Mike "Bagel"

Remember, every setback is a setup for a comeback, providing valuable lessons and strengthening your resolve.

“Don’t make stuff because you want to make money—it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous—because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people—and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.” —John Green

**how DO you…capitalize on this transition to right-size your internal ops?** Simply – reflect and record. Why This Works

While all too easy to turn on scramble mode, putting up a new job posting, and reassigning existing responsibilities, this transitory state provides an ideal opportunity to assess team priorities, output, dynamics, and

I think that’s where the burnout really hurts—when you want to care about something but you’re removed from the capacity to do the thing or do it properly and give it your passion and full attention and creativity because you’re expected to do so many other things.

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.

Episode AI notes

1. Rafi Kohan emphasizes the importance of mental toughness in responding to trash talk by promoting self-awareness and self-regulation.




2. Effective trash talk can serve as a distraction strategy, deflecting opponents' focus, as illustrated by the example of Shep Messine.




3. Embracing the underdog effect can motivate individuals to overcome

Life can be so much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it.