Laurent

Macro patience, micro speed. This concept is all about the compression of two instincts most people treat as opposites. Be relaxed about the arc of your life. Be relentless about this afternoon. Macro patience, micro speed. Smart, driven young people should not care about the next eight years, but they should stress the next eight days. At a macro, I think everybody’s super impatient. I think I’m unbelievably patient in years and decades, and unbelievably sporadic and hyper every minute on a day-to-day basis. I genuinely think everybody’s the reverse. Everybody’s making decisions about, like, “What am I going to do at 25? I better do that…” In years, they’re impatient and making dumb decisions, and then in days, they’re watching Netflix. They’re super worried about 25 when they’re 22, yet they’re drinking every Thursday at 7 p.m. They’re playing Madden. They’re watching TV. They’re spending four and a half hours on their Instagram feed every single day. This is super important. Everybody’s impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I’m not worried about my years, because I’m squeezing the heck out of my seconds, let alone days. It’s going to work out.