In this lesson's episode, we're going to explore why mentally, quote unquote, dying each night might be your most powerful decision-making tool.

We're going to look at how top performers, they're not superhuman, they've just mastered starting fresh daily without yesterday's baggage.

You're going to discover why your brain clings to past decisions and how to reclaim your focus for what matters now. The ability

to detach from old choices isn't just a productivity hack. It's a path to building a life

that actually reflects who you are today, not who you were yesterday. Today I want to talk about an idea. I think it is one of the most powerful ideas and mental models for transformative decision making for helping you make some of the toughest decisions in your life. I like to call it,

die every night. What does this mean? I've been dying every night, not physically, obviously. I'm

sitting here recording this podcast on a bright, beautiful Thursday morning. But mentally, every single

night, I've been killing my old self to create space for a new version of me to emerge each morning. And this isn't some weird

spiritual practice or manifestation technique. It is a brutal mental model for making better decisions.

It's a mental model that has fundamentally changed how I approach my work, my relationships,

and my creative projects. The concept is very simple. When you go to sleep each night,

your previous life is over. The person who wakes up the next morning is starting fresh. This perspective,

it's a shift. It sounds trivial, but it has these really profound implications. So let me show you

how this works and why it might be exactly what you need right now. The main reason

is that we get trapped in our own stories. Most people live as if they are legally bound to honor

every commitment they've ever made in the past. You said you finish that project, so you keep grinding

even though it's going nowhere. You start that relationship and you stay in it despite knowing

that it's not serving either of you.

You invested time learning a skill, so you keep pursuing it even though you've lost all interest.

We become hostages to our past decisions and we drag them forward day after day,

justifying them with phrases like, well, I've already put so much into this or I can't quit now or what would

people think if I just stopped? Now, there's a psychological reason for this. The sunk cost fallacy

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