Reading should be approached as a tool to create a spark of thought rather than as a way to memorize or retain information.

“You're looking to spark a thought, an idea. So you read not to get the stuff, all the stuff from the book to be all the stuff in your head. You're reading to just catalyze some spark, some thought, some uh some realization, some thought process, some new idea in your mind.”

Scheduling big life priorities before routine tasks is the effective way to ensure they are accomplished.

“But if you put the big rocks in and you say, "I'm doing these. These have this much space. They're in here." And then you fill as much sand as you can. Turns out you can fit the whole you can fit all the things into the container if you do it in the right order.”

Ed Helms believes that when an author tries to incorporate everything they have ever liked into their first book, it often results in an overwhelming and poorly balanced final product.

“Well, the hard part about doing your first book is usually you're someone who loves books. So, you have a lot of like you you are bringing to this book everything you've ever liked about any book you've ever read and then you're like, I'd like all this. They're like, let's pick a few of those.”