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How To Master Any Skill Fast (Give Yourself 2 Weeks)

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  1. You Can Learn Anything Quickly

  2. 00:00You can learn anything in two weeks. And
  3. 00:02I know that sounds insane to most
  4. 00:03people, but I'm not talking about
  5. 00:05mastering a skill in its entirety.
  6. 00:08Obviously, that takes like 10 years. I'm
  7. 00:10not talking about mastering any specific
  8. 00:12topic. I'm talking about making
  9. 00:14substantial progress toward a goal in
  10. 00:16your life in 2 weeks. You can learn
  11. 00:19enough in that time frame to achieve
  12. 00:22incredible results. And if that doesn't
  13. 00:24make you extremely excited about how
  14. 00:27much you can accelerate the progress
  15. 00:29toward the big milestones that you're
  16. 00:31trying to achieve in life, like making
  17. 00:33more money or learning an instrument or
  18. 00:35learning a language or learning a
  19. 00:37software like After Effects or Photoshop
  20. 00:40or learning AI, then I don't think you
  21. 00:42understand where I'm coming from just
  22. 00:44yet. Now, the problem is that most
  23. 00:46people have become wired to think that
  24. 00:48success stems from sticking your nose in
  25. 00:51textbooks for 12 plus hours at a time to
  26. 00:53study for an exam where 95% of the
  27. 00:56knowledge you learn goes out the window.
  28. 00:58And then when it comes time to getting a
  29. 00:59job or even just getting real world
  30. 01:01results by applying that knowledge to
  31. 01:03your daily life, I would argue that less
  32. 01:05than 1% of it applies. You hear stories
  33. 01:08all the time of, oh, I went to college,
  34. 01:09got a degree, then either got a job in a
  35. 01:12completely unrelated field simply
  36. 01:14because I had a degree or got a job in
  37. 01:16the field I was trying to go into, but
  38. 01:18none of it applied because I had to
  39. 01:20learn on the job. You actually have to
  40. 01:22learn how to do things by doing them.
  41. 01:24Shocker. And the other thing there is
  42. 01:26that you're learning all of this stuff
  43. 01:27that doesn't even apply to your daily
  44. 01:30life. You're putting off your life and
  45. 01:32your progress for four to eight years,
  46. 01:34depending on how long you go to school.
  47. 01:36Because the knowledge, you're not
  48. 01:37applying it to your life right now.
  49. 01:39You're delaying your development and the
  50. 01:42progress you can make until you achieve
  51. 01:44this point of status that you're given
  52. 01:46by society to get a job that you're
  53. 01:47stuck in for the rest of your life. So,
  54. 01:49in other words, and to round this all
  55. 01:51out, you're probably completely wasting
  56. 01:54every second you spend learning. And
  57. 01:56that is not an exaggeration. Schools
  58. 01:58train you to learn extremely slow. And
  59. 02:01if learning allows you to be useful and
  60. 02:03get what you want out of life, imagine
  61. 02:05what you could do if you actually spent
  62. 02:07time learning how to learn. If you knew
  63. 02:10how to actually learn, how to learn
  64. 02:13fast, then you could achieve 10 goals in
  65. 02:16the same amount of time that it would
  66. 02:17take the average person to achieve one.
  67. 02:20And they probably wouldn't even achieve
  68. 02:21that one until they graduated school or
  69. 02:24learned enough. So that's what this
  70. 02:25video is for, is to learn exactly how to
  71. 02:28learn anything fast. And this isn't
  72. 02:30going to cover all of the science and
  73. 02:32the psychology and all of the learning
  74. 02:33tips. This is going to just be
  75. 02:35completely focused on what you need to
  76. 02:38do. And it's pretty freaking simple. But
  77. 02:40sometimes the simplest things are the
  78. 02:42most complex things in the world for the
  79. 02:45a person to wrap their head around and
  80. 02:46actually get themselves to do it. So

  81. Skill Acquisition = Technique Stacking

  82. 02:48we're going to go over three insights
  83. 02:50and if you can actually internalize
  84. 02:52these things, you will be able to learn
  85. 02:54anything fast. The first insight is that
  86. 02:57skill acquisition equals technique
  87. 03:00stacking because everything you can do
  88. 03:03is a skill. That should blow your mind.
  89. 03:06That sentence alone should cause
  90. 03:08something to click and just make you
  91. 03:10realize, holy crap, I can do so much in
  92. 03:14my life. Everything you can do is a
  93. 03:17skill. That means if you want to get
  94. 03:18into a better relationship or you want
  95. 03:20to make new friends or you want to start
  96. 03:22a business or you want to improve your
  97. 03:24career or you want to improve your
  98. 03:26articulation, your persuasion, you want
  99. 03:28to be able to talk to people better, you
  100. 03:29want to improve your body, anything that
  101. 03:31you have control of, right? The stoic
  102. 03:34philosophy of control what you can
  103. 03:36control. That puts life into perspective
  104. 03:38for you. Because if you can't control
  105. 03:40something, you can control your reaction
  106. 03:43to it. So you can control how you
  107. 03:46perceive life and how you act in life
  108. 03:48and you can achieve the things you want
  109. 03:50to achieve. So if you can't control
  110. 03:52something, you can control your reaction
  111. 03:54to it. You can control your mind and
  112. 03:56ease most of the pain in your life or at
  113. 03:58least learn how to transmute that pain
  114. 04:01into calm. You can neutralize it. You're
  115. 04:03not going to experience some kind of
  116. 04:05euphoria all the time, but you can be
  117. 04:07okay with where you are even if negative
  118. 04:09thoughts pop into your mind. That's a
  119. 04:11skill in and of itself. Now, if you can
  120. 04:14learn something, that means that you can
  121. 04:16practice it to the point of it becoming
  122. 04:19second nature to you. So, you can kind
  123. 04:21of slice through life with elegance and
  124. 04:24grace once you stack enough of these
  125. 04:26skills. You think of a guitar player who
  126. 04:28can nail a solo without even thinking
  127. 04:30about it. You think of a professional
  128. 04:32basketball player who can shoot
  129. 04:34three-pointers on demand with a 99%
  130. 04:36success rate. You aren't at that point
  131. 04:39yet in whatever it is you want to do.
  132. 04:41It's going to take some effort and some
  133. 04:45persistence to get to that point. But
  134. 04:47once you do in multiple areas of your
  135. 04:50life in health, wealth, relationships,
  136. 04:52mindset, mental health, whatever else
  137. 04:54there is, imagine that you just master
  138. 04:57those four domains. Mind, body, spirit,
  139. 04:59business, and your life is pretty good,
  140. 05:02if not in the top 1%. Now, with that
  141. 05:05said, most people try to learn skills as
  142. 05:08a whole. They say, "I'm going to start a
  143. 05:10business." and they start to learn about
  144. 05:11business. You don't learn about
  145. 05:13business. You don't get a business
  146. 05:14degree to start a business. There is no
  147. 05:18skill that you can learn that's called
  148. 05:20business. I think Naval Ravakant said
  149. 05:23that you don't learn business. So, let's
  150. 05:25make something more practical. Okay, I
  151. 05:27want to acquire the skill of playing a
  152. 05:28guitar. That's still that's the whole
  153. 05:31skill. That's a massively disordered
  154. 05:33task that you're allowing into your mind
  155. 05:36and it's not ordered. Your focus is
  156. 05:37going everywhere. Your attention is
  157. 05:39already split. in so many different
  158. 05:40directions, overwhelming you to the
  159. 05:42point of thinking you can't do it. I
  160. 05:44mean, when you say you want to learn the
  161. 05:46guitar, you're talking about 5 to 10
  162. 05:48years of study and practice. There are
  163. 05:51tens of thousands of books, YouTube
  164. 05:54videos, articles on the internet, and
  165. 05:56just people who want to tell you what
  166. 05:58the best way to learn the guitar is. And
  167. 06:01so, you just get split. You get split in
  168. 06:03half. You have to understand that these
  169. 06:05things can't teach you how to play the
  170. 06:09guitar. They can only show you things
  171. 06:11that you can experiment with. Because
  172. 06:13when you're playing the guitar, think
  173. 06:15about it. When you are actually playing
  174. 06:16the guitar, are you like, "Oh, I'm
  175. 06:18hitting an E chord. Oh, I need to mute
  176. 06:20right now. I'm doing this." Once you're
  177. 06:22good at something, you just do it
  178. 06:24because it's a part of you, right?
  179. 06:26You've changed the neural pathways in
  180. 06:28your brain so that you are a guitar
  181. 06:31player. You can do that thing. It's like
  182. 06:33driving or like walking at that point.
  183. 06:35It's just second nature. So, how do we
  184. 06:38shortcut learning new skills? How do we
  185. 06:40cut through all of that noise and ensure
  186. 06:42that we're only learning what's
  187. 06:44necessary to make progress toward
  188. 06:46playing the guitar, making money,
  189. 06:49whatever it may be? It's by realizing
  190. 06:51that skills are composed of techniques.
  191. 06:54So, if I want to learn how to play the
  192. 06:56guitar, I don't start learning, I start
  193. 06:59playing. Because the entire purpose of
  194. 07:02playing the guitar is to play a song.
  195. 07:04So, you start there. That's step one.
  196. 07:06You start with the purpose. You don't
  197. 07:08start learning. You start with the
  198. 07:09purpose. What are you trying to achieve?
  199. 07:11But now you're in a dilemma, right? You
  200. 07:13go to play the guitar and you don't know
  201. 07:16how to play it, right? You have a song
  202. 07:17in mind. You have the purpose. You know
  203. 07:19what you're trying to do, but you can't
  204. 07:21do it. So, what do you do? That's when
  205. 07:23you start learning in the traditional
  206. 07:25sense, but now your learning is focused.
  207. 07:27You're not reading an entire textbook.
  208. 07:29You're finding that little technique
  209. 07:31that you need to know in order to reach
  210. 07:33the next step of achieving the goal.
  211. 07:36you're trying to achieve. So, if I'm
  212. 07:38trying to play the first note and I
  213. 07:39don't even know how to read it, then I'm
  214. 07:41going to look up how do I read I'm going
  215. 07:43to look up sheet music, right? A cheat
  216. 07:45sheet for sheet music so I can start to
  217. 07:47understand, okay, that's a that's a a
  218. 07:48note. And then I look further. Okay, how
  219. 07:51do I play that on the guitar? Okay, it's
  220. 07:52this certain finger placement. Good. Got
  221. 07:54it. Okay, sounds decent. And then from
  222. 07:56there, if you repeat that process of
  223. 07:59trial, experimenting with things, and
  224. 08:01error, correcting yourself or learning
  225. 08:03the specific knowledge you need to know
  226. 08:05in order to achieve the unique goal that
  227. 08:07you set out to achieve, you'll probably
  228. 08:09end up playing the song on the guitar.
  229. 08:12Even if it sounds kind of terrible,
  230. 08:14you'll probably do it. And then the more
  231. 08:16you practice, the more you'll be able to
  232. 08:17do it. And I don't even think it would
  233. 08:20take two weeks, but within two weeks,
  234. 08:22you can learn how to play that song on
  235. 08:24the guitar. And then you can continue
  236. 08:26stacking and then when you move on to
  237. 08:28the next song, you already have this
  238. 08:30group of techniques that you've learned
  239. 08:31before that will make it easier to learn
  240. 08:34the next song. So let's say you learn
  241. 08:35the next song in a week and then the
  242. 08:37next one in 3 days and then you can
  243. 08:39learn one song a day. By that point, you
  244. 08:42have most of what it takes. You have 80
  245. 08:44to 90% of the fundamentals of playing
  246. 08:47the guitar under your belt. And then
  247. 08:48it's just a matter of showing up every
  248. 08:50day, playing the same thing and slowly
  249. 08:52increasing the level of challenge you're
  250. 08:54taking on over time. And when you do
  251. 08:56that over the course of 1 year, 2 years,
  252. 08:583 years, that's one thing that we
  253. 09:00actually need to talk about is why are
  254. 09:02you learning? What's the purpose of you
  255. 09:04learning? What's the entire goal? If
  256. 09:06you're just learning things to because
  257. 09:08you're bored and it doesn't serve any
  258. 09:10any utility to your life or increase
  259. 09:12your value or be become a part of who
  260. 09:14you are, then why are you learning them,
  261. 09:16right? If you aren't going to do it
  262. 09:18every day for the rest of your life,
  263. 09:21then you either need to identify that
  264. 09:24you've been doing something that you
  265. 09:25don't plan to do for the rest of your
  266. 09:26life and start to work on eliminating or
  267. 09:29replacing it. Or you need to not learn
  268. 09:30that thing at all because then why are
  269. 09:32you learning it? For entertainment,
  270. 09:34sure, that's fine. For a short-term
  271. 09:36hobby, sure, that's fine. But if you
  272. 09:37aren't where you want to be in life,
  273. 09:39those things, those short-term hobbies
  274. 09:41aren't going to help you. Now, we just
  275. 09:43talked about learning how to play the
  276. 09:45guitar, but I want to talk about
  277. 09:46something more practical for creatives.
  278. 09:48Most of you in my audience are
  279. 09:50creatives. So, think about learning
  280. 09:52Photoshop or After Effects or Adobe
  281. 09:54Premiere, right? These things that if
  282. 09:56you learn them, they substantially
  283. 09:59increase your ability to create
  284. 10:02something better. They increase your
  285. 10:03ability to take your mind and put it
  286. 10:05into the into reality. Now, while most
  287. 10:07people when they want to learn this,
  288. 10:09they go and they watch an hour-ong
  289. 10:10tutorial that teaches you every single
  290. 10:13[ __ ] tool that lives in the Photoshop
  291. 10:15sidebar. Again, you're learning 95% of
  292. 10:1995% of the thing you're learning in that
  293. 10:20video. You're not going to apply. You're
  294. 10:22wasting your time. When most people are
  295. 10:24doing that, you start with what you're
  296. 10:26trying to do. You're trying to create an
  297. 10:28image. And the thing with that is you
  298. 10:30have no business learning Photoshop, if
  299. 10:33you aren't actively working toward a
  300. 10:35goal that requires it. Because when you
  301. 10:37have a goal and you need to learn the
  302. 10:39skills or the software or the things in
  303. 10:41order to achieve that goal, you learn it
  304. 10:43that much faster. If you're just
  305. 10:44learning Photoshop because you're bored,
  306. 10:46again, go and read a fiction book
  307. 10:48instead. You don't learn skills for
  308. 10:50entertainment. You learn them for
  309. 10:52utility. So, you have this image that
  310. 10:54you want to create. Let's say you want
  311. 10:56to put a tree on a different background,
  312. 10:58but you don't know how to do that,
  313. 11:00right? So now you narrow what you learn
  314. 11:03to how to remove the background from a
  315. 11:05tree. And when you watch a few videos on
  316. 11:08that, you realize that there are many
  317. 11:09ways to do that. So you try them out.
  318. 11:11You experiment and you realize, okay,
  319. 11:14this specific technique for selecting
  320. 11:16and masking an object is better to do
  321. 11:19with a tree than with just a plain
  322. 11:21object because a tree is much more
  323. 11:23complex. you have a lot more things that
  324. 11:24you have to remove. And if you do it
  325. 11:26another way, it may not come out that
  326. 11:28well. And so once you accomplish that,
  327. 11:30once you remove the background from the
  328. 11:31tree, then you solidify that little
  329. 11:33piece in your mind of, okay, I can use
  330. 11:35this technique. I know this technique
  331. 11:37exists. I can do it that much faster the
  332. 11:39next time. And with that, and for those
  333. 11:41that understand Photoshop, you
  334. 11:43understand that selecting and masking
  335. 11:44objects gets you like 50% of the way
  336. 11:47through Photoshop. like you know mo you
  337. 11:49know how to do many many things if you
  338. 11:51know how to select and mask an object as
  339. 11:54those techniques stack you've not only
  340. 11:56saved yourself countless hours of
  341. 11:58learning nonsense but you can
  342. 12:00effectively create most things that you

  343. Progressive Overload Of The Mind

  344. 12:03set your mind to onto insight number two
  345. 12:06we need to understand progressive
  346. 12:08overload of the mind because skills are
  347. 12:11groups of neural pathways that form with
  348. 12:14repetition and practice. So if skills
  349. 12:16are a group of these neural pathways, we
  350. 12:18can think of a technique as a single
  351. 12:21neural pathway. They are a single piece
  352. 12:24of the skill puzzle. And when you
  353. 12:26collect enough pieces to the point of
  354. 12:28seeing 80% of the image that the
  355. 12:31puzzle's trying to create, you can infer
  356. 12:33most of what you need to know in order
  357. 12:35to see results. So if you think of a
  358. 12:37puzzle, right, the puzzle that isn't put
  359. 12:40together yet is the skill that you're
  360. 12:42trying to learn. And once it's once you
  361. 12:45can actually see the full image by
  362. 12:47putting the puzzle pieces together,
  363. 12:49that's when you've mastered the skill.
  364. 12:51But by learning these techniques, you're
  365. 12:53you're putting together little pieces on
  366. 12:55the puzzle until you reach 50 60 70 80%
  367. 12:59of seeing the image. From there, you can
  368. 13:01infer what it's going to look like,
  369. 13:04right? Even the empty spot, you can
  370. 13:05think, okay, I can kind of form an image
  371. 13:08of what's trying to happen here. The
  372. 13:10same thing happens with skill
  373. 13:11acquisition. The more you learn, the
  374. 13:13more effective you get very quickly. As
  375. 13:16an example, if you're trying to speak
  376. 13:17Spanish and you understand a few
  377. 13:19techniques to use to speak Spanish, you
  378. 13:22can say something like, "What can I buy
  379. 13:24water?" And most people will understand
  380. 13:27what you're trying to say, right? You
  381. 13:28don't have to exactly say, "Where is the
  382. 13:31best place to buy water bottles?"
  383. 13:33Because they can infer what you're
  384. 13:35trying to say. Are you a master at the
  385. 13:38skill? No. Are you continuing to
  386. 13:40practice? Yes. But you can still do
  387. 13:43something. You can still make progress
  388. 13:45toward the goal. You're not blocked.
  389. 13:47You're not just sitting around doing
  390. 13:48nothing because you don't have any form
  391. 13:50of the skill to actually do the thing
  392. 13:51you want to do. Now, we need to take a
  393. 13:53look at a more difficult example because
  394. 13:56something like playing the guitar or
  395. 13:58learning Photoshop or learning Spanish,
  396. 14:00those don't have any risk, right?
  397. 14:03They're not tied to your self-worth or
  398. 14:06your ego or your survival per se. So if
  399. 14:09we look at the example of making money,
  400. 14:11you say making money is a skill or un
  401. 14:14being unable to make money is a skill
  402. 14:16issue and people start to go insane
  403. 14:18because they're like no it's not a
  404. 14:19skill. It's determined by this this this
  405. 14:21and this and I'm oppressed and I can't I
  406. 14:24can't learn anything that would allow me
  407. 14:25to make more money. And the same thing
  408. 14:27happens here with like making new
  409. 14:28friends or getting into relationships is
  410. 14:30that when your self-image and your
  411. 14:32emotions and your survival and your
  412. 14:35sense of who you are, I think I already
  413. 14:36said that when those come into play, all
  414. 14:38of these distractions stop start popping
  415. 14:41into your mind and you can't even take
  416. 14:43the first step toward doing the thing.
  417. 14:45As we talked about previously, control
  418. 14:47what you can control and you can
  419. 14:49practice that to the point of becoming
  420. 14:51very good at it. But the thing about
  421. 14:53money is that most people for most
  422. 14:55people it's difficult for them to see
  423. 14:57money as something within their direct
  424. 14:59control because they carry the burden of
  425. 15:02conditioning. Their mind being
  426. 15:03programmed by their teachers, their
  427. 15:05parents, and other life experiences that
  428. 15:08influence their perception of money. And
  429. 15:10while you can't control that, you can
  430. 15:13control your reaction to those impulses
  431. 15:16that pop up when someone says making
  432. 15:18money is a skill or going up and talking
  433. 15:20to new people is a skill and you
  434. 15:22instantly react in some negative way and
  435. 15:25prevent yourself from doing it. But
  436. 15:27remember, you can control how you react
  437. 15:29and that alone is a skill that will
  438. 15:32allow you to learn many other skills
  439. 15:34faster. If you were to peel back all of
  440. 15:37these irrational thoughts that are just
  441. 15:39clouding your head around money and
  442. 15:41other things that you want to achieve in
  443. 15:42your life, the things that are
  444. 15:44preventing you from execution and
  445. 15:46actually starting doing the thing, you
  446. 15:48would realize that the ability to make
  447. 15:50money can be learned extremely fast. I'm
  448. 15:54not talking about a get-richqu scheme
  449. 15:56type of fast because that's like here's
  450. 15:58a business model, take this, don't learn
  451. 16:01anything, copy exactly what I was doing,
  452. 16:03and then continue doing that until you
  453. 16:05get rich quick. Those don't work. What
  454. 16:07I'm saying is that making money, the
  455. 16:10skills that compose what making money or
  456. 16:13business is can be learned extremely
  457. 16:16fast if you don't let your mind distract
  458. 16:18you away from that thing. It's just like
  459. 16:20hitting a three-pointer, right? a
  460. 16:22beginner that has just picked up a
  461. 16:24basketball and can barely dribble, it's
  462. 16:26it's going to be all luck for him to hit
  463. 16:28a three-pointer. But a pro can hit it
  464. 16:3099% of the time. Now, a professional at
  465. 16:33business or whatever it is, the people
  466. 16:35who are making a hundred million plus or
  467. 16:37have billion-dollar valuations, you
  468. 16:39don't even have to be there to make
  469. 16:40life-changing money, right? You have to
  470. 16:42be 20% or 30% or 40% of the way there.
  471. 16:46And that can be done within six months.
  472. 16:48Six months is all you need to change
  473. 16:50your life. If you can simply focus for
  474. 16:52that amount of time on learning the
  475. 16:54techniques you need and practicing them
  476. 16:57to make money, you get to 20 to 30 to
  477. 17:0040% of the skill learned and you can
  478. 17:02make 100,000 a year, 200, 300. It's
  479. 17:05probably a solid range that that's what
  480. 17:07most people are trying to make. And they
  481. 17:09assume they have to reach that 100%
  482. 17:11level. They have to be the professional
  483. 17:13NBA player when you don't even care
  484. 17:16about getting that far in business. So
  485. 17:17you're not chasing a unicorn valuation
  486. 17:19of a startup. I've had a few people tell
  487. 17:22me that I'm very good at breaking things
  488. 17:24down and making them seem like they
  489. 17:27aren't that daunting. And it's the same
  490. 17:29thing with money because I've realized
  491. 17:30that myself. So if you want to make
  492. 17:32money, you start with the purpose to
  493. 17:35make money. In order to make money, what
  494. 17:37do you need? Something to sell and
  495. 17:40someone to buy it. If you don't have an
  496. 17:42idea on what to sell, then you go and
  497. 17:45search for specific knowledge that
  498. 17:47teaches you about coming up with a
  499. 17:49profitable product idea. If you want
  500. 17:51something like that, I've written many
  501. 17:53of them before. I'll link one in the
  502. 17:55description below, which is like a mega
  503. 17:56guide to creating a product. Now, if you
  504. 17:59continue to keep your mind at bay during
  505. 18:02this process, you end up building the
  506. 18:04product. I've worked with many creators,
  507. 18:06many businesses, many brands, and when
  508. 18:08they're just starting out, they have
  509. 18:10this product idea, and then a year
  510. 18:12later, I ask them, "Hey, where's this
  511. 18:14product?" And they're like, "Oh, I
  512. 18:15didn't even start building it."
  513. 18:18You don't have the chance to make any
  514. 18:20money if you do not have a product or
  515. 18:22service to sell. It's quite obvious, but
  516. 18:25your mind is just getting in the way.
  517. 18:27You haven't mastered that skill, but now
  518. 18:29you have a product or you went the other
  519. 18:31way. You did something else first.
  520. 18:32That's fine. Let's say you have a
  521. 18:34product. Now you don't have people to
  522. 18:35buy it. So what do you start
  523. 18:37researching? How to generate traffic.
  524. 18:39You find out that you can start a
  525. 18:41personal brand. You can post social
  526. 18:42media content. You can do SEO. You can
  527. 18:44do cold outreach. You can do Facebook
  528. 18:46ads. You have all of these different
  529. 18:47techniques that you can use. All of them
  530. 18:50work. Some are better than others only
  531. 18:53in the context of your specific
  532. 18:55situation. For someone who doesn't have
  533. 18:57any money, then Facebook ads may not be
  534. 19:00the wisest idea to go for. If you're
  535. 19:02just a beginner, then it's probably
  536. 19:04social media. I've talked about this
  537. 19:06many times before. Social media,
  538. 19:08personal brand, something of that nature
  539. 19:10where you don't have to spend anything
  540. 19:12and your success is completely dependent
  541. 19:14on your skill. That's the thing I love
  542. 19:16about social media in general is that
  543. 19:18it's just a battleground for people who
  544. 19:21have the highest skill. If you aren't
  545. 19:23doing well on social media, you can
  546. 19:24blame the algorithm. You can blame other
  547. 19:26things, but I guarantee you 95% of the
  548. 19:29problem is that you just aren't good
  549. 19:31enough. And again, the reason you're
  550. 19:34thinking about the algorithm and all of
  551. 19:35these other things and considering
  552. 19:36quitting is because you haven't mastered
  553. 19:38your mind. And that alone, all of these
  554. 19:40emotions that are circulating, all of
  555. 19:42these negative thoughts are impacting
  556. 19:44your ability to do good work. So your
  557. 19:47skill, let's actually, there's something
  558. 19:50here, right? I keep saying that you have
  559. 19:52to master your mind. It can distract you
  560. 19:53from all these things and you learn this
  561. 19:55skill. There's some concept here where
  562. 19:58the skills that you do have can be at a
  563. 20:01specific level. You can be at level 50
  564. 20:04in Photoshop, but if you are trying to
  565. 20:07perform, if you're trying to use that
  566. 20:10skill from a negative and narrow state
  567. 20:12in your head caused by stress, anxiety,
  568. 20:15all of these negative thoughts and
  569. 20:16emotions, that skill level decreases by
  570. 20:20a lot. You're operating at a 10, a level
  571. 20:2310 on Photoshop when you're actually a
  572. 20:25level 50 when you operate from a place
  573. 20:27of calm. So, it's like a double whammy,
  574. 20:30right? You've learned all of this stuff
  575. 20:31about business, but since your mind is
  576. 20:34just super narrow and stressed out,
  577. 20:36you're you still feel like a beginner.
  578. 20:38Now, how is this progressive overload of
  579. 20:40the mind? Because if you want to bench
  580. 20:43press 315 lbs, let's say benching 315
  581. 20:47lbs is the same as making a million
  582. 20:49dollars. You don't start by putting 315
  583. 20:53lbs on the bar and just crushing
  584. 20:55yourself and probably dying, especially
  585. 20:57when you've never lifted a single weight
  586. 20:59in your life. No, you don't do that. You
  587. 21:01start with the bar and then once that
  588. 21:03becomes easy, then you add 10 lb plates
  589. 21:06on. Then you add another 10 lbs, then
  590. 21:0945. And then over the course of 3 years,
  591. 21:12potentially more depending on how
  592. 21:14focused you are, right? Many people can
  593. 21:16speedun hitting 315 lbs on a bench if
  594. 21:19they don't get distracted and start
  595. 21:21doing all of these other exercises and
  596. 21:23switching training programs and other
  597. 21:24things. If you were solely focused on
  598. 21:26benching 315 lbs, you would hit it much
  599. 21:29faster than the guy who is very fit,
  600. 21:32goes to the gym every day, does all of
  601. 21:34the right things, but simply because
  602. 21:36you're focused on the goals and moving
  603. 21:37the le levers and needles to reach that
  604. 21:41specific goal, then you're going to
  605. 21:42achieve it so much faster. I've been in
  606. 21:44the gym for 10 years. I don't give a
  607. 21:46[ __ ] about benching 315 lbs. I'm strong.
  608. 21:49I can probably bench like 285. I could
  609. 21:51actually probably bench 315. I just
  610. 21:52haven't tested it in so long. But it
  611. 21:55could have taken me 3 years. I remember
  612. 21:57the first or second year that I started
  613. 21:59lifting in high school in after school
  614. 22:02weights. My friend Jerry and I were just
  615. 22:04going back and forth. We were in the gym
  616. 22:05every day. All we cared about was bench.
  617. 22:08I got to 275 lb max. Like by year two,
  618. 22:11it was extremely fast because that's all
  619. 22:13I cared about. My nutrition followed
  620. 22:15that. My life followed that. All I was
  621. 22:17watching on YouTube was how to lift
  622. 22:20more. The same thing applies with skill
  623. 22:23acquisition and achieving the goal you

  624. The Missing Ingredient To Learning Absurdly Fast

  625. 22:24want to achieve in your life. Now,
  626. 22:26insight number three is a missing
  627. 22:28ingredient to learning absurdly fast.
  628. 22:31And that's that rapid learning requires
  629. 22:34pure focus. Pure focus. I don't think
  630. 22:37many people in today's world have
  631. 22:38actually experienced that pure focus.
  632. 22:43Just you and the task and the skill
  633. 22:45you're trying to learn. No thought, no
  634. 22:47emotion, no distraction. And a
  635. 22:50distraction is any person, place, or
  636. 22:52thing that pulls any thread of attention
  637. 22:55away from your goal. You literally cease
  638. 22:58to exist and you become one with
  639. 23:00reality. Input and output merge. Every
  640. 23:03slice of information that goes into your
  641. 23:05brain is instantly transformed into raw
  642. 23:07material that is put into reality like a
  643. 23:10lock and key. You enter a period of
  644. 23:12intensity where your mind collapses on a
  645. 23:14clear goal. Pattern recognition kicks
  646. 23:16into overdrive. Books, content, music,
  647. 23:18and conversations gain an entirely new
  648. 23:21dimension. Reality becomes the source of
  649. 23:23inspiration as it always has been and
  650. 23:25will be. But you don't have distractions
  651. 23:27pulling you away from that connection
  652. 23:29with what is. For most of the time, for
  653. 23:32most people, this doesn't happen, right?
  654. 23:35Learning is a slow grind that you hate
  655. 23:38doing. In that case, you may benefit
  656. 23:40from a prompt I've created before, which
  657. 23:42is a deep work coach that helps you
  658. 23:45structure your deep work sessions and
  659. 23:46get into the flow state. Again, that's
  660. 23:48in the description as well. But if this
  661. 23:50is you, if this if learning is just a
  662. 23:52slow grind, there is one trick that I
  663. 23:55like to deploy that kind of kicks myself
  664. 23:58into overdrive and really narrows in my
  665. 24:00focus. I deploy this tool when my mind
  666. 24:03is filled with dissonance, right? When
  667. 24:05I'm I'm tired of the life that I've been
  668. 24:07living, I have an idea, a somewhat clear
  669. 24:11idea of where I want to be, but I'm just
  670. 24:13like stuck in the middle. I have
  671. 24:15something that kicks me out of that and
  672. 24:17gets me to start learning towards who I
  673. 24:19want to become. And that tool is
  674. 24:21something I've talked about before,
  675. 24:22which is called tactical stress. And
  676. 24:24this is a form of environment
  677. 24:27engineering. For myself, I was able to
  678. 24:30learn After Effects, a very complex
  679. 24:32software within two weeks because I
  680. 24:34filled my YouTube video with a
  681. 24:36storyboard and animations that I didn't
  682. 24:39know how to create, but I wanted to,
  683. 24:41right? And the thing about this is that
  684. 24:43I have to put out YouTube videos every
  685. 24:46week. It's a part of who I am. It's tied
  686. 24:48to my survival. It's ti tied to my
  687. 24:50income. It's tied to my sense of
  688. 24:51identity at this point. So, if I don't
  689. 24:53put a video out, then entropy releases,
  690. 24:57right? things start to get more chaotic,
  691. 24:59right? If I go two weeks without posting
  692. 25:01a video, my mind is racing because I
  693. 25:04don't know what to do. In that case, I
  694. 25:06have to put a video out because that's
  695. 25:08the life that I've built myself into.
  696. 25:10Tactical stress is when you put yourself
  697. 25:12in a high pressure situation that
  698. 25:14creates a strong deadline to achieve the
  699. 25:16goal you've been meaning to achieve.
  700. 25:18This could be quitting your job to make
  701. 25:19your business work or moving into an
  702. 25:21apartment you can't afford to push for
  703. 25:23that new career. This could be saying hi
  704. 25:25to the person you're attracted to. So,
  705. 25:27you have to at least start some kind of
  706. 25:29jumbled conversation. And then you
  707. 25:31either make it work or you hesitate and
  708. 25:33get crushed. Tactical stress is so
  709. 25:35effective because most people tend to
  710. 25:37fall into the idle state. They numb
  711. 25:40themselves before they hit rock bottom,
  712. 25:42never allowing the pain of where they
  713. 25:43are to outweigh the pain of where they
  714. 25:45want to be. That's when you deploy
  715. 25:47tactical stress. Right? When you notice
  716. 25:49the pain of your current situation
  717. 25:51holding you back to avoid repeating the
  718. 25:53same six months for the rest of your
  719. 25:55life, what you're doing here, this
  720. 25:56tactical stress is testing your one rep
  721. 25:59max. Right? If you go to the gym and you
  722. 26:02test your bench press one rep max, it's
  723. 26:04not supposed to be easy. you you're
  724. 26:07making this calculated decision of yes,
  725. 26:10I think I can achieve this big milestone
  726. 26:13and I'm going to literally put myself
  727. 26:16under the bar and if I don't use all of
  728. 26:19my strength, if I don't use everything
  729. 26:21that I've trained for up until this
  730. 26:22moment, I'm going to get crushed and I'm
  731. 26:24going to feel bad about that. I can try
  732. 26:26again later, but this is like this is
  733. 26:28it, right? I'm hyping myself up. I'm
  734. 26:30getting myself ready to do this and then
  735. 26:32I release and I go all in on what I've
  736. 26:35been trying to do. So, you have to mimic
  737. 26:37this in your environment. You have to
  738. 26:39put yourself in an environment that is
  739. 26:41like you're holding your one rep max on
  740. 26:44bench press, but you know you can lift
  741. 26:46it. It's it's not a one to two second
  742. 26:48thing or 10 second thing like bench
  743. 26:50pressing is. This is a 3 to six month
  744. 26:53thing, right? you're under this pressure
  745. 26:55mentally, emotionally for 3 to 6 months
  746. 26:58while you're pushing, you're grinding
  747. 27:00through that one rep max. And it feels
  748. 27:02good to do so, right? If you've ever
  749. 27:03done this, you love going to test your
  750. 27:05one rep max. It's bad to do it too often
  751. 27:08because you might get injured, but you
  752. 27:09love doing it because that's where
  753. 27:11everything you've trained for comes into
  754. 27:13play. It's not this repetitive thing.
  755. 27:14It's the the one thing that you can do
  756. 27:17once or twice a year to kick yourself to
  757. 27:19see how far you've come. So that, my
  758. 27:22friends, is the final piece to learning.
  759. 27:23If you're just stuck in this slow,
  760. 27:25boring grind, then you need to test your
  761. 27:28one rep max and push yourself toward the
  762. 27:30goal that you've been meaning to
  763. 27:32achieve. Thank you for watching. Like,
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  774. 27:54again for watching.