Dan Martell - June 11, 2024


The biggest time wasters are tasks that never needed to be done


Episode Stats


Length

57 seconds

Words per minute

283.4891

Word count

273

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged


Summary

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A woman is cooking a roast and asks her mom why she cut off the ends of the roast. Her mom says, "I don't know. My mom's always done it that way and that's the way I've done it."

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 This woman is cooking a roast. 1.00
00:00:01.480 She takes the roast, cuts the ends off,
00:00:03.140 puts it in the oven, and you're sitting there,
00:00:04.960 and you look at the amount of stuff
00:00:06.080 that came off the ends, and it's good.
00:00:07.900 There's nothing wrong with it.
00:00:08.700 And you ask her, Miss Smith, I'm curious.
00:00:10.940 Why do you cut off the ends of the roast?
00:00:12.660 And her reply is, I don't know.
00:00:14.240 My mom's always done it that way, 0.94
00:00:15.400 and that's the way I've done it.
00:00:16.320 Do you mind if we call your mom?
00:00:17.720 I'm curious, why does she do that? 1.00
00:00:19.140 She goes, I don't know, let's call my mom.
00:00:20.300 Hey, mom, she's like, hello, daughter, la, la, la, la, la.
00:00:22.800 Hey, mom, I'm just curious.
00:00:23.880 Why did you cut the ends off the roast?
00:00:25.780 Oh, that's a great question. I don't know, but my mom used to do it.
00:00:29.060 That's fascinating. Is your mom, grandmom still alive? Do you mind if we call her?
00:00:33.400 She goes, Grandma, hope I'm not bugging you. No, it's okay. You know, just doing nothing.
00:00:37.060 I'm curious. When you cook the roast, I know you taught mom and I seen you do it.
00:00:40.740 You always cut the ends off. Why do you cut the ends off of the roast?
00:00:43.520 And she goes, well, honey, back in my day, the ovens were only this big.
00:00:47.120 So I cut the ends off so it would fit in the oven.
00:00:49.800 I guarantee you guys do that today. You do something. You don't even know why you do it.
00:00:54.120 It's always the way it's been done.
00:00:55.260 You've never questioned it.
00:00:56.340 Question every requirement.