04/09/2026
I worked out why I lost my train of thought on stage 💡
And it’s actually quite funny
I was telling a story about…
How you do something is how you do everything
When I was younger I’d take clothes upstairs in stages
Throw them halfway up
Next time I went upstairs…
Take them the rest of the way and put them in the wash basket
My point was supposed to be…
Why not just finish the job? 😂
Except about 5 minutes earlier I’d been talking about the compound effect
Small actions
Repeated consistently
Eventually creating a bigger result
And while I was telling the story my brain suddenly went…
Hang on
Maybe younger me wasn’t lazy
Maybe he was an efficiency genius 😂
And that was it
Train of thought…
Gone
Because I’d managed to disagree with my own presentation halfway through giving it
But I’ve actually thought about it since
Maybe both things can be true
Sometimes you need to finish the bloody job
And sometimes getting something 20% closer every time you pass it is exactly how progress happens
Probably not the lesson I planned on teaching
But maybe a better one
Not everything you believe has to survive new evidence