The one thing that changed my life forever

The one thing that changed my life forever was this:

I read books, watched educational videos and listened to the words from the greatest minds of humanity, past and present.

I surrounded myself with influences and ideas that were profound and insightful, and I opened myself up to them. In return, they changed me and upgraded my mindset. Each page I read and every video I finished made me a little smarter, wiser and more confident.

However, it was only a fraction of what I would come to achieve…

You see, there is more to self-development than just reading books and building a brain so big you can't fit through the front door.

Fall in love with learning. Learn every day. If that is all you do, you will make it eventually.

If you can't stop consuming, then consume better.

Your information diet is just as important as your physical diet- your brain doesn't want cheap processed garbage!

Once you start consuming wisely with the intention of education, you will fall down the rabbit hole of self-development. You can become addicted to growth and learning.

Do this and you will find out things you never realised you could know, and develop mental spiderwebs of data so intricate that it opens up your mind to entirely different perspectives.

One day, you will look back on all your learning and laugh, realising that almost none of it was even necessary for you to succeed.

You already knew what you had to do. You just didn't do it!

Learning is only one part of the puzzle- action is the one thing everyone trying to succeed lacks. They are always looking for how to do the thing before they start.

Little do they realise, you have to start before you can truly learn.

Experience is the best teacher.

But most people foolishly try to learn forwards, instead of realising that it comes from reflection, which can only be done backwards.

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

- Soren Kierkegaard

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Do The Thing And You Shall Have The Power

Imagine a guy who studies sex in depth for years, even watching how other people do it.

He understands the techniques from a detailed level, knowing every movement he must do to get the desired response. But all that information is in his head, not his body.

What happens when he tries to have sex with a real woman for the first time?

"Error. Error. Brain overload detected. Commencing shutdown."

He will fucking mess it up. Because he has NO EXPERIENCE. The only way to get the confidence and conviction you seek before starting a new hobby, business or whatever is to do the thing.

"Do the thing and you shall have the power."

You can't sit at home in your bedroom and consume content all day, and expect to become amazing and confident before you even do the thing you want to do.

If you want to do YouTube, don't watch videos on how to increase watch duration or views, just start posting and see what happens.

If you want to start a business, practise the skills relevant to that. Coding, writing, sales or whatever it is.

If you want to get muscle, don't learn the best workouts, just start lifting and challenging your body. Your body will tell you what works. Learn after starting, not before.

Don't research the top ten business models all day, just choose whatever business model you want to do LONG TERM, and start working.

Your clients will tell you what works, or what doesn't. If you don't have clients, you have feedback right there.

What do you need to do next to move the needle?

That is the only thing you should be learning how to do ASAP.

All this to say, go out and do the things you want to learn. You must be a beginner to be a master. I'm not saying don't learn in your free time, or read for fun.

Instead of scrolling on TikTok, learning real things is a valuable way to relax and expand your knowledge.

But don't call it "work" because it won't get you to where you want to go by itself.

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TL;DR:

Don't just rely on books, videos or podcasts to learn.

Go out and DO something, then reflect on it afterwards to learn 10x as much.

Books etc are useful for learning specific skills or systems, but they can never replace action.

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Thank you so much for reading!

BONUS: Refer to the learning pyramid- teaching is even further above experience!

So if you want to do what I'm doing, and learn way faster, all you need to do is make some posts and help other people out!

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