Rotate your tires (an analogy for maintenance)
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Summary:
- Because of entropy, you’ll always need to do some maintenance of everything
- So what you should do is systematize it
- Or make it a habit
Key Ideas:
Analogy of the Car Tires
- Even if you take care of your car perfectly. There are always some things that you’ll need to do and maintenance
- And if you ignore these things It will set you up for challenges down the line
- So rotate your tires and Change your oil
There’s entropy
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Nothing just works all the time
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And no solution are permanent
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You’ll always need to do maintenance
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There is never a one size fits all fix or there’s never a permafix
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There will always need to be some maintenance work in time or money or effort
In response: Set up a system
- Set up a system, So that the maintenance is more manageable
- For example:
- I have a system to pay my bills
- And I don’t have to always do it manually
- Or use the mental energy to do it
- If you can accept that it will never go away
- and it’s never going to be automatic
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- And it’s never going to just work all the time
Identify Your Tasks
- Identify the tasks
- Set it up
- Create a system
- Automate
- or “sharpen the axe”