#139 Stop Overthinking: The 70% Rule to Beat Procrastination
4/27/202626 min
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(00:00:00) Introduction: The Decision You're Stalling On (00:02:55) Decision Decay: The Shelf Life of Opportunity (00:04:42) The Square Story: Three Weeks to a Billion Dollar Company (00:06:37) The 24-Hour Rule: Overwhelming People with Speed (00:08:09) Instagram's Pivot: From Bourbon to Billion in 18 Months (00:09:29) The 70% Rule and The Door Test: Bezos's Speed Framework (00:11:59) The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Tasks Drain Your Brain (00:15:49) Quality vs Perfection: The False Dichotomy (00:18:42) The Five Moves to Triple Your Speed (00:21:47) Think Big or Don't Talk to Vendors (00:24:09) Closing: Your Speed Homework and Growth Accelerator Invite
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You've had a decision sitting on your desk for two weeks. You keep telling yourself you're just, like, gathering information. You're not. You're stalling. And while you stall, someone less qualified just did a worse version of your idea, and they are about to eat your lunch. People like me. Here's the lesson history keeps screaming at us. Speed wins every time, and I am obsessed with it right now, because I and my team are not moving fast enough. So today, we're gonna talk about speed, the three laws that'll rewire how you make decisions, five moves that you can run Monday morning, and we're gonna show you the real-life proof from Instagram, Square, Amazon, the fastest companies in the world, about how the operator almost always wins