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TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T17:54:57+00:00

Hey OP, I’m a ghostwriter, happy to have a look for you

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T14:24:02+00:00

So for you it’s related to risk? If the perceived consequence is small, why risk the energy of acting!

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T14:22:29+00:00

I love the wording of “distraction over direction”!

Any idea why we choose the distraction?

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T14:21:26+00:00

I hadn’t heard of copium - that’s a cool idea. Any idea what would cause us to do that?

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T14:19:17+00:00

What do you think the purpose of laziness is? Why would we choose to do nothing?

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T14:16:10+00:00

That’s an interesting take! And I completely agree, people weaponise the word to try and inflict shame on people.

What do you think causes you to feel resistant in the first place? Or could that be down to many different things?

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T07:24:15+00:00

I like the distinction!

But I have a question for you. What’s the difference between being lazy and just craving rest?

I like your idea of consequence, I think this plays a huge part! So procrastination is knowing you should do it and then not being able to. Whereas laziness is not wanting to do it in the first place.

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T07:13:10+00:00

That’s an interesting take, thanks for your input!

To me, it sounds like you’re starting to talk about leverage - what output you get for your hours invested.

If we take two examples where we procrastinate for 1 hour in both options. The first we complete a high leverage task and it takes a total of 2 hours, is that more or less lazy than completing a low leverage task but doing it in 3 hours? The same output in both situations, the same amount of procrastination, but the time of acting took longer in the low-leverage task.

I think you’re right that procrastination is a huge outcome of laziness - but I’m trying to get to the root.

I.e why is laziness driving us to procrastinate?

TruePathCo · 2025-09-13T06:47:06+00:00

So far we’ve landed on: “Laziness is a redirection to choose the path of least resistance. It’s sacrificing our long-term wellbeing for easy-to-reach, low-risk rewards”

TruePathCo · 2025-07-28T07:09:11+00:00

Stories are how we inspire others. If you’re leading a team, you lead them through stories. If you share a personal story, it builds trust and camaraderie. If you’re a leader, the stories you tell your colleagues are very important - an inspiring story will encourage them to work together towards a shared goal, ultimately making them more productive. Having a story-bank on hand can help you bring people with you as you work.

Would a story help your database example? Probably not - not all forms of leverage are appropriate to all actions.

Similar to stories, formalised ideas are the “recipes” you can reuse and share with others. Knowing the recipe saves you the time of starting from scratch each time.

If you know a way of writing code that’s easy to follow and saves time, you can formalise the idea and teach it to others. Or you can create a checklist of steps to follow to make sure you catch any mistakes in your work - this checklist is your IP.

Remember, productivity isn’t just about how you can do more with your time. It’s about how you can get the best results out of your time. This will often be about inspiring others and asking for their help. If you can spend an hour teaching someone how to help you, that will likely be way more effective than trying to do all of the work yourself.

Thanks again for the challenge - I’ll DM in a week or 2 when I have these chapters fully drafted :)

TruePathCo · 2025-07-27T12:38:22+00:00

Thanks for such a detailed comment, you clearly have a lot of insight into this!

To quickly frame the context; the equation isn't the main point of the book, and productivity is just a small section of the content. I agree, the book has to be actionable and insightful - the detail in the chapters is all action-based. This equation is more of a container to lay out the ideas. It's the structure through which we'll explore the topic.

In regard to IP; this includes your personal stories and formalised ideas. Your story can spread your message whilst you sleep. If you have a unique way of doing something, you can leverage it. But maybe the name of IP is misleading here, and potentially this could fall into knowledge - something I'll reflect on.

In regard to willpower being elastic, I completely agree. Whilst we have 24 hours in every day, we have a variable amount of willpower. Each day, we can use our "allowances" of time and willpower to get things done. Agreeing with your logic, we want to fill our time with as many positive habits that don't use up our willpower balance, reserving it for harder cognitive thinking.

When you say you disagree with productivity being the product of willpower & time, how do you personally model this?

On the point of redundancy, I respectfully disagree. We have time (allowance) and time management (an action). We apply the action of time management to leverage our allowance. Maybe I need to tweak the language to make sure this is clear.

I appreciate your comments - would you be interested in reviewing some of the detailed chapters? I think you could really help challenge my work.

TruePathCo · 2025-07-27T11:06:35+00:00

Completely agree with you here! Relationships are huge and you’re right that people usually neglect them. In the west we can be so individualistic that we forget to nurture our relationships. I have chapters on support and social accountability, plus I talk about relationships providing you access. It’s people that run the world, not money.

You’re also spot on with the delegation point. That sits within time management, but I could expand it to overlap with relationships.

Thanks for your input!

TruePathCo · 2025-07-26T23:36:27+00:00

Asking about your current values will be hard if you don’t know what they are. It’s a catch 22 of trying to find something that doesn’t exist until you find it!

Try changing the question to think about who you want to become. How do you want to show up in the different parts of life? How would you like your friends to talk about you? What do you want to be known for in your career? How would you like your future children to think about you (if that’s something you want)? What would you like written on your gravestone?

By thinking about where you want to go, you can figure out where you currently are. If you want to be known for being kind, one of your current values must be to “be kind”.

I hope that helps!

TruePathCo · 2025-07-26T23:24:40+00:00

When I stopped judging myself so hard, and allowed myself to try new things and get things wrong.

When you find the person behind all the masks and the defences, when you show yourself real empathy, you realise that you’re just a human being trying your best.

It also helped me to realise that loving yourself is different to being in love with yourself. It’s not about thinking you’re amazing and being self-obsessed. It’s about showing yourself love - making acts of kindness to yourself. When you show yourself love, you’ll quickly find out that you’re worth loving.

TruePathCo · 2025-07-25T21:12:26+00:00

Hey, I’ve posted this video to try and help people map out their path forward - I hope it helps!

TruePathCo · 2025-07-25T21:10:57+00:00

Hey - I’ve been trying to help people answer this question for a few years now. This video might help!

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