Build it in 6 hours not 6 days.

Build it in 6 hours not 6 weeks.

Build it in 6 hours not 6 months.

Build it in 6 hours not 1 year.

I messaged a friend in May 2024 to ”Build it in 6 hours not 6 months”.

I did this because I wanted to save him from making the same mistake I made everyday for 6 months.

The result was that we built MVP V1 in 3 hours 45 minutes, built V2 the next day and had his friends testing V5 or V6 before the end of the week.

Ultimately, we killed the project about 2 weeks later but the total time sunk into it was less than 100 hours combined.

Unfortunately, between then and now I have not implemented my own advice, which is disappointing. It shows a level of regression in my ability to learn and retain lessons which change my actions.

“Learning means: same condition new behaviour.
Rate of learning means: number of times exposed to the same condition before executing a new behaviour.” — Alex Hormozi

The above quote really makes me upset when I fail to implement lessons I thought I had learned because how many 6 months do I have left? Not many. But how many 6 hours do I have left? A lot!

“Impatience with actions, patience with results.” — Naval Ravikant

I like “Impatience with actions” and I see it compliments this section of my quote: “Build it in 6 hours”. However upon self reflection I seem to have poorly implemented ”patience with results.”.

• Understand what you want.
• Understand what needs to be done to get you that.
• Create a plan of action, not a plan of inaction.
• Do the actions, learn quickly and keep focusing on maxing out the quality and quantity of the inputs whilst being patient on the outputs.
• Complete actions in “6 hours” instead of “6 months” wherever possible

Notes:

My take on quality of inputs is that it’s easy to create a 20 step plan on how you will do A then B then C then D then [INSERT MANY STEPS] so that you can finally get X. I catch myself doing this often when it really should be simpler. Instead thinking from first principles helps me and getting the plan of ACTION down to: I am going to do X so that Y and then Z..

Alex Hormozi has a pretty good take on quantity of inputs.

Quantity: Do so much volume that it would be unreasonable that you would be unsuccessful.

But the purpose of this note is to remind myself to do a task orders of magnitude faster than I initially think is needed as work expands to fit the time set for its completion.