I spoke with frienemy of Eventualism, Seth Godin, a couple of months back and with today being Worldwide Linchpin Meetup Day, I thought there was no better time than now to discuss what is termed as the “lizard brain” means to us Eventualists.

The lizard brain isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the world…the worst things in the world are often things that are rare.  Lizard brains are far from being rare.  They are that noise in your head that tries to keep you from writing that book, calling your mother or taking that risk.  The lizard brain isn’t abotu shipping at all.  It’s not even about receiving.  It’s about shoplifting…your ability to do stuff.

That’s why the lizard brain has to be sort of stopped.  Eventual productivity means that you will eventually get things done.  However, if the things are shoplifted by the lizard brain, then you cannot eventualize.  So while the lizard brain can be a help at first, slowing down productivity to the crawl that you need it to be at to be a top-notch Eventualist, it has to be quelled at just the right time or all the work you will do after all the non-work you’ve done will go unnoticed.

What you wil end up with is non-work to show for it.  And that doesn’t make any sense…in fact, it’s nonsense.