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Ep165: Creating Yesterday to Build Tomorrow

Ep165: Creating Yesterday to Build Tomorrow

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 In this episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we explore how changing fundamental time structures unlocks behavioral transformation that willpower alone can never achieve. Dean shares his 14-hour phone fasting experiment and the profound impact of creating inevitable constraints rather than relying on self-discipline. We discuss how raising decisions to the level of inevitability—physically locking your phone away—removes the constant negotiation with temptation. Dan introduces his new framework for productivity: making your purpose each day to create a great yesterday, shifting focus from anxiety-inducing future planning to confidence-building past accomplishment. We examine how AI accusations on social media reveal our default skepticism, why technology adds to life rather than eliminating existing solutions, and the critical difference between content and context in an AI-saturated world. The conversation moves through airport infrastructure decay, New York's political experiment, and why surgeons will always be humans using technology rather than replaced by it. This is a conversation about reclaiming attention, restructuring time, and recognizing that confidence comes from documented wins rather than optimistic projections. Whether you're struggling with digital distraction or seeking sustainable productivity systems, this episode offers practical frameworks grounded in real experimentation. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Dean's 14-hour phone fasting creates inevitability through physical constraint, eliminating the need for willpower by making phone access impossible overnight.Dan's new productivity framework: "My purpose today is to create a great yesterday" shifts focus from future anxiety to past confidence.Behavioral change requires changing time structure first—Dan's 46-day experiment with creating great yesterdays eliminated his attention deficit entirely.Document accomplishments with "No did it" format to remind yourself what life would be like without each completed task.AI excels at content matching but struggles with context creation—the key differentiator for human creative and strategic thinking.Elon's management approach: weekly meetings asking "What did you accomplish?" interrogates the permanent record rather than optimistic future plans. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean Jackson: Mr. Sullivan. Dan Sullivan: Yes, Mr. Jackson. I wonder if our calls are being recorded in China. I just wonder. I hope so. I hope so. And transcribed and transcribed. I'd like to see one of our transcriptions in Chinese idiograms. That's it. Exactly. So are you just- I would get it framed and put it on a wall. Dean Jackson: Oh, that's perfect. Are you just getting up or are you still up from the big party last night? Dan Sullivan: No, we had massage. We have a massage therapist that we've had since 1992. 1992. She comes to our house on Sundays. Yeah. Dean Jackson: Oh, that's fantastic. Dan Sullivan: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's great. Dean Jackson: So how was- Dan Sullivan: We don't have the ideal climate that you enjoy at the Four Seasons. Valhalla. Valhalla. But we try to make up for it with other dimensions. Dean Jackson: That's right. The little built-in spa. Dan Sullivan: Yeah. Dean Jackson: Well, that's fantastic. So the party was a big success? Dan Sullivan: That was great. Dean Jackson: Yeah. Yeah. Had Bob's birthday party. Dan Sullivan: Yeah, it was great. Yeah, we had a restaurant. We took it over for ... Restaurants will have private parties and you take over the whole restaurant. And it's right at Front and Bay Street, just almost across from Union Station. And it's Peruvian Japanese fusion. Just shows you what people are putting together these days. And it was great. It was great. And our entire involvement was just showing up. Dean Jackson: Yes. I love that. That's the best. Dan Sullivan: Yeah. And Mark Young and his son were there and David Haase and Lindsay came. And Pete Warrell was here. He came ... Yeah. Richard and Lisa. Richard and Lisa were there. And so a lot of people traveled quite a distance to get there. So it was really great. Yeah. Dean Jackson: Absolutely. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I was texting with Richard Rossi yesterday. Dan Sullivan: After 12:00. After 12 o'clock noon. Dean Jackson: That's exactly right. Dan, I am a converse. Dan Sullivan: You're a new man. You're a new man. You're a new man. Dean Jackson: I am. I mean, this is a new normal. It's such a ... I'm realizing what a difference this phone fasting is. It's the best thing that I've ever done for productivity and just the ... I don't know. It's like the brain chemistry. I can feel it renewing. It's something like it's probably not unlike chronic inflammation from dopamine dripping constantly to the repairing of that from now the slow ... I'm manufacturing my own dopamine ...
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