Constantly improving your skill set is one of the only ways to future-proof yourself. If you follow this guide, you’ll be better equipped to learn anything you’ve ever wished to learn.
The more smartly-practiced skills you learn, the faster you’ll learn other connected skills. And knowing your skill mastery and the direction they’re going gives you the clarity on what to learn next for maximum learning efficiency.
We are lagging behind evolution for the first time since 350,000 years, and it’s time to do something about it. Let’s build a collective intelligence and solve this before it’s too late!
Skill learning doesn’t have to be tedious. It can be really fun and you’ll be amazed how much you can actually learn in only 15–20 hours of deliberate practice!
Whether you want to actually do it or not, I think it’s a good exercise to figure out what really matters. You can live in a society with only a backpack’s worth of stuff. I’ve done it in the past and so have others before and after me.
Connecting with your heroes is the first step towards building a relationship. Sometimes, you’ll end up working together, sometimes you’ll become friends, and sometimes you’ll build other types of relationships.
You don’t need my advice. You don’t need anyone’s advice. But still, take my mother-in-law’s anti-advice, it’s likely the best advice you’ll read today.
When you love the process, you don’t stop. But if you do, it’s momentary. You get back on your feet and jump back into the action. With every step, your momentum grows stronger.
If you think finding 33 things is hard, you either need to up your entourage or be more aware of the greatness around you. Remember, only smart people steal from smart people. Others are too busy thinking they are right.
When you’re in the zone, you forget the world around you and are 100 percent focused on your current task. To perform at high levels, getting in the zone is mandatory, yet only a minority of people are able to get into flow on demand.
For me, the big problem with self-improvement is at its core; it stipulates that you’re not adequate. Or, at least, a lot of people perceive it this way.
Many self-improvement coaches agree that self-awareness is the most important skill to learn these days. Self-awareness, combined with the ability to take action, is incredibly powerful. Until you really know what you stand for, your time is not spent most productively.
Confidence is like motivation — it doesn’t last. To remain confident, you have to keep doing things that feed your confidence. Use this checklist to figure out which actions you are already doing and which ones you need to work on.
An article with good lessons and decent sentences beats a perfectly written one with mediocre advice. But please don’t read this as: “It’s okay to write poorly.”
Doing your morning right isn’t easy, but when you succeed, your life starts to change for the better. You get more energy. You accomplish more. You thrive more.
You may not have the ambition to make a mark in history, but know that your life is short. Find ways to make it live longer. It doesn’t have to be grandiose.