite like leardammer cheese. You had that before? Is that the stuff with the holes in?

Starting point is 00:21:05 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a bit sweet bit. Yeah, that's a yellow packaging. Yep, yep. But fucking delicious. What toastie machine, because I'm gonna have to link this on. I think it's, I think it's brevel.

Starting point is 00:21:16 See, from the brevel sandwich maker sounds like a legitimate, or also before I forget, people on YouTube, links to everything we're talking about will be in the show now to below. But if you follow the links, you will be supporting the podcast at Nox Recurs to yourself because we are on the Amazon affiliate scheme. Thank you. From your description, I don't know if I would buy that model. It's just too much of a jump with a buzz or a... No.

Starting point is 00:21:41 I might egg boiler. It just shouts at me when it does when I think that's because that's quite important that it does that though. I think no more because nothing going fire. It just just ruins the egg. Like if you toast a toast to your slightly too long you get a bit the breads a bit browned. But if you left it for ages wouldn't the bread go on fire? I'm sure you're right. If you leave it for ages. That's like if you leave the oven on for too long. Well isn't there is no alarm on the oven. But so, they're really cheap and if you are looking for something to have, if you'll have sandwiches in the house, just have to host these for quite a bit.

Starting point is 00:22:14 It's a good point, man. I had last week, I had a refeed day and I was walking through as to look, looked, and saw it didn't buy a birthday cake. You always have birthday cake, didn't buy both of them. You always have the thing. And so some extra large crumpets who made it. I love how big they're like this. Yeah, pretty big.

Starting point is 00:22:35 Almost. How do you eat it? Well, the way that I toasted mine was I had to put it in and then take both of them in, then take the full things out, rotate 180 degrees, then put them back in and do the other side. But then what I chose to do was have an extra thick single side of butter and just put one on top of the other.

Starting point is 00:23:00 Delicious. Because both ends, obviously the outside of a crumbit is the crustiest bit right. Not the softened gooey in the inside. Yeah I've got it's two outsides, shit loads of butter, really salty butter. Oh my god. So the downside of a toasty machine is it can only be used for toasty because the plates are shaped like a toasty. Like crimps. Yeah, a bit of bread. And you know like an A4 bit of bread into two, you know what I mean? Exactly what I mean.

Starting point is 00:23:29 Like A4 white, warbitons bread into two. Best of both. So I use, actually, this is another tip, don't for fuck sake, use normal bread. Oh, good. It's too thick. You need to buy thin cuss. So just get like a supermarket owned brand, Toasty Bread.

Starting point is 00:23:49 The thinner it compresses more. Interesting. There is one best rock that's applied. Toasty Bread is called Toasty Bread. It's more. You get Danish as well, where it's like in calories. Yeah, like you lick it, it does all the time.

Starting point is 00:24:00 They go down it. It's interesting about, you said about like the three price ranges, because I do think that applies to all kitchen appliances and I've got I have a pressure cooker. In fact, have we discussed this on previous life? Yes. Okay. So you'll have known that I went from rice cooker to pressure cooker, £100 instant pot. There is one for about £2000 that you can get. Oh, go on, Chris. Come with a chef. Yeah, I feel like it's like super...

Starting point is 00:24:24 There's a glory hole, isn't it? Yeah, But it's a come with a chef. Yeah, I feel like it's like super. There's a glory hole, isn't it? Yeah, there must be some business going on there. But removing the carrot and penis cooking. So today, my life hack is something that I think the three of us need to start doing. Oh, wow, okay. Which is, is this council? Is someone going to have a pillow?

Starting point is 00:24:44 No, I'll be at for that. I'll be at for that counselling. Well, like not. Let's go on there. Yeah, I'll coach, yeah, I'll coach it was like everyone needs to do counselling for a three-day or something. But, doodle pole. So yeah, what is this? This is, this is when you say the word, it is when you doodle pole. This is when you've got, you got between three people, you're all like, oh, we need to do a thing on Tuesday. Oh, no, I can't, I can't do Tuesday, but I can do Tuesday morning.

Starting point is 00:25:12 No, I can't because I've got, okay, how about Thursday? I've said, man, I can't do Thursday and you end up having this like long conversation to try and organize a date, whereas doodle pole gets you, you all get sent out a list of times, you tick the ones that you can do, and then it collates and finds the overlap, and it says, like Callingly. So Callingly is like a booking service for two people, whereas Doodlepole, if you're like organising a stag do awesome. So I used it for a stag. Did you organize it? Epic. That is awesome. Is there a referral code? Is it free? It's free. It's free up to

Starting point is 00:25:49 like a certain number of okay users, isn't it? Yeah. Okay. Just make it and then just make a new email. Yeah. That's awesome. That's a fucking really good one. Right. Oh, right. Oh, well, this one, this one's a fucking game changer if you don't know about it. Share, auto share your Instagram story to your Facebook story. This is the most free games that I'm ever gonna give you online facts, right? It's the equivalent free games is wearing knee sleeves to squat Getting about So if you are on your phone if you don't know what I'm talking about, go on your phone, go on your Instagram, swipe right so that you open up your Instagram story, little button at the bottom that is

Starting point is 00:26:34 a story settings, setting story settings, and then scroll right to the bottom and there's just a little nonchalant toggle that says share story to Facebook. That allows you to automatically share whatever you put on your Instagram story, on your Facebook story. And no one, no one actually looks after their Facebook story because who gives a fuck about Facebook stories. However, I have about 15,000 followers in between friends and followers on mine. And I'm getting just over a thousand views on Facebook. Because Facebook is desperate for the open race. So they need it. Yes, so they drive, they're driving it really hard. And it'll auto pull through polls. So if you put a poll on Instagram, it'll bring the ability across. One thing it doesn't do, which

Starting point is 00:27:22 is slightly frustrating, especially for what a lot of people in marketing will do is it doesn't transfer across swipe-ups because you can't swipe up on Facebook to go to a link, which is a little bit annoying. So a lot of the time I'll be like, here's a new podcast or whatever. Like clickable. No, it literally just got this thing at the bottom. That's stupid. Yeah, a bit of a routine. But some of the stuff works, like some of the polls work and some of the questions work and things, but it is the freest gains you're ever going to get and you can share if you're in a business account,

Starting point is 00:27:49 maybe if you're in a personal bad doubt it, if you're in a business account, you can share it to a fan page. So our lads are looking after our club nights, they'll be going around taking Instagram stories and stuff like that, but our fan page is a massive, all club night fan pages are massive because it's where the albums get uploaded to. And we're finding that when matching our Facebook, our Instagram reach on Facebook, just through the stories. And you're already doing it, you're already recording the content. And once you press that button, once, free games, the game's changing, game's changing. Johnny. So I have one that is that will upset people so I'm going to do this one initially Then I'll do a proper one. Who's it gonna upset us all?

Starting point is 00:28:29 I think so it is a shit thing to do. It's a shit thing to do and I think you'd love to set people especially people who care about the environment Okay, okay, we go So strap yourself this is it works. I've tested it works I've I've observed it works, so I observed it happened. Punch a cat. No, not a scratch cat. Strangle a dolphin. Put your thumb in a dolphin's blowhole.

Starting point is 00:28:53 So, I bet they've got sufficient real. I bet your thumb doesn't have enough girth to get in a blowhole. It's probably need to. It would also be really hard. It might be if you just strangle one. Yeah, although I feel like it could probably try you up a hot water bottle. And if you let go for a minute, it's hot water. Well, really welcome.

Starting point is 00:29:13 I don't have to brace. Oh shit. I don't, I've got a lot of resistance in them. But yeah, strangling a dolphin would also be quite hard, I think. Difficult, yeah. You can't get it into. Where's his neck? Well, it's all neck.

Starting point is 00:29:25 We just think this about a shark, didn't we? Yeah, I mean, what's the name, neck? Squeezing the big one. You can't get it in a, like, a full Nelson or a half Nelson. Damn, he's so good. I remember I had a teacher at school that you've to argue that everybody has their price for everything. He was adamant.

Starting point is 00:29:42 And someone went, I disagree. Who was that? has their price for everything, he was adamant. And someone went, I disagree. He was last. I'm not saying, but I bet you can guess. Okay. Can't do the voice. Right, okay. So he went, everyone has their price. And someone went, no, like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't kill a puppy. And he went, I bet you would. I bet you would, you know, I wouldn't kill a puppy. I bet you would. I bet you would.

Starting point is 00:30:03 You know, 10 million, 10 million. And he was like, we just strangled it off and you killed it off and you would. But you're 100 million. Told you. Right. Just bullying children.

Starting point is 00:30:16 It was, we were like six, one. I still agree with him. Everyone has their price for anything. Going down a, anyway, to your life back. So you know how when you are in Sainsbury's, right, and you're getting something and you go at the till, not self-service, go at the till and there's someone processing you shopping for you. And they say, would you like a bag? And you say, yes, and then they say, that'll be five p's, that okay, and you go, yes, if you want to avoid the five p charge, this is what is

Starting point is 00:30:55 dick move, what you do is you wait for them to process the paint, and then you say, oh, can I have a bag please? And they'll give you one for free. And they won't then set up a new transaction to process the VIP because the processing fee would just erode the VIP anyway. Well, and they understand the back end processing fees. Well, no. So efficiently, I know. But they're not going to be a trickle-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum- There's a customer waiting, right? There's a customer waiting and you're about to leave, you're about, and you're like,

Starting point is 00:31:25 this isn't a 10 PM on a Monday tactic, is it? When there's 10 check out operations, you're just like you. It during normal busy times. It depends if there's a protocol that they've just told everyone, blank it, like if someone asked for it. I have to, I have to,

Starting point is 00:31:40 so it has some one time, right? It has one time to meet, and I was like, I was a weird, she can charge me for the bag. But it's a dick move because I understand why they've got. It's not the environment to do that. Well, but the whole point of that, it's a big thing.

Starting point is 00:31:53 It's a govian tax, isn't it? Designed offset the negative externalities of the plastic on the, so it's designed to discourage someone from getting a bag. What I'm doing is getting a bag anyway, and not paying attention. And encouraging people publicly to do it. I'm just bag. What I'm doing is getting a bag anyway, and not paying attention. And encouraging people publicly to do it. I'm just saying, so I'm saying,

Starting point is 00:32:08 I found a work to do with it what you will. I don't think it's the right thing to do necessarily, but I've tested it since it happened the first time, and it does still work. The upgrade, the twat upgrade to that. Oh, actually, this wouldn't work, but I actually think that this is a better way to do what you've talked about that.

Starting point is 00:32:24 This killer dolphin. It's straight, get that this is a better way to do what you talked about that. This killer dolphin. It's straight, get a dolphin into a half-nil sings. You can get it in a half-nil singing. Big neck. One by one. Grab like that. I mean. And the solution is, my favourite thing is, you know when they go, I'm, hi, I'm a jager

Starting point is 00:32:39 bug. And they go, say, yes. Would you like a hand with your packing? Yes. Really? I just say, and if not, I just say, would you mind giving like a hand with your packing? Yes. Really? I just say, and if not, I just say, would you mind giving me a hand with my packing, which is their own language used back at them,

Starting point is 00:32:52 even though I actually think, especially as they might have cycled that out now, but it's just, you know, I mean, it's so ingrained in them. That's like the Russian trigger code. And they're just immediately start packing your shit away. And you can just do whatever you want. Right. If they are particularly surly, the solution, I do this is so bad. I'm leaving for this open.

Starting point is 00:33:10 I've just opened this world of like super market tactics. So what I do is I'll pretend that there's something I've forgotten and just go off on a little walk. But take minutes. You think you don't have to stand and watch them. And they'll put it in, I'm like, look. Oh, fuck. And I'll just, I've just forgotten something.

Starting point is 00:33:30 Would you mind just packing my bags while I go? Like an entire thing, just lined up. What, if they're so surly that you come back in the go, where's the thing that you've forgotten? They would do. Couldn't find it else. Well, they've already packed the bags. That's true.

Starting point is 00:33:42 You'd be like, ah, I didn't want anymore. Don't fuck on me! There's a really funny, so I want part of Trich's Sizzard Isle where he becomes a checkout lady for a day, brilliant. You probably will get on YouTube, but that is brilliant. Right, Seth, you got one.

Starting point is 00:33:59 Ah, it's gonna get me in trouble. Fun, but that one's just got Johnny in trouble. Yeah, I'm gonna get like picketers and the whole thing. Vegan's Okay, dolphin lovers. I have found a way to schedule I messages. Wow. I apologize to use the skill. Okay, hell. Come on, man. So you go to shortcuts, which used to be a third party app that's now been acquired by Apple. And it is a new settings. So you've done it from the App Store, but Apple have made it.

Starting point is 00:34:31 And in the next iOS, it's going to be shortcuts. It's going to be the new, like it's going to be like one of the native bits of app. And it's an automation service for iPhone. What it allows you to do is, I'll give you a few examples of things that it can do. So all of the text that I've sent Johnny over the past. I wrote in 2006. The problem is, obviously, having to respond, because the only way that you can respond by scheduling is predicting the question. That's why you have to do all the text just, hmm, that's nice, that's interesting. I also think that.

Starting point is 00:35:08 Oh God, we're getting really down there. Is this like a chatbot, but just for you? Just, yeah, you just gotta make it work. It's not actually a chatbot, it's just messages that you've set up typing via. So short cuts, other things that can do, it can resume the latest book that you're listening to at. No, I'm okay with one.

Starting point is 00:35:26 Scheduleing all the messages. How do you do it? Schedule all the messages. It's just one of the shortcuts on there. Let me see, you can add to Wonderlist. Let me see. You can not let me see. You can play the most tiny number.

Starting point is 00:35:36 I can't see now. You can play the most recent playlist. And also, you can create a smart playlist. Oh, is that a widget? Is that any of your widgets in it? Yeah, that's it. So you just want to happen, isn't it you schedule, you schedule an eye message to me for the next five in five minutes time? Okay. Cool. That's going to be good. If it doesn't

Starting point is 00:35:51 write in five minutes time, you know, you can you can also create a smart playlist of like the last 50 songs that you added to your iTunes and it'll auto-exit you to iTunes. Okay. So it would be nice if I did send The send-a-lead message, man, I have got so many fucking good life hacks here. I've got loads. We're gonna have to do life hacks one ten months. Maybe we should have now have like a single payment of 99999. And it unlocks all the life hacks. 99,500 pounds.

Starting point is 00:36:24 Right, are you shortcuts for a thing? Yeah, of course. Is it on land, if it on land? I can't. The only time I'm allowing you to put it in the podcast. Okay, so. I don't think I have message notifications on. Ah, that's good.

Starting point is 00:36:38 See, that's fucking good. That's too deep down. Double-ass, that's all. Okay, so. Um. deep down. Okay so. No, yeah that's it. Nice. That's unsplash.com? Yeah. Unsplash.com. So, it's like like pexels and pixabays. So everybody, everybody wants to use to be able to stop it. Everybody wants nice stock photos that they can use,

Starting point is 00:37:17 whether it's for marketing or just for cover photo, for some event that you're making on Facebook or whatever it is. Unsplash.com is without the doubt the best place to find well-created stock photos. So a lot of photographers across the internet have taken mint photos of random stuff, whether it be meditating or a photo of the spine or a cool photo of coffee or anything, unsplash.com, search whatever it is that you're looking for, a guarantee, they're a bit hipster-y. Some of the photos, they are a little bit, but they over deliver on cool and edgy-ness, which for a stock photo probably brings it tuned about normality, which most stock photos are so clinical looking. Yes, exactly.

Starting point is 00:37:59 Chris, these are brilliant. And these three, All of them. Royal E3. Great, I have. This is... I sit so pexels. We spoke while that one before. No. Maybe you're the pexels, the MD. So being the even... So pexels is what I've always used. It's very similar to this, like the formatting and everything's very... Searched meditation. It even has the same photos. Searched meditation or productivity. I've searched gym gym. Oh, just insane mint photos of like cool shoes. Big bronzer. Large human. Yes. So yeah, on splash.com. Like, you can also a really fucking good thing is if you've got, what was that story app that we came up with?

Starting point is 00:38:45 What was that story app that we came up with? The one that has the ripped. Rip paper, motherfucker. VMD's gesturing from my men. My story. Anyway. Unfold, unfold. Yes, that's it. Unfold has inbuilt into it.

Starting point is 00:39:02 So unfold we already featured. It's a nice way of making Instagram stories what's very curated. Unfold has inbuilt into it. So unfold, we already featured it a nice way of making Instagram stories look very curated. Unfold has built into it. You can either add a photo from your gallery, take a photo, or automatically search unsplash and just pull a photo in without saving it to your phone. That motherfucker. There's a couple of WordPress apps we do that use that do that as well. There's a couple of wordpress apps we do that as well and it's lovely. They must have an API that just allows you to... So can I pick you back off that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. There's a markup called zoomi with two M's that is an aggregator of Pixabay, Pexels,

Starting point is 00:39:35 Unsplash... What's it called? Zumi, Z00MY. And it's 12 pounds and it's a... Lifetime license. Yeah, I think so. And you just search it and just aggregate all the photos it splits them by paid and free photos and I just like I prefer having a native man. You're blown away by a splash. You completely I use pexels two three days a week Unsplit. I mean, that is

Starting point is 00:40:03 Game show. Man some of your ads now. We should do life hacks more often. That's fricking. Is that a Chi Chi trick? All right, Frank the tank. Frank the tank. Right, zoom me out. Oh, we're going back the other way.

Starting point is 00:40:16 That was just a piggyback on the other side. I've broken it. No, no, that was Chris Kea's life hack. Johnny, your turn. Where am I going? Who's not going to have their kombucha? Trash. None of us are going to have this Satan's vinegar piss.

Starting point is 00:40:30 Can I have someone's kombucha? Thank you. Thank you. I can thank you. Would you like it? No, thank you. No, no, no. It's Johnny what you do.

Starting point is 00:40:38 I'm sure I decided which one to pick. Okay, I'll do this one. So you may have heard the, you know, you like, everyone has a to-do list, right? So, everyone has like, somewhere like a bit, bit paper or an app or whatever. And you have the problem where you sit down and you're like, what am I going to do? Like, how do I pick from this? So, some people say pick one thing to do per day, some people say, have three important tasks to do. But the natural reaction to that is like, oh yeah, but I need to go and take this thing

Starting point is 00:41:08 back to the shop or whatever. So a lot of things get missed from that framework. So the one that, something that I've read about a long time ago, used it when I was working as an accountant actually quite a bit, but started using it again recently is 531. So it's not the strength training program. 531 for productivity. So the strength training program. 531 for productivity. Squat, bench and deadlift.

Starting point is 00:41:28 You have one key task, the most important thing for that day, which would be, if that's all you got done, so the successful day, you don't have three medium importance of the next three things that would be on your priority list. And then you do five admin level bullshit tasks. How do you segment them out? What do you mean? So how do you choose what falls into because some tasks may be able to be categorized into, I see. Well, so admin stuff is like stuff that you probably wouldn't even normally put on your to-do list. Like really low level things, but sometimes also

Starting point is 00:42:00 things that like you would just let slide because they're not that important, but still matter when they add up. So, trying to make examples, like make a phone, like someone you need to call, someone you need to take back, an error and you need to run, that sort of stuff. Most important thing is like the thing of the most impact. So if you, does that happen first, ideally you would do that thing first. So like if you're a involved in business or whatever, you run your own business first. So like if you're a involved in business or whatever you run your own business, something that impacts your revenue or moves your business forward if you're an employee is like the thing that you're going to might lose your job if you don't do. And then

Starting point is 00:42:33 three things after that will just be the next three things on your list. So I found that to be a nice balance between like firstly if you tickle full of five things, you still feel like, get in, I'm smashing it, even though they're not important. And by the end of the work week, you've done 25 admin level tasks. Probably in a natural ratio of those in private tasks as well, isn't it? Nice.

Starting point is 00:42:57 I like it. Is there a blog or like a little, if you search like 531 productivity method? And the best app I've found to use this on big lift to big lift to so it's involves strangling a no to do it so I know you don't like it I know you like things and all the sort of stuff but to do it allows you to color code or categorize your tasks. Blue, red, or yellow. So blue is my admin tasks. Yellow is my medium importance in red is the

Starting point is 00:43:33 most important. So I'll actually go through my to-do list and I'll pre-categorize them. So the start of the day, I'll just literally click and drag. Five things, three things, one thing done, day schedule. That's all I do. That's a good way to do it. It's good. Seth, this is really, really pretty related to what Johnny has just said about to do Ist. I use WonderList, but both apps have this feature, which is a quick capture, hotkey.

Starting point is 00:43:58 So, sort of things. So, this thing, oh great, okay. So, all three, whether you're a to-doist, WonderList, or things, user, they all have this feature. And I know my life hacks are a bit very techy today, but there'll be a keyboard shortcut for wander list, it's command shift, W comes up with a bar, you type in the task that you need to do. And I think with to do is to has the best version of this where if you put

Starting point is 00:44:22 like a symbol of art or hashtag or whatever, you can then allocate it to a certain list and you can tag it as high medium or low priority and then it's just in your system. So you don't have to open up the app or anything you can just be in the middle of something but honestly that thing. Okay, so tag urgent in folder work. Can you smart schedule? So like if I could say, if I control and this is because I haven't logged in. So I haven't logged in to things on many, many laptops. So I think command T is to do it. Pretty sure. So command T, then it'd be like,

Starting point is 00:45:00 log into unsplash every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Yeah. And it's said, it sets a natural language. So Tiago Forte, if you're interested in this sort of stuff, if this is kind of really getting your juices flowing, the absurd. Mine is hard. Yeah, that's unsplash, though, for you. The episode that did with Tiago Forte is the fucking Bible on this.

Starting point is 00:45:20 Like, he's just a monster. I know it's quite a bit about it, doesn't he? He really does, yeah. But a frictionless capture for to do lists, I think, is using a smart capture. One thing that things has is called things helper, which is where it uses a smart capture. So let's say that you're on an email, and you use mine is control and space

Starting point is 00:45:40 to open up the capture, but control option space pulls in the title of the page that you're on on a website and then puts the URL into the description. So let's say that you need to reply to an email, you just, so is it whichever app, whichever app is at the front? Yes. And it'll just pull that through, but typically it's used for websites. So it'll just pull that in and it'll tackle it with the thing at the top, which you can change the name of the page and then it'll do. Do you use, I'm guessing you do the Evernote email address, when you know, the thing is like when you're simply, simply three miles, if you need to,

Starting point is 00:46:17 five or something different, explain this, like just what, what the feature is. So if you have an, if you have an Evernote, an Evernote account, you have an email address associated to that ever-note account that allows you to send an email to an ever-note, I think, to inbox. So I have an Alfred Shortcut, which is I type A, ever, enter. And it sends the email and files it away to my ever-note.

Starting point is 00:46:43 That's lovely. But as in, you have to have the email open. Yeah, so what I'm sifting through my emails, I can't remember, is it Tiago for to? It's like you either action it, delay it, or reference it or something like that. Yeah, there's an email app that's purely designed around that.

Starting point is 00:46:59 Is it like a game for Gmail? Kind of, well, it's a standalone thing and there's four big buttons next to every game. All right. OK. It's a purely designer on that. Someone made a game for Gmail to get you to inbox zero where you have to swipe emails from the other

Starting point is 00:47:13 last one. It's a vendor for emails. So there's an equivalent for this, which is send to Kindle. So you can turn on an accepted email address on your Kindle device. It's actually on your Amazon account and then anything which you receive from that email address if the attachment can be opened by a Kindle it'll automatically add it to your library on all your devices. So let's say that someone sends you

Starting point is 00:47:38 Oh, hi mate. I've just ripped the new Mark Manson book or someone sent me it or whatever whatever all that you do the new Mark Manson book or someone sent me it or whatever whatever, all that you do, take that email forward it to like, Christophe Williamson, da da da da da da da, at Kindle.com. And all of your devices will have that document on there. Do you use whisper sync? No, because I don't tend to buy books that I also listen to. I either have them, I tend to have them on monoron. That's a good, if you like, in the car, if you're reading a book in the morning and you want to continue listening the way it works. What's happening with a couple of books?

Starting point is 00:48:09 Sink to your place on one of these. I'm going to do a slightly short one now. So if you are listening to house music in the gym and you're doing some isometric holds that's said you're holding a plank or you need to be holding a stretch and you need to know how long let's say you're holding it for 30 seconds. Listening to house music, almost all house music is written at between about 124 and 128 beats per minute, which means that every high-hat hit or every other beat is about a second. So if you're listening to music you don't need to look at the clock, just count every other beat and that's going to count you in seconds. Can you play us an example?

Starting point is 00:48:45 Yeah, sure. So if we're less than seven seconds for this is going to pull us in fact this is going to pull us on YouTube. All right, I'll do it. So, but yeah, every other beat is one second, almost exactly. And by using that as a cadence for doing whatever isometric called stretches, anything. So headphones don't need to look in. There you go. Excellent. Excellent. Jenny. So this one is actually influenced by listening to your

Starting point is 00:49:22 podcast of James Clear and then re-reviewing my notes on atomic habits. Life. But I think the mistake that people make with building habits and behaviors is they make it to general. So we'll say, I'm going to practice, I'm going to build a habit of meditating every day, for example. And what happens is you will for a week meditate in the morning, and then something will happen, something will happen. I'll do it later, I'll do it later. And then before you know it, you've lost your street completely of meditating. So instead, what I've tried to focus doing is you drill and build the, what is almost like the lead indicator of that habit being completed. So like I will meditate

Starting point is 00:50:04 in the morning after making a coffee or whatever. But the biggest one for me was the biggest change for me was trying to achieve a calorie deficit, right? Something that we help a lot of people do. But saying I'm going to trap my macros for 12 weeks or I'm going to lose weight. Like the biggest for me, the biggest lead indicator of me hitting my macros and therefore being in a calorie deficit across the week is after I meditate the morning, I sit and just plan in my fitness pile what I'm going to eat that day probably. So I track my macros in the morning at the start of the day and all

Starting point is 00:50:41 that means it's your best estimate right, like obviously things change. But all that means is, so it's your best estimate, right? Like obviously things change. But all that means is that when you deviate from what you tracked, you immediately think, oh well, I got it. I got it back in change. I need to think this. Well, no, I need to adjust something later on that, that later in the day. So what most people do is they'll eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, track it, you fuck.

Starting point is 00:50:58 I'm over by 400 calories, shit. Oh, I better adjust tomorrow. Then by the next day, you've had a night's sleep, you've kind of forgotten about that. And then then you over your calories by several thousand across the week So is it predict your calories earlier in the day? Yeah, so you just say most people have a pretty routine like most people think schedule have this similar breakfast Like if you use if you have like 40 times a cereal and a two-scoops away. Yeah, so banana. Yeah Banana as well

Starting point is 00:51:23 Introduced to banana recently nice you're in a health kick. Yeah, so a banana as well. I've introduced a banana recently. Nice. You're in a health kick. Yeah. She had some like crush doctor away. Smashed, smashed off a card at on the cereal. Oh yeah, exactly. We've pushed a bit of like sprinkled black pepper and hopefully. Yeah. So yeah, most people eat very similar foods and usually the question mark is dinner. So if you best predict dinner, and if you listen to my previous life hack and you've got gooster, then you just pick the recipe card at the start of the day.

Starting point is 00:51:51 Put that in. Or someone can I do too? Yeah. So this was a present I got recently. James Haskell's cookbook, right? Has bar codes on the recipe pages that's scanning immediately into my fitness bar. That's great.

Starting point is 00:52:06 So how's this in Macros? That's going to become standard practice, I imagine. Oh, well, yeah. Do you have any idea how to serve a few recipe books? Have the Macros. Unbelievable. And you're trying to put in like a third of a cup of flour. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:52:19 I know. That's the thing. You've never even put the end result in. You're putting it in like, what are the raw fucking raw materials? That's great. Who's James Haskell? Just a user, a rugby player. I think former, I think former rugby player,

Starting point is 00:52:31 I don't think he plays anymore. Big, big dude. It's the standard route, career route that any ex-laid that he does now, isn't it? Like, brand new. Under tree, just cooking. Cockpock. It's daytime TV.

Starting point is 00:52:42 I was on BBC Radio All-Star today. That's several weeks ago. Yeah, it'll be several weeks ago in podcast land, don't I? BBC Radio Ulster is a podcast land. It's interesting. What have you got? So, two monitors has changed my life. Second display.

Starting point is 00:52:58 Well, actually, external display. External display. And then second external display. Yeah. So, how much better is having two external displays than having one? If you've got two external displays, I have the potential for it.

Starting point is 00:53:10 So I found I acquired an old TV, like an old Samsung TV, like Flashgreen. I don't watch, I haven't watched TV in years. So I don't really, didn't know what to do with it. Thinking to sell it and then I was like, hang on, there's an HDMI cable. Can I get an HDMI to thunderbolt to whatever it's called?

Starting point is 00:53:31 Have you not got an HDMI in your mark? Have you got an A? Yeah. So managed to find one on Amazon. I had to buy three cables because the first two I bought a mail to mail and then I bought like a USB thinking out of you. So that was my stupidity, but eventually got

Starting point is 00:53:46 the correct cable and it's just instantaneous. There's no delay between thingies, the quality's perfect. It's just like an extension of your screen. And all year, when you have a document on one side and something you're typing on the other, for example, or something to reference or something to do, it's just been fantastic. And then if you're not doing a task like that, having your to-do list maximized on that side, it's beautiful. You'd never just maximize B-Focus Pro. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:54:14 So it's so huge. Counter with a single task. It's pretty because it's like, right, you're gonna do this task. I can't set them, can't you order them? So you can have like, you can drag something from there to there. So I use better touch tool for expanding the shortcuts and things on Mac, which I highly

Starting point is 00:54:32 recommend. It's like 10 quid for like three years, license I think. And I've got a shortcut where I swipe left from the edge of the track pad and it takes the window that's the front most thing and maximizes it to the next display. So if you record, it makes the really displays including your MacBook. So the other display is what you can use is any iPod or iPhone. Yeah. Using an app called duet.

Starting point is 00:54:55 Now again, the new version of your Vendor. Well, this is made by Apple developers. Is airplane mirroring and screen mirroring, not a thing? You can do that as well, but you have to have the device that you're mirroring to has to be capable of that. It's just a, and that's only the mirroring. Right.

Starting point is 00:55:12 It's not, it's not an extension. It's just a display. So what do you add to allows you to do? And it will soon be included in the default Apple thing is that you plug in an iPhone or an iPad and you stand it up and it just acts as another monitor. Okay. So you have a very small phone. Yeah, that's an idea. You're getting like the new access plus or something.

Starting point is 00:55:29 Like a massive phone. Yeah, I mean, extra display. With an iPhone, it's only useful for like something that's like the focus prime or a B focus pro. That's cool. So I'm going to ride off the back like I can I do to. Yeah, I'll actually just before you do. Yeah, better touch tool. Just on that note, there's a new feature that allows you, you know how we mentioned a few live hacks ago to improve, to turn your light your trackpad to trackpad speed up to the maximum. It can take it past the current limit.

Starting point is 00:55:55 It created a new spectrum. Oh my God. To like the sickening speed. So I send a screenshot, I send the screenshot of increased trackpad sensitivity. And then in brackets, after it, it says, goes past current Apple settings. I sent the screenshot to Darren.

Starting point is 00:56:09 Darren said, I wanted to meet you. Did I send you that? Yeah. You can also, on that theme, this is for VMD. You can use an iMac as an external display for a MacBook. Why would you not just Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt? Just an easy one too. So extending from your life hack there, use of is convert to a standing desk. Like I got in touch with the guys who make the chair that Joe Rogan has, which is called the fully capisco chair, and they

Starting point is 00:56:43 also make the world's best standing desk, which is nice chair. Yeah, it's very comfortable. It's a lot more like a saddle. You need to just, so if you're listening, go and Google fully capisco, C-A-P-I-S-C-O-D-I-N-G-O. And to have a little look at it, it looks like the modest thing ever, but it is ridiculously comfortable. It's a standing desk stool that you can use from just above typical seating height to all the way above higher than you have when you're standing. And the desk also is on actuators. And with the touch of a button, you can go from seating to standing. You have preset memory buttons on it as well. You press the button and it just rises up. Now it isn't cheap. That's

Starting point is 00:57:26 the issue. But if you are working, especially if this is going to be the thing that you're going to sit up for the rest of your life, by the time that this is our own fact, Stuart McGill went out today. So you'll have heard the world leading back pain specialists say that move well and move often is the best heuristic to use for reducing back pain. If you're a knowledge worker, if you work on a desk, you will have some degree of back discomfort. Everyone does. So moving from seating to standing as seamlessly as you can, for me, I'll explain this to you the other day, Seth. When I'm doing Pomodoro's now, I do two Pomodoro's standing, one Pomodoro's seating.

Starting point is 00:58:10 As my alarm goes off, and if I need to change this press button, I'll move. That's it. Standing all day to seat and to standing, moving around, is making me feel another thing as well. I'm so much more energized when I stand up. Doing a podcast, standing up, I'm able to use my hands, talk to etc. We should do a life hack all three of us standing up one day We'll do a full podcast. You're a Bible shrugged They do all the podcasts now they go around the country do all that all their podcasts on So if you want a cheaper version of that what I've had for ages Very desk, which is just a big unit that you put, put on top of any desk and that becomes a sounding desk, loads of adjustable heights.

Starting point is 00:58:49 So it comes up and forward. Yeah. Also, Kelly Storette has a book called Deskbound, where he's very anti-sitting, like very, very anti-sitting, but he has a sequence of like mobility drills, they're more like just movement movements you can do to alleviate some of the symptoms of sitting that work extremely well in Pomodoro bricks. So Pomodoro bricks are best used in my opinion as either a little quick meditation session or do one of Calista rats like rehab. So. So I do, the McGill Big Three takes almost exactly four minutes 30, for me to do one of the movements. It's about 15 minutes to get all three done.

Starting point is 00:59:34 So you can get away, especially side plank, side plank is great. So I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do another one. We are approaching summer, people are going away on holiday and you're gonna be going through the airport. This, I only realized it on my most recent trip and I've been away quite a lot this year. And this is the discussion about where do you get once you get into the departure lounge, where do you get your food for the flight from?

Starting point is 00:59:58 So I mean, if you're not buying food for a flight, even if it's a short one, you need it because you're left with like Ryanair's Toasty, which is not a nice toasty, I was about to travel time with you. They're always wet, very soggy. Why are they wet? Very condense. Well, the fuck is that process? Very condense, I think so.

Starting point is 01:00:14 They might wait, I think so. They must be, I think. They need to listen to my songs, I don't even do. Fucking get the bravel on this. I mean, the bravel. That is hot, floppy bread. You have to pay extra for it, surely, as well. Oh, you know what I mean?

Starting point is 01:00:23 I'm lying there. You just need to be. Yeah, you don't get it, you know what I mean? I'm not even sure. I just want to go for it. Yeah, you don't get it. You don't get it. It's not like it's not. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it.

Starting point is 01:00:31 I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it.

Starting point is 01:00:39 I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. I just want to go for it. Especially if you've got a analogy because what you get is a fruit platter when they say fruit platter What do you mean is a bit of melon? It's so true a bit of honey to your thin slice. Yeah, so yeah, I think you first off I need to I need to preface this and create the foundation that if you are going on a plane

Starting point is 01:00:58 You need some food. The best approach for this is to get meal deal, right? Say that right like I want some water, I don't have to keep calling the lady over. Also water is expensive on the plane. Needs water. Probably going to get to sandwich anyway. It's safe as safe as sort of bet. Oh well, if I've got that and may as well get snack as well. Upsell. W. H Smith, meal deal for 99. Boots meal deal, 399 and Boots meal deal, Boots is the only store WX Smith doesn't have this. Boots has soaring pre-butted two slices, you can only get the single bar which is smaller in WX Smith but in Boots one pound less and you can get

Starting point is 01:01:47 pre-butted, sewing slices. I'm doing that this week. Man, game changer. I'm telling you. I have a fucking hell in you man. Sandwich buying tip. So I buy a lot of sandwiches, like high volume sandwich purchases. So one of the biggest things.

Starting point is 01:02:01 Very sandwich heavy today, I always. The biggest problem, if you're someone who doesn't, unlike these two, just maintain abs all year round, eating whatever the hell you want. And you have to actually consider what you eat. When you're buying a sandwich from David Smith or Boots, typically, the calories are 400 to 600, and the protein is only pretty low. That's pretty high protein is pretty low. So I have a 10% rule to try and get that you want to get as close as 10% rule in general when buying any meal in a place like this. And the 10% rule is calories, 10% of that member, that should be what you're aiming for in grams of protein. And the closest you can get to that,

Starting point is 01:02:42 that is pretty fucking good. Like a grenade bar is about 10%. So there's not always possible, but you can be aiming just aims to go close to that. So what that ends up looking like is some obviously chicken bacon salad kind of sometimes they have it like a protein boosted. Oh, they like a little chicken. I bet a betten all day breakfast is fucking good for that. It's actually not hash brown. So in all day breakfast, there'll be 600 with maybe protein in the 20s. If you get a chicken and bacon salad, usually something

Starting point is 01:03:09 like that, it'll be 400 with like a 35-ground protein. Or really getting them very close. Yeah, that's good. And then if you want like a chocolate bite, thinking, well, how do I, what do I do? Because I just can increase my calories, but not then you get like chicken radars or something shit like that, but just like the protein up That's a very unappetizing selection. Doesn't matter food to well. Yeah, because games Because games because games I remember being on a train and you you bought either Chris I'm fucking insane. I'm telling you, man.

Starting point is 01:03:43 I look there with her, yeah? I look. I see Johnny's not even chewing anymore. He's just got empty pockets next to him. I get really annoyed in those situations. So I often buy, because I think it's important. If you travel and get backpack reserved sandwich, so important, you never know when you're gonna be

Starting point is 01:04:00 caught in a situation like you're in a museum, you're hungry, the cafe's shit, reserved sandwich. I've got my, yeah. Right, you're in a museum, you're hungry, the cafe's shit, reserve sandwich. I've got my, yeah. Right, you've got a slot on your back cap where you can just go to the beach. You've got one of those fancy thuled backpackers. I do have a thuled backpack, but you go with two sandwiches, two sandwiches are like a big smart water, internally, buy a smart water.

Starting point is 01:04:19 You should, like, one meter one. You should take us through through on a new one. I'm suggesting you, hacks out on a hero. Cool. You go to the thing with two sandwiches and they say, you know what's only if you get a pack of crisps. Yeah, no, I just want the sandwiches in the order. I don't want two fucking yeah,

Starting point is 01:04:36 but if you're just spending over two phone, yeah. No, I don't want the meal deal. I just want the two sandwiches in the bottle of water. Excuse me, have you seen the percentage of protein in these sandwiches? Do I look like a fucking amateur here? This is a problem you need to Johnny where there'll be a better deal than the thing that he's getting. No, no, no, no, I don't want the free kind of coke because I'm going to carry it.

Starting point is 01:04:57 I'm not going to buy the telegraph to save three pens on this bottle of water that I've got here because I don't want to fucking. No, I don't want like the share bar of dairy milk either. I don't care if it's on offer. Can I just have the thing that I came in here? Here we answer, you've just done one. No, you've just done one. You just have to have central and central.

Starting point is 01:05:14 That. Okay, go again. I think you earn another one there. I'll do another one. Go on, keep. Okay, so. Is that text? No.

Starting point is 01:05:23 I need to find. Or well over five. I'm going to tell you how good that's it. No, I need to find. We're well over five. I'm good at that. I have got that's because you are being forced to watch the violin. I was on it. And I haven't had to watch a single second. You were on it. And I didn't watch an episode while you were on it. And now you're being forced to watch it. I was revising for example, the time you were. Every person who, well, this is a flight of a lot of people, but a lot of people who work nine to five jobs,

Starting point is 01:05:49 the sort of rhythm that you're in, the hunger patterns that are created. Typically, people get hungry between 3.30 and 4.30. And what they usually do, vending machine, muffin, snack, latte and a biscotti, or whatever, yeah, yoghurt and a biscotti or whatever, yeah. Yogurt and way is the best Greek yogurt, Greek yogurt, a little bit of banana way or how do you make sure it dissolves properly? You don't get powdered biscuits. Just give it a good

Starting point is 01:06:17 skirt. I know what you mean. Sometimes you get a pocket of powder. Just give it a good way. So the best for the four considers food. What you really need for this is a container, which is larger than the volume of the virus, which means because they can't you can't the yogurt. That's a very good point, because if you're operating on like a full pot of yogurt and they're trying to balance, it's just going to and you're going to one little win and it's yeah, it's the kitchen. You get those little air pockets that come up and they fire the

Starting point is 01:06:46 It's like a geese in Iceland It's exactly what we were there What you do in that situation is you dig a trench, open the trench and then push the yoghurt into the trench then stir, never try and stir with the yoghurt It's very the way With the way, way sitting on top, sorry Okay So that is from the things I've

Starting point is 01:07:05 found and feel free to add something. Calories for satiety, partly Greek yogurt with a bit of way, like, 253 calories and leveling it up with extra protein, skier. Oh, well, yeah, obviously, ideally, Icelandic skier, Directly from Iceland. Unfortunately though, it doesn't exist anywhere apart of Iceland. Because Danon, Boteeth, Boteeth. I can clearly remember shortly after I was convinced I was going to die of hypothermia, eating that strawberry skier and just saying to you, like, I can't communicate how nice this is. It's hard to know how much of it was like delium from just being it was it was early on set new morning

Starting point is 01:07:48 But that sure we ski it was like a pudding It's like a low-calorie protein fill pudding What's the percentage of protein to calcium skier? It'll be like 20% so you know far hay 0% that is essentially a protein supplement It's like 50 grams of protein zero fat in a tub of fire. It is like eight quid Was it you have a kilo with four double dacas? I've mixed a mental shit in my time. I can imagine Chris having a meal like this. So if we're going to like, most meals snack is often, they have a meal, which will be two ready meals dumped into a big bowl with some salad.

Starting point is 01:08:37 That's the meal, and then it'll be just a little finisher, it'll be a malt loaf, and a part of yoga, dip, and then just like just squash it. So it's something that Chris, me and audio broadcast all have in common is we see yoghurt is the cement to any meal. It's actually food itself. It's just something would be weird but if you have it with yoghurt it's fine. Yogurt to me is a non-savory catch-up. It's a garnish. It's a garnish. Yogurt to me is a non-savory catch-up. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Starting point is 01:09:06 It's a garnish. Yeah. It's a garnish. That's the closest I've ever felt to like a religious pulling towards a belief, like the yogur is a savory kettle. Yes. I believe in yogurts. I do believe in yogurts.

Starting point is 01:09:19 Yeah, yogurts. I do believe in yogurts. I believe in yogurts. I've got, like, I put it on all sorts. Like, people have had gos at me because I've had like the honey yogur put on to curry. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it.

Starting point is 01:09:32 I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm going to be able to do it. I don't even think I'm saying that. Okay. I mean, they're expensive. They're a treat, but they're going to have to say as well.

Starting point is 01:09:48 Five. Yeah. Because everyone wants to say fudge. But that's immature. So it's so far ahead. Right. Seth, should we do one more and then we'll do a quick run? Cool. So on one of the previous life hacks, I think I would have mentioned that I store the naughty apps on my phone on like the eighth page of apps.

Starting point is 01:10:11 You are an idiot, folder. Would you call the folder? So this is what the folder's called. Bumbley Bumble. No. So it's called. It's explicit rating podcast. Cunt times 10.

Starting point is 01:10:24 Ha ha ha. And the idea is you go through it explicit rating podcast. Cunt times 10. And the idea is you go through it, and obviously you've got the time or thing on it as well screen time, and you're like, Oh, I better just check Instagram. Okay, just the boringest isn't it? It's highly friction. The highly friction you go always at the end, and then you look at you like, uh, I've just been reminded like, and then by that point, you're like, if you still do it, you think, well, okay, at least I've made this choice consciously,

Starting point is 01:10:50 and so it's the hack having screen time next to it. So I did that, I've just gone a step further now, thanks to George McGill, and just deleted Instagram from my phone, and to don't even notice, like there's no urge to book a date. I'm sorry, you'll reinstall it. At some point, but the only reason I need to because I upload all of my Instagram stuff

Starting point is 01:11:11 from flu for desktop. And so story. So one of the stories is that flu doesn't support stories. Like if it does that, I would be game changer. I will feature on the next one about my strategy for two phones. Why I've got two phones, one social media device and one not, and my screen time even aggregating them both has dropped significantly. Because two phones? Yeah. Which is bizarre. Adding a second phone is reduced screen time,

Starting point is 01:11:42 but it has, because mindless scrolling's been pretty eliminated. I've got actually, for the next time, I've got fucking loads of phone reduction life hacks. So what was your one stuff there? Just deleting Instagram. Whatever your device app is, your mindless thing that you check on, and replace it with something that's useful. Like, I-books. If you want a real kick in the cock about phone use, right? The latest series of Black Mirror.

Starting point is 01:12:15 Yeah, it's called. The latest series of Black Mirror is the original. The latest series of Black Mirror. Season five. The episode called Smitherines is, I'm not ruining it, but the ending, the phone call, you just like, it's not some long drawn out like complex, like, you you know the Ruby saved my life. It's it's unrelated. So it's about it's about phone use. Okay.

Starting point is 01:12:52 Very very hard hitting. Quite three episodes long. But they're quite so when I watched the first few hours I said it shit but that you sit and think about mutters. Very very very. Charlie Brockett. You know I've said this before and say yeah. the first few hours I was out of the ship, but you sit and think about the mutt was not it? Very, very hard. Charlie Brooker, you know, I've said this before and say, yeah, Charlie Brooker,

Starting point is 01:13:09 I've been watching him from screen wipe to news wipe to all of the random shit he did, like back in 2008. He's an observer, isn't he? Very ambitious. And it's so fucking good to see someone who was probably at the mercy of the BBC, or John IV, one of the two, like some of the shite network.

Starting point is 01:13:30 Totally at the back mirror was on. Yes, but then it got, no, no, no, no, no, when he was doing screen-wide, I was obviously. And then he comes up with this idea for back mirror, and first one does good, second one does good, then Netflix come in big money, third one smashes it and it's just, he's going, as well as fucking raking it in now and he's finally got a platform where his visions, I'm presuming he's still probably taking creative lead here, like where his vision to actually able to be crit, like they had the guy that

Starting point is 01:14:02 was the main villain out of Sherlock Holmes. That's the episode that, right, yeah, like you swinging your penis around. There's like a pop star in one of them. I don't know, like, about Logan Paul's in the next season. He's everywhere. I can't believe how you've become a chiffon of Logan Paul. It is podcasting my impulse impulsive. I'll have to have a listen. I've got got traffic, isn't he? I was laughing at a picture that I saw of like when you're texting boys in class and it was a shot of urgent exit required. Which, okay. Do you have seen? You made a reference to that show and so I see you.

Starting point is 01:14:44 Line of duty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So everyone knows what we're talking about. Yeah, okay. We've all just had the fear that we've spoiled each other's experiences. Yeah, yeah. So then we, oh, fuck. Hang on, hang on. Have you seen the end of season?

Starting point is 01:14:55 No, I laughed at it and I thought, oh, shit. Is this not a line of duty reference in which case? Like, that's fucking weird dialogue. Fuck it. We can throw this in. This should technically be on a catch up. But we've ridd it for all the listeners. No, we didn't.

Starting point is 01:15:08 They don't watch line of Judy. If you need a new Netflix series, watch. Watch I'm gonna type it in right now. I'm a new Black Mirror. Line of duty. I'm watching. I'm like, you'll like the new line. I think both of those shows constitute

Starting point is 01:15:21 a life hack given how. Yeah, watch. The planet's brand cox is new on NBC2, I play. Right. Or the equivalent of planet earth for the solar system. For the solar system. For the solar system. Years and years on BBC.

Starting point is 01:15:35 So really clever concept. Takes a family, in current. So like they talk about Brexit and things. It's a drama. And they fast forward time. Ten years, 20 years. So like there's about Brexit and things, it's a drama and they fast forward time. 10 years, 20 years. So like there's been another financial crisis. Yeah. Like, so under the kids, there's been nuclear stuff has gone on and you just watch it and you just

Starting point is 01:15:55 have this a bit like, yeah. There's something really happened. Visually horrible about the passing of time quickly. Like, you know that? Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty, the show, the, well, interstellar, where there's like a famous scene and it's so gut-wrenching, because it's just like... Well, where Matthew McConaughey finds out that his daughter's like... 80s. Because they're in the way for too long. But the problem, I think... So what, what the passing

Starting point is 01:16:18 of time being quickly, and TV and film, is, is playing on all of our fears of death. So it's not I just have this feeling like I'm being bombarded with media that's just telling me that like the next 10 years is going to be fucking shit. Not if we keep on bad. They say what? The next 10 years are not going to be shit if this podcast continues growing at the rate of it. We can all fuck off really soon. Honestly, please, to the show. Continue to share this episode. Honestly, continue to share the episode. I'll just build our spaceship. And we will have a fucking spaceship

Starting point is 01:16:52 and everyone can have a massive party. Everyone can come. You're all invited. Right. Last, we're safe limit. Yeah. Last three. We'll do a quick fire.

Starting point is 01:17:02 So my one, it's another holiday one. If you are sunbathing, maybe on holiday, maybe in the UK, if we finally get some good enough weather, what you want to do to ensure that you are facing the sun without any odd like angles because you get like one side of your body's a little bit too done in the day or whatever it is. What you want to do is look at the way

Starting point is 01:17:23 that the bed or seat is aligned and you want to make sure that the shadows cast by the seat are running completely parallel with the seat. So if you have one of the legs chopping out and underneath one of the actual bed or the seat, that means it's an angle and you want to continue turning, continue turning, continue turning to that. And then for a nice little upgrade, what you can do is work out which direction the sun's going in. And you want to add maybe about sort of 15 degrees, 20 degrees. And that's probably got you back longer to, probably got about maybe half an hour to an hour until it gets to the middle, which means that you've got two hours and it'll cook both sides of you evenly. That's good.

Starting point is 01:18:04 Equal Transition Screen Cancer everywhere. Use sunscreen. Use sunscreen always. Mine is periodize who you learn from or who you listen to. So rather than having like 10 people that you listen to a bit or whatever, what I quite like doing is I'll go, like I'll go all in on someone for like a month and a bit and it's not something I do on purpose but like, you find someone on YouTube and then you're like, right, I'm gonna listen to podcasts by their book, absorb yourself in their world, learn what you want from that person and then move on. And then that way I think you get totally exposed to, like it's what we're saying about you reader book, though, you get exposed to the way that the idea is and stuff like that. Some is greater than the whole of the parts when you were listening else like that.

Starting point is 01:18:51 In fact, Ryan Holiday has a blog post about how he, I think he calls it the swan theory of learning and it's how he's like become a military history expert. And the way that he did it was just by drowning in military history stuff. And I do think death of immersion. Well, because of availability bias and the echo chamber effect and recency bias and all of these things, having a lot of information which all ties in together actually is going to reduce your requirement for recall which means that your depth of understanding will be better and your recall will improve when you start to piece multiple things together yeah so yeah that's a really you need like

Starting point is 01:19:36 whatever you like whoever you listen to I think if you have total understanding of the picture of what they're trying to say and why they think what they think you're like right that makes sense. And then you can move on to learn something else. Rather than having like, it's like going all in on Tim Ferriss. Like, just isn't the Tim Ferriss podcast for a couple of weeks.

Starting point is 01:19:52 For a couple of weeks. And I bet you'll enjoy it a lot more than it being bitty. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, like it's only really come together for me. Like just the course I've done this year because of like you learn the little sub components over the years but you don't piece anything together until everything

Starting point is 01:20:09 finally gets a little bit more to you. So I was gonna do that was yours. I was gonna do another tech one but I think we'll take the next one. This is something that I mentioned in a previous podcast, which was a story from my old boss at work who I was talking to her. An honest green came up a thing, a little email notification that said, like, urgent with loads of capital letters and stars and things. And she just closed the window. Actually, that required.

Starting point is 01:20:41 So she just closed the window and I was like, oh, that was urgent. She didn't want to get that. She was like, no, I decided what is urgent. Not this man. Everything has urgent was a requestor. And I was like, that is such an amazing quote. And if someone Tim Ferriss highlighted this as well, which is someone saying he couldn't attribute who was, but so now I've got a quote

Starting point is 01:21:06 from a quote from someone who doesn't know who it was. You're lack of planning does not constitute my emergency. So the life hack is if someone comes running to you with something that is burning for them, but you're working on something that is a priority. Question whether that is objectively an emergency, or is it just someone else's lack of planning that doesn't have to become your emergency now? I like that. And I guess as well, it means that even if you've followed a lot of our strategies about turning off notifications and checking your emails periodically as opposed to AdHop when they arrive,

Starting point is 01:21:47 there will be a way that someone else can game that system. Oh, I've got a knock on your door. Yeah, I think it's probably get phone call or whatever it might be, and it avoids that from happening. But thank you very much for tuning in. Do not forget to, wherever put the other shaker.

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