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- 0:00When I'm going through this safe and our high, can he ask And
- 0:06really what he does in this book is he takes topics, live topics,
- 0:13different aspects of developing a very well-rounded person.
- 0:16And we did a few of them ready, and one of them is not actually
- 0:20going to the Les Alifet, and one of them is now the topic of the
- 0:24result, which means in English alacrity and the importance of
- 0:28being quick. What does that mean?
- 0:30So first of all, he says they came out in many places.
- 0:34And the dodge tells us also that the actions of the righteous are
- 0:40done quickly. A classic example is whatever
- 0:45Havi knew. I had those guests, and he
- 0:49ripped out soups of it in my hair.
- 0:50And he ran, he ran, he hurried, he hurried endlessly.
- 0:54It says the word hurried, hurry, hurry to take care and prepare
- 0:57for those guests. Hurrying was key.
- 1:00Another example, some of the theme of Carmen.
- 1:04She hurried to give the water to the camels when right when she
- 1:08was visited by by by by lizard. So the idea is, is that hurrying
- 1:16great people hurry. You have to figure out why is it
- 1:19so significant at the hurry. What's the importance of this in
- 1:23the eye? OK, I understand you want to get
- 1:26the job done. Whatever mitzvah, all very good.
- 1:29Whatever mitzvah and Yanny want to do, you want to get the job
- 1:31done. Why is it significant to do
- 1:35things in my head, do things fast.
- 1:38Zizzut this concept. We have many examples.
- 1:41We have an Yan when it comes to Mila.
- 1:44We do Mila's bring Mila in the morning.
- 1:47Some people do me bring Mila very early in the morning
- 1:49because we have a concept on the a day.
- 1:51It's with mitzvah's thoughts. Zizzi makdi mitzvah, we don't
- 1:55Messiah even to say if they wanted the early chapters of
- 1:59developing a Jew, he talks about the need to be at ease, to be
- 2:03fast. So the question is, I understand
- 2:13it's a nice thing, but if you think about the end game, said
- 2:18he gave us a part of an answer. If you think about the end game,
- 2:20who cares if you do things slow methodically taking your time or
- 2:28we do it fast, same end game. That's the question.
- 2:33All right. But like we said, he brings many
- 2:39sources to the knee to be quick. But again, my question, why is
- 2:45it significant? So Eddie gave us one answer,
- 2:49which is Yetzada. The one answer is the inside.
- 2:54I usually try these different tactics and stop you from doing
- 2:57them as follows. Stop you think something do and
- 3:00the typical topic tactics are debate, doubt.
- 3:05I'm not sure if it's worth it. I'm not sure if it's worthy.
- 3:09Those are the classic tactics of the it's ADA.
- 3:13But then after that, after you beat those, which is after you
- 3:17get past the fact that you are committed to doing something.
- 3:20That's right. It's that I find a new Ave. and
- 3:24this new Ave. is far more powerful.
- 3:26And I'll tell you why in a second.
- 3:27Far more powerful than doubt. And this Ave. is
- 3:30procrastination, delay, stall tactics.
- 3:34Telling you I don't, I need to do it, but I don't need to do it
- 3:38now, I'll do it later. Why is this a far more powerful
- 3:42tactic? Because often times in our
- 3:44minds, once we commit to doing some things on your mind, you're
- 3:47halfway there. Once you commit to doing
- 3:50something, you're on the right track, you're there, and then
- 3:53you have to just deliver, right? It's says it's a perfect opening
- 3:58right there. The guy already feels good about
- 4:00himself. When you commit to do something,
- 4:02you already feel good. You already feel like you are on
- 4:06a good track. You already feel like you did it
- 4:08already. We have a constant of Shavaka
- 4:10Massa. Thought is like action in our
- 4:12minds. Often times the thought of doing
- 4:14something like your action. And then once you got past that
- 4:18point, now you delay, you stole, procrastinate.
- 4:22I'll get to a later. I said I'm going to go pray,
- 4:25I'll get to me out eventually. I said I'm going to give
- 4:27charity. I'll get delivering the money
- 4:29eventually, right? I said I already made a decision
- 4:32in my mind. I'm going to go learn.
- 4:35I'll end up by class eventually. Once you made that decision, we
- 4:40often think, you know, the decision is halfway to the
- 4:43finish line. Not true.
- 4:45In fact, it's the opposite. The decision is literally the
- 4:49avenue and the opening for the IT set out to say I got him, he
- 4:53feels good, he got the right emotion, he got where he needs
- 4:57to go. Now let me step in and say don't
- 5:00do it now, do it later, do it next week to interim time.
- 5:04I can't tell you how many times I've asked a person or invited a
- 5:08person to a class and they got themselves to commit to maybe 3
- 5:15weeks from now when things change to a month from now when
- 5:19things get easier. And it's fair, it makes some
- 5:21sense. But the problem is not that
- 5:23commitment that makes sense. The problem is during the next
- 5:26few weeks they feel very good about themselves and they feel
- 5:29like they are settled in the fact that they have a class
- 5:32coming, they have a class pending and then what happens?
- 5:36Two weeks now comes, a small thing comes up and they can't
- 5:41make it, and now they got literally nowhere.
- 5:44Instead. The move always is to say yes.
- 5:48If they're saying yes, I had to do it today, do it tomorrow, end
- 5:52up by that first one, and then you'll work your way to pushing
- 5:55yourself to keeping that schedule.
- 5:57But the key theme is a person needs to get past that barrier.
- 6:03It's one of the most difficult barriers to get past.
- 6:06Or just actual delivery. A person thinks I committed, I'm
- 6:12good in any area. Commitment is not halfway to the
- 6:17finish line. It's halfway to thinking in my
- 6:19mind, I got there, but it's not at all reality.
- 6:22That's what he's telling you. All right, he says, but however
- 6:25said the Keem make sure so they can't make sure that they
- 6:30deliver. For example, Naomi said about
- 6:34Ruth, Naomi, which is Ruth's mother-in-law and the story of
- 6:37Ruth said to her daughter, she said you know there's a man
- 6:41helping you out. What's the man's name helping
- 6:44her out? And his name was Boaz and she
- 6:46said to Ruth, I know that man is a Sadiq and I guarantee he'll
- 6:51take care of what he's take care of today.
- 6:55Kilo Ishko Taish, that man will not rest Kim Kila de Varayon
- 7:03unless he addresses the issue today.
- 7:06Hare Haitapit To her she was confident.
- 7:15She was confident. She ignored a young man.
- 7:18The topic will be taken care of today.
- 7:20He can Daughter conscious said he came.
- 7:22This is the way that he came. La sot miyad masha Sri class
- 7:27sot. They do things to me.
- 7:29So you say to yourself, OK, but don't I know haste makes waste?
- 7:34Shouldn't I be thought out? Shouldn't I debate something?
- 7:39Excuse me, Sonny, Start. Shouldn't I get?
- 7:42Shouldn't I go through the process?
- 7:44All right, what's this concept of being fast?
- 7:47Isn't being fast dangerous? So how do you respond to that?
- 7:51How do you respond to that concept of being too quick is
- 7:56often times being destructed? Because if you don't think
- 7:59things through, if you're not methodical in your process, then
- 8:02you're running the risk of making mistakes because haste
- 8:05makes waste. How could we tell you that one
- 8:08of the biggest concepts that you is to be at ease need to be
- 8:12quick. And we all know that you need to
- 8:14think things your life. Other times you make dangerous
- 8:17decisions other than other times you make things that you look
- 8:20back on and say, I shouldn't have done that was too quick.
- 8:22This is different. This is a mature.
- 8:24This is the other kind of life situation.
- 8:29OK, so then it's a process and he's right on track.
- 8:33The process is is that we're dealing with things that there's
- 8:37no doubt going to Mignon. There's no doubt calling to
- 8:41learn, there's no doubt giving charity to A cause that you know
- 8:45is good. There's also no doubt doubt
- 8:48giving, delivering the payment to a place that you're already
- 8:50committed to. Also no doubt these types of
- 8:54things that there are no doubt taking care of your children,
- 8:57being near for your family, These are things that are no
- 8:59doubt and all anything missing is a delivery.
- 9:03Those scenarios. There's no such thing as waste
- 9:07and those scenarios. The only thing holding you back
- 9:11is the Itzara, the stall tactic, Itzara saying to you, why now,
- 9:17thank you. The only thing holding you back
- 9:19is the emotion of saying I don't really, I'm not really
- 9:22interested in the effort in the work in the toil that is
- 9:28included in actually getting the job done.
- 9:31So in those situation where it's only a matter of toil holding
- 9:34you back from delivery, that is called you need to bring on that
- 9:39ease. You need to bring on the emotion
- 9:41of saying, let's get this done, let's get through it, Let's
- 9:43push. And often times, very often, we
- 9:48feel like I shouldn't have. I'm going to take it easy.
- 9:50He might call laziness. It's a real thing.
- 9:53Or you might just call why now? Why should I get to it now?
- 9:57And he's telling you the ways of the said they came is that they
- 10:01push. This is behind Kanowski's book
- 10:04and it's around his your side. So I'll tell you that he once
- 10:07told people that I myself when it comes to learning, I have to
- 10:11push myself. And you say he had to push
- 10:13himself. Come on, he went all day.
- 10:14I had to push myself and I often don't have to tell myself.
- 10:18I look at a clock and I'd say how can I handle learning for
- 10:21the next few hours? It's hard to I had to push and
- 10:25every gay person pushes themselves.
- 10:27Don't think it comes easy yet Sarah's greatest gift is a stall
- 10:32tactic. It tell you why this moment and
- 10:35the truth is, if a person gets past this and not only do they
- 10:40deliver things fast and you say what's the difference?
- 10:42You pay it anyway, you're going to get them down anyway.
- 10:44Who cares? Fast or slow, the difference
- 10:47becomes a way more effective person, a way more effective
- 10:51person. Every single area.
- 10:54Miss Elias Shane places this concept early on in his steps of
- 10:58development of a person. And you wonder, why should
- 11:02haste? Why shouldn't being fast?
- 11:05Why should anti laziness be such a key theme and development of a
- 11:10person? It's nice to be quick, it's good
- 11:13to deliver, it's good to get the job done.
- 11:15It makes a difference in who I am.
- 11:18Who cares if I get there at 9:00 in the morning or 8:00 in the
- 11:21morning? Why does it make a difference?
- 11:22Who cares right? When I pay that payment when I
- 11:26eventually get to class, Why does it make a difference?
- 11:29And there's simple answers is that if you leave yourself up to
- 11:35basically letting things be, you'll never get anywhere in
- 11:40life. If a person allows things just
- 11:43to be the way they are, he will never be able to get anywhere in
- 11:47life. And that's how far it goes.
- 11:48Because if you don't push, you'll always be waiting, you'll
- 11:52always be delaying, you'll always be stalling.
- 11:54It's not simply about performing mitzvot even.
- 11:57It's that every year of your life you do not push past the
- 12:01barrier. If you do not literally drag
- 12:03yourself along past the finish line, you will never develop in
- 12:07any area, whether it be mitzvot, character, anything about
- 12:12yourself, and you allow laziness to set in.
- 12:15It will set in as an emotion for every single area, even
- 12:18character. How does character relate to
- 12:21this? Because if a person is lazy
- 12:23mindset, you're letting your brain settle.
- 12:26If you let your brain settle, that's where he hits it out,
- 12:28finds its greatest home. That's where it grows and grows
- 12:31and grows. And you can't push.
- 12:33If you can't push an area on this foot, you cannot push in
- 12:37any area. Why?
- 12:39Because pushing is uncomfortable.
- 12:41For example, this very, very morning, right?
- 12:45The clock changed. You need to go to Mignon.
- 12:47You're a little bit less in the mood, OK.
- 12:50You need to wake up in the morning, roll out of bed.
- 12:52You're more tired. You saying stuff?
- 12:54I'm groggy. It's a slow Sunday.
- 12:57There's not much going on this Sunday.
- 12:59There's no football. There's no thing.
- 13:01There are second man. Even places right.
- 13:03Even here. Why?
- 13:05Why? Russ?
- 13:06Right. You're saying that to yourself?
- 13:08Fair. Good argument.
- 13:10If you know what happens if you don't have the mode of pushing,
- 13:14you do not have the mode of pushing, and you will not have
- 13:17the mode of pushing in any area, and you'll slowly settle, settle
- 13:21into the emotion of I'm comfortable, I like it this way
- 13:25and I'm good. Today in 2026, the world is
- 13:29fluid. This young people today are full
- 13:32with this concept. Laziness is a far greater
- 13:36concept than it now than it used to be, and it's a concept that
- 13:40is not only related to its fourth, it's a concept that's
- 13:42related to any area of life. Why is laziness set in today
- 13:46more than ever? Because we like comfort.
- 13:48We like it being the way it is. If you break it down even
- 13:51deeper, laziness relates to comfort.
- 13:56Comfort relates to being the way you are right now.
- 13:59I'm very good in this mode. I like my sweatpants, I like my
- 14:03bed. I like things being the way they
- 14:05are. I like this feeling and this
- 14:07feeling means 0 push. And if you're not willing to
- 14:10push from, it's what you're not willing to push for work.
- 14:14And now when it comes to going into the office, some people, I
- 14:18love this mode. Some people they only going to
- 14:22work when they have to and it starts to dwindle and dwindle
- 14:25and dwindle and then they get off on this day and that day.
- 14:29For example, even this is a good example, we had a discussion in
- 14:33one of the classes and it came up regarding going to work on
- 14:36pudding. And of course, I feel, we all
- 14:38feel don't go to work on pudding.
- 14:40You take off so many days, why don't you go to work on pudding?
- 14:43That was the feeling we had. But at the same time, and I said
- 14:49this in front of a worker and a boss who are both in the same
- 14:51class by the way, the same time I'm with you.
- 14:56Don't go to work on podium. A big fan of that.
- 14:58It's only if you know you, you, you work the rest of the year.
- 15:04It's only because people take off so much.
- 15:07I was talking this person. Don't take off.
- 15:09It's a little bit different for you.
- 15:10Don't take off on podium when you do it take off.
- 15:13You know when you hardly ever take off.
- 15:15But because today we take off so often, that's what you say take
- 15:18off podium. No question.
- 15:20I but my, my main point I'm trying to say now is don't allow
- 15:24laziness to set in. Don't allow this emotion set in.
- 15:28And now I'll start taking off every other day.
- 15:30You say to yourself, how does it develop a Jew working, being a
- 15:34good worker, being a pusher, being a highly motivated person
- 15:38makes you into a completely different person.
- 15:41And people like take off on Sundays, which is fine.
- 15:43And people like taking off on Fridays.
- 15:45Are you getting there? Are you going a little bit more
- 15:47to the funny zone then people in the summertime like take off on
- 15:50Wednesdays and you're really going places, right?
- 15:53And you end up being when saying French slower and slower, It can
- 15:57slow. That's the whole generation.
- 15:59You see the degradation from prior where they watch seven
- 16:04days a week or you know, I love whenever, but I'm saying there's
- 16:09the same emotion that they like to work in the home.
- 16:11I work, I work at home and then we like to work.
- 16:14They have this book I saw a couple of years ago with a four
- 16:17hour work week or something ridiculous. 5 hour work week.
- 16:20Who are you kidding? And then solely, but surely it
- 16:22becomes employees are more effective as they work for they
- 16:25Yeah, they love to say that because there's a yeah, it's
- 16:27just let AI do the work for you. And then I can say, why fly?
- 16:31Why fly? Why should I have to travel for
- 16:33business? And solely but surely right now
- 16:36it works. It's effective, but solely but
- 16:38surely you lose the mode of being an uncomfortable position.
- 16:43And when you lose the mode of being an uncomfortable position,
- 16:46you lose the worker mentality. And that's when danger sets in
- 16:50because maybe right now it's working.
- 16:52Maybe right now it's effective because you're doing what you
- 16:54did and it's not changing much. But now God gets a new job and
- 16:58now he gets a new job. I've seen this so many times.
- 17:01God gets a new job and his new boss is expecting to work for
- 17:03your work, go to work in nine to five.
- 17:06Do you think he has no idea how he's going to handle?
- 17:09I dealt with a guy who was out of work, out of work.
- 17:14Someone's out of work, sadly. You tell yourself, take whatever
- 17:17you got right, you're out of work.
- 17:18That's the support for his family.
- 17:20I told him why you're not taking this job, I don't know.
- 17:23It's uncomfortable. I don't know.
- 17:25They're going to push me too hard.
- 17:26And I use this. I'm like, are you crazy?
- 17:29You see you're out of work. You're given an opportunity.
- 17:31I have a good job coming to you. I don't know.
- 17:34I'm not sure if I want to work nine to five.
- 17:35I'm not sure if I want to do the way.
- 17:36Are you out of your mind? But their answer is, is that we
- 17:39settle into a very lazy mode. And you may say to yourself, I'm
- 17:43a good worker, then great in that area you're blessed.
- 17:46And it has to spread to all areas.
- 17:49If a person becomes a pusher and it becomes a developed person.
- 17:53If a person allows things to settle and he lets things rot
- 17:58and then before you know it, in every area of life, he is not a
- 18:02developed person. Instead he remains the exact
- 18:04same. So you say to yourself, why does
- 18:07being Zarise, why does being highly motivated so affected?
- 18:12Because it pushes you to be uncomfortable.
- 18:14And when you're willing to be uncomfortable, that right there
- 18:17is where you develop, right? There is a spot that you're
- 18:19willing to change, right? It's about that.
- 18:22You're willing to sweat, you're willing to toil, you're willing
- 18:25to everything, right for solving for your question.
- 18:29We all love AI, Dave, don't we? Now the problem with AI and the
- 18:33clearest problem today is the idea that, you know, let's take
- 18:37it in the in the form of learning, you learn.
- 18:40The essence of learning is totally forgetting, not
- 18:43understanding, trying to figure it out, going through the back
- 18:46and forth, all that hard work comes to learn.
- 18:49Now, if AI one day will replace my hard work and what's going to
- 18:54happen, I will lose the tool of development and learning.
- 18:59A person, no person should happen to, but they'll lose the
- 19:03tool in development and learning.
- 19:05And you say big deal. How the high?
- 19:08It's a very big deal. It's a very big deal because
- 19:11then now you do not have those skills.
- 19:14Those skills are utilized by every area of life.
- 19:16God. So what's the question now?
- 19:18Give me David a chance. Comment Somebody once told me
- 19:20that if you have items you have to do during the day, make a
- 19:23list. You know, like I make a list.
- 19:25Do the one that you dislike the most.
- 19:27Do that first, otherwise you may never do it.
- 19:30I have to pay bills, so I don't do it right.
- 19:33Move right away. I'll do other things. 100
- 19:35percent, 100%, a person has to get themselves to be a pusher,
- 19:40to push past the uncomfortable. The other option is laziness,
- 19:45and laziness includes great comfort, right?
- 19:49I've seen people, and this is people that's called maybe an
- 19:54older single or maybe a person who would work for his parents
- 20:00for a long time, for his father for a long time.
- 20:02Those type and they got very used to this mode and now you
- 20:06try to get them an older single person trying to get them to
- 20:09date and now when they're dating you're having a hard time
- 20:12figuring out why they like not really, you know aggressive over
- 20:15here and it's because they settled into their mood and that
- 20:19mood equals comfort. But now you say to yourself, OK
- 20:22beautiful. It's nothing to be comfortable.
- 20:24The problem with laziness, therefore comfort, is that they
- 20:28do not move the needle at all. And is their life any better?
- 20:31No, the life is not better when someone is a pusher, someone's a
- 20:36worker and someone's highly motivated and someone's OK with
- 20:40being uncomfortable. They enjoy life so much more
- 20:44because they have the greatest gift.
- 20:45You know what that gift ends up being?
- 20:47Productive. When you are a pusher, you
- 20:50become productive and there's no better feeling in the world.
- 20:54When it comes to your confidence comes to yourself, esteem comes
- 20:57to you, worthless, You, you, you worth on this earth, there's no
- 21:00better feeling than being productive.
- 21:02So they all go hand in hand. You're a pusher, you're
- 21:04motivated, you're uncomfortable very often and you're
- 21:07productive, awesome. Whereas you're not a pusher.
- 21:12You're comfortable, you're lazy, you're in sweatpants eating the
- 21:16nachos in your mother's basement.
- 21:19Classic example. You know who you are.
- 21:21Also, we know those guys in the movies, those guys in the
- 21:24sweatpants, right? You know, that's the classic
- 21:26guy. He's in mommy's basement.
- 21:28He's 42 years old and he's just binging movies all day.
- 21:32That guy, very comfortable, maybe very, very unproductive.
- 21:37And that's the choices a person has to make.
- 21:39And it's true when it comes to basement.
- 21:42That's why he's in the basement. You know a majority of people.
- 21:46That's not the majority. Not the majority of people.
- 21:48We have our own version of that price.
- 21:49Yeah, the only version of that, which is I'm not, I'm not
- 21:52interested in going to office when it's raining.
- 21:55Snow day, right? Other people cancel because
- 21:57there's snow day. I'm a very firm believer of
- 21:59those who figure things out during a snow day, right.
- 22:03I went on, on snow day, the boat.
- 22:05Sundays at the big snow days, I went to yeshiva, by the way.
- 22:09I took Ubers. Uber.
- 22:11You how how expensive think the Ubers were on those days, they
- 22:15were very cheap. Snow day, they were very cheap.
- 22:20After the snow day, like day three, they were very, very
- 22:23expensive. No, they wouldn't.
- 22:24I open it back and forth to shoot every morning even all the
- 22:26time to three. But during those days, so see me
- 22:29during those days, they were very cheap.
- 22:31Why were they cheap? Because nobody's going to work.
- 22:35Because they all called up their bosses and said I might live
- 22:39down the block from the office, but it's snowing so I'm not
- 22:42going. And then and that becomes a mole
- 22:45few, but the mole becomes lazy and I'm productive and you want
- 22:50workers. If I hire a worker, the number
- 22:52one thing I want if a worker, if I hire one was is the mode of
- 22:57doing things at all costs, doing things no matter what.
- 23:00I love that mood because the amount of productivity from that
- 23:04individual compared to the amount of productivity from the
- 23:07other person who by literally any sort of fly, any sort of
- 23:13uncomfortable, any sort of bad weather or any sort of issue,
- 23:17he's not showing up. The level in these people is
- 23:19literally 100 to 1. And the world is so much more
- 23:23productive with these types of people and the results when it
- 23:26comes to its foot is the exact same way.
- 23:30He's been going to class, but I can't find parking.
- 23:33You debating going to pray, but it's a little bit rainy outside.
- 23:36You debating giving charity, but I'm a little tighter at this
- 23:39moment. Or I committed, but I'm not
- 23:41really sure. I want to pay out the second
- 23:42you're debating whether to go to that wedding to make that couple
- 23:46feel good, but I don't know really.
- 23:49There's so many people, da, da, da.
- 23:51I worked very hard today. I'm just going to go to bed,
- 23:54right? You're debating family respects,
- 23:56but come on, don't really know them so well.
- 23:58Should I go? Should I not go?
- 23:59I'll go later, right? All these examples.
- 24:02That's so many more. You need to push and break past
- 24:07the uncomfortable. If you're willing to be
- 24:08uncomfortable, you're blessed with productivity and an awesome
- 24:12feel. If you're not willing to be
- 24:13uncomfortable, you want to remain comfortable, then you
- 24:16have any modern version of mommy's basement with sweatpants
- 24:20and nachos and sitting there watching movies.
- 24:22And you know what? That guy becomes angry,
- 24:24frustrated. That guy becomes lazy,
- 24:28unproductive. You can't get him to move an
- 24:31inch. That person.
- 24:32Forget about asking to do anything.
- 24:34It's not going to happen because you got too comfortable and too
- 24:39unwilling to be uncomfortable, and therefore there's nothing
- 24:43there that's going to be produced from such an approach.
- 24:45That's why the zoot is one of the main steps of being in good
- 24:49Jew breaking past the barrier.