The Power of the Anti To-Do List (To Break Bad Habits) | Sahil Bloom & Chris Hutchins
00:00:00.000 | - You have an anti to-do list,
00:00:01.460 | which I think is kind of total counter
00:00:03.220 | to how the average person might think about time.
00:00:05.500 | How does that work?
00:00:06.460 | And how do you suggest people use something like that?
00:00:08.700 | - A to-do list was great.
00:00:10.000 | And I kind of knew what I needed to address.
00:00:11.940 | So I really just focused on the three to five
00:00:13.540 | most important things.
00:00:14.460 | But there's all these things in my life
00:00:17.620 | that I'm trying to get better at.
00:00:18.920 | Trying to avoid bad habits, whatever it might be,
00:00:21.940 | that I had no system in place
00:00:24.220 | for actually avoiding those things.
00:00:25.560 | So I had a system for doing the good things
00:00:27.660 | that I wanted to do,
00:00:28.940 | but not a system in place for avoiding the bad things
00:00:31.700 | that I wanted to stay away from.
00:00:33.340 | And so the anti to-do list is a system for doing just that.
00:00:37.500 | It's for avoiding those places
00:00:40.180 | where you know you're gonna die.
00:00:41.420 | To paraphrase Charlie Munger,
00:00:43.180 | all I want to know is where I'm gonna die,
00:00:44.680 | so I never go there.
00:00:46.020 | These are the places where you're going to die,
00:00:47.940 | metaphorically, and you're trying to avoid them.
00:00:50.180 | Have those things top of mind
00:00:51.860 | so that they don't just become a bad habit
00:00:53.820 | that perpetuates in your world.