Success or easy

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My brothers and sisters, I get asked this question, which goes that I want you to be
a mentor. So I say, please write down, write me a letter or note in which I want you to
list your challenges, your questions and your goals from this mentorship relationship. And
why are you asking me to be a mentor?
To be a mentor. To be your expectations. So I get this answer. Can I just call you
and tell you? Can I send you a voice recording? So I said, no, you can't call and tell me.
We will speak on the phone obviously at some point, but not now. And you can't send me
a voice recording. What you can do and you should do is,
write the thing down, send me a note. And the reason for that is because when you write
things down, there is a connection. There are actual connections between, neurological
connections between your writing and your thinking. Ideally speaking, write on paper
with a pen. Not even on your laptop or phone. Sit down with paper and pen and write. So
that's the reason.
So I say, please write down.
Okay.
There is an actual relationship between the act of writing and thinking. And that is the
next positive relationship. What it does is that writing clarifies your thinking. Writing
clarifies your thinking. So as you are writing down and you write down this is my problem,
the answer itself will come to you. So you will discover that, well, I thought this was
a problem, but actually maybe it's not. Maybe I already have an answer. So I thought I needed
this mentor for this reason and I don't. So alhamdulillah, good for you. So sit down and
write. And then once you have done that writing, then list those things, that whole list of
things you put there, list them in order of priority. Which is the most important? Which
is the next? Which is the next?
Okay.
Okay.
So in order to do that, in order to list the priority, you have to have a goal because
there is no way that you can prioritize something unless you have a goal. Get it? So something
is more important. Why? Because it helps me to achieve my goal in the most energy efficient,
carbon efficient, calorie efficient, you know.
Okay.
Brain power efficient.
Be efficient, 따라 masi We're making every experiment possible because
they just want it in their wonderland, the …
So this one is the mo inb priority because this is…
Oh my God.
This is the one spot, be patient.
Because even though it may not be efficient in all these ways, but it will be
more difficult and so on, so on, so on, it gives me the biggest bang for the buck. It
gives me the biggest advantage, it is the biggest rock that I have to take care of.
It is the forest
frog that I have to eat,
Do you know the level of quality?
frog I have to eat. It is the elephant in the room. Call it whatever you want. We have
lots of metaphors and lots of, you know, examples we talk about, but you solve the biggest problem.
The rest of it can only be, you know, easier because the most difficult one you did. You
slew the dragon. The dragon is dead. Now, whatever else is there, even if it's a tiger,
even if it's a lion, it's not as bad as a dragon. It's not breathing fire, right? So,
therefore, you've done your job. Makes it easier. So, define that. Prioritize it. Which one,
which one? In this context, what people get confused is, and I get this all the time.
Oh, Shaikh, but you know, what you're saying is true, but it's not easy. So, I tell them yes.
Now, let's therefore understand one more thing, which is, you sit down and ask yourself,
which do you want?
Because these are two opposite things. Which do you want? You want success or you want easy?
The two are not the same. The two are never the same. You want success or you want easy?
Which one do you want? So, you're looking at a tree.