Williamson County Neighbors hosted by Lyndsay Stafford
Sep 29, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
Lindsay Stafford welcomes guest John Woerner and producer Jim McCarthy to explore why “boring” habits can be a powerful foundation for success. They discuss how steady routines reduce decision…
I think that the question I would start with is why boring habits? You know, we are, we are conditioned, especially in our culture to want adventure and action and excitement and something new and something different.
And the more time you spend in those spaces, um, The less productive you are, the more risk you find yourself in.
If you go on 27 vacations in a year, you're going to find yourself tired of vacationing because we are built for rhythm.
Humans are built to be awake and be asleep, to eat two to three meals a day every day, to breathe without thinking about it multiple times every minute.
And I find that boring habits is more in line with how we're built than adventure and excitement and action.
So I would say boring habits is a key to personal success because the less you have to think about it, the more you can actually accomplish.
Boring music appeals to a wide audience.
Like one of the things you kept on talking about was rhythm.
And if you think about it, like you and I are big Dream Theater fans, prog rock, prog metal, very interesting drum beats and time signatures and stuff like that.
But that only appeals to a very small portion of the world.
The boring stuff, as our pal Rich Redman calls them, the money beats, they're the boring beats, but they have the most appeal.
So there's, there's a power to
when he was talking about rhythms.
I'm like, well, that's kind of like, you know, you know, boom, boom, smack is basically a universal beat that everybody to most drummers.
Uh, it's boring.
But it can be exciting.
I think that the question I would start with is why boring habits? You know, we are, we are conditioned, especially in our culture to want adventure and action and excitement and something new and something different.
And the more time you spend in those spaces, um, The less productive you are, the more risk you find yourself in.
If you go on 27 vacations in a year, you're going to find yourself tired of vacationing because we are built for rhythm.
Humans are built to be awake and be asleep, to eat two to three meals a day every day, to breathe without thinking about it multiple times every minute.
And I find that boring habits is more in line with how we're built than adventure and excitement and action.
So I would say boring habits is a key to personal success because the less you have to think about it, the more you can actually accomplish.
Boring music appeals to a wide audience.
Like one of the things you kept on talking about was rhythm.
And if you think about it, like you and I are big Dream Theater fans, prog rock, prog metal, very interesting drum beats and time signatures and stuff like that.
But that only appeals to a very small portion of the world.
The boring stuff, as our pal Rich Redman calls them, the money beats, they're the boring beats, but they have the most appeal.
So there's, there's a power to
when he was talking about rhythms.
I'm like, well, that's kind of like, you know, you know, boom, boom, smack is basically a universal beat that everybody to most drummers.
Uh, it's boring.
But it can be exciting.
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