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We waste a lot of time.

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Life is like a messy jigsaw
puzzle with too much room

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between the cracks.

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These are the moments you're
actually getting things done.

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And this?

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This is wasted time.

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Which, for the average
person, amounts

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to 21.8 hours every week.

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That's equal to
a part time job

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or running five
whole marathons.

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The good news is,
we now have an array

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of goods and services
designed to optimize our lives

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and squeeze that puzzle into
an impermeable, airtight hunk

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of productivity.

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And all it takes is five
pretty simple steps.

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Step one, minimize
friction, maximize hustle.

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Imagine you wake
up in the morning.

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Maybe in real life, you look
like this, or this, or this.

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But right now, you're just
going to look like this guy.

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You're 5' 10", average build,
with a strong preference

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for citrus, and an
estimated lifespan of 82.

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Optimizing is
going to allow you

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to milk as much time
out of those 82 years

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as humanly possible.

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So pack your gym bag
the night before.

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That way, you can grab it
on your way out the door

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without having to
think twice or second

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guess your athletic goals.

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Read your daily news briefing
on the way to the gym,

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and try to complete a seven
minute high intensity workout

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session, which can
improve your oxygen

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consumption by up
to 9%, allowing

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you to be more productive
the rest of the day.

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Optimization is about
thinking one step ahead.

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If you order your coffee
while you're still at the gym,

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you can pick it up on your
way to work practically

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without having to stop.

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Seamless.

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Now you work for a while.

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In 1930, John Maynard
Keynes famously

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predicted that, with the
advance of technology,

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we would only have to work
15 hours a week to get by.

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Well, Keynes' prediction
was completely backward.

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Rather than reducing
the hours we work,

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we've found a way to increase
the work we do every hour.

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Eventually, you leave
work and walk for a bit

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to offset the sitting.

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But then you need to
eat off at the walking.

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Meal subscription services
are awesome for this.

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So you can have everything
you need for dinner chopped

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and waiting for you by
the time you've unpacked

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and repacked your gym bag.

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Read a book while you cook,
but not the whole book.

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There are services
now that actually just

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give you the short
version of the book.

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Same info, way less time.

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With all these time
saving devices,

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you're now able to go to
bed way ahead of schedule.

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And with polyphasic
sleeping, you

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can stop spending so much
damn time unconscious,

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and therefore unproductive.

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Step two, iterate.

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The next morning,
you're up five hours

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ahead of time and
feeling great.

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But you know you could
be feeling better.

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At the gym, check your
emails on the bike

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while drinking a
meal replacement

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shake with an added
shot of MCT oil

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to stabilize the glucose
in your bloodstream

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and prevent you from getting
hungry until dinner or maybe

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ever again.

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You're saving time
and feeling great.

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And when you save
time and feel great,

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you're going to have
more time and energy

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to plan out how to save more
time and feel even better.

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You leave work perfectly timed
with the ride share you've

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prearranged, allowing you to
complete a Duolingo Mandarin

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course.

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[SPEAKING MANDARIN]

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You're home wildly ahead
of schedule and meal

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prepping next week's morning
shakes while Alexa reads off

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your 23andMe results.

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You're hoping to reveal your
suspected Viking chieftain

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routes, but instead
discover your relation

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to a lineage of
Irish mill workers,

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so should therefore be adding
flaxseed instead of coconut

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oil, which you never would
have known about if you

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hadn't listened to that bio
hacking podcast last night.

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In your dreams, you descend
into a deep, fiery cave

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that looks kind
of like your gym,

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except inside a
volcano, visited

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by conjurings of all the
people doing more than you.

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Oh, look.

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It's Elon Musk and Kathy from
work, who's already finished

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Obama's 2020 reading list.

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And Victor something,
who you haven't

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talked to since high school,
but apparently has a tech

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startup and a six pack.

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Wake up in a cold sweat
ready to take your day

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to the next level
with step three, which

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is to skip step three.

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Step four, accelerate.

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Fast forward a month.

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You have optimized your
life so efficiently

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that you're now
able to live five

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whole days in
the time it takes

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most people to live just one.

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With a quick calculation, you
realize that your previously

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predicted 82 year
lifespan, combined

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with your current
rate of productivity,

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minus the 34 years you
lived before you learned how

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to optimize actually comes
out to a whopping 240

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productive years
of life for you.

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And the new pressure
cooker you just

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got that's programmable
from your phone

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will push that to 265.

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Hashtag worth it.

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Step five,
eventually, you die.

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You win the international
award for most lives

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lived in one life.

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No one knows quite what it was
you did with all that time.

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All they know is you sure
didn't waste it, right?

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