this is optimal living daily episode twenty six thirty six seven steps too and master anything as quickly as possible part one budget all teacher of james elles assured our com and i'm just a moloch i'm a bit of a longer posts read the first have today and finish the rest for you tomorrow so that we get right to part one answer optimizing you're alive and steps to learn and master anything as quickly as possible part one but james all sure of james alter dot com i hate learn i wanted to learn how to trade stocks and i ended up losing my home i wanted to learn how to play just better and in one of my first tournaments i threw all the pieces on the floor and cried i wanted to learn to play poker and lost about twenty thousand dollars the first ten times wait i want to learn how to start a business i wanted to learn or about investing i wanted to learn

peter programming how to make a tv show how to write a book to speak to a large audience how to do stand of comedy act when was it ed i wanted to learn how to break dance i want to learn how to kiss a girl i wanted and wanted every time i ended up crying and then i learned to learn number one act ten thousand our rule this rule developed by anders eriksson and popularized by malcolm gladwell that damage me for years thinking i needed ten thousand hours to succeed at anything states that you need ten thousand hours of deliberate practice to reach master level potential for instance as gladwell rights and outliers but ericsson disputes in his book peak the beatles got there ten thousand hours playing twenty hours a day in clubs in germany before they wrote their first album mozart

piano for ten thousand hours by the time he was twelve years old story after story so i felt frustrated i feel frustrated i'm fifty sometimes i feel like it's too late for me only light to learn something if i can be among the best if i can reach my potential potential enough to see the nuances answers and something my love how much i want to get good at it will be dead after ten thousand hours of learning but now i'm convinced ten thousand hours can be skipped hears i'll number two plus minus equal plus fine mentors a mentor can be real someone who is willing hope you analyzer mistakes or virtual like reading books both you'll an virtual are good for anything interested in you should read a hundred bucks a year if you watch hundreds of video

we have mirror neurons that learn by watching or reading our virtual mentors is as if we download their lives into our brain and the mirror neurons think that their expense is our hours for instance i wanted to learn how to be a better public speaker on watch videos of great public speakers right before i had to speak when i played in chess tournaments i play through the games of world champions they learn more or how they thought about the game and every time i lost a game i went over the game move by move was a grand master who i paid to coach me he set up similar positions to my losing position and we'd plague after game until i mass the new well wanted to learn about investing i read every investment book i could find and spoke with hundreds of other great investors we read to match my what you learn immediately after reading a book right down ten things i learned

elsie will remember more than one or two things at best from the book i'm trying to stand of comedy now it's the hardest skill of ever had to learn i'm in here too i probably watch twenty videos day i videotape myself onstage forty six times a week and i read books about and by comedians unfortunately i have a podcast so i ask great comedians to come on and mike and asked them any question i want equals this one category alone equals is worth about four thousand of the ten thousand hours fine people who love what you love and spend as much time talking this shared area as he can if you're all equally strong being in finding your own path through learning this new skill you all want to share then you will build unity and learn together rob learning ogre my friends and i would compare notes on every difficult hand we play drain evening when i was learning investing a doctor friends

every area of investing day trading arbitrage value investing special situations quantitative etc etc and we share knows and quickly learn through the experiences of each other why not do this with mentors or because the mentors have so far passed this level there i was able to get into the weak in the same way as the equals minus explain what you're learning while you are learning it two reasons if you can't accept in a simple way then you need to learn more beginners mind and people who are behind where you are out in learning the skill will ask basic questions that you often need to rehearse and were hers and were hers again beginners mind number three micro skills every skill worth learning has dozens of micro skills for instance when i started my first successful business has unnatural skills at sales and technology is a technology business

to learn so many micro skills in order to succeed that it felt like gonna die and fail almost every single day here some business micro skills sales management of employees negotiating selling to investors selling to acquires part development product consistency and execution motivation emotional stability and on and on all of the skills are exclusive of each other negotiating as other same assails product development same as management but each skill needs to be developed to be successful chess micro skills openings middle game end game tactics positional play it will be divided into about fifty micro skills as well as all the different types of end games attack defence psychology etc stand up micro skills my think i hope like ability commitments crowd work twenty to fifty different types of crowds mike work peace

thing stage control and finally humor which includes punch lines premises tags callback storytelling persona act out etc etc whatever you're interested in lists the micro skills yeah well you're good at what you're bad at and i can learn to be better at each to be continued you just in part one of the post titled seven steps to learn and master anything as quickly as possible by james future of james ile de jure dot com they get a james i've definitely heard the ten thousand our rule before it's been briefly mentioned here on the show but i also read that malcolm gladwell book that he talked about outliers that emphasizes important those hours are but i do agree that they're not necessary for success because you'd

i don't have to be a master of something to get to some meaningful place with it even if it's something you're doing professionally for example i would say this podcast was at a level i was proud about quite quickly and i had nowhere near ten thousand hours right up yes i was lucky but just proving a point that is not necessary that's especially true for things you want to do for fun or as a hobby we can easily get obsessed about mastering something personnel was necessary good enough a great place to be not something i'm realising more and more in my own life sell something to keep in mind and we will talk about this tomorrow since that was the first half of the post so that they do for being here alive every day and will finish up this one tomorrow where your optimal life awaits