Order of Man - FFN 054： Complexity Kills

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart

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00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler,

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00:01:40.940 order of men.com slash iron council. Now let's get into the conversation of today,

00:01:46.140 which is that of complexity kills. I did a podcast a while back called complacency kills,

00:01:51.240 but when I say complexity kills, I'm talking about the exact opposite of complacency and or

00:01:57.600 doing nothing. I'm talking about doing too much and more specifically the mistake or pitfall of

00:02:04.660 over planning and over complicating every element of your life. I look around and I see so many people

00:02:11.360 offering these crazy hacks and tips and tricks and fads and pills and strategies. And most of them

00:02:18.740 are just too complex, so complex that no one even implements the strategies in the first place.

00:02:25.060 I get a lot of how to questions with my line of work. How do I lose weight? How do I start a

00:02:30.940 business? How do I save my marriage? How do I get a promotion? How do I get stronger? So let me just go

00:02:35.520 ahead and answer these questions for you very simply. Eat less, sell something, love your wife,

00:02:42.360 work hard and ask for it and lift heavy things. Now, inevitably, when I give answers like that to

00:02:50.000 serious questions, most people think I'm being a smart ass. I'm not. I'm just giving you the truth.

00:02:55.520 I'm giving you the exact answer and I'm telling you exactly what to do. Oh, but Ryan,

00:03:00.400 it couldn't possibly be that easy. It is that easy, but you don't know about it because you're too busy

00:03:05.460 looking around for that complicated formula that will allow you to have the results without

00:03:11.020 working for it. And while you're out there doing that, the guy that decides to eat better

00:03:16.060 and take his wife on a weekly date and sit down and budget his money each week or put a few more

00:03:22.360 pounds on the bar to lift or march into the boss's office and ask for the promotion, that guy's getting

00:03:27.380 the money and the promotion and the body and the women you're after. So there's this question

00:03:32.980 floating around maybe in the back of your mind. If this is really true, if simplicity is really the

00:03:37.200 answer, why don't we hear more about this? You're not hearing more about it because if simplicity

00:03:43.040 is truly the answer, you don't need all the internet gurus. You don't need the marketing geniuses

00:03:49.820 or the entrepreneur or the snake oil salesman and the wannabes out there trying to sell you their

00:03:54.720 wares and their products and their services and their gadgets and their gizmos. In other words,

00:03:59.520 simplicity, you guys, doesn't sell. Telling you to eat better and move a little bit more

00:04:05.000 doesn't sell that health course. Telling you to spend less money than you make doesn't require

00:04:11.180 a financial planner. Telling you to show some love and appreciation to your wife doesn't allow

00:04:17.260 for that marriage counselor to bill by the hour. Now, I do realize that there are some things that

00:04:21.860 you can learn above and beyond all this entry-level stuff that we're talking about here, but at the end

00:04:26.360 of the day, you're probably not going to be qualifying for the Olympics anytime soon.

00:04:30.900 So worrying about what to eat down to the exact ounces or when to eat down to the exact minute

00:04:37.540 is just producing diminishing returns. So I'd rather you go for the low-hanging fruit than the fruit at

00:04:43.820 the top of the tree you can't get to without coming up with some harebrained tactic to actually get it.

00:04:48.720 I'm talking about the actions that will yield the highest results with the lowest amount of effort.

00:04:55.280 Let me say that again. The highest results with the lowest amount of effort. Now, some people might

00:05:00.740 say that's lazy, but I say it's efficient. I only have 24 hours in the day. You only have 24 hours in

00:05:06.980 the day. So I'm going to do the activities that yield the highest results in the lowest amount of

00:05:12.760 time and energy possible. And that, my friends, requires you to strip away all the BS and get to

00:05:18.640 the core of what matters. The core of what matters. Let me give you a couple examples. Writing your wife a 0.95

00:05:23.300 note. Not a novel, just a quick note. Picking up flowers on the way home. You don't need to buy her

00:05:28.200 a new car or something fancy. It's just flowers. That goes so far. Balancing your bank account.

00:05:33.800 Not using some sophisticated app that takes you six months to learn. Paying for your big purchases

00:05:39.800 with cash. Not some fancy credit card point hacking reward system that you learned about. Eliminating

00:05:47.180 soda. Not worrying about the green smoothie with the ingredients imported from the corners of the 1.00

00:05:53.100 earth. Putting 10 extra pounds on the bar or doing five more reps. Not researching how the muscles

00:05:58.380 respond when you do a 5, 12, 4, 9, 4, 19 rep scheme. Going for a walk. Not that sophisticated running

00:06:05.940 schedule that you bought online. Playing catch with your kids. Not necessarily the family vacation that

00:06:11.820 took you years and thousands of dollars to plant. These are all low effort, high yield activities.

00:06:18.560 And that's what you're after. Now I realize there's a time and a place for some of these

00:06:21.820 sophisticated strategies. But the default, the default should always be simple. And then you can

00:06:27.700 build from there. So the moral of the story, gentlemen, stop gaming the system. Complexity kills.

00:06:33.720 It kills progress. It kills growth. It kills innovation. And it kills your chances for success.

00:06:39.660 As Leonardo da Vinci said, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. And I'm going to leave

00:06:45.040 you with that today. I know it's a shorter one today, but in the spirit of the message that I'm

00:06:48.680 sharing with you right now, I'll stop talking when there's nothing more to say. I'll look forward to

00:06:53.840 talk with you next week. And man, you are in for a treat on the next week's podcast interview

00:06:59.540 and the following week. I've got two great guests lined up. So again, make sure you tune in,

00:07:03.560 make sure you subscribe. But until then, go for the low hanging fruit, guys. Keep it simple and

00:07:09.840 become the man you are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order of Man podcast.

00:07:15.140 You're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be.

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Order of Man - May 05, 2017

FFN 054： Complexity Kills

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