Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we are going to be talking about why being busy is a form of laziness. This I think is one of the most interesting things that I think about all the time. I mean, I literally geek out on this stuff all the time, on productivity and psychological hacks and just like how the mind works and how we as humans and investors, how we operate and how we think about things. And this one to me, I’ll tell you a quick little story as to where this really kind of started. We always hear this, I think in many cases, but to me, I saw this firsthand and it really made an impression on me back when I was working for Deutsche Bank and I was in the M&A space, so I was in mergers acquisitions. And our director, like our global head of M&A worked on our floor, so we were in the building on Wall Street and he would come in later in the morning for sure, so he would not be there the same time that we were there. But he would come in later in the morning and I literally had my desk and office like across from his and I see him all the time, very nice guy, but he would literally sit in his chair for forever it seemed like and do nothing and just think and you could see that he was thinking. He wasn't sleeping, he wasn’t reading a book, he wasn’t listening to a podcast, he was just purely, purely thinking. And I remember at one point just asking somebody at that time, saying like, “What do you think he thinks about all the time?” And somebody said, “He's thinking about what to do next.” And I really thought that that stuck with me because what he was doing that I didn't know at the time is that he was being super, super selective on what he was going to work on next. If that meant that he sat there for an hour and try to figure “Okay. What is the best next step that I can make?” then it ends up being a very effective and efficient way to go about his business and to work and manage the group. Because if he was just running all over the place and looking busy for the sake of looking busy, then we may not have gotten the ultra-selective, ultra-important work done. And so, what I have definitely found is that when people look really, really busy, it's probably because they're not doing the right things.
People have often asked me and they say, “Kirk. How do you do all the stuff that you do on Option Alpha?” Like I get it probably every single day. I’ll get an email from people saying, “I can't imagine that you’ve done all this. I can’t imagine that you’ve put together all these trainings and you do all these podcasts and you do all these emails that you reply to people.” But for me, it's really, really efficient because I'm hyper-focused on what I need to do. I don't watch the TV, I don't listen to the news, I read in the morning, I don't do anything else at night, I just am hyper focused on the activities that for me, create the most value for you guys and for myself. And so, I think that when people are busy, they’re just lazy thinkers and they are indiscriminately acting on whatever kind of comes their way. They’re just kind of catching snowballs as they’re being thrown at them and so, for them, it's very easy to be overwhelmed and then feel unproductive because they feel like doing nothing means that they're not actually making progress, so they start doing a lot of things, but they start doing them half you know what. I’m not going to say that. I don’t want to make this an explicit podcast, but you know what I mean. They start doing them 50% and it becomes very, very unpleasant and very unfulfilling. My suggestion to you guys is today, try to be ultra-selective, try to do less things, but do the important things and then forget about everything else that isn’t important or it becomes busywork. Sit there and think about the next thing that you need to do and make sure that it's the best next step, it's the most important thing that you can do today and try to knock over that first domino. Hopefully this helps out. As always, if you guys have any questions, let me know and until next time, happy trading.
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