if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
My First Million episode, sponsored by HubSpot, in which Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk about why people do not change and what actually works. Sam shows his five-year diary, where each date stacks five years of entries, and admits he has complained about the same things for over a decade: how he spends time, where to live, losing his temper. His conclusion: inertia is the default, feelings are unreliable, and the only times he changed - fitness, business, habits - a system with accountability was in place, the same reason the jump from ten to a hundred million in business is systems. Shaan adds the James Clear line about falling to the level of our systems, argues you want the feeling you think the thing will give you, and makes the case for reminders over new strategies: coaches repeat the same two or three cues fifty times, and companies can absorb one new project a quarter, not five. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover most of the conversation, but this summary highlights the systems and change discussion only, so later segments are not covered. These are the hosts' own views and stories, not professional advice.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
My First Million episode, sponsored by HubSpot, in which Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk about why people do not change and what actually works. Sam shows his five-year diary, where each date stacks five years of entries, and admits he has complained about the same things for over a decade: how he spends time, where to live, losing his temper. His conclusion: inertia is the default, feelings are unreliable, and the only times he changed - fitness, business, habits - a system with accountability was in place, the same reason the jump from ten to a hundred million in business is systems. Shaan adds the James Clear line about falling to the level of our systems, argues you want the feeling you think the thing will give you, and makes the case for reminders over new strategies: coaches repeat the same two or three cues fifty times, and companies can absorb one new project a quarter, not five. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover most of the conversation, but this summary highlights the systems and change discussion only, so later segments are not covered. These are the hosts' own views and stories, not professional advice.